User talk:Bagheera

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[edit] Bagheera

Thank you for stubing my page. --PaysonSmithHall (talk) 01:51, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

No worries!
Bagheera (talk) 21:17, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Classification of minerals

Sorry Bagheera, I added an SD template to the article as well and ended up removing yours. No offense, and if you think yours is the better fit feel free to reverse/revert my edit. Either way it's still up for SD, no offense meant! Zelse81 (talk) 06:08, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

No offense taken. It's all about trying to make the Wiki better.
Bagheera (talk) 21:17, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hangon

Since you were not the author of Marman Twin, it would be perfectly permissible for you to remove the totally ridiculous db-spam tag. -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 02:46, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that info! Still getting into the groove of this aspect of the Wiki.
Bagheera (talk) 02:49, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Intuitive Dynamics

I am sorry for the Intuitive Dynamics article. I an new to this and I am learning at this point. I will complete my readings of the guidelines. If you have any recommendation as to how I should have written the article, please let me know. Thanks Adanbrown (talk) 02:46, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Hierarchical Customer Management

An article that you have been involved in editing, Hierarchical Customer Management, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hierarchical Customer Management. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 12:07, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ole fisty

I agree. That's why I also placed an attack template below your bio template. --Gp75motorsports REV LIMITER 21:13, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletions

Hi, I removed the speedy deletion tag you added to Find a tradesman as it wasn't one of the categories under which an article can be speedily deleted. However, I've added {{db-spam}} which is. If you look at this page you'll see all the valid reasons for a speedy and further down the page are the templates which can be used. I hope this is of help to you in the future. --JD554 (talk) 15:48, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

No worries. Caught the change. Cheers! Bagheera (talk) 22:21, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Dear Bagheera:

I would like to ask you for an advice regarding your recent decision to speed delete Mobissimo's page. I have a moral dilemma that I would like to tell you about. Here is the whole story- I am coming form Bulgaria, a small nation. I used to be a die-hard soccer fan and all my childhood I have been disgusted by the fact that the referee would rule for England or Germany against us. I have a drive for “fair play”. It is so strong that I go the extra mile to make sure that I catch all my students that are cheating using a unique combination of number theoretical and statistical techniques (You could check my 4-MAs in math and PhD in Finance). I have caught cheaters in Mason School of Business - The College of William and Mary, Bentley College, University of Maine, at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business and in the Xfi Centre for Finance and Investment at the University of Exeter where I have been teaching Finance and Fraud Prevention as an assistant professor.

Kayak and Sidestep are some of the biggest corporate cheaters that I have come across (if you spend a little time to check, you'll see that my Doctoral Dissertation was on the biggest bribe in human history). Kayak and Sidestep have signed exclusivity agreements and taken millions from certain online travel agents and airlines and pump them in advertising to confuse the American consumer. On the other hand Mobissimo is the meta-search engine with the best technology and the fairest play towards the consumers. They are accepting the most providers and really care about the consumers.

Furthermore, by different account Mobissimo is about tied for being the third most popular meta-search engine in the online travel market. It is behind Kayak and SideStep and has about the same popularity as Farecast (you can check this with Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, HitWise, ComScore, etc). Each of these three meta-search engines have their place on Wikipedia and the argument that Mobissimo is not significant to be included on Wikipedia does not make sense for me. Finally, Mobissimo is one of the oldest travel meta-search engines preceding Kayak and Farecast.

I am a devoted Wikipedia promoter (you could see that I am an official member of Wikipedia LinkedIn group). I was truly disturbed when I saw that there are Wikipedia article about the cheaters Kayak and SideStep and there is no article about the best travel-meta search engine Mobissimo, which really looks after the consumers and does not lie.

I would highly appreciate if you could contact me to discuss how we could solve this problem together.

Yours truly, Stanley

Sgyoshev (talk) 06:28, 13 February 2008 (EST)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.222.32.130 (talk) 11:23, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Stanley, I appreciate where you're coming from. But please understand that when I propose an article for deletion, I do so entirely on the merits, or lack thereof, of the article in question. I read the article as written and if it looks like advertising, or fails to establish notability, I'll flag it as such. Some articles get an Advertising, Unreferenced, or Notability tag, whilst others are tagged for deletion depending on how they look. I'm not especially concerned whether a company's competitor has an article, or the merits of that article. In this case, the Kayak and Sidestep articles aren't relevant to my flagging the Mobissimo article.
There have been occasions when other editors have disagreed with my flags and removed them, or changed the flag to a different category. In others, the original editor has placed a HangOn tag and successfully argued for their article's retention. In either case, I'm perfectly good with it. That's the way the system works, and the ongoing success of Wikipedia shows that the system usually works pretty well.
To me there was, and is, no moral dilemma. It was strictly about the content of a specific article. At the time, I saw it as worthy of a DB tag, and flagged it as such. The subject of the article wasn't the reason for my flagging it. If I saw another article about Mobissimo, I'd read it for content and if it looked like it needed a tag, I'd place a tag. If it was the same article, I'd give it the same tag I had before. The existence of articles about it's competitors wouldn't be in the equation. The article isn't about them, after all.
Cheers. Bagheera (talk) 18:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help

Hi Bagheera - Any suggestions for how I can edit this to make it sound less "advertorial" so the box that reads "this article or section is written like an advertisement" will be removed? I'm very new to the Wikipedia environment, so I appreciate any help. Thanks in advance! --Kristahtq (talk) 22:34, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] More help

Thanks for your speedy response, Bagheera. I appreciate the explanation of your reasoning behind the advertising tag. I suppose I just need more help. According to the Wikipedia entry for superlatives, a superlative describes something to extremes. I edited my copy carefully to ensure nothing was exaggerated or described "over the top." I feel my most recent entry sticks with the facts and the news articles and other sources I listed should verify the information. I made brief mention of the awards, as you suggested. I even linked to the organizations and publications that gave the awards - giving the reader the opportunity to learn more about the company and the other winners. If I were dwelling on the awards, I would have given them a more in-depth explanation in the entry. Please let me know what superlatives I should remove/rework to make this entry more neutral and untagged as an advertisement. Again, always learning in this place. Thanks again for your help. --Kristahtq (talk) 23:07, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Sounds great. Thank you very much. Best, --Kristahtq (talk) 23:22, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Wonderful. Thanks again for your clarification. I really want to make this entry work. I will make your suggested edits tomorrow and hope you'll continue with your advice. Have a great evening. Thank you! Kristahtq (talk) 23:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

=="th"--

Thanks for the "th"! --John of Paris (talk) 13:42, 12 February 2008 (UTC)


  • Hi Bagheera: Hope you're having a good one. I made the edits we discussed yesterday and found, this morning, that my page has been nominated for deletion. Just wanted to see if you had any more feedback. I appreciate all your help. Thanks in advance. Best, --Kristahtq (talk) 20:15, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] attach photo

Thanks for all your help. How do I attach a photo to a page? ````Michael Givens —Preceding unsigned comment added by Micdixie (talk • contribs) 20:13, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Answered your question on your talk page. I'm not officially a "helper" or anything, but I hope I was able to answer your question just the same. Cheers! Bagheera (talk) 20:58, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help!

I'm new to editing on Wikipedia, and I was wondering if you could give any suggestions to make my article more of an encyclopedic entry? You left me a note in my UserTalk Susanjane102 (talk) 22:15, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi Bagheera, if you are able, please delete the A4Tech X718-F as there is really no use in that other than ... nothing. Thanks for helping me out and showing the true purpose of Wikipedia. Will count on you in my next endeavours :). Thanks.

Anti Virus 777. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anti Virus 777 (talk • contribs) 23:06, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't have delete permissions, AV, but I'm sure one of the admins will handle things shortly. Cheers, Bagheera (talk) 23:12, 7 March 2008 (UTC)