User talk:Andymarek

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[edit] Wisconsin weekly newspapers

Question about your recent edit. Aren't the Baraboo, Portage and Beaver Dam newspapers dailies? I'm pretty sure they are, but I thought I'd check before removing them from the list of weeklies. Thanks, Dmp348 23:00, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

You are absolutely correct. I was just updating the newspapers from Capital Newspapers quickly and I didn't catch that. The dailies will be removed. Thanks for the catch! --Andymarek 14:09, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prods and newspaper list articles

Hi Andymarek. Thank you for working on the United States newspapers area. There is a lot of work that needs to be done in that area of Wikipeida and I am happy to see that you have taken an interest in it. I appreciate receiving the multiple prod warnings posted on my talk page. However, {{prod}} is for uncontroversial deletion candidates that do not meet the criteria for speedy deletion. See Wikipedia:Proposed deletion. For each posted prod, a reason given seems to be that the region does not produce or receive any newspapers. The articles probably meet WP:CSD#A3 and/or WP:CSD#A7 and {{db}} may have been a better approach. Given that there were multiple articles created months ago with little to no activity since that time, I would have been just as happy to receive a request for me to request deletion of the articles under WP:CSD#G7. If you see any more of these articles, please feel free to be bold and use {{db}}. -- Jreferee 06:15, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the encouragement to ::be bold::. These pages were my first deletion requests and out of an abundance of caution, I did not want to request speedy deletion simply because I was not 100% sure these pages qualified. For pages like this in the future, I will request speedy deletion. Again, thank you for your encouragement. --Andymarek 11:15, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

The areas listed in each article are not uninhabited, but rather disputed inhabited insular areas. Those articles are transcluded into disputed inhabited insular area newspapers. They were given their own article by myself so that they may be transcluded into the master US newspaper article. I was trying to be thorough and did not want to leave any area of the United States out of the list. Insular area was a great article for this because it describes all the areas of the United States. Regarding the articles, if these articles do not actually list any content (e.g., list any newspapers) by now, its fine to db delete them. Someone will recreate them once they locate newspapers for these areas. In your db speedy delete description, you may wish to include the actual CSD reason (e.g., WP:CSD#A3 and/or WP:CSD#A7) so that the CSD deletion admin does not have to go looking for it. As for using prod, I have found it one of the more anger inspiring user tools. It seems to inspire more anger than if you put the articles up for deletion or requested speedy deletion. If you are new to using {{prod}}, you may first wish to review Category:Proposed deletion to get an idea as to how others have used prod. -- Jreferee 14:00, 27 March 2007 (UTC)