User talk:Dfrankow
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[edit] WikiLens
Hi, thanks very much for your thoughtful message. Firstly, here is the text of the deleted page:
- WikiLens "is a way for anyone to rate things, and add more things (e.g., movies, books, classes, software projects) to allow anyone to rate them. Once there are ratings, we can do useful things with them....Collaborative recommenders allow people to express their opinions about things, then get things recommended to them that they don't know about yet. The simplest description is 'automated word of mouth': I like "The Matrix", you like "The Matrix", you like "Reservoir Dogs" and I haven't seen it, so recommend it to me. That basic concept is extended using computers to sum across many users and many items." ~ What is WikiLens? (link)
From my personal standpoint, the article as it was written above is basically an advertisement, doesn't comport with Wikipedia style, doesn't really convey much useful information, doesn't assert notability or significance, and uses too conversational a tone. All of this worked against it in the last deletion round. WP editors -- including myself -- are extremely averse to having Wikipedia be used as essentially a press release. With that being said, if you can make a case in the article as to the subject's significance (or notability), then you may have a greater chance to have it be retained. In my opinion, taking the page to votes for undeletion likely won't get you far. VFU is only supposed to be for deciding whether the deletion process was properly followed, not whether or not the deleted content should've been deleted. The community already took a vote on that, and the vote was delete. However, articles aren't necessarily deleted for all time. Generally re-creating an article that's been deleted is frowned upon, unless the re-created article is substantially different/better than the previous one. As you can see that would not be hard to do in this case. What I would recommend to you is that you hang around WP, get the hang of style and what articles should look like, then re-create the article if you want. While WP:VANITY strongly discourages editors from writing about themselves, it doesn't strictly prohibit them from doing so, as long as that editor makes sure that the article is fair and balanced. This means including any pertinent criticisms as warranted. I hope this helps and good luck! · Katefan0(scribble) 03:24, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
- I've copied your reply to Katefan0, as I think that you sent it to me by mistake. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:36, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Moved from User talk:Cool Cat/IRC Bot
How does it work? How do you run it? --dfrankow 15:17, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
- The bot is a MIRC script. You do not need to run the code to use it, you can simply join #wikipedia-en-vandalism channel on irc.freenode.net server and start using the bot. --Cool Cat Talk 17:05, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] solve_disambiguation bot
I have a brief description in my user space - and I have been meaning to make it much better.
The bot provides a set of options, and then the operator chooses one. Most (all but 300 of the 9000) of the edits my bot made involved me choosing the correct option. So although it is a bot, it's not making any descisions. That's why the edit summary says "Robot assisted".
Please ask me all you want to know about the bot, I want improve the explanation available.--Commander Keane 23:40, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Looking for articles to work on?
Hello, Dfrankow. I'm SuggestBot, a bot that helps new members contribute to Wikipedia. Based on your previous edits, I have made a list of articles you might like to work on. I hope you find this useful. -- SuggestBot 23:17, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nicholas Payton
Hi there. Everything I added to the article was from the references there; one of them was already on the article, I think, and the other three were new. There was alot of information in the two interviews, which let me get a sense of things, but basically I just distilled what was in the jazztrumpetsolos.com bio (which, I now see, no longer exists... oops!). Unfortunately for the research process, I couldn't even look at Payton's official site: the background music killed my browser every time I tried. I didn't have any previous knowledge about Payton, except that I've heard some of his music and not been amazingly fond of it, but I wrote an article about his father, a much less notable figure, and found it odd that the son's article was so short. - squibix(talk) 17:13, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Alternate set of suggestions
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[edit] Oberlin
I'm dropping you this note because you recently edited either the Oberlin page or its talk page. I'm planning to split out the list of notable alumni to a separate page and leave only a short list of "very notable" folks on the main page. Opinions are eagerly sought at the talk page as to who are the most notable. Thanks! Matchups 04:15, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Scott Yanow
I cleaned-up the Scott Yanow article in hopes that the NPOV tag be removed. What do you think of it now? Do you think in could be removed? Thanks. dq 01:10, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Minnesota meetup
A meetup of Wikipedians in Minnesota is proposed: please stop by the discussion page if interested. Jonathunder 01:57, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- Reminder: Meetup October 29, one o'clock, Mall of America. Jonathunder 16:50, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Minnesota Meetup
