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[edit] Be Bold!!
You can find me at my user page or talk page for any questions. Happy editing, and we'll see ya 'round. 
Joe I 08:10, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- Um... thanks a lot, although I must note that I did join AGES ago.... --NigelJ talk 08:14, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Auckland meetup
Just to let you know that a meetup is planned in Auckland for the 25th of June (see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland for more details), and that you are cordially invited. GeorgeStepanek\talk 00:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- Already seen the link, and as much as I'd LOVE to go, I cannot because well ARTA sucks and don't want to fund public transport on Sundays out my way, ditto for the Western Line trains. Thanks for the reminder anyway. --NigelJ talk 02:40, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Journal of Political Economy
Okay, no problem about the Journal of Political Economy. This was a scholarly periodical than ran for many years as was basically the mouthpiece of the Chicago school of free-market, monetarist thought. It was discontinued shortly after Milton Friedman retired. One reference I can supply to it occurs in Mark Skousen's "The Power of Economic Thinking." There is also a more recent reference in James Surowiecki's more recent "The Wisdom of Crowds." I do not know the page numbers.
Gnossie 10:39, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Okay. Done. Turns out the journal was not defunct after all! 12:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks again for the welcome. Maybe you could help me with something. What do the numbers next to my edits mean? For, example, when on my watchlist I see the "Journal of Political Economy," there is now a "Journal of Political Economy; 15:33 . . (+281)" What does the +281 mean? Thanks. Gnossie 04:44, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Okay. Thanks again. Gnossie 05:04, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you for your comments in Lar's RfA!
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[edit] CSD
The line "The company is one of only a few search firms in the U.S. focused exclusively on management buy-in transactions" sort of asserts asserts notability for me. Realistically I don't remove CSD tags because I disagree- I remove them if I think it's likely that someone else will disagree. --Wafulz 14:30, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] IRC cloak request
I am G on freenode and I would like the cloak wikipedia/G. Thanks. --NigelJ talk 07:11, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sankt Georgen (Freiburg)
Thanks for putting a decent stub tag on the article! I don't think it is db-context, and I will be expanding the article soon. Poeloq 12:49, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
- No problem, anything I'm not 100% sure on I don't do, I'm glad you appreciate the work done in stub sorting, I'm assuming I got the sorting correct? --NigelJ talk 12:54, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, sorting is correct! Poeloq 14:48, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks!
Thanks for the welcome and the suggestions. Any help is always appreciated - ThomasC22 16:32, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Late Welcome Back!
Hey Nigel, Nice to see your back on wiki, cheers, Brian | (Talk) 09:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Paul Shockley
Regarding this article (which is now at User:Eep²/Paul_Shockley), I don't understand how you can't see the notability of him, regarding his history with the new age community for the past 20 years or so (854 exact Google hits on "Revelations of Awareness", which is the newsletter he supposedly channelled). Surely he at least falls under Category:Purported spiritual mediums at least... -Eep² 04:42, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- At time of nomination Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#A7 was valid, I also did not feel comfortable with the single reference provided, there was little linking to the page in mainspace as well. An admin at the time agreed, and hence deleted it, judging by the logs for the article, you seemed to convince the deleting admin to replace the page, and move it into your userspace, which is by all means fair enough. 854 exact Google hits for a work that is related to him, does not make a person notable. I can't seem to find any references to this specific Paul Shockley in the news (Google News) using 'specific' news terms. I'm sure by all means, I met what was required under WP:BIO in deciding the article should be deleted, especially "A person is notable if he or she has been the subject of secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject." --NigelJ talk 05:00, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Safe failure fraction
Your deletion was much more speedy than I would have expected; I didn't have any time to put on a 'hangon'. I've been planning to pull together some terms and principals regarding IEC 61508 and IEC 61511, safety standards for everything from railway signalling to nuclear power station shutdown systems. Safe failure fraction was just one of the terms. I suppose I'll have to complete the whole project off-line before I post it.--IEC61508 10:23, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- The speedy was done based on the WP:CSD (A1), I did not delete it, I just nominated it for deletion, I'm sorry you did not have a chance, sometimes speedys can take days, but from memory the article was:
- VERY short
- Had LITTLE/NO context to any other article on the English wikipedia
- Was a stub
- Was not up to quality standards
- Feel free to work on the article, I'll try to ask an admin to undelete it and move it to your userspace, which is the generally accepted location for working on pages, just please avoid adding categories to the page. --NigelJ talk SIMPLE 11:50, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- Page has been restored to User:IEC61508/Safe failure fraction, it can be restored when it's up to quality standards to the main namespace --NigelJ talk SIMPLE 11:57, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
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- OK. Thanks for that. I'm new and didn't know about Wikipedia:User_page and Wikipedia:Subpages.--IEC61508 11:25, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Annoying Speedy Deletions
Nigel, the problem is when you're so antsy over "speedy deletions", the creator doesn't usually have the chance to improve the article before some holier-than-thou admin deletes it. This is annoying and seriously puts a hit into the collaborative/collective contribution effort of Wikipedia. If anything, the page should be AUTOMATICALLY moved to a subpage under the creator's account, as what happened to Paul Shockley above and now Safe failure fraction but, better yet, lay off the speedy delete requests and just do a normal nomination for deletion so the creator can have a chance to improve the article. It's bad enough Wikipedia has no email notification for deletion nominations or even such basic things like when a page one created is changed (like just about every other Wiki I've ever used has)... -Eep² 02:02, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
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