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[edit] License tagging for Image:Liverpool St Nicholas.jpg

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[edit] License tagging for Image:Windowbn1950.jpg

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[edit] Sleep, Indeed

Quadruple eek; I was wondering why you were saying William Clarke was a disambiguation page. joturner 18:06, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Tudor Mint Ltd.

if it reads like an advert im sorry, i just wrote it now and did not mean it to. I will work more on the article in the morning just dont delete it.--Childzy (Talk|Contribs) 22:31, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy of LinkStation

Unfortunately, advertising is not a criteria for speedy deletion. Please take a moment to review WP:CSD. IceKarmaॐ 02:39, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

You can:
  • Try to write a non-advertisement NPOV article;
  • Take it to WP:PROD;
  • Take it to WP:AfD.
IceKarmaॐ 02:59, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Baked Apples

Oh come on, whatchya got against my baked apple article? You realize it's a real food? I'll expand it soon. Communist47 09:01, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baked apple

Please drop by the deletion debate. Perhaps you like the merge suggestion that has been made. :) - Mgm|(talk) 12:05, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to User talk:81.179.163.35

When using template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. - CobaltBlueTony 18:13, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Eeeek !!!! Just realised do you mean {{subst:welcome}} David Humphreys 18:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes! :-) - CobaltBlueTony 18:25, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: User:64.48.78.6

If he has 4 Strikes against him, yes he is a canadate for blocking. Report him at: WP:AIV. °≈§→ Robomaeyhem: T/←§≈° 20:32, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Baked apple and Derek Wood (author) and LinkStation

Closing AfD's and archiving AfD discussions can only be done by an administrator. I also suggest checking out Wikipedia:Deletion process for more info.--TBCTaLk?!? 21:52, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion vs AfD vs Prod

Hi David!

There's probably some useful things you might like to know about deletion on Wikipedia, as you are currently flooding AfD with dozens of articles best dealt with in other ways.

Wikipedia has three levels of delete process.

  1. For certain articles that are obviously and clearly not for Wikipedia, there's Speedy Deletion. If you look at WP:CSD, you'll find a list of reasons articles can be speedily deleted by an admin. If you're sure an article fits one of those reasons, put one of the db tags on it and it goes into a category that admins can see. It will generally be deleted in a few minutes.
  2. For articles that are obviously and clearly not for Wikipedia but don't fit with one of the Speedy Delete criteria, there's PROD. This is a slow-motion speedy delete that gives others the chance to object, clean the article up or agree. See WP:PROD for details of how to PROD an article.
  3. For everything else, there's the slow, time-consuming and devisive AfD process. Use that if the other two aren't appropriate.

As long as you use good judgement and don't tag articles for a speedy delete that don't fit the criteria, and keep your cool if an author dePRODs an article without giving a reason, you'll find these are much better ways of proceeding.

Hope this helps. ➨ ЯEDVERS 19:49, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi! Just wanted to make sure you saw my related note on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rocket_Mobile. Thanks, William Pietri 18:49, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Signature

Just a quick note to say I love your signature- especially the "...ABOUT THE BITS I MESSED UP"!

EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME | IMPROVEME 12:02, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Unfrtunately, I'm also here to leave a note about your signature. It is massively, unnecessarily intrusive, to the point of taking up six lines in the edit box in my browser. I would greatly appreciate it if you could simplify it, to make it less intrusive in discussion. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 01:20, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:David Humphreys.jpg

I recognize that you put substantial creative work into making this image, but I am deleting this image for a number of reasons:

  1. The use of the Nike logo in this context is in the form of parody. While such use is allowed, it is allowed only under terms of fair use. Wikipedia policy prohibits the use of fair use images outside of the main article namespace. Since this image would never be used in the main article namespace, its presence here is not permissible under our policies. Please see Wikipedia:Fair use criteria for further information on this, in particular item #9.
  2. The image of Cristiano Ronaldo as a portion of this image is unsourced and its copyright status is unclear.
  3. The image of the shirtless person as a portion of this image is unsourced and its copyright status is unclear.

While the second and third items are not direct reasons to speedy delete an image, the first reason is. If you can provide a source for items 2 and 3 with a verifiable free use copyright license, and remove the Nike logo from the image, you are welcome to re-upload the image. If you have questions about this, please feel free to ask. Thanks, --Durin 14:19, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal

Is it your intention to vanalise all of the Liverpool Cat?. You do not seem to know much about cats. The isted buildings in Liverpool section are sub cats og Buildings and structures in Liverpool.--84.9.192.32 09:08, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My response

posted on 84.9.192.32's talk page :
I haven't added any articles to the Listed buildings in Liverpool category. Also your accusation of me being a vandal is completely unfounded ... please see WP:CIVIL DavidHumphreysSPEAK TO MEABOUTTHE THINGS I MESSED UP 09:16, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

No you added them to buildings and structures in Liverpool. Despite them already being in the SubCats for Listed buildings. You do not seem to know how the cat system works and seem dedicated to not bothering to find out. I'd find it far more considerate and civil of you if you didn't ignore the work done by others.--84.9.211.144 10:09, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

posted on 84.9.211.144 's talk page :
The IPs you are using 84.9.192.32 & 84.9.211.144 are in the range of User:Irate who is indefinitely blocked from this site ... I would suggest that you create a user account. DavidHumphreysSPEAK TO MEABOUTTHE THINGS I MESSED UP 10:18, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] using templates

I've been stub-sorting and I noticed a number of things that look like this:

  1. <div class="messagebox cleanup">Some of the information in this {{{1|article or section}}} has '''not been [[Wikipedia:Verifiability|verified]]''' and might not be reliable. It should be checked for inaccuracies and modified as needed, '''[[Wikipedia:cite sources|citing sources]]'''.</div>[[Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification]]
  2. <div class="notice metadata" id="stub">''This article is a [[Wikipedia:Stub|stub]]. You can help Wikipedia by <span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=edit}} expanding it]</span>. ''</div>[[Category:Stubs]]
  3. <div class="messagebox cleanup metadata"> This article belongs in one or more '''[[Wikipedia:Category|categories]]'''. Please [[Wikipedia:Categorization|categorize]] this article to list it with similar topics.</div>[[Category:Category needed|{{PAGENAME}}]]

I checked your contributions and I noticed that you've adding these things to a number of articles. I don't know if you know this, but instead of copying the code for a template, you can just type the template name within curly braces. Using the above as examples, the correct usage would be:

  1. {{verify}}
  2. {{stub}}
  3. {{uncat}}

If you have any more questions, you can look here or here or leave a message on my talk page. Have a great day and happy editing! ~ Amalas rawr =^_^= 18:13, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

You do bring up a good point about using subst: However, there are some things that should be substituted, and some things that shouldn't. WP:SUBST has a great list of what to subst and what not to. I hope that helps. ~ Amalas rawr =^_^= 13:28, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: RE: Signature

Sorry, didn't see you'd replied. Shame it appears not everyone likes your signature! EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME | IMPROVEME 22:41, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Tell me about it: one user came to my talk page just to remove an image, which was fair enough as you're not supposed to use fair use images on your user page, but the user just removed it with a blunt edit summary whilst the guidelines allowed for a polite request to remove it. It's people like that who spread Wikihate in my opinion!

To ensure the balance of WikiLove is restored, here's some WikiLove.

EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME | IMPROVEME 22:47, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

[edit] Explaining Northumbria (et al)

I am dubious as to the necessity of explaining where Northumbria is/was, not least because if it's done once it should be done everywhere, and that is a huge amount of work to little end. It's not simply kings of Northumbria, no doubt the same would need to be done for all Anglo-Saxon kings, and (I am quite sure) early Irish ones, the Pictish ones, the Dál Riata ones (which currently contain the POV and inaccurate "modern western Scotland" as a pointer) and many British and Welsh ones. ("Cadwallon ap Cadfan (died 634[1]) was the King of Gwynedd ..."; "Flann Sinna ... was the king of Mide ..."; and so on). Angus McLellan (Talk) 17:23, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Battrick Cup

I was just wondering if you could give me an outsiders point of view to what context you'd like to see added to Battrick Cup since you were the one who tagged it. If you have gone over Battrick the article should be pretty straightforward. Thanks --JRA WestyQld2 22:03, 23 July 2006 (UTC) Ok, sounds good. I'll get started onto it. JRA WestyQld2 03:27, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging David L Cook and David Cook

David, thank you for your request to merge these two articles. Unfortunatley we do not know who wrote the first one David Cook (Musician) and it contains a great deal of information to us that is really uncalled for in this venue. If you could please help us to fix this or even get rid of the other article we would appreciate it. We are not Wiki savy so our office is not sure as to how to do these edits without causing more of a problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The David L Cook article is a good article, it is the David Cook (Musician) that needs to have something done with it. Thank you, Daylon Ware --IAMAS Corporation 11:28, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Previous Bose Headphones

Thanks for bringing your concerns to me :) The idea behind this article, just like other products listed on Wikipedia is to provide as much information to people as possable. There have been a few of us that have spent a while trying to make this a very complete and acurate article. Do you have any ideas on how to make this article even better? -- UKPhoenix79 10:12, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bose Headphone Family

I know that you have worked on Bose related pages before and I was hoping that I could get you involved with the discussion here! Thanks -- UKPhoenix79 05:14, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pa-Bocce

Why do you insist on this article being removed. I did not invent the game, I do not know who did or when, but I do know alot of people at my school play and enjoy it. Some of us are planning a tournament amonst the students to raise money for the various charities it supports. I agree it is a poor article and needs work, perhaps you could help me improve it rather than remove it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.65.39.243 (talk • contribs). 03:42, 7 August 2006
My response posted on 74.65.39.243's talk page ...

I don't insist that this article is removed, if you check the page history, you will find that it is a different user who added the "proposed deletion" tag. I added the tag that proposes merging into the Bocce article. I have reverted your removal of the "proposed deletion" tag, because simply deleting the tag is not the correct way to do things. DavidHumphreysSPEAK TO MEABOUTTHE THINGS I MESSED UP02:57, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

I apoligize for my mistake about the deletion tag. And I would like to know why what I did is "not the way to do things." The tag states "You may remove this message if you improve the article, or if you otherwise object to deletion of the article for any reason. To avoid confusion, it helps to explain why you object to the deletion, either in the edit summary or on the talk page." I otherwise object to the deletion and stated why on the talk page. If I am mistaken I am sorry, I am new to Wikipedia and would like to know what I can do to help preserve the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.65.39.243 (talk • contribs). 04:07, 7 August 2006

No problems about the misunderstanding :) The "way to do it" is to improve the article first, in this particular case, it would be to slightly expand the article, (eg, giving examples of where it is played etc etc) and by providing references (eg, links to websites that mention it, or notes of newspaper articles written about it etc) DavidHumphreysSPEAK TO MEABOUTTHE THINGS I MESSED UP03:14, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Well the way I understand it, deleted articles cannot be recreated for some time. Is there anyway I can volentaraly remove the article while I conduct research and repost it when I can create a better article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.65.39.243 (talk • contribs).

See this page, it's a good place to start. And David Humphreys, if any user contests a {{prod}}, even the original author, you shouldn't re-insert the prod. Instead, contested prods should be taken to AFD. Isopropyl 04:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] my talk page

Hey David! Thanks for your comments of support! You left them on my user page, though, so I just moved them to my talk page. Thanks again! wikipediatrix 02:58, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dave Humphreys?

Are you THE Dave Humphreys?

As in the Magic: the Gathering player?

The Ronin 18:01, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

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