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[edit] Cleanup

Can you please be more specific about what requires cleanup on Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies? -- Mtbeerbower 16:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] neologism

FWI, neologism is not a criteria for speedy deletion. Prodego talk 02:39, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kott language

Why did you move Kott language to Kott? Tim Q. Wells 02:13, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] mary mahowald

Do mis-capitalized redirects get deleted eventually? Shouldn't they? Thanks! laurap414 01:59, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Masterpiece

I saw the "battle" and did consider protection, but decided against it for now, if he further recreates I'll reconsider (problem with these things tends to be they just move to a different title...) --pgk(talk) 18:17, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Baye-Dole Act

Thanks for the clean up.--Nowa 21:57, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kolmen valtakunnan rajapyykki

I moved Kolmen to Kolmen valtakunnan rajapyykki and deleted the original. In Finnish, "kolmen" is not the name of anything, it means "of three". "Valtakunnan" means "of countries" and "rajapyykki" means "border point". JIP | Talk 12:10, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Replacing tag

Concerning Hino ao Campeão Cruzeiro Esporte Clube I've replaced the tag. Now it's listed to speedy deletion. A similar article was deleted before, but Abreu Andrade (talk · contribs) started a new one. Regards, —Lesfer (talk/mail) 12:42, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bud Fensterwald

Hi! The GU cite is from the bio in the refs.

Looks like he went to SAIS at JHU, but I can't review this source. [1]

Oops, bingo: The Anatomy of American "Isolationism" and Expansionism. Part I Bernard Fensterwald, Jr. Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Jun., 1958) , pp. 111-139 "He is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the School of Advanced international Studies at Johns Hopkins University. [2]

Thanks for catching that! Jokestress 23:39, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Chad

Thanks for starting Battle of N'Djamena. You may want to joib Wikipedia:WikiProject Chad. KI 03:33, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] panosfidis

Greetings. I am writing in reply to something you have sent me recently: "Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please place {{hangon}} on the page and make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. --DMG413 21:37, 14 April 2006 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Panosfidis" I believe you have written me this because I have deleted an arcticle. I need to explain to you what happened.I wanted to edit my userpage. But instead, I created an arcticle named panosfidis. This tag appeared about the deletion, which is tottaly logical as I had no intention to write an arcticle about myself ( I am not THAT kind of Jerk! ). Anyway I decided to delete it myself. I guess this is not some kind of vandalism. Anyway since you took the time to write to me I have two questions. I have written an arcticle about the Greek Author Anestis Keramidas. 1. How can I make the words Anestis keramydas, Anestis Kerammidas, Anestis Kerammydas, Keramidas, Kerammydas, Keramydas, Kerammidas redirekt to the same location? ( There is no other man of any significance in Greece named Keramidas. ) 2. How can I add a .jpg foto to the arcticle? ( I did upload one days ago named keramidas.jpg but nothing happened )

[edit] Libya

Thanks for the help with the article about Jews in Lybia Libya. For some reason I just can't get the spelling of that country in my head. I guess I should write any articles about it then. Well, thanks anyways.--CarabinieriTTaallkk 22:03, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LSE

I put the cleanup tag on it because the page is one of the most difficult university pages to navigate and its infobox has irrelevant information in it that is not supposed to even go in it. The page needs to look more like the wikipedia university template instead of an advertisement. ArchonMeld 19:36, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ruth Warrick

Hi, you recently removed the anecdote that Ruth Warrick was the last living main castmember of citizen kane. please take not of the "main cast member" part, although the kid who played Kane's son is still alive, he was a bit part, not anything one would consider a "mean cast member" or "star of". Dowew 08:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] St. Andrew's Christian College

Hi DMG413. I just wanted to let you know that there has been a bit of work done to St. Andrew's Christian College and I was wondering if, in your opinion, it has been improved enough to remove the cleanup tag you added in March? Blarneytherinosaur 12:00, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply on my talk page. I like to ask the person who tagged an article to have another look before I remove a cleanup tag, for a bit of perspective. I'll take it off now. Blarneytherinosaur 01:57, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sin Tax

Thanks for bringing up that new article, I think it was in order. However, please elaborate or cite on how "jurisdictions levy taxes on illicit drugs". That doesn't make much sense, does it? (Patrick 09:13, 12 May 2006 (UTC))

That's interesting, maybe another article could be created for those jurisdictions who actually levy the tax and give out stamps anonymously; also, if you have a few examples, they would be good to name in this article also. (Patrick 13:43, 12 May 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Hot off the trigger

i think you are a little hot off the trigger, when labeling pages for deletion.

with mods like you wikipedia is really hard to contribute to Wikipedia, crushing our articles before they go anywhere.

[edit] Delete

I agree.

Why do you want to delete the page I created, DMG? Zoohoo 17:49, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Go ahead and delete it

I found this site 2 days ago and I am already being kicked out. Oh well. You can delete it, and my user account. That will kick me out and delete all my contributions.

Zoohoo 19:13, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chicken Parmigiana

Just wanted to point out that Wikibooks has the cookbook, not Wikisource. They did not seem to have this recipe so I altered the tag. You might want to read Wikisources inclusion guidelines before tagging anything for Transwiki, if this was not just a slip.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 17:15, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Also Cisco vpnclient install on fedora fc5 does not fit into the inclusion guidelines at Wikisource.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 18:08, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sarah Edmondson

I noticed that you have previously edited the James E. Edmondson article, and I was wondering if I could get your opinion on whether any mention of his daughter Sarah Edmondson should be made. See Talk:James E. Edmondson for more details and share any thoughts regarding the issue on that Talk page. --TommyBoy 05:04, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spencer Bates

I nominated an article that you created, Spencer Bates, for deletion. If you think that the article is salvageable, or that I'm mistaken, please comment on its deletion page. Please see the Guide to deletion if you have any questions about Wikipedia's deletion process. -- — MrDolomite | Talk 03:46, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Heh, silly MrDolomite, I used the {{polite-afd}} notification and I didn't see it had the word "created". Sry for the confusion. — MrDolomite | Talk 15:24, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dark Congress

You tagged the Dark Congress article for cleanup shortly after it was created. I just want to let you know that I've rewritten the article (and removed the tag), so please have another look and re-add the tag if you still think it's justified. Kickaha Ota 22:12, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grigori Marchenko

Hey, Thanks for adding the categories to Grigori Marchenko. KazakhPol 07:41, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Donaldson

Thanks for your contribution in Thomas Donaldson (professor) Amvdboogaard 13:43, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Georgetown Alumni

How were you able to move Kyle Sweeney to Georgetown alumni so fast? I wasn't even finished starting the page? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mitico (talk • contribs) 02:02, 10 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Abolished vs disbanded (no the same)

Greetings, I 'm writting in regard of your editing on "Countries without an Army"

To state that Liechtenstein

Abolished their army in 1868 because it was too costly. Army did only exist in times of war. Protected by the Swiss army since then.

Is not correct,

"The Army had already been disbanded in 1868, out of financial considerations. At the time of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it was argued that Liechtenstein as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire (supposedly still incarnated in Liechtensteiner eyes at an abstract level in the person of the then-dethroned Austro-Hungarian Emperor, despite its formal dissolution in 1806) was no longer bound to Austria, then emerging as an independent state which did not consider itself as the legal successor to the Empire. Liechtenstein is thus the last independent state in Europe which can claim an element of continuity from the Holy Roman Empire."

Just because a country does not have the monetary resources to maintain army forces does not mean that the army has been abolished like the case of Costa Rica when in fact a constitutional amendment abolished the army. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Eao1970 (talk • contribs) 06:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] dates

You seem to have been at this longer, so can I ask a question? I saw you changed that date format on Georgetown University's page from yyyy-mm-dd to month, day, year. Why? So far I've always encountered resistance to my preferred date format, even from long time wikipedians like yourself. Just curious, since it shouldn't matter, as the output is set in user preferences.--Patrickneil 15:58, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of Article Request

Why did you delete my article request for Barry Zubrow, DMG413? I have a right as a Wikipedia user to request any article I want and you have no right to delete it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrzubrow (talk • contribs)


I understand that they reached a concensus, but the primary reason why they voted to delete this article was because of a conflict of interest. Now, because I am only requesting that someone else right this article, I don't see any problem with that. Do you? Mrzubrow 16:23, 25 March 2007 (UTC)


That is not true, many people confirmed that Barry L. Zubrow has enough notoriety to warrant a Wikipedia article. In fact, many people suggested that someone else right hte article, which is what I was trying to do. He deserves an article because he does have considerable notoriety because he is on Forbes, The New York Times, and Reuters. Look him up, you will find material on him from these sources. In addition, he is mentioned in multiple other Wikipedia articles. Therefore, I think there is overwhelming evidence and support to warrant a small article on this person. Mrzubrow 20:51, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Republic of Macedonia

All articles about municipalities in the Republic of Macedonia have word "municipality" in their title. For example Sveti Nikole municipality is article about municipality, while Sveti Nikole is article about town, which is a seat of that municipality. All articles about municipalities and towns in the Republic of Macedonia are standardized like this, so please do not change names of those articles if there is no general agreement about this (I mean agreement that names of all municipality articles are changed, not of only one of them). Also redirects that have word "opština/opstina" redirect to articles that have word "municipality" ("opština" is Macedonian word for municipality). PANONIAN (talk) 18:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

One more thing: all articles about municipalities of Macedonia already exist and all have name "municipality" in their title, just that you know this when create redirects. PANONIAN (talk) 18:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of article request

Hi DMG413, I'm just wondering why you removed a request for an article on BBC Select here. It was a nightmare searching through the page history to find the revision in which it was removed. The link was still red, and as far as I can see it's a perfectly valid topic for an article. 84.13.132.115 11:06, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate your reply. If I put "BBC Select" into Google the second result that comes up refers to the subject of the article request. If you're familiar with the syntax used by many search engines you'll know that adding -committee to the search string would eliminate many of the false positives you turned up, and indeed when I tried this, I got many relevant results. I was particularly concerned about this removal because I had included a brief snippet in my article request giving some context. Most requests consist of the title alone, and I can well understand that someone going through the list to clean it up might have trouble knowing whether some of the topics listed were worthy of articles. Since I'd gone to the extra effort to point people in the right direction, I was pretty annoyed that someone had just taken it out without any justification. Can I request that if you do this in future you note what you're removing in the edit summary, and give a brief reason? This would make it a lot easier to look through the history of that enormous page. Also, I'm fairly alarmed by your suggestion that the topic was unverifiable because it didn't show up in a web search (even though, as I've demonstrated, it does). The web is not the ultimate compendium of human knowledge you might like to think it is. Have a browse through a decent academic library and you'll understand just how much stuff there is out there that's very worthy of coverage in Wikipedia, and that the web doesn't cover. Would it be too much to ask that you go through your clean up of the article requests again to check that you haven't removed any others in error? Knowing what I do of Wikipedia's editorial practices (I used to be an admin here) I suspect it might, but I think that you owe it to those people who have requested articles and whose requests you may have removed. Thanks. 84.13.132.115 23:14, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

DMG413, I'm posting here with a similar question regarding your deletion of explanatory text for an article request in Wikipedia:Requested_articles/music. In your revision of 18 Mar 2007 [3], you truncated my Harms, Inc. request to only a name. Since Harms has gone by many names over the years, the explanatory text was valuable. Moreover, it makes the case for notability of the proposed article and hopefully prevents a casual deletion of the request (which has happened before). Also, if someone chooses to take up the challenge of drafting an article, the link referenced in the request would have provided an excellent starting point for research. With these justifications, I've restored the line. I understand that link-spam can be a problem on wikipedia's request pages, but I'd hope that my carefully assembled request can easily be seen to be legitimate. If you have a compelling reason why the extra text and link should not be there, could you please explain? Joseph Hewes 19:53, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of entry in Wikipedia:Requested articles/Culture and fine arts

May I ask why you removed the entry for Hans Dominik in your Revision as of 22:35, 18 March 2007. Lars T. 15:53, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Guster

Notice I see that you've made edits in articles about Guster.
I'm trying to create a WikiProject to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the band.
If you're interested, please express interest for WikiProject Guster on the proposal page. Thanks! - [hmwith]

[edit] Image:Georgetown view from across the Potomac.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Wikipedia:List of missing journals

I've done some cleanup on Wikipedia:List of missing journals. In addition to purging the list of completed articles, I expanded the top section and made it easier to do mass-edits without breaking the Wikipedia software. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 01:24, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Split of Wikipedia:List of missing journals

I hope the split of Wikipedia:List of missing journals without prior discussion wasn't too jarring. When my web browsers broke it was time to take action. The pre-split web page weighed in at well over 1.4MB including graphics. Even split like it is, I pity the dialup user. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 02:50, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thank you. Ahy1 18:09, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] london school of econimics

There is a Walter Adams link in the article of london school of economics, which leads to a disambig. Do you know if it's Walter Adams (economist) or someone else? --Brewcrewer 20:20, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Redirect of Sharon reed

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