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After two comments, I now find it necessary to make this crystal clear right here at the top of my Talk Page. I am not an admin. I use the speedy tags because I neither have, nor want the admin power to speedily delete the pages. Also: I make mistakes. Such is the way of humanity. If I make a mistake, a kind note will go further than hate. One more thing, a comment was made as to the speed at which I tag things... Well, I use Special:Newpages to clear out the junk...and there are tons of junk new pages.

These are the talk articles from October 1, 2006 to the present.
All previous messages may be found here.


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[edit] marist high school

this page is currently underconstruction, it was a fluke that it was like that, sorry about that.

[edit] Skyscrapercity.com

This article was requested. Besides, it is one of the most important internet forums dealing with the topic of skyscrapers, architecture and urbanism, so there is no reason to dismiss it as "non-notable". Uaxuctum 05:10, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've just read your justification. Anyway, I do not agree, I think you should change the speedy deletion into a Request for Deletion. SSC is a notable forum among those dealing with the topics it deals and has a wide worldwide user-base, so there are arguments in favor of keeping it that I think merit at least discussion. Uaxuctum 05:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sanjeev Murali Mohan

Am creating this page and will be updating it shortly. Is meant to be humorous, but if its not suitable, kindly go ahead and delete the same. Ramanbnv

[edit] Joanie4Jackie

Dear Bladeswin:

I have just barely finished typing and you have already selected this article for deletion. It must have been up for all of ten seconds, I'm suprised you even had time to read it. I would object to your deleting this article on the grounds that several notable women filmmakers were involved with it: Miranda July, Sarah Jacobson, Lisa Hammer, G.B. Jones and Tammy Rae Carland. All these women have pages on Wikipedia: it follows that if they are notable, so is their work, especially on a collaborative project of this scope, ranging over a period of years.

I would like to know why you consider this page deleteable and I would also like the opinion of a few other administrators who, I believe, would find this subject notable.

Intheshadows 03:21, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I appreciate your response and do understand that there must be many "junk" pages to edit on Wikipedia. I wasn't aware there was a 'New Pages' section, which explains a lot. Good luck with your work on Wikipedia!

Intheshadows 07:02, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Psyber

Greetings Bladeswin

Responding to your request to delete the Psyber terminology that is a part of the Cyberpunk and online community terminology.

Being new here and seeing other terms here such as Cyber, Cyberspace, noobs and such, which is all tied in with the Cyberpunk and online community and subculture, I felt Psyber which is a structured term involved with this online society would be a valid input to be tied in with the Cyberpunk terminology and structure that exists here in the Wikipedia

I followed the instructions to contest deletion, however if I have “broken” any rules it is not intentionally.

Your original comment for deletion is, that this is not a dictionary, I have modified the Psyber to reflect how it is tied in with the Cyberpunk grouping so as to better fit your formatting requests, Though I am not completely sure what your formatting requirements are.

Any feed back on this would be helpful to help comply with your requirements for me to contribute to the Wikipedia. Thanks.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Psyberwolf (talk • contribs).

[edit] SmartDraw

I was wondering if you could clarify why you marked our SmartDraw article as not notable. I realize any editor at Wikipedia has to go through a lot of noise and junk to keep Wikipedia clean, but I don't think SmartDraw is any different than many other articles written about technical software. SmartDraw has been around for 12 years innovating different ways to allow regular business users to draw diagrams without technical or designer know how.

We've added references to some reviews of the older versions of the product and hopefully we will have some new reviews shortly. Just recently the US Department of Justice adopted SmartDraw Legal as their standard diagramming software. More than 10 million people have downloaded SmartDraw. SmartDraw's article is similar to pages like Visio and ConceptDraw as it discusses a specific software with its unique set of tools in a large and growing industry. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Egaal (talk • contribs).

Well...I'm no expert on notability but I suspect that it is not notable. I'm yet to find a single source that is not a secondary resource - with the exception of the smartdraw website and select few others with financial reasons to endorse and market this program. Everything seems to point back there. The point of origin for the statistics seems to be the smartdraw homepage's press releases. The US DOJ adopted Smartdraw Legal as their "standard diagramming software"? I'm not so sure as Egaal. Sure, they supposedly own a lot of licenses for it but who says they paid for them? Ten million product downloads. Free products are products too! Maybe that's 99.99% of their product downloads - upgrades, trial versions, compos etc. Ten million downloads doesn't mean ten million people have purchased licenses. "More than 10 million people" Why write this on your page? Because, you apparently marked the article as not notable and I think you were probably right. I've seen the work you've done on some other articles and I wonder if you have some brilliant idea about how to determine for once and for all... "Is Smartdraw notable? Is the smartdraw article written with a neutral point of view? Are the claims all verifiable?" and so on. Anyway thanks in advance. Really I don't have the commitment or motivation to work on wikipedia articles but this one is rather interesting. I look forward to hearing your thoughts. SneakyWho am i 07:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs (derived from Beau Taylor edit)

Hello,

Thank you for your stub submission. You may wish to note that it is preferable to use a stub template from Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types instead of using simply {{stub}}, if you can.

Thanks! Ksbrown 18:34, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Samsantiago

I saw that you prodded a number of articles by this fellow, all of which look to me like spam. Mind if I ask why you did not tag them db-spam? I started to, but you beat me to the punch. I think the prod is a waste of time, simply because the article's cannot be improved---they are just blatant advertising. ---Charles 05:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

To be honest, I didn't think ad was appropriate. It wasn't advertisement for a book far as I could find (google searched one of the titles got nothing), and it wasn't a bio because of the byline. It was Original Research however, which is specifically mentioned in Criteria for Non-Speedying as not a reason for speedying, but prodding. Therefore since I had (in my mind) eliminated speedying as an option, all that was left was prod. - Jake - Bladeswin | Talk to me | 05:32, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I guess it was just an assumption on my part that he was shilling for a book---those titles sound very much like book titles. I certainly meant no offense in asking the question. The sooner the articles are gone, the better. Thanks for your response. ---Charles 05:35, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
No prob. I wanted them gone too. I patrol Newpages more recently than I used to. I still have to figure out the best was to deal with garbage. - Bladeswin | Talk to me | 05:36, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
It can be damn frustrating, I will tell you that. I have been doing newpages patrol for quite some time now, and it can be infuriating. At other times, it is amusing. My advice would be not to lose your mind. Cheers! ---Charles 05:43, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Always is frustrating to get edit conflicts! But...at least it shows that others care about newpages too. - J - Bladeswin | Talk to me | 05:45, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #9

Number 9, February 4, 2007

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.
"The NHC is the official basin for the Atlantic."[1]

Storm of the month

Cyclone Clovis approaching Madagascar
Cyclone Clovis was named late on December 31 near to Tromelin Island. Clovis strengthened as it moved to the southwest reaching its peak the same day with 60 knot winds (according to Météo-France). The JTWC intensified Clovis more slowly, and assessed that it reached its peak with 65 knot winds on January 2, as it was nearing the Madagascar coast. The JTWC maintained this strength until it made landfall on the island on January 3. The resulting floods damaged a number of structures in Mananjary and about 1,500 people had to be evacuated.[2]

Other tropical cyclone activity
The only activity during January was in the Southern Hemisphere, with a total of 5 cyclones existing throughout the month.

  • Dora, the second cyclone the Southwest Indian Ocean formed late in January well to the east of Réunion; and reached tropical cyclone strength at the start of February.
  • The two storms in the South Pacific, Zita and Arthur followed very similar tracks to the east of the Dateline. The JTWC estimated that Zita reached its peak on January 23 and Arthur briefly had hurricane force winds two days later.
  • Cyclone Isobel formed between Indonesia and Australia late in December and headed south, making landfall in Western Australia on January 3 as a minimal Tropical Cyclone.

New articles and improvements wanted

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The January member of the month is Chacor, formerly known as NSLE. Chacor joined the project in November 2005, and has contributed to a wide variety of articles across the project. Recently he has generally focussed on the West Pacific and did most of the work on the first Good article in that basin: Typhoon Ewiniar (2006). He has also started the much needed process of splitting the Southern Hemisphere seasonal articles. Finally, Chacor is probably the user who maintains the quality of the most visible part of the project, the current activity.

Main Page content

Storm article statistics

Grade Nov Dec Jan Feb
Featured article FA 16 19 23 25
A 7 6 2 2
Good article GA 48 57 74 75
B 83 78 71 76
Start 210 200 193 195
Stub 11 15 16 16
Total 375 375 379 389
percentage
Less than B		 58.9 57.3 55.1 54.2

A quick note: When you create a new article please list it in the appropriate section on the project's page and add a fact from the article to the Portal. Thanks.

[edit] Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #10

Number 10, March 4, 2007

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.

Storm of the month

Cyclone Favio near Madagascar

Cyclone Favio developed well to the east of northern Madagascar on February 12 and moved to the southwest as it developed. The storm did not significantly intensify until February 19 when it was just off the soutern coast of Madagascar, but rapidly intenstified soon after to its peak with 185 km/h (115 mph) winds. Favio turned to the northwest and hit Mozambique worsening the floods already occuring in the country. Favio claimed at least 4 lives and destroyed thousands of homes.

Other tropical cyclone activity
There were a total of 6 tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere during February. Five of these, including Favio, were in the South West Indian Ocean.

  • The only other storm in the Australian region was Cyclone Nelson which formed at the end of January in the Gulf of Carpentaria before it hit Queensland.
  • Cyclone Dora was active in January and reached its peak as an annular cyclone on February 3 with 185 km/h (115 mph) winds.
  • Cyclone Gamede was an unusally large storm that prompted the highest level of cyclone warning on Réunion and brought strong winds to the island on February 27, causing a bridge to collapse.
  • Neither Enok towards the start of the month or Humba near its end, had any impact on land.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The February member of the month is Miss Madeline. Miss Madeline is responsible for many of the projects featured lists such as List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes and List of California hurricanes. She has also put serious work into many of our Pacific hurricane articles since she joined the project as one of its founding members. Recently she has worked on 1996 Pacific hurricane season, bringing it from a stub-class article to a Good article candidate.

New articles and improvements wanted

Storm article statistics

Grade Dec Jan Feb Mar
Featured article FA 19 23 25 28
A 6 2 2 2
Good article GA 57 74 75 80
B 78 71 76 78
Start 200 193 195 194
Stub 15 16 16 16
Total 375 379 389 398
percentage
Less than B		 57.3 55.1 54.2 52.8

Comments wanted on project talk Many discussions that potentially have far reaching impact for the whole project are carried out on the project's talk page. However, only a fraction of our active contributors actually engage in those discussions. If you add the project page to your Watchlist and keep an eye on discussions there to monitor upcoming changes, even if you don't participate in those discussions it would help both yourself and the project as a whole. For instance, at the moment the primary infobox templates such as {{Infobox hurricane}} are in the process of being deprecated and replaced by new versions which do the role more effectively.

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