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Hello, Guaka. Welcome to Wikipedia.

A few tips for you to start going. (I'll send more if I see that I can help you :-)

  • Check out Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers + the links in there.
  • Sign your stuff on talk pages with ~~~~ It will convert to your username + the time.
  • If puzzled, put a question on Wikipedia:Village pump, or feel free to ask me on my talk page if it's a very general question.
  • Have fun.

-- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 17:11 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions. I'm having serious trouble locating fr + nl for List of company registers, since I speak only very little french and no dutch at all. If you could google into this, it'd be great. List of company registers is very important for Consumerium --Juxo 12:47 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hello Guaka,
I too am Dutch and I just happen to see your contribution on VPRO. I think you should refrase some sentences to make it a bit more clear for non-Dutch people. If you don't mind I'll do it for you. And, on your personal page: maybe you want to change 'disprove' into 'disapprove' ?
For the rest - vooral doorgaan Groet, Harm 21:06 5 Jul 2003 (UTC) Toira 16:16, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello Guaka, I'm afraid that my programming skills may not yet be sufficient to even attempt to extract data from Wikipedia's SQL files with Python. My programming experience consists entirely of one C programming class, and although I am trying to teach myself some stuff over the summer, I have never seen an SQL file or a Python program at work. However, keeping that in mind, I will do what I can :-) --Nelson 16:12 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Why did you redirect structural information theory to a page with every word in the title capitalized? Wikipedia article titles are not capitalized without reason. A lot of us keep moving such articles by newbies to pages with appropriately non-capitalized words. In the text of the article, "structural information theory" was not written in capital letters. Michael Hardy 16:51, 19 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Well, I know. But how can I easily change the title of a page? Also, I started writing it non-capitalized, and then I realized that the capitalization is not really necessary. Guaka 18:02, 19 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Guaka, thanks for adding the Wiki links into my user page, but it wasn't necessary! I know how to link to wiki articles but i left out the links because I want people to view my page (and read it all), not click off to a page about a band or a movie. No harm done :-) but if I'd wanted links I would've put them there!! Regards, --Richard Corbin 22:13, Aug 25, 2003 (UTC)

Hello. I notice you've linked several articles to filter. But filter is a disambiguation page. I've changed some of those links so that they go to electronic filter. Michael Hardy 18:55, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hi - I noticed your edit on the anti-semitism page. Since I was the one who added the bit you asked about, I thought I'd contact you about it. Looking back on what I wrote, I think I probably put too much emphasis on it, but my main source was a statement by Abraham Foxman, the director of the Anti-Defamation League: "These findings undoubtedly create the climate in which anti-Semitism flourishes and in which governments rationalize it." I was putting particular emphasis on the last part, taking this to mean that governments are merely trying to disguise/rationalize anti-semitism (presumably with arguments that it's merely political opposition to Israel). In retrospect, however, the case looks a lot weaker than I thought it was, so I have no objection to the removal of the statement (as someone has already done). (The source of the League's statements is "http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASInt_13/4390_13.htm", just in case you'd like to read the whole thing... again, I think I overemphasised a minor part.) Thanks. - Vardion 12:35, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Why I reverted

Read User talk:210.72.12.71 for why I reverted. It was done in a hurry (because the Anon made like 50 bad changes to zh: or something), hence the accident. It has nothing to do with the interlinks being the uppers or downers. They're both ugly. --Menchi (Talk)â

[edit] New pages...

Most users abandon their new pages after creating them; usually it's necessary to jump right in to correct egregious formatting errors, POV, or copyright violations, and I'm pretty bold about doing that when I'm watching Special:Newpages. Sorry if I stepped on your toes... feel free to keep what's good in my edits and ditch the rest. This is a wiki, after all :) -- Seth Ilys 02:09, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Maybe you should be a bit more patient, like say 10 minutes or so ;) Guaka 13:10, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the translation of Consumerium into nl. I hear consumers in nl. are quite conscientious so it's good to spread the word about this project to Dutch people. --Juxho 18:28, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Learning project

Hello Guaka, since you are multilingual I thought you might be interested in this project I started for learning, up to now mainly vocabulary. It is described and discussed on my user page, if you are interested please let me know there. Get-back-world-respect 14:45, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hi Guaka, since moved pages seem to be dropping off watchlists now, I thought I should let you know that the recyclopedia talk page has moved to Talk:Recyclopedia/Delete. I've added some links to the latest available version of the article there before it was deleted. Angela. 20:44, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimedia Commons

Hello, you pledged support for the Wikimedia Commons project a while ago. You suggested you could code , along with User:Guaka and User:Eloquence. It seems, to me, to be the time to get this project off the ground and formulate a final roadplan - and start the coding for this project. Are you still interested? --[[User:OldakQuill|Oldak Quill]] 19:42, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Sesame Street

Sesame Street is up as a possible featured article. Would you mind putting your ideas in to the discussion, as you've worked on the article? See Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Sesame_Street. -- user:zanimum

[edit] Wikinews vote

In case you haven't noticed, there is a vote going on about whether we should launch the Wikinews project under m:Wikinews/Vote.--Eloquence*

[edit] Wikinews demo up and running

Hi!

I'm writing to let you know that the Wikimedia Board of Trustees has approved the first stage of the Wikinews project. There's now a fully operational English demo site at demo.wikinews.org. This will be used for experimenting with various review models and basic policies before the site is launched officially in about a week. demo.wikinews.org will become the English version later.

You voted for the Wikinews project, so I'm asking for your participation now. Everything is open, nothing is final. What Wikinews will and can be depends in large part on you. There already is a global Wikinews mailing list for discussing the project. If you are interested at all, please subscribe -- coordination is of key importance. There's also an IRC channel #wikinews on irc.freenode.net. Realtime discussion can help to polish up articles.

If you're looking for something to do, check out the articles in development and articles in review. Or start a new story in the Wikinews workspace, or ignore the proposed review system - it's up to you. I hope you'll join us soon in this exciting experiment.--Eloquence* 01:59, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Open Government Information Awareness

Could you please update the Open Government Information Awareness article that you started? The project appears to now be defunct, and the article consists of nothing but a quote from the old website. You could add a link to the archive of the site, but I don't know if it is worth keeping an article on the project now that it is "no longer maintained". ~leif ☺ HELO 06:09, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Unverified image

Thanks for uploading the image

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the image and I'll tag it for you. Thanks, Kbh3rd 02:27, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] N'Ko

Hi, thanks for your comment on my Talk. Good work on Bambara language — it still needs a lot of work, but so do virtually all Mande languages. I'm sort of working geographically close to them with my work on the Senufo languages (Mali/Burkina Faso/Côte d'Ivoire), so I might dig into Mande soon. It's an extremely interesting phylum.

I gather that you're Dutch — well, I'm Dutch too, as you probably can see from my username :). Je bent dus Bambara aan het leren? Groet, — mark ✎ 21:00, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hoi. Ik had eigenlijk niet eens echt goed gekeken naar je username. Had ik dat gedaan, dan had ik misschien gedacht dat je uit Zuid-Afrika komt. Bambara is wel leuk. Totaal anders dan de IE taaltjes die ik tot nu spreek (m.u.v. het verwaarloosbare beetje Japans). Zit je toevallig in de buurt van Bamako? :) Oh, en nog proficiat met je administrateurschap. Ben het zelf op de Limburgse en de Bambara Wikipedia. Maar dat heeft natuurlijk niet zo'n prestige als deze bijna (of juist nu intussen al meer dan :) 500.000 pagina's tellende gigant. ;) Kanbe! G-u-a-k-@ 20:50, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hoi! Dingemanse is een Zeeuwse naam, ik kom dan ook uit Zeeland. Nee, ik zit helaas niet in de buurt van Bamako al hoop ik er zeker nog wel eens te komen. Ik spreek ook geen Bambara; wel Ewe en Swahili, omdat ik Afrikaanse Taalkunde studeer. Bedankt voor de felicitatie, ik hoop een goede admin te zijn! Groet, — mark ✎ 23:41, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] edit at PXE

hi!

Thx for some corrections at the pxe-article, but why did you take the general description of pxe out of the TOC?

Nirkus

You mean why I removed the ==About== header? :) Well, it is normal for an encyclopedic article to give an introduction. So the header is a bit redundant. After the intro comes the more detailed stuff, of which the TOC is an overview. I hope this make sense. :) Also, vielen Dank für alles was du am Artikel verbessert has! Vielleicht kannst du noch ein paar Links nach Bootfloppys oder so hinzufügen. Tschüss, G-u-a-k-@ 02:14, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hehe! I'm done with this. :P The next project is to write a libpxe & a pxe daemon with C++ for linux/unix.. *learning :> Btw: Sprichst ja auch deutsch! *g Nirkus
Viel Spass dann! C++ ist nicht meine favorite Sprache... Ich spreche lieber Deutsch ;) G-u-a-k-@ 13:27, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Issues about school articles

In November 2003, there was a VfD debate over Sunset High School (Portland). The debate was archived under Talk:Sunset High School (Portland). What to do with the article is still being contested and has been recently re-nominated for VfD at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Sunset High School (Portland).

I am writing to you because you have participated in such debates before. There still does not exist a wikipedia policy (as far as i can tell) over what to do in regards to articles about specific U.S. public school. My hope is that a real consensus can come out of the debate, and a real policy can take shape. Take part if you are so willing. Kingturtle 02:42, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry, don't feel like joining the discussion right now... G-u-a-k-@ 12:03, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mr.Aka

Thanx you have been very helpfull. and I realize that what you siad was right. Thanx

[edit] PMC

Sorry to delete your addition, but there was no article and no explanation. It's generally best to write the article before adding links to other articles. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:12, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you so much!

Bedankt, Kasper, voor deze geweldige foto op Commons. Trilobite wees me erop en het steekt me echt een hart onder de riem om dit te zien — een welkome afwisseling van de wereld van de Engelse Wikipedia waar vechten tegen systemic bias soms lijkt op vechten tegen de bierkaai. Geweldig! Hartelijk dank nogmaals! — mark ✎ 07:23, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dag Guak, Dank U

For the large amount of work you have put in, I particularly appreciate the Knoppix article: Thanks.Alf 11:42, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] N'ko

[edit] N'ko (strange comments on Unicode)

Moved to Talk:N'Ko

Guaka,

Could you please explain the meaning of these comments since it seems you wrote them ?

" In 2004 a proposition presented by the Irish delegation was approved by the working group (WG2). The Technical Unicode committees was blocked by Canada, declaring that the Kamasere accents and three old characters, "Old Ja", "Cha" and "Ra" should be removed — a decision considered political by the other WG members. "

You may email me at patrick.andries<à>xcential.com. I'm one of the Canadian members and I'm astounded by the comments hereabove...

Patrick, you shouldn't be astounded. The discussions on the Unicode-Afrique list have gone far and wide. When I was in Mali, I was interviewed for television, and one of the questions they asked me was about "the Canadian problem". The N'Ko community is bitterly opposed with Canada's opposition to the encoding of N'Ko, and rejects the technical suggestions Canada has made, in favour of the encoding as it stands. As you have been told a number of times. Evertype 06:58, 2005 Jun 24 (UTC)

Moved to Talk:N'Ko

[edit] eerste nl.wikimedia.org ontmoeting

ik zou iedereen graag willen uitnodigen te overwegen of zij een rol willen en/of kunnen spelen in de oprichting van een nederlandse wikimedia-organisatie. een eerste ontmoeting wordt momenteel georganiseerd, zie daarvoor hier, op de nl.wikimedia.org wiki. er zijn nog vele stappen te nemen, en meer wikianen nodig, om e.e.a. op verantwoorde wijze verder te ontwikkelen. Radiant_>|< 10:50, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bambara project

I got in touch with a friend who could help you translate those passages and is interested in the Wiktionary project generally; he's former Peace Corps and spent much of his service compiling Bambara language resources. If you'd like, you can e-mail me I'll put you in touch with each other that way (he's not a wikipedian... yet...). Thanks! --Dvyost 6 July 2005 13:16 (UTC)

[edit] Wikinews

Hi Guaka,

So what do you think of the current wikinews effort? I remember you were excited about it this time last year. Have you become a member? Would you be willing to write a little about how you perceive it, after your recent travels and its growth? Cheers, +sj + 8 July 2005 18:52 (UTC)

[edit] Bambara in IPA

Hi Guaka,

You'd posted a question on the IPA talk page.

A couple thoughts: For an orthography, of course, you only want to mark one tone (or perhaps not mark tone at all, though I expect that would be rather confusing with Bambara). In a phonetic transcription, I personally would only want to do what you have (transcribing only low tones) if I were making a theoretical claim that the low tone is phonologically marked, that a default syllable has high tone, and that a low tone is something more than the default. However, if I felt that both high and low tones were equal, in a symmetrical system, then I would want to transcribe them both explicitly.

Combining tone marks and nasalization is a pain in the ass. One possibility is to use the ogonek (ą, ę, etc.) for nasalization, which gets the nasalization diacritic out of the way of the tone diacritics, but you'll notice that it isn't supported for <o>. (Actually, it is supported by Unicode, but not by many fonts.) (The ogonek was supported in older versions of the IPA, and is still reasonably common, mostly for just this reason.)

Regardless of what you do, however, most people will not have fonts installed that will display both tone and nasalization on a single vowel. I don't know of any good solution to this. Your solution of adding a tilde for nasalization after the vowel is probably as good or better than any. But good luck trying to combine tone diacritics with /ɛ, ɔ/ reliably!

By the way, is nasalization phonemically contrastive in Bambara after nasal consonants? If not, then you don't need to indicate it, since you're giving a phonemic trascription, and that will take care of a huge fraction of the phonetic nasalization. Also, if /ɛ, e/ and /ɔ, o/ aren't distinguished after nasal consonants (as is the case for the Gbe languages, for example), then you can transcribe them <e, o> and avoid many of the problems with the tone marks.

Not sure if this answers your question. ?? --kwami 10:32, 2005 July 14 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania

Guaka, great meeting you at Wikimania. Thanks again for submitting to the video interview. Hope to be able to show you something slick soon. Fuzheado | Talk 19:12, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sonology

Someone's put a warning on your image at Image:Bea5.jpg which you might want to look at. Evercat 12:46, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pronoms/prénoms

Merci beaucoup pour cette réponse, mais il semblerait que nous nous sommes mal compris. Je cherche des prénom (c-à-d des nom propres), pas des pronoms. Il se trouve que je travaille à une histoire que j'ai situé à Bamako (pour des raisons trop complexes pour les expliquer ici). Faute de sources sur les prénoms (alors que je n'en manque pas vraiment pour le snoms de familles), J'ai dû me rabattre pour les personnages bambara (le troisième étant une fillette peule) sur des noms de sonorité appropriée, mais provenant, si mes sources sont exactes, du Yoruba.

C'est pourquoi j'apprécierais tout renseignement sur les prénoms en Bambara. Circeus 20:39, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Ah, d'accord. :) C'est pas grave pour le Wiktionnaire, maintenant les prenoms bambaras sont tres completes. Mais, j'ai juste commence a ajouter quelques prenoms, voir fr:wikt:Catégorie:Prénoms bambaras... Guaka 07:46, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Visual Basic Classic Wikibook

I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 09:47, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Guaka-GTRSHV-23kbps.ogg has been listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Guaka-GTRSHV-23kbps.ogg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

[edit] Quorn in Germany

HI. I wonder if you'd care to comment in the matter of Talk:Quorn#Banned_in_Germany? Thanks. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 16:40, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hey

Greetings from a fellow HC'er :) - FrancisTyers 14:35, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Yeaaah! Hi! :) Guaka 14:37, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hospitality Club article

moved to Talk:Hospitality Club Guaka 18:52, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sony MSX 1

I just uploaded a pic of my old Sony MSX HitBit 10 P, in case you're interested. It's high-res. Abaraibar 11:13, 22 December 2005 (UTC)


Hallo Guaka, Raiden Budokai is een wado karategroep Mathijs

[edit] VWN en WCN

Beste allemaal Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org . Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.

Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, effeietsanders 13:50, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Time travel

Kasper, I know you're a talented guy, but I never knew you had time travel in your bag of tricks. "This is me in Berlin, end of summer, 2006"? Fantastic! Cormaggio @ 11:05, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Hey Cormac! Time travel is easy. Combine alcohol, lack of sleep and writing... And a lot of practice ;) Guaka 16:46, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Well, I'm impressed. Travelling through time as well as space :-) Where are you now, by the way? Cormaggio @ 18:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
In Arequipa, Peru! :) Guaka 17:15, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Uf, altitude! Homeplace of Mario Vargas Llosa! Interesting!
/me misses Latin American travelling... Cormaggio @ 00:51, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Hello for hitchhikers guide

Hi Guaka, its Lobster for hitchhikers guide wiki. I thought I would say hello over here as well.

Jackliddle 13:24, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi! I was just looking for more hitchhikers over here, they're probably likely to be interested in the project as well :) Guaka 15:27, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Maybe someone created a userbox for hitchhikers? :) Guaka 15:28, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hitchhiker's

Hey man, thanks for the tip off. I really appreciate it. -Hoekenheef 19:54, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hitchhiking

Thanks for the link, I had absolutely no idea such a great project is going on. I have quite a h-h past and roughly half of the states I have on my user page I visited that way. I'll take a look and see if I could help. //Halibutt 15:53, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

I do not agree with this statement: ""Many current-day hitchhikers combine hitchhiking with hospitality exchange networks for many of the same reasons (cheap; social political reasons; meeting people)."" This MAY possibly apply to SOME countries in Western Europe, but certainly NOT to most if not all countries in Central Europe, all countries in the East of Europe and most if not all countries in Asia. In Eastern Europe (Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia) the share of hitchhikers in hospitality exchange networks is close to 0%. A high share of people who hitchhike there do not even have access to PC and web. The statement is too much of a generalization. Frank Verhart, 11 dec 06

Sorry, you're right, so feel free to change it, it's a wiki :) Guaka 09:18, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Open Source Architecture for Africa

Hej Guaka, maybe this is of interest for you: http://www.osafa.org. We're just at the very beginning and could need your help, in case you like the idea! Cheers, Helge, --80.109.61.51 22:32, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 'mania couch space

Hi Guaka, I expect it would be fine to crash on my couch during Wikimania. Let me confirm with my roommates. What was your email address again? I was not able to decipher from your post. Also, what would your dates of arrival and departure be? I hope to meet you in August. Tobacman 18:10, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Senegal Fast Food

Hi, I was wondering if you could help me. I see you speak a bit of Bambara, and I was wondering if you knew the song "Senegal Fast Food" by Amadou & Mariam. If you do, do you know if the second chorus (after the "quelle heures est il en paradis?" bit) is in Bambara, and if so (this would be too good to be true) what the words are in either English or the original language? If you can't help, don't worry! Thanks Abbyemery 17:59, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah. It's Bambara. I don't recall the song perfectly. Is it something like "a be she faga"? That would be about cars killing animals and people... Cars are bad. Guaka 17:00, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CouchSurfing wiki?

Hi Guaka, fellow CouchSurfer,

Your interests are very interesting.

I don't know if you saw the couchSurfing forum topic philosophy behind CS- changing the world?? In this posting I suggested a wiki as a possible way of continuing the discussion.

As you're into wikipedia and also couchsurfing, and considering your interests, I thought you might possibly be interested in making a comment there. Cheers. --Singkong2005 (t - c - WPID) 10:34, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi! I'll be at the CouchSurfing collective next week and will bring up this topic :) I guess you already found the Hospitality Exchange wiki on which I did some work as well. Guaka 19:26, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
The CouchSurfing Wiki is up and running. I also set up a CouchSurfing Guide, fetching information from Wikitravel and the Hitchhiking Wiki. Guaka 07:06, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kabyle wiki

I don't know exactly the the procedure of how to create it, but there are many people who are willing to participate, since they don't speak english they had no idea about this project so they've created one of their own! [1] , Also there are many websites written in Kabyle language such as : http://www.imyura.net/ and http://www.tamazight.fr/, could you please help us create it? Toira 16:16, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I forgot, there are two pages :

Where should we add our usernames? Toira 16:17, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maraba Coffee

Hello! As you're a Wikipedian interested in African topics, I'm writing to notify you that the Maraba Coffee article is now a 'Featured Article Candidate'. Please feel free to evaluate the article and write your support or opposition at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates. Thanks — SteveRwanda 15:02, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trio Mocoto

Please see: WP:BAND bogdan 19:39, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Right. You need to write more than a one-sentence article, and you need to explain, in the article, why the band meets the requirements of WP:MUSIC. NawlinWiki 19:59, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

I've temporarily moved the article to User:Guaka/Trio Mocoto. Please work on it there. Again, the article has to assert why the band is notable. It's not enough to say "they're a samba band", or to link to the AllMusic description. If you want to have the article so badly, you should be willing to write a description of the band, and why they are important, yourself. NawlinWiki 20:04, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

I still think that if someone wants to remove an article so badly, and actually removes it, should at least inform the person who started it. Guaka 20:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bands

Criteria for speedy deletion, Articles #7: An article about a real person, group of people, band, or club that does not assert the importance or significance of its subject.
And I delete several band articles a day, I have no idea which particular one you're on about. -- Steel 20:00, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Maybe you should also inform the people who started the articles? Makes things clearer. Guaka 20:05, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Band vanity articles are, in fact, speedy deletion candidates. These were clogging the deletion discussions like you wouldn't believe and every one of them got blown out anyway. It was changed to a speedy criterion to speed things up. We delete these things wholesale on a daily basis. As far as contacting the folks who start them, the instructions on the edit page talk about notability and vanity. Trouble is, these same folks don't read the instructions.  :) - Lucky 6.9 22:41, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Not to mention that informing the creator every time an administrator speedies an article would greatly increase the time it would take to get through a CAT:CSD backlog. -- Steel 22:47, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Just a copy/paste on the user's talk page is too much effort? Guaka 19:08, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] vandalism on ff@wiki

Hi Guaka,

there was some vandalism on ff@wiki where you are sysop. I reverted the vandalism by the user and reverted his page moves, too. Unfortunately, it was not possible to move every page back because he sometimes edite the redirecting pages. But you can now simply go through ff:Category:Candidates for speedy deletion and follow the eventual instruction on the pages I have proposed to be deleted, just like "delete, then move AAAAAAAAAAA to here" (and delete the obsolete redirecting pages). It should be ok then. Greetings, Pill- 10:00, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that! I'm checking it more regularly now. Guaka 09:25, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
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