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Deletion of my page

Hi there! I understand why you would delete my user page. But surely I've proven that I am a dedicated anon user, with a static IP address that I've used for months. I would like to request that you please overturn your decision and restore my user page. If I ever happen to abandon my anon-ness or if I ever get assigned an other IP address (highly unlikely to happen according to my ISP) I will surely place a {{db}} template on it myself. Thank you in advance. 74.133.9.95 (talk) 05:42, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your speedy response, I truly appreciate it. 74.133.9.95 (talk) 05:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
...er, so why are mine still gone? --DocumentN (68.44.253.17) (talk) 07:03, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
and mine at 80.177.213.144 Bob aka Linuxlad (talk) 12:48, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Mine, too. May I have it restored, please. Thanks. --199.71.174.100 (talk) 00:19, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Great! Thank you for your quick response. As long as it's there for me to edit, I'm happy. Thanks, again! --199.71.174.100 (talk) 00:25, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

in medias res (band) deletion

hey there. i noticed you deleted a previous in medias res band page. im creating a new one for a band that exists now with the same name. their websites are http://imr.ca/html/rooot.html http://inmediasres.blogspot.com and http://www.myspace.com/imr

just givin you a heads up. Orlandkurtenbach 10:18, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

AlphaMan

Why did you delete the page AlphaMan? You deleted it August 29, 2007, but the only reason you gave for deletion was the cryptic message of "(csd r1)". Kevin (talk) 15:11, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah, it was CloudNine that actually deleted the original page, not you. Thanks :) Kevin (talk) 00:15, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
You do have a point, though: as Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Criteria says, "abbreviations can be confusing to new editors (who are most likely to have created articles that can be speedily deleted) and should be avoided.". --DocumentN (talk) 00:17, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

User:72.75.72.63

Please restore this user page, and let me know who requested the deletion ... an anon WP:TROLL has been stalking me ... thnx. Happy Editing! — The Bipolar Anon-IP Gnome (talk) 00:20, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

While you're at it, please restore all of the user pages listed on User:The_Bipolar_Anon-IP_Gnome/WikiGnome#Recent IP accounts since the Talk pages are still there. — The Bipolar Anon-IP Gnome (talk) 00:28, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
The problem is that I'm afraid that the Talk pages will also be deleted, since there is no longer a {{User Alternate Acct}} tag to tie them back to me ... as I said, I suspect that the same WP:SOCK or anon (possibly this one) tagged all of them by simply following the chain ... I can find beau coup registered user pages for accounts that have been unused for two years or longer, and no one has tagged them for deletion ... if these accounts are assigned to other users in the future, then they can delete the content and start fresh.
My other concern is the redlinks on all of the talk pages where I have left messages ... just check the "What links here" on any of them, and you'll see how prolific I am. — The Bipolar Anon-IP Gnome (talk) 23:19, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Template:Aerosmith tours

As this template's creator and as a primary contributor to the Aersomith WikiProject, please feel free to delete this template. It's no longer needed. Thanks. Abog (talk) 04:50, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Template:A.S. Bari managers

Thanks for the note. I created it a while ago and then forgot to transclude it anywhere. I've added it to a number of appropriate pages so hopefully my removal of speedy tag is appropriate. Thanks for pointing it out to me! All the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 10:49, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Your speedy delete request of Template:American_politics/party_colours/Labor_Party/row

I created this template along the lines of Template:American politics/party_colours/Democratic/row and Template:American politics/party_colours/Republican/row. I realize that it is not used in any articles right now, but my intent when creating the template was to expand the flexibility of the various party color templates out there, so that each party color had a corresponding shading, meta/color, and /row option. I noticed that when a party color lacked one of these options, the colors were added haphazardly or did not match colors used elsewhere. There were only a couple of members of congress elected from the Labor Party, but others served in state legislatures. Right now, I don't have a particular article in mind in which to use this template. I've removed the speedy delete tag for now, but if you want to add it back until I can find a practical use for the template, I would understand.Dcmacnut (talk) 15:56, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of the EUCEET article

I couldn't find the actual reason for deletion of the EUCEET article, other than the csd r1 stated in the deletion log. I am quite puzzled about that, as I thought it would redirect to the official EUCEET page (http://www.euceet.utcb.ro/) which is existing, as well as several international publications referring to it. Drsno (talk) 14:30, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Template:American Open Wheel driver results legend

The American version of the F1 driver legend was created in order to provide aspects of classification that are known to American motorsports fans but unknown to international fans. Specifically, in American culture, not only are the top three drivers respected (and the winner by a vastly wider margin than in, say, F1), but Top 5 finishes are differentiated from Top 10s, and Top 10s include the 9th and 10th positions (by default) that the F1 template shows as blue and not green, since in the F1 points system those places do not pay points.

In other words, the color coding system for this template is indeed based on the original, but in the way that Gold, Silver and Bronze in the template are based on the OLYMPIC system, rather than something they in turn created themselves. Green is not a "points paying" color in American Open Wheel, because ALL positions pay points, and a mostly rainbowic format that included purple (for being out of the race) but did not include blue as a lower-tier finish but still finishing, was thought to be, frankly, stupid.

American Open Wheel racing is NOT Formula One racing. The line "cultural idiosyncracies" was utterly meant: rather than conform to an international standard, American fans are far more likely to intone that the international standard conform to them...and have several valid points as to why, especially the fact that American Open Wheel history stretches back to well before the foundation of modern F1, so why "should [they] be expected to toe their line"?

Using the template, with additions such as the light blue color, was a middleground solution that was necessary to cease the arguments that had developed over the aesthetics of the piece. In other words, it was created in good faith, and is currently in use in more than 30 separate driver pages in their "Motorsports Career Results" section. Were it to be eliminated, I for one would certain bring others to task for failing to adhere to the appropriate color-codings of the newly-DELETED template, and am fully willing to engage in a Revert War[s] in order to enforce the aesthetic appearances deemed appropriate (or even if it's just my personal take, such is my belief on this subject).

If this does not come into like with Wikipedian policy, then I either desire to take this before whatever committee might need to review it...with the purpose of KEEPING it in review, for a decade if necessary...or simply change or ignore those policies.

Now, on a more...rational...front...#3 on that listing indicates "not employed in any useful fashion." Given the sheer number that now employ it, and have been (and will be) growing to so include, I think it easily falls under inclusion in that definition. --Chr.K. (talk) 00:43, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

The template took its current form after this lengthy discussion. It is different than the Formula One drivers template because there are important differences in interpreting the results between the series. It is used on numerous articles. Royalbroil 02:11, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Per the conversation on my talk page... I am amenable to moving the information to somewhere more effective, i.e. Wikiproject American Open Wheel Racing/Driver results legend, so long as the information itself is not lost. --Chr.K. (talk) 00:27, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of another user page

You have deleted my user page. Please reinstate. What have you got against unregistered users? 81.168.80.170 (talk) 19:40, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

CSD tagging of Template:Ahnentafel-compact2, Template:Ahnentafel-compact3 and Template:Ahnentafel-compact6

I've reverted the {{old template}} tags you placed on these templates. As you can see by looking at the documentation for the templates, they're part of a series of templates that produce family trees of varying depth; it does not seem reasonable to me to delete these specific templates out of that series for no reason (that I can see) other than that no-one happens to be using those particular depths just now. It might be possible to merge those templates into a single one using ParserFunctions (although this would probably place a greater load on the servers), but cherry-picking some templates out of the current series for deletion isn't really the right way to go about that. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 02:01, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Category:Hawaii articles needing creation

Imagine my surprise when I went to review this category, only to find it completely empty due to your deletion spree in February in the name of "csd g8". WikiProject Hawaii is using {{WPHawaii|class=na|create=yes}} to categorize requested articles on the backend. CSDG8 stipulates that that any talk page which is useful to the project may not be deleted. Could I ask why you found it necessary to depopulate a backend category that was useful to this project? Process is important, but your deletion did not improve the encyclopedia, and in fact made it more difficult to maintain. As such, I fail to see benefit of your actions. —Viriditas | Talk 12:32, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

ANI thread on page protection of bot approval page

I've mentioned you at some point in this, so I'm letting you know about the thread here. Carcharoth (talk) 11:19, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Waterboard editors you don't like!

I hope you'll forgive my tongue-in-cheek subject line. I made an edit to the Waterboarding article but, because of all the controversy, am feeling a little nervous about the whole process. You can see my edit at [1] and read my comments at [2]. I hope you'll forgive my bothering you, but I'm trying to help with Wikipedia and stay out of trouble at the same time. Not always easy! Wakedream (talk) 04:44, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Template:AFC reviewing

Why did you tag this template for speedy deletion? I use it a lot. MSGJ (talk) 12:09, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipages that need help

Wikipedia is strictly buisness (mostly) which is why I am sending these messages to random people.

These listed Wikipages Need your help!

Whoever knows when Alf Schofield died please put in on the Alf Schofield page, that would really help.

Look at the Talk:Kangaroo (meat) page regarding my post- Kangaroo Species- that would really help.

Look at Talk:Katharine McPhee regarding her spouse under Relationships by Keane Rox.

For April 2007 Nor'easter well, I put in a fact and referenced it and now I don't know how to complete the reference. Click the blue 2 reference and you'll know what I mean. Then click the [2] at the top of the April 2007 Nor'easter article and complete the reference.

These pages need your help! That is all.

--RayquazaDialgaWeird2210 (talk) 18:01, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Template:Signature

A template you created, Template:Signature, has been marked for deletion as a deprecated and orphaned template. If, after 14 days, there has been no objection, the template will be deleted. If you wish to object to its deletion, please list your objection here and feel free to remove the {{deprecated}} tag from the template. If you feel the deletion is appropriate, no further action is necessary. Thanks for your attention. --209.244.43.122 (talk) 18:01, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Latin Plurals

"Speedy deletion of Template:Unimaginative Username/Userboxes/Latin Plurals

A tag has been placed on Template:Unimaginative Username/Userboxes/Latin Plurals requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes ({{transclusionless}}).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:26, 19 February 2008 (UTC)"

You're going to have to say that in plain English for us dummies. The template link links to the template, and at last count, 82 people have transcluded it to their sites. I don't understand what the probem is or what action (fix) is requested. Thanks. Unimaginative Username (talk) 09:13, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Template:Mazatlán TV, Template:Veracruz, VE TV, and Template:Mérida TV

Hello. I was wondering if you would be willing to undelete/restore these two articles. They are notable for being media markets with unique local television stations broadcasting in them, much like any other media market in Mexico, the United States, and Canada. RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 01:00, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

thanks! :D RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 02:54, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

I was wondering if you could also restore the other deleted templates on list of television stations in North America by media market, as well...just 2 or 3 left.... thankies in advance. RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 03:30, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Template:Shortcut

Out of curiosity, what prompted this edit? I'm guessing that you encountered a broken attempt to display six shortcut links, but that's an awfully high number. —David Levy 04:36, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, it was Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRHeader. If we're going to pick an arbitrary number, may as well be a convenient one for me. ; - ) --MZMcBride (talk) 04:44, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Listing that many shortcuts is inconvenient for readers. The purpose of the shortcut box isn't to document every shortcut in existence; it's to inform users of the most convenient ones. In most cases, it's appropriate to list one or two (occasionally three) links. The previous limit of five (without manual line breaks) was arbitrary, but it far exceeded the reasonable boundary. We should discourage against listing even that many shortcut links, not encourage people to include still more (which undoubtedly would lead to the continual addition of parameters). —David Levy 05:15, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Erm... The purpose of Template:Shortcut is to list shortcuts to a page. If a page has four, it should list four. If it has six, it should list six. If you feel some of the shortcuts shouldn't exist, take it to WP:RFD. But limiting template functionality is just silly. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:22, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
You're mistaken (and conflating two separate issues). This has nothing to do with the belief that certain shortcuts shouldn't exist or a desire to eliminate them. A page could have a dozen shortcuts, and that's fine, but there's no benefit to listing all of them on the page.
A shortcut is useful if someone attempting to find a page might think to try it. That's why we create multiple variants. It is not, however, helpful to clutter a page (already found by anyone seeing it) with a list of numerous similar shortcuts (some of which are easier to remember/type than others). What's helpful is to list only the best shortcuts. Some people prefer acronyms/initialisms, and others prefer words, so this often means including one of each. As a general rule, going far beyond that only makes the list more unwieldy and the page uglier. —David Levy 05:54, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Template:Bay City-Freeport Radio

Could you please reverse the deletion of the {{Bay City-Freeport Radio}} template? I don't see how CSD T3 applies to this radio media market template. (And a heads-up at WikiProject Radio Stations would have certainly been appreciated.) Thanks. - Dravecky (talk) 05:10, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. - Dravecky (talk) 14:03, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Bitweaver unprotection

Please unprotect the page from creation as its deletions were strongly biased. Thank you.--Kozuch (talk) 22:49, 11 March 2008 (UTC)


I would also request that page to be unprotected. I cannot se that it was removed because of misleading or untrue basics. I also find it unjustified to block it since it has an relevance of it's own. Documentation of sources should be possible to show where it is necessary and otherwise information left out if such references is required but not available. Much of the documentation of an open source development project or software if you like can mainly be documented by the development team itself only and be referenced on the project web pages.

I believe after reading the discussions about this page that it has not been cleared out what could be done to reach the wikipedia standard for the page. The ridiculous and mostly unfounded criticism in the discussions should be set aside and an new attempt to bring a wanted article back to wikipedia should be met with goodwill. Yours helge_karl —Preceding unsigned comment added by Helge karl (talk • contribs) 19:32, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Main Page id

A long, long time ago, you added <div id="mainpage"></div> to the Main Page to allow for custom tweaks. I think it may be causing some whitespace issues. Every page in MediaWiki now has a custom CSS id, so would there be any issues with removing it? --MZMcBride (talk) 03:33, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Not that I'm aware of (though I don't know whether anyone is using that ID nowadays). —David Levy 03:47, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion Review for Bitweaver

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Bitweaver. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Kozuch (talk) 10:56, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of numerous G6 talk pages

Is there a simple interogation to find these pages, or have you run a script to pick them up? Only asking to see if I can offer to help ! Pedro :  Chat  14:00, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi I noticed you've deleted many talk pages. In future could you please tag them with the relevant project tags rather than wiping them thanks ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 19:49, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Template:Db-redirtypo2

Hey there; a few things with this one.

1) Would it be possible to use {{db-redirtypo}} (better yet, just {{db-r3}}) instead of {{db-redirtypo}}, as this would make copy pasting easier?

2) The transclusionless message at the bottom is showing up when the page is put in action, despite it being noinclud-ed

I'm not an admin so can't try and fix the issues myself, hence I've come to the person most likely to know about the template, and about what to do. Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 08:48, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Guy Manning

I was looking to create an article on Guy Manning but found the page protected. I'm afraid I couldn't work out why it had been protected, just that you were the administrator who had protected the page. I've left the beginnings of a suggested article at Talk:Guy Manning. It seems to me that Manning would qualify under WP:BAND criteria being a member of a notable band (The Tangent) and having released multiple solo albums on not inconsequential indie labels. Could you unprotect the page, or point me to some background on why it was protected? Thanks. Bondegezou (talk) 13:00, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Bondegezou (talk) 23:45, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Fulham Filth

I see that my Rangers userbox has been deleted. I have also noticed nothing has been done about the vandalism of the QPR page by a few Foolham fans. There's also a Chelsea fan who vandalises the QPR section, but not Fulham, of The West London Derby page. Can you please stop these filthy (well quite clean and posh prawn sandwich-like) South London team fans vandalising the only true West London side, QPR. It could just be pure hatred and bitterness from the Fulham fans, because they know they'll get thrashed by us next season and the same goes for Scum fans, because we're richer than them. Abrama-who? Thanks for deleting the QPR stuff. DICK! Soopa hoops77 19:03, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Restore template Template:GunnMap

Map made using the AMAZING gunnmap application
Map made using the AMAZING gunnmap application

Hello, can you copy the code source of Template:GunnMap (that an admin deleted), and past it in commons:User talk:Yug's page. It's really important for the map issue on Wikipedia. I work on commons to set up "Common Map recommendations", and I just discovered today that the User:Aaaarg made AN AMAZING MAP APPLICATION (see http://gunn.co.nz/map/ ). I will contact him to try to get him back, my contact-task would be easier if I can understand what he wait from wikipedia, and so, I need to know wait is this "Template:GunnMap".

Thanks for your help, Yug 07:42, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Aharon Moshe Leifer

Found that you deleted this page.

Since I reach wikipedia about once a month, I missed the discussion and the deletion. I was not able to find any reference as to why it was deleted, nor to remember what I had written.

How can I re-discuss it, if at all? Where was there a redirection to that page?

Pashute (talk) 08:49, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion Of My Page...

Hi there,

Please can you explain the reason behind the deletion of my page? I find it odd since there are many pages of the same nature that are never deleted...

Cheers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thedurs (talk • contribs) 10:43, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Alberto Balsam

You have quite the history of sudden deletions. What was the reason for the deletion of the page for Aphex Twin's song "Alberto Balsam"? Orangekubrick (talk) 19:10, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Strange. When I clicked the dead link it came up with this message:

Notice: You are re-creating a page that was deleted.

You should consider whether it is appropriate to continue editing this page. Information is available on what to do if a page you created is deleted. The deletion log for this page is provided here for convenience:

   * 01:39, 18 March 2008 MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "Alberto Balsalm (song)" ‎ (csd r1")

Re: MediaWiki:Common.css

Hey MZMcBride, um... this edit [3] is messing up my user page. All the lines that use <sub> have been squished into one line, causing the text to be unreadable. nat.utoronto 22:12, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

Hi, I know this is sudden but, can I have rollback rights? I like reverting and would like to have an easier way to revert. You can trust me. I have never vandalized and I have 2200+ edits.--RyRy5 talk 06:51, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I can't find the typo on my userpage, where is it?--RyRy5 talk 07:03, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Nice to see many people working on wikipedia this late. By the way, Happy Easter!--RyRy5 talk 07:08, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Deleted redirect, And They Obey (song)

I merged content, possibly from this redirect, into …And They Obey as there were two articles about the song, you have deleted the redirect but the history may need to be merged, would you be able to check this? --Snigbrook (talk) 14:35, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:Catalan language

I haven't been working in this area lately, but if this isn't used that surprises me, and someone might want to check what's going on before deleting. This was once quite heavily used. We created it because there were articles where {{Catalan-speaking world}} was too extensive. Make sure there is real consensus, and it isn't just that some anti-Catalan Spanish nationalist has been removing it from articles, or some Catalan nationalist adding {{Catalan-speaking world}} to articles that are strictly about language. - Jmabel | Talk 21:23, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

I know it's not being used. What I'm saying is that you need to look into the history of topics in this area and make sure it legitimately fell out of use with some degree of consensus, not that one nationalist or another has been removing the template from articles. I just looked and {{Catalan-speaking world}} is now back on Catalan phonology, for example, which suggests that my hypothesis may be correct: some Catalan nationalist may be adding {{Catalan-speaking world}} to articles that are strictly about language, replacing this {{Catalan language}} template with something more contentious. This was certainly viewed as contentious back in 2006, and was the reason this template was created. Spanish nationalists had objected (reasonably, in my view) to articles about language linking to things like government agencies, Christmas traditions, etc. - Jmabel | Talk 22:10, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Template missing, what should be used?

You deleted an inline template FULLDATE which someone created to tuck in the superscript "date needed" similar to "citation needed." I can't find it in your contrib history, and you left no note on the page as to why. I don't care why. All I want to know is what to use instead. :) Please tell! -- LisaSmall T/C 07:46, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: T:I E

I know....the problem is all those |- in the Parser Functions templates. and the unnecessary "what if" templates that force the problem to occur in the first place. nat.utoronto 05:30, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Talk:Londonderry House

What was the reason that this page was deleted? I am only a casual editor so "csd g6" means nothing to me. Is there a dictionary of these terms somewhere? I searched Wikipedia and the only information available is that "csd" has something to do with speedy deletion. Would it be too difficult to put the edit summary in plain english?

Thank You. Aclapton (talk) 17:44, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. I don't particularly agree that even old talk pages should be deleted for housekeeping (unless they are orphans, of course), as they are often more informative and interesting than the article; but I can understand why it might be done. Aclapton (talk) 11:05, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Template:Reqphoto

Template:Reqphoto now provides "Additional in2= and in3= parameters can be used to specify additional location categories." Would you please edit Template:Reqphoto to increase the number of location categories to "in20="? List of National Historic Landmarks in California needs 20 locations (see this) and many of the roads and mountain ranges in California stretch over numerous counties. "in20=" should cover all worldwide situations as well. Thanks. GregManninLB (talk) 18:06, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the change, but it doesn't seem to work. I tried it at Talk:List of National Historic Landmarks in Connecticut and only the first three are displaying. Would you look into this. Thank! GregManninLB (talk) 15:00, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
More. It appears the category part is working, but the template display at the top of the page may need to be change. In addition to the "'''Wikipedians in {{{in3}}}'''" may be able to help, there may need to be a "'''Wikipedians in {{{in4}}}''' may be able to help" etc. On the other hand, that may make the talk page template look to cumbersom. In addition to adding "'''Wikipedians in {{{in4}}}''' may be able to help" etc., can you add a "|nested=yes" parameter to Template:Reqphoto? That might take care of it. Thanks. Also, can you cahnge the instructions to read "Additional in2=, in3=, up to in20= parameters may be used to specify additional location categories." and "This template includes a "nested=" parameter that nests the template on the talk page if "yes" is indicated for "nested =". GregManninLB (talk) 15:06, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Thanks anyway. The code you added did work to categorize the talk pages. GregManninLB (talk) 15:54, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

User:Bludenim/Vinho verde white

Hi MZMcBride

I was checking my logs and i've found the above page, it has got an error in my user name, it lacks an "E". A while ago i moved the content to here, and so, that page serves no purpose (i think), other than weight on wikipedia. I'm not quite sure what deletion template should i put, but i think it's the Db-g7. I'm letting you know because that page links to one of your subpages.

Happy editing --Bluedenimtalk 15:41, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

 ?

  • And you deleted "a couple" of my subpages for what reason now?! We obviously have differing definitions of the word "couple"! Could you please retrieve them for me? Not all of the information was deleted. --Candlewicke Consortiums Limited 20:11, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Actually a lot of them I created myself... --Candlewicke Consortiums Limited 22:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Help with a question?

Please take a look at the little "tm" beside the term Big Mind in the Dennis Genpo Merzel article. Does that seem like it belongs? Thanks. House of Scandal (talk) 21:09, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

MickMacNee's response to your block

FYI, see [4]. I lost count of the violations of NPA and CIVIL after the first two sentences. Black Kite 13:42, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Template:Infobox Election

I've sorta fixed it...im not sure if there are any problems with the new one, so I would appreciate any input/comment/concerns you might have. Regards, nat.utoronto 14:02, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

I think the awkward blank space is from the last section (incumbent and successor), when I tried to rewrite it to a code that won't hurt my eyes. nat.utoronto 20:46, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

My connection dropped

MZMcBride...My connection just dropped so I will not be able to log back into IRC for at least 10 minutes until my ghost is banished. I can't seem to find a work-around for that. I am not being rude in there at the moment, I am not there, just my ghost. :) - LA @ 18:51, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Image:WikiThanks.png You have saved my wrist and sanity. Thank you. - LA @ 19:13, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

User:134.84.96.142

Please restore my page; I do in fact exist. If you continue to vandalize wikipedia you may be blocked. Thanks! Michael 134.84.96.142 (talk) 15:56, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

At the very least explain why you felt it should be deleted. Please don't ignore me. Thanks! Michael 134.84.96.142 (talk) 02:55, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Why you stealing my tools?

re: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Charlist&action=history

WHY? Granted haven't had chance to use this yet, as RL interfering, given the notability issues for fictional character articles in general, tools of this nature are a good best solution to creating tens of thousands of redirect pages. Which is the greater evil... the burden of one tiny template or megaredirects? Have to believe my colleagues in Wikiprojects fictional series will also find uses for same. Best regards // FrankB 23:36, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

    • Thanks for reconsidering and removal of said sanctions, oh talkitive one! <g> Be well. // FrankB 13:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

IP pages of registered user

It appearsthat you made a general purge of user pages attached to IP addresses. I am restoring a set of them that are used by User:Psychohistorian. For reasons he won't explain that user won't log in any more and instead uses a set of IP addresses. In order to show other users that it's the same person making the edits it's necessary to identify the accounts. Please let me know if you have a problem with that. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 06:34, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Interesting

This is interesting as I've previously been told (and experienced), procedural AfDs. When a person re-speedies or re-prods an already declined prod/csd or keep afd, another user copies the reason to an new afd, under the term procedural afd. Is this just for afds and not other xfds? MBisanz talk 07:38, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Template talk:WPBiography

I posted a question at Template talk:WPBiography. I also posted at Kingboyk's page, but he has not posted in a while. Thanks. GregManninLB (talk) 16:21, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Recent blocks

I just wanted to drop a note saying that fully support your blocks earlier today. Screwing with the Tagline was simply unacceptable, as I clearly told Omegatron when he did it the first time. Viridae also went far overboard with these ridiculous "pranks." I'm disappointed that both John Reaves and Riana unblocked. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:26, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

I truly appreciate it. For me, 1 April typically is one of the most difficult days of the year. Invariably, people line up to complain that I'm a "spoilsport" or "killjoy" who lacks a sense of humor and should go away for the day. It always is comforting to be reminded that not everyone feels this way. —David Levy 19:44, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

AzaToth

C'mon, it was one April Fools' joke. —Animum (talk) 22:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for killing the party. -- Ned Scott 01:30, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for killing the party. -- Ned Scott 01:30, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Your actions yesterday

I'd appreciate it if you gave me at least one example where blocking an administrator served to de-escalate a dispute in the past. The blocks made by you, David Levy, and Drini yesterday managed to create conflict and drama where there was absolutely none.

Would you like to explain your rationale for sullying the block log of a respected administrator? (And saying that it was "unacceptable behavior" won't cut it, because you didn't even bother to warn AzaToth that you were going to block him.) Sean William @ 12:51, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Doctor Who talk page deletions of Needed articles

MZMcBride...I think that you may have accidentally deleted several talk pages which were marked with the {{WikiProject Doctor Who}} project banner for articles that are Needed. Could you please go through the talk pages you deleted and find and restore them? I can not remember which ones they were off the top of my head, but I can tell you that more of the same will be following soon as more red links are followed to their talk pages by the assessment committee for that project to make sure that the articles which are needed are created. So, please, if you see a project banner on a talk without an article, please make sure that it is not tagged as a Needed article. I have tried to find which articles they were, but I can't seem to even find them in my edit history now. - LA @ 00:21, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Found them on my watch list, good thing I remembered that I automatically get articles I create put there. Here they are...
Talk:Adrian Gibbs
Talk:Nick Scovell
Talk:Samuel Higginbotham
Please restore them. - LA @ 00:25, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Template:pp-meta

Is this change implemented in all protection templates, like pp-template? Otherwise, your fix to the gadget broke more then it fixes. I've added both id's to the js for now. — Edokter • Talk • 17:04, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually, pp-template itself seems to be used as a meta template; and {{pp-semi-template}} and {{Pp-semi-usertalk}} don't use pp-meta (or pp-template) either. It's a bit of a mess. — Edokter • Talk • 17:43, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

CAT:TEMP

Hi MZMcBride, what script do you use to delete old temporary userpages? If there's anything faster than manually searching for >1 month old pages and opening multiple tab windows, I'm up for it. Spellcast (talk) 17:18, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Admin noticeboard discussion

Hi there, in case you were unaware, there is a current discussion of approved versions at the evolution article at the admin noticeboard. If you had some comments you might want to participate. Tim Vickers (talk) 20:35, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

It's OK, I thought you might not have seen that. I understand your feelings about this course of action, but if you look at the specifics of this case you might understand my motivation a bit better. All the best, Tim Vickers (talk) 21:21, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

You might want to check out the Evolution page now, to see what we are dealing with there. Aunt Entropy (talk) 17:40, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

If you had no further objections, we are considering re-protecting the page. Tim Vickers (talk) 23:16, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi again. Please get back to me if you have any more success with the bot people than I did, I agree that this might be the best long-term option. I've also filed [[5]], but as you can see, this isn't straightforward. Tim Vickers (talk) 15:39, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

IRC confirm

I confirm I'm user MBisanz who your talking to right now. MBisanz talk 05:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Your working hard!

Just want to say what a great job you are doing on wikipedia. For the past couple of hours you have made an amazing amount of edits as seen on the recent changes page specifically deleting 'orphaned talk page direct' whatever that means. I dont want to know about it but it shows your working hard, unfortunately this kind of stuff doesn't appear on your contributions, otherwise you would have a million by now. Anyway thanks and keep up the great work Roadrunnerz45 (talk) 09:33, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Award

The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
I, Weebiloobil, hereby award you this barnstar for... just about everything really. Your volume of edits in the time is really amazing, never sacrificing quality, and always being helpful. You deserved it - Weebiloobil (talk) 09:54, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Talk:List of birds of Australia

Was not an orphan. Could you please restore it.--Gergyl (talk) 18:58, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Straw polls

Noticed you deleted two talk pages (Talk:Straw polls for the Republican Party 2008 presidential nomination and the Democratic version)‎ as "orphaned talk page redirect". Not sure why orphaning applies. The consensus had been to redirect both of those to Talk:Straw polls for the 2008 United States presidential election because both those articles are mostly transcluded into the main article and there was no need for three talks where one would suffice. All three articles are intended to follow similar format just as the opinion poll articles do. Would you mind undeleting those two unless there is a clear policy reason? Otherwise we have a repeat of the situation where editors are invited to talk about essentially the same issue in three different places. Thanks! John J. Bulten (talk) 18:09, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of "Durham Revue" article

You deleted this article in Aug 07, it seems because it "Redirects to deleted pages". One (external) link on the page was dead (a temporary server issue) but afaik no internal wiki links had died and there was *nothing* controversial in its contents. I haven't checked on it till now to find it removed! As a relative newcomer I think I'm right in asking you to reinstate it please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roddypeters (talk • contribs) 22:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

The deletion log says- 02:27, 30 August 2007 MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "Durham revue" ‎ (csd r1) - is that not you? Pretty misleading naming system if it's not! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roddypeters (talk • contribs)

Template:WikiProject Illinois

I would like to edit Template:WikiProject Illinois with Image request features similar to the ones I added to Template:WikiProject California. Is it possible to change the protection of Template:WikiProject Illinois from full to semi-protected. I didn't see any actual mis-edits in template history, so perhaps semi-protected would be OK to try out. Thanks. GregManninLB (talk) 17:28, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Deleting dopplegangers

Excuse me but could I ask why you are deleting my doppleganger accounts? - Arcayne (cast a spell) 03:59, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

In retrospect, I am not sure what it is you are deleting. Could you explain the deletions of User:Arcayne (csd u2), (Deletion log); 22:21 . . MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "User:Arcaney" (csd u2), (Deletion log); 22:21 . . MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "User:Arcane." I am curious. - Arcayne (cast a spell) 04:01, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, I did register (meaning signed up to creat the account and marked it as a doppleganger) the following accounts: Arcaney and Arcane You didn't kick those, did you? - Arcayne (cast a spell) 06:08, 10 April 2008 (UTC)


My doppelganger account

Why did you delete my doppelganger account User:Bill Reid? -Bill Reid | Talk 07:38, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Enlighten me

What was the content of User:TomStar81:SCII, and why was it deleted? TomStar81 (Talk) 08:30, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

On second thought, ax that first question, you deleted a userbox of mine. I am still interested to know why it was deleted though, I was under the impression that the userbox migration demanded all userboxes to be in the user namespace. Did this policy change without my knowning it? TomStar81 (Talk) 08:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Oh, Ok. Thanks for the clarification. TomStar81 (Talk) 20:17, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Confuzzled

Hey there. You deleted the page User:The Dark Lord Trombonator/Auto, which, as it was on my watchlist, was probably contributed to by me at some point. As I do not recall this page and may have accidentally created it back in the "n00b" days (as you can see it is a misspelling of my user name), would it be possible for you to let me know what was on it? Cheers -- THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 09:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Ive restored this for the user and advised he can {{db-author}} it if he doesn't need it. --Rodhullandemu (Talk) 15:32, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Please explain! (and please replace)

My watchlist tells me you recently deleted "User:Eyedubya\Asylum Seeker Welcome Centre" (csd u2) - please explain what CSD U2 means and why you deleted this without first notifying me of your intention or putting it up for discussion. I'm asking because it has been through that process already and was moved to my sub-space so that I could work on it when I have the time. I'd really like it to be replaced since I don't have a copy of the text otherwise. Thanks. Eyedubya (talk) 11:57, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

User:UBX fishy

Would you be willing to migrate the just-deleted User:UBX fishy to User:UBX/fishy? It was one of my favorite userboxes. Thanks! Cxw (talk) 14:04, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

My userbox

Hi. Did it not occur to you when deleting this under WP:CSD#U2 to check the "What links here"? You might have seen that it was used on my User page and the only thing wrong with it was an incorrectly-cased letter. As it is, it's taken me some time NOT editing the encyclopedia to sort it out. Utter waste of time. --Rodhullandemu (Talk) 15:30, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Creation block for Big Brother Australia 2008

Could this block be lifted? The eighth Australian season is set to start by the end of the month and creation of the article is crucial plus it follows the naming scheme set by WP:BIGBRO for Big Brother Australia articles. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 15:43, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion

Hello. Why did you delete User:Zero Sharp/Vairotsana To be honest, I'd forgotten it was there but... why deleted? Thanks Zero sharp (talk) 15:54, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Kumioko\TOC

Could you please put this page back. You broke the TOC on my user page when you deleted this page. According to the deletion log you speedy deleted this page due to CSD U2 (No User) but I really do exist and my mommy says I am very special so I would really appreciate it if you could restore this page.--Kumioko (talk) 15:57, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks I'll fix the \ to a /--Kumioko (talk) 19:10, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

deletion

Hi, you recently deleted User:Pete Forsyth/Scratch1. It must have been a page I created by mistake (my username is actually Peteforsyth, without a space.) But I wonder what I left on there. If it's not too much trouble, could you check, or restore it to my actual user space? Thanks! -Pete (talk) 16:58, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh boy..I see it was just a test. Sorry to make you go to the trouble -- feel free, of course, to redelete. -Pete (talk) 19:10, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Why have you deleted...

"User:HeartofaDog:Spare templates" (csd u2) ? AFAIK CSD 2 = non-existent user - but I do exist, and would like the page back. HeartofaDog (talk) 21:08, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks - I see the problem now. Regards, HeartofaDog (talk) 23:38, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

deleted maps

why did you deleted 1991 B towns old municipal borders.GIF ? Ceha (talk) 06:48, 11 April 2008 (UTC) Sorry, I just saw

  1. (Deletion log); 05:47 . . MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "Image talk:1991 B towns old municipal borders.GIF" (csd g8)

Is there some error in wikipedia? Ceha (talk) 07:01, 11 April 2008 (UTC) thanks:)Ceha (talk) 11:01, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

delete king

You deleted everything in my user account but the redirect. I'm not sure why all this took place except that when I first began my user page, and the attendant talk page, I was an amateur. I couldn't figure how to get past the direct to the article "buckboard" (the carriage) and so created Buckboard1 as an expedient to resolve that problem, with a redirect there. Everything from that point on for the last several years was built on that page, now deleted. Thanx a million. No wonder editors leave this place in droves. --Buckboard 07:12, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Looking upwards at Heart-of-a-dog's section, I see why the bot deleted it, but it doesn't make it any more palatable. It does, however, warrant an apology for my tone. Sorry about that.--Buckboard 07:26, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanx for the offer tendered on my user page. The renaming is as I explained in the first paragraph here--I wanted my account to be under "Buckboard", an internet handle I've held since there was an internet, but when I created it encountered a conflict with the article "buckboard" in accessing it. So I renamed and redirected to "Buckboard1", and that caused the split. Almost everything I've done on wiki has been under "Buckboard1". If you can remake everything into a single account named "Buckboard", please do. However what upset me was the loss of the page (still deleted) User:Buckboard1/Source List. That page had all the sources I use constantly in my editting and writing and is irreplaceable. The other deleted pages, sandbox and drafts, are expendable, but that one was crucial. If it can be restored, even for a short period such as a week so that I can recover all those web sites and store them into my favorites file, I would be grateful.--Buckboard 21:23, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
You've been really kind to me through all this (I'm a crotchety old man type) and I appreciate it. FYI, give it a few days and check back to Buckboard and you will find it blank and with a "please delete account" message. I am switching to a new account with none of these problems and discarding Buckboard entirely. I just ask for a few days to finish. Thanx.--Buckboard 04:42, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Please explain! (and please replace)

Yes, please I'd like my text back for the Asylum Seeker Welcome Centre, so I can work on it in future. Thanks. Eyedubya (talk) 14:01, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

The weather in London

I've noticed you have deleted Talk:The weather in London several times as CSD G8. However, as I explained on the undelete reason, that page is an exception to CSD G8 (it's there for the {{for}} and {{deliberate redlink}} templates). --cesarb (talk) 17:24, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Hrm. Generally, we don't ever have talk pages for non-existent article-space pages. This page would be the only exception, which I don't really like. Plenty of articles are create-protected, but we don't leave a note on their talk pages. And using the {{for}} template seems ridiculous. This page was never intended to be a legitimate article, and nobody searching would look for it and then want to actually navigate to an article about the climate of London from that talk page. I favor deleting it. Thoughts? --MZMcBride (talk) 17:29, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes, it's the only exception I know of. It's also a very bad example of a redlink (as a redirect to Climate of London would be a perfectly legitimate content for it). As a workaround to help searchers, I created The weather in london (note the lowercase) which makes the search box do the right thing (even if you typed with the uppercase). Even then, I still dislike it being a deliberate redlink; I would favor changing all the examples to something else, and putting the redirect where it should be. The talk page has some of the old discussion in the history, including someone who did expect to find a redirect there! --cesarb (talk) 17:42, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I was going to mention that. I think coming up with a better example would be best. Though, I've made a mental note to try to not delete it when doing G8s in the future. Thanks for the note. --MZMcBride (talk) 17:47, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
I've "created" intentionally permanent red link as a replacement, and will change the examples I find to it. If it sticks, after some time it should be possible to stop the nonsense and turn the page into a redirect. --cesarb (talk) 17:50, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

User Box

Please restore my User Box.

08:08, 10 April 2008 MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "User:Template Spaceman Spiff" ‎ (csd u2)

Please restore a page you deleted

Hi, can you please restory a page you deleted: Majoreditor\Utilities.

Was the perceived problem with the page due to the use of a backslash rather than a forward slash? If so, please let me know and I will move the page once you restore it. Thanks, Majoreditor (talk) 02:17, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Talk pages for redirects

Might I ask why these talk pages were deleted: Talk:Sakura Card Arc: 60-70, Talk:Clow Card Arc: 1-18, Talk:Clow Card Arc: 36-46? The redirect they are attached to has a rather long article history, so I'm assuming that the talk pages had more than a redirect for their history. -- Ned Scott 06:14, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Unless it was just, say, the project tag, or nothing useful. I just wasn't sure if this was an accident or just house cleaning. No big deal. -- Ned Scott 06:28, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Erm, I really don't want to make an issue out of nothing, but I noticed these weren't the only ones you deleted, and I have to ask... one, what's the point, and two, where's the CSD? -- Ned Scott 06:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Forget I asked. In most situations I wouldn't hesitate to ask something like this, but I'm positive that this will be taken the wrong way. -- Ned Scott 06:53, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

You're going to hate me. If you ever see me in real life and just want to punch me in the face, I won't blame you. But.. WP:ANI#Mass deletion outside of RfD or CSD. Something about it just bothers me. -- Ned Scott 03:50, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Sydney Suburb talk page deleted

Can you tell me why you deleted the talk page for Landsdowne, New South Wales, one of the Sydney suburbs? J Bar (talk) 09:28, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I don't know which page you're referring to. I don't see any deletion log for Landsdowne, New South Wales or Talk:Landsdowne, New South Wales. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:45, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, that should have been Lansdowne, New South Wales. Apparently you deleted the talk page but it may have been blank. I have reinstated it now with a rating box.J Bar (talk) 22:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
That's an interesting case. I'll raise it at the ANI thread. Or maybe not. It's complicated. Carcharoth (talk) 03:59, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I can see how it happened. The talk page at the time was a redirect to a talk page which was itself a talk page of a redirect. Orderinchaos 05:35, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Comments to blocked users

Going back to the cold cow three months after the block? I could come up with three hundred reasons to justify that comment, but I'll play it safe here and plead no contest. Won't happen again. 21655 ωhατ δo γoυ ωαητ? 21:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned talk page redirects deletions

Hi there. As I've said at the ANI thread Ned Scott pointed out to you, I don't think your deletions are problmatic, but I did notive that you replied to him but haven't said anything at ANI. Given that you are still carrying out the deletions, might you consider leaving a note on ANI explaining how your deletions are different to those of East718? From what I can see, you are deleting genuinely orphaned redirects, and doing so slowly enough to manually review them. The larger question of whether this was discussed also needs answering, if you could say something about that. Thanks. Carcharoth (talk) 04:46, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

I've been waiting all day for you to come and talk to me. You (and others) mentioned me several times in various places without ever coming to my talk page. I can't say that left me feeling too good. I'd be more than happy to discuss my deletions with you here or on my talk page, however, I will not be posting to AN/I. I'd be much more in favor of marking it as {{historical}}, but that's a discussion for a different day. ; - )
I am currently deleting orphaned talk page redirects. The redirects do not have any incoming links and are generally the result of page moves. They are all older than 14 days. If you have any further questions for me, please let me know. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:52, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Well, I wasn't actually aware (until Ned Scott posted) that you were actively carrying out deletions at the moment (that is what brought me to your talk page above). I was looking through East's logs, not yours! The previous references had been by others to you being one of several running admin bots. I did say, as soon as I saw Ned's post, that he should notify you, and he did. Next time you feel like this, please leave me a talk page message or come to ANI. No need to participate, but just make sure people know you are aware of the thread. I'm discomfited by the notion that admins being discussed at ANI would avoid ANI - that is not good.
As for the redirects, I think the indications there are that this sort of deletion is probably best put on hold until there is consensus that these types of redirects can be speedied. I would probably support a speedy for the sort you are deleting, but others wouldn't, and we need to respect that. So could I ask you to stop and participate in the discussion as to why these redirects should be deleted, or point to previous discussion of this? Thanks. Carcharoth (talk) 05:12, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I see no reason to stop simply because there's a fuss on AN/I. If I based my every edit and action on the drama the consistently plagues AN/I, I'd be stuck in the mud, permanently. You've said so yourself that the type of deletions that I'm doing are uncontroversial maintenance. Right now is a low point in site usage for both the time of day, and the week. There's no need to get in the way of RC patrollers at some later time when now is fine. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:19, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I see that WP:CSD#G6 says the vague "cleaning up redirects". That is vague to the point of uselessness. There are many types of redirects, as I've said here. It is possible that CSD#G6 was only intended to apply to type 2A and 2B (broken redirects with only one edit). Also, did you see this comment by JLaTondre? I admit that your deletions are "cleaner" than the ones East did (his ones were not orphaned and included an exclusion for Wikipedia and User space backlinks), but still, there are others objecting, which is what I meant by "we need to respect that". I also asked if you could "point to previous discussion of this" - I presume that no link means there was no discussion about this? Or was there? Carcharoth (talk) 05:34, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Special:Statistics tells me that 216,100,013 edits have been made to the English Wikipedia. There are thousands of discussions every month. I certainly haven't read all of them, but I'd be shocked if one hadn't been had about this subject previously. I will say that lack of discussion doesn't imply that the deletions are controversial, though. And I haven't read most of the background discussion about many of the criteria for speedy deletion. I don't think that implies that I'm unable to delete pages under them, does it?

A few members of the community (less than .00001%) seem to be making quite a large production about something related to redirects and deletions on AN/I. But from what I can tell, a lot of it is simply a battleground in a larger political war. I see many back and forth posts between you and Maxim which seem entirely irrelevant to the broader topic at hand. In fact, the original poster posted again wondering what had happened. He had wanted a discussion about adminbots and had gotten a discussion entirely dedicated to God-knows-what.

I refuse to be part of such pointless drama. We're here to build a free online encyclopedia, or at least that's what I'm told. I do my part by reviewing a lot of old pages that shouldn't have been created and I delete them. I regularly do a significant amount of maintenance work – I fail to see how any of this really involves me. And I also fail to see how the project as a whole, and its noble goal of compiling the sum of all human knowledge, is diminished by the deletion of old, orphaned redirects in the Talk: namespace.

This conversation seems to be becoming circuitous, so this shall be my final say on the matter. Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:48, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

I disagree with large parts of what you have posted here - you are either mischaracterising or ignoring parts of the ANI thread where valid points have been raised. If the redirects were recreated or restored, they would not diminish or harm the encyclopedia. Conversely, deletion of these redirects does not help the encyclopedia and should (except in limited cases) be done through WP:RfD or not at all. Several editors at the ANI thread have said this, and several have raised problems that you continue to ignore. Here is another one, from Help:Redirect: "Keep links to a page active after it has been moved (even if internal links are updated, this still applies for links from outside; also for links in edit summaries)". And that will be my last word on the matter for now as well. Carcharoth (talk) 06:28, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Just for the record I tend to agree with MZ here. AN/I is basically broken and rather unproductive, there are some people who live there and turn everything into a major drama. Actions which improve the encyclopaedia which are from a user/reader point of view uncontroversial will always have my support, although I'll often debate on the detail. Orderinchaos 05:31, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm glad I didn't offend you when I brought up the issue at ANI, but I'm annoyed that you're still making these deletions without discussing it with the community. One of the reasons these kinds of deletions concern me is because you can't see incoming links that are off-wiki. Like I said in another discussion, it's a false dilemma to think that we have to delete these kinds of redirects, or that it actually makes things more tidy. It doesn't hurt anything to err on the side of preserving off-wiki links.

When I first became aware of this issue it wasn't with East, nor did I even know about the admin-bot issues when I posted on ANI. This is why I didn't want to merge my thread with the other thread on ANI. Even if you feel it's a minor issue, you're expected to be able to explain your actions, as well as to follow the deletion policy in regarding what should and what shouldn't be deleted. Feel free to propose a new CSD for talk page redirects, but until then I wish you would stop deleting them. -- Ned Scott 04:44, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion policy allows for G6 housekeeping CSDs. Most of these fell into that category. The Queensland ones MZ and East deleted I would probably have got around to myself at some point. I doubt too many people link offwiki to redirects of talk pages which only have one or two words or a project tag. Orderinchaos 05:37, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
The G6 criteria is interesting though. I suspect the redirect clause of G6 was originally written to allow for deletions while undoing vandal page moves, but someone would have to look up the original discussion. It could also be argued that it applied to broken redirects if certain tests are passed (eg. only one edit), which was the rationale behind RedirectCleanupBot. What is not clear is whether the redirects clause of G6 extends to other types of redirects, in this case "talk page redirects created by pagemoves and which have no (or few) incoming links". I would have thought that the deletion of tens of thousands of redirects would at least be discussed properly first. I personally (after thinking some more about this) would support a CSD for the type of deletions MZMcBride has been doing (I think the issue of links from off-wiki and from edit summaries is not too much of a problem), but not the sort that East has been doing (using a limited definition of "orphaned" using Misza's code). If East extended the capabilities of his bot to fix the backlinks to the redirects (thus making them truly orphaned), then I would support the deletions. As it is, the "exclusion" of Wikipedia and User namespace links by East and Misza when considering whether a redirect is orphaned, is, in my opinion, sloppy work. People may say that using a bot to fix backlinks that "no-one cares about or that will be updated soon anyway" is a waste of resources, but the same argument applies to the deletions of the redirects in the first place. There are over 1.8 million redirects, so clearing up a few tens of thousands doesn't seem like that much of a vital task. See WP:BOTREQ for other tasks that could be done instead. Carcharoth (talk) 08:41, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
One such discussion started at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#CSD G6 clause "cleaning up redirects". I've also proposed that anyone who wants to expand the current criteria for speedy deletion of redirects do so over there. Carcharoth (talk) 10:25, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Page Deletion

Hello, I see you have deleted one of my pages. Not a problem, however would it be possible for me to have the content of it because I have no backup of it. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by R perry (talk • contribs) 10:44, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

User subpage deleted

I noticed as well that you seemed to have deleted my user subpage of "Old edits". I have heard that it's supposedly unsafe to have and IP address listed but I edited as that IP address for a long time and would like to preserve the edit history and I am no longer at that IP address anyway. What is the reason I cannot have a subpage? I have many users have them and will I be able to recreate it?

Vala M (talk) 12:07, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much for fixing the link! I was unaware I did it incorrectly. I will know better next time.

Thanks,

Vala M (talk) 20:41, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Picture on userpage

Hi, I was just wondering can you tell me the link for the picture on your frontpage? It goes straight to your watchlist. By the way you did the right thing with telling 21655 about that edit. That user is unusual, sort of i dont know maybe its because of their failed RFAs but sort of like a discipline problem, not very welcoming. I dont know, i dont know the user and they can do what they want but i'll leave users like that to admins like you to deal with. Maybe they just need a step in the right direction. Thanks, keep up the great work. Roadrunnerz45 (talk) 14:48, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Glad to know I'm Wikipedia's least favorite good-faith editor. Anything else you'd like to add? Perhaps the fact that I can't stand personal attacks and have half a mind to warn you right now? 21655 ωhατ δo γoυ ωαητ? 00:17, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletions of lists I made

Hi. The only thing I'd ever done was archiving talk pages so Talk:T. Anthony/Women in Red, Talk:T. Anthony/Missing Africans, and Talk:T. Anthony/Missing Awards and their winners weren't under userspace like I now know they should've been. I had kind of abandoned them, but I now regret that a bit as I did work long/hard on them. Is there a way to find what was in them or even to restore them? I'll move them to userspace now that I know better.--T. Anthony (talk) 02:05, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

..and my User Page is gone...

Can you please explain why my user page User:Vikkki was deleted? That was my user page and was being re-directed from User:Vikram 1982. Kindly revert the deletion.

Thanks. Vikram 1982 (talk) 17:53, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Silica.jpg

Please could you explain why the page Image:Silica.jpg has been deleted? I created this file and released it freely into the public domain for use in the article glass. The image is of the amorphous structure of silica, an archetypal network glass former.

(Deletion log); 20:15 . . MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "Image talk:Silica.jpg" (csd g2)

Cheers, Jdrewitt (talk) 20:19, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, thanks for clearing that up, I got a bit confused! Cheers, Jdrewitt (talk) 09:41, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Hammarby IF

Hi. You deleted the user template User:Hammarby IF. Why? The only "reason" given seems to be "csd u2", whatever that means. John Anderson (talk) 09:58, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

You should have moved it to a more appropriate name in stead of just deleting it without thinking about it, IMHO. It wasn't a user, it was a user template like the babel templates, though I realize now it had the wrong name (but it wasn't I who created it there). John Anderson (talk) 21:16, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Sedan talk page

Hi! I was wondering about your deletion of the Talk:Sedan page on April 5, 2008. My understanding of the reason (Wikipedia:CSD#G7) that you have provided is that "the author requests deletion". If my memory serves me correctly, there was more content within this talk page about sedans than just one author's contributions. Specifically, the guidelines state that this policy "excludes any talk page which is useful to the project, ..." I would appreciate if you can enlighten me on this issue. Thanks! — CZmarlin (talk) 16:29, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

This page was deleted from Wikipedia, either because an administrator believed a consensus was reached among editors that it is unsuitable as an encyclopedia entry, or because an administrator felt it met one or more conditions for speedy deletion. However, an appeal has been made at Wikipedia:Deletion review to restore the page. To facilitate that discussion, this page has been temporarily restored with this message in place. If you would like to see the article that was deleted, please check its history. You may wish to contribute to the discussion at Deletion review following your inspection. If there seems likely to be a strong consensus to undelete and you wish to improve this article meanwhile, please be bold and do so.

Category:Candidates for undeletion 71.175.31.106 (talk) 17:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply! I guess I am confused since I found that the "old" sedan talk page is not really gone -- it now appears under Talk:Sedan (car). If you try to read the article, however, you are automatically redirected to sedan. I think something is messed up when some contributor changed the name of the original article from "sedan" to sedan (car). Thanks! — CZmarlin (talk) 03:29, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletions

You or the bot you are running deleted several pages which I think are not of a banned user. Namely:

  1. MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "User:Joturner/monobook.js" ‎ (orphaned subpage for indefinitely blocked user)
  2. MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "User:Joturner/Gallery" ‎ (orphaned subpage for indefinitely blocked user)
  3. MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "User:Joturner/Current Events Portal Redesign/June 29, 2006" ‎ (orphaned subpage for indefinitely blocked user)
  4. MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "User:Joturner/Current Events Portal Redesign/June 26, 2006" ‎ (orphaned subpage for indefinitely blocked user)
  5. MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "User:Joturner/Current Events Portal Redesign/June 25, 2006" ‎ (orphaned subpage for indefinitely blocked user)

Oore (talk) 04:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for checking. I thought since it was just a redirect that the bot was mistaken. Oore (talk) 05:01, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Example/header

Hello MZMcBride! Judging from certain messages on your talk page, you are a very enthousiastic deleter. However, I think you were a bit too fast with deleting a subpage of the Example user:

  • 04:35, 18 April 2008 User:MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "User:Example/header" ‎ (orphaned subpage for indefinitely blocked user)

Weird, because the page was certainly not orphaned, as you can see on Example's user page. Could you please restore it? Thanks, Face 18:03, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

User Page

Why did you delete mine?

Orphaned user pages

Be careful with these - the ones from User:Snowspinner aren't indefinitely blocked so much as "in my old userspace instead of my new one" from a rename. Phil Sandifer (talk) 23:17, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

'Deprecated' tag

Hi, could you perhaps fix the glitch at {{lang-xx}}? I mean, not by replacing the date format but by improving the {{deprecated}} template. Thanks a lot. --Eleassar my talk 11:05, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Drop down boxes

Hi McBride. Would you please be able to restore my drop down boxes. I actually use some of that stuff to navigate the system as well. Thanks. --User:Adam.J.W.C. (talk) (talk) 07:51, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Talk:4385 Elsässer

Hi! I see that you deleted Talk:4385 Elsässer under speedy deletion category g8. I realize that there was no article. I was going to add an article to it in a few minutes as I have done whenever I have created the talk page for the asteroid article. Please do not delete any more of the talk pages I have created. I will have their respective articles created in a few minutes. Captain panda 02:16, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

CAT:TEMP

User:Willy_on_Wheels was not in the category, what gives? --Random832 (contribs) 01:08, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

I've restored that particular page for the moment as I didn't want the broken redirects to be deleted. Quite curious about your CAT:TEMP deletions today, though. I didn't see any evidence that the users were actually in that category... --MZMcBride (talk) 01:13, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Do we really still need these shrines to ancient vandals lying around to be indexed by search engines? --  Netsnipe  ►  04:04, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Deleting them out of process is one thing. Simply lying and saying that they were in CAT:TEMP is another thing entirely. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:12, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Wow, if you're going start throwing random accusations around at an admin who's been around longer than you have, how about I accuse you of worshiping Willy on Wheels and being another sock puppet of his? *Sheesh* CAT:TEMP was simply the most appropriate reason in the drop-down box for deleting the userpage of a user who was banned years ago, and besides CAT:TEMP wasn't even around when Willy was active -- if he was only banned a month ago, no one would give a second thought to salting his userpage. --  Netsnipe  ►  06:16, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned talk page redirects (merges vs moves)

I've just been reviewing my deleted contributions. I somehow missed that your G6 redirects deletions included ones where I had been merging content following the process outlined here. These were, in fact, blank pages, and not needed as such, and were genuine talk pages of redirects (rather than actual redirects of talk pages of redirects, if you get my drift) but now my contribs when doing that work has been split between my contributions log and my deleted contributions log. The redirects are already tracked at Category:Middle-earth redirects, but this sort of pointless 'deletion' housekeeping still bugs me. Is there any good reason for deleting the history of the process, as outlined here? That shows the stages the article's talk page went through. You might think that is not important, but I think it is worth keeping in some form. Would you object to me restoring these? Carcharoth (talk) 12:01, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually, it's too many to bother with, but still, having my deleted contributions flooded like that was a bit annoying. I'll work out a way to cope though. :-) Carcharoth (talk) 13:45, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

CSD C1

I've noticed that you've deleted a lot of categories, such as Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Brown County, Illinois. Unless I misunderstanding it, since these categories are populated by a template (in this case {{WikiProject Chicago}}), I don't believe they meet the criteria set by WP:CSD#C1 (point #3). I've restored a few of the Illinois categories (and have begun populating them, too). If I'm wrong, please let me know. By the way, I've added {{Wikipedia category}} so that this shows up in each of the categories. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 13:50, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Is there any other way to ensure "request" template categories can be marked as being populated by a template, and hence falling under WP:CSD#C3 only if the template is deleted? I think the presumption is that the template is put in the category as well, but maybe another check is needed in the checks and balances, as this shouldn't really have happened (and no, just being able to come and ask for an undeletion is not really a sufficient balance). Carcharoth (talk) 14:09, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
The categories in question were deleted under C1, not C3. The criteria are mutually exclusive of each other. A category can fall under one, the other, both, or neither. In this case, the categories were empty for more than four days. A note at the top of a category description page should stop an admin from deleting it. Though, as I explained to Jauerback, using categories for this particular purpose seems like a pretty bad idea. A list in a WikiProject subpage or perhaps merging the categories into one would be better, in my opinion. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:57, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion Review for D'ni kings

An editor has asked for a deletion review of D'ni kings. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. -- OranL (talk) 16:54, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Category:Railway stations served by Southeastern

I appreciate that this category was empty, but it was part of a series that has recently been created (see Category:UK railway stations by train operating company) and that I have been filling using AWB runs when I have the time for them (i.e. when I'm not busy with work, or not on holiday). Given that it wouldn't have taken too long to discover this, I would request that you take more care with such things in future.

I notice from the number of comments on this page, and from your deletion log, that you carry out quite a lot of deletions, and that you seem to have upset a few people! Maybe it might be good if you were to exercise a little more restraint with this. Thanks, --RFBailey (talk) 17:54, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I created it a month ago. The categories here were created as a result of a discussion here. During that month, shortly after the categories were all set up, my laptop with AWB installed died, and I had to wait two weeks until it was repaired before I could continue. I was also very busy with work (yes, I do exist off-wiki as well): see [6] and have also been away from home for a week. That is why the task wasn't complete. Also, given that this is meant to be a collaborative project, I had hoped that other AWB-equipped editors might have stepped in to help out. I certainly did not intend it to take a month or more, but the task should be completed soon: I'll probably have time for it by the weekend.
I wasn't suggesting that you study my editing habits per se, more that you should just have checked the parent category and seen that there was actually a work in progress: this should have been fairly clear.
Also, I find your sarcasm in this phrase offensive:
Surprisingly, I have neither the time nor patience to study your editing habits and patterns before doing maintenance work for the encyclopedia.
I would therefore like an apology. There is a difference between maintenance and going around deleting the work of others. --RFBailey (talk) 22:30, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Chroma'Agana

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Chroma'Agana. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. -- OranL (talk) 08:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Tomahna

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Tomahna. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. -- OranL (talk) 08:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Category:Kathem Al Saher albums

Hi, I'm just wondering why you deleted this category?

Thanks for your reply. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leothar (talk • contribs) 00:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Why did you unblock this problematic "editor"?

ELNUMERO1...is the name of the "editor" I'm talking about. Why did you unblock him or her? This user was indefinitely blocked for a very good reason, and warned/blocked a few times before that. Just check his or her talk page. I went about my business thinking (knowing) that Wikipedia was free of this "race" vandal. But, no, it turns out that he or she had been let back in and is up to his or her old tricks again. I cannot even begin to tell you how frustrating this is. Flyer22 (talk) 23:41, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

MZM didn't unblock this user. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:ELNUMERO1 -- Ned Scott 23:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
I replied/explained on my talk page. Flyer22 (talk) 01:55, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Wait, MZM, this user isn't indef. blocked.. The current block is only for one week. -- Ned Scott 03:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

No, it would seem not. Which begs the question of why they had a {{banned}} and then a {{indefblocked}} tag on their user page. And why it sat there for thirty days. Hmm. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:21, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Exactly. I replied again on my talk page. Thank you two for clearing this up. And, MZ, again I'm sorry for the accusation. Flyer22 (talk) 18:33, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Deleted image

Hello. What does your comment "csd g2" mean in the deletion log? I see you've deleted Image talk:Walker home-Hennepin Avenue.jpg which I ought to be able to reupload--too bad I didn't hear about this one. -Susanlesch (talk) 03:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually easier, can you please undelete it? I can add whatever it was that was missing if I could see what was there before. -Susanlesch (talk) 03:49, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Aha, my mistake! Picture still there at Image:Walker home-Hennepin Avenue.jpg. Thanks very much for your help. -Susanlesch (talk) 03:51, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

st. louis neighborhood article talk pages

I suppose I don't get to add a "hang on," do I? I fully intended to create the articles for those pages within the next week. It was just easier for me to make the talk pages first. If that goes agasint some policy, I am sorry. I'm going to make the articles anyway, and I will recreate the talk pages afterwards if that is ok with you. If possible, could you please talk to me before deleting my work? I'm not a bot, I gave up my free time to create those pages as you gave up your free time to delete them. DaronDierkes (talk) 05:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Deleting my sand box

I started writing an article here and for some reason you deleted it without even a warning with the very understandable explanation: "csd u2". The deleted pages are stored on the server the same way the existing pages, so why is there a need to delete my sand box? I put a lot of work into it. Please restore the page, I'll then copy the text to a file on my computer so I won't have to worry about my work getting lost. Thank you, Lizrael (talk) 13:24, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

FSU Hyms deletion for no reason

I am trying to get proper history and refs on the article for the history of the hyms. just chill with the quick deletes--Nolephin (talk) 16:52, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Pageview bot

Yes. Verisimilus T 20:31, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Deleted temporary userpage

Did you notice this was a sock? I thought we didn't delete those?--Doug.(talk • contribs) 00:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

(moved here from User talk:Doug for unified discussion)
Hmm... interesting. Well, it's a bit of an odd case. Generally, no, user and user talk pages are preserved of sock puppets. Interestingly, the alleged sockpuppet removed both the 'temp' category and the do not delete template from his user talk page, and the category was explicitly re-added by the blocking admin, but not the template. The user page still remains indicating that the user is a sockpuppet, so I'm not really inclined to restore the talk page (which provides little, in my opinion). However, if you feel it would be better to restore the talk page, feel free. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 00:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Looks like several socks of User:EddieSegoura were deleted, here's another one that you deleted though others have been deleted by other admins - some which were protected and had edit summaries such as "evidence". I don't have the knowledge to say but I'm going to check with User:Pathoschild for further input.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 02:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
On a related note, I notice above that you deleted a userpage of a non-indef blocked user because they were in CAT:TEMP, you should probably undelete that since it shouldn't have been in the cat to begin with. A couple weeks ago I cleaned out several hundred usertalk pages that were improperly in that Cat, the abolition of {{temporary userpage}} should help - some users apparently thought it was a kind of WP:PROD, but as your experience above proves, it's still important to check indef blocked/non-sock status before deleting anything out of CAT:TEMP.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 02:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes. Generally scripts are used to check user pages to see if they meet certain criteria. A check for block status should be pretty trivial to implement (in addition to the current checks for recent edits, for the word 'sock', and for the 'do not delete' template). As for the user page above, I could restore, but I would be restoring two inaccurate taggings. So, I'll decline. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
That (not restoring) makes perfect sense, I hadn't actually looked at the deleted edits - obviously. If you find or develop such a script, I'd like to see it. I don't know much about writing scripts, but in that recent removal of the above template (I actually removed over 500 instances - but some of that was orphaning the template in advance of the TFD where the template was duplicated by an indef block template) it would have been really nice to be able to check block status quickly without manually clicking on contributions and going to to the block logs for each user. --Doug.(talk • contribs) 04:36, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes, we keep the page for the sockpuppet category, which is on the userpage. Mr.Z-man 03:35, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure I understand what Z-man is saying.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 04:36, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I was agreeing with MZMcBride. We don't keep every user/talk page of sockpuppets simply because they are sockpuppets, we keep them because we track socks by category. Since the category is also on the userpage in this case, there's no need to repeat it on the talk page. Mr.Z-man 05:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
OK Z, but I didn't think that was what MZMcBride was saying (correct me if I'm wrong, please). I interpreted it as this was a peculiar case and it's not that important that we need to restore. The instructions at CAT:TEMP clearly say not to delete the talk pages of socks, though that's not a policy nor even a guideline it seems to be the only instruction set out there. My understanding was we needed that "evidence" largely because it shows the patterns and MO's of the puppeteers. It's much easier sometimes for other editors to identify socks if they can see the warnings and discussions on the sock's talk page history. BTW, I asked User:Pathoschild and got essentially the same answer, i.e. ordinarily don't delete but no point to restoring if there was nothing of particular value there. Pathoschild suggested the best practice is to replace the talk page with a redirect to the userpage where the sock template is. Thus a lot of work to get to the old talk page material so it denies recognition but still provides the history for experienced non-admins. Also, it seems to me that deleting when there is nothing of value is somewhat pointless, but that's another topic altogether and I realize it's somewhat in dispute. I'm thinking this should be set out at WP:UW or some such place, so any further thoughts on this would be helpful.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 19:49, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of my user page

Sorry, but I would greatly appreciate to know why my User Page has been deleted by you.

Trimmo (talk) 01:17, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Template:Blackpool F.C. seasons

I was following the precedence set by this (link does work). The seasons in the above template now appear in Template:Blackpool F.C. - Dudesleeper / Talk 02:59, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

It's now the case that all the necessary links regarding the club are in one template, rather than being spread over two. I'd be happy to remove the seasons template from the articles in which it appears, either before or after its deletion. - Dudesleeper / Talk 03:05, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Aye. I'm putting the process in the hands of AWB. - Dudesleeper / Talk 03:15, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Done, when you get a chance... - Dudesleeper / Talk 03:46, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of GlobalVAC

Why have you deleted the GlobalVAC page from Wikipedia? Are you planning on deleting the IVAO and VATSIM pages as well? If not, restore our network's page ASAP! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.47.121.58 (talk) 00:14, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Total Mistake

When I looked on my watchlist my article was gone from my namespace but you must have either redierected it or delted the old version. Mistake-- King Rock Go 'Skins! 02:58, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Image Redirects

I have been creating some image redirects (Image:BSicon exSTB2lf.svg and Image:BSicon eSTB1lf.svg being the most recent) to enable the display of some historical route diagrams so that I can pick out some information that was previously shown on a page (as part of some work in other areas). These images were renamed in March 2007. You have now deleted them twice. I had put explanations into them the second time round (on the examples shown above). Can you please explain why you have used CSD R1 when the redirect is to a valid image (even if it does show red - I had explained this in the discussion page of on of them) - which you appears to have overlooked. I would appreciate if you would not do this again. Please look at this version of Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway to see what I mean. Your first batch of deletion removed the redirects for all the route images not display (due to having been renamed). --Stewart (talk) 08:16, 26 April 2008 (UTC)


Image redirects haven't really worked for years. They only sorta work at this moment, but certainly not to images that don't exist. WP:CSD#R1 is the policy on broken redirects (redirects to pages that don't exist). They are regularly deleted, sometimes by human administrators, occasionally by a bot. Please do not continue to create broken redirects. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:03, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
My image redirects worked and do not understand why you maintain that they were broken. The pages that the redirects were set to did exist, so I find it very difficult to understand why WP:CSD#R1 applies. I had tested it successfully only to find you had deleted them. These were not broken redirects. --Stewart (talk) 18:11, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Find other instances of other users doing the same thing that you're doing and I'll be happy to restore the pages. However, I just took another look at what you had been doing, and you are using code like #REDIRECT [[Image:BSicon eABZlf.svg]], which is blatantly wrong. You're missing the preceding colon, causing (sometimes enormous) images to expand on redirect pages. But that doesn't seem to be the only issue. I tested image redirects, and they do not work. Image:Foobar.png does not redirect anywhere. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:19, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
I need to think further about this - if you have not already done so delete the one (Image:BSicon exSTB2lf.svg) I have been testing with.
Looking at this issue from a different direction, I have been looking at versions of pages that precede March 2007 when a whole series of BSicons where renamed - STB1>>ABZ and STB2>>STR. These are not cases where images were deleted, they are images that were renamed - for very good reasons, however it does not help when reviewing past history. I am going to leave it for the time being, and work of other parts of the Historic Scottish Railway Company work, and compile a list were it is causing my problems and see if there is another way forward. --Stewart (talk) 18:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Bruny Island

I'm just wondering why the talk page for Bruny Island was it deleted? 1manfern (Talk) —Preceding comment was added at 23:25, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

You deleted my user page

what the hell man undo it right now ∆ Algonquin 01:59, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Dude it wasnt bothering anyone ok i think i moved it a few months ago so whats the big deal YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME TO MOVE IT BACK or move it back yourself, you didnt have to delete it. now it is lost forever you shit. ∆ Algonquin 13:37, 28 April 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Qz3 (talk • contribs)

Jack Schaap

You deleted (and protected) the Jack Schaap article last year. If he is not notable (with 5,000 hits on Google[7] and 13,000 on Yahoo![8]), then who really is? I'm sure it had passed your memory awhile back, so can you change it to "new or unregistered editors cannot edit this page", instead of just keeping it blocked forever. I would really like to create it, he is very notable. Thanks, AmericanEagle 02:54, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

AlpInvest Partners

Unprotecting Private Equity firm page I am not sure of the etiquette, however it appears that you protected the deletion of a page for AlpInvest Partners several months ago. I was not involved in creating or deleting that original article (and I am sure the content was probably not appropriate) but would like to add a new article. I am fairly confident that the topic is significant and appropriate for wikipedia given AlpInvest's prominence. AlpInvest is probably the largest investor in private equity and in particular is the largest investor in the private equity fund that I work for (already on Wikipedia). I would like to add a reasonable, non-commercial article on AlpInvest along with several other major firms that are not currently present on WikiPedia and have been contributing periodically on the topic of private equity. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying to augment existing pages or add new pages for several of AlpInvest's competitors as well Coller Capital, Lexington Partners and Landmark Partners and think that these companies are all notable and I will do my best to make sure that the pages created and content added is factual and referenced in keeping with the guidelines. Urbanrenewal (talk) 05:32, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Classical music in popular culture

You deleted Talk:Classical music in popular culture twice already. I will restore it again, as users have requested to preserve the discussion there for reference and possibly discuss how to (re)create a better article. I also note that such intention is clearly stated at the top of the page, and that CSD G8 "excludes any talk page which is useful to the project" - Nabla (talk) 21:40, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

WP:AN thread

Please see this discussion at WP:AN. Thanks, --RFBailey (talk) 00:34, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[9] - please retract that and apologise. It's rude an unbecoming. AN can get bad enough as it without cheap accusations and overt disrespect. WjBscribe 08:31, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Apology accepted. Thanks, and don't worry about it. Carcharoth (talk) 02:56, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Talk page deleted: revert please

A talk page for User:Comraderedoctober was removed as an "indefinitely blocked user", but block log shows no block. Please revert.

"This talk page was deleted. The deletion log for this page is provided here for convenience:

  • 16:39, 4 April 2008 MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "User talk:Comraderedoctober" ‎ (temporary userpage over 1 month old for indefinitely blocked user)"

Thanks, T L Miles (talk) 16:15, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

I saw this on my watchlist and thought I would undelete it. But I'm confused because the block log does say the user is indefinitely blocked. The strange thing is that the user page doesn't say anything about it. Maybe it would be better to change the user page; I'll do that. — Carl (CBM · talk) 16:31, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Ah! Thanks so much! I missed his block, especially because he has re-appeared using three different numeric IPs. I wanted to see his talk page to get a history of his (ahem) problems for a sockpuppet comparison. Thanks again. T L Miles (talk) 20:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Thinking of the children

Thanks for the magic words in the link. And for the color too, no sense burning out young retinas, I suppose. I updated the sign a bit so that it doesn't get taken as a note from the prof. (Whether that'll be better or worse, I'm not sure, but I figured it wasn't worth confusing the matter). Best, --Bfigura (talk) 04:45, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

What happened to Talk:Historical ecology?

I know this talk page was deleted .. and, though I can't recall what was on it .. it was all a bit of a surprise!

Please .. was there something untoward on this page .. and is it usual practice to delete talk pages in this manner??

I fear I had thought these pages a little more secure than this, and the histories expected within/promised by the Wikipedia GFDLicence might have been a little more secure/ reliable than this??? Bruceanthro (talk) 05:20, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

OK .. and thanks .. It makes more sense now. I'll now use the cleaned up/empty talk page .. to add appropriate Wikiproject tag plus assessments! Cheers Bruceanthro (talk) 05:25, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

deletion of Talk:Highest Yoga Tantra

you cite csd g2 but I don't see how that applies here (of course I don't know what was on the page deleted) -- it was a talk page for a disambiguation page - was the content (what was there? who knows?) moved to a different talk page? Could you please elaborate? Thanks Zero sharp (talk) 07:34, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

I now see that page deletion is apparently a hobby with you. Can you please, at the very least, migrate the _content_ of the talk page for Highest Yoga Tantra to the target of the redirect, namely Anuttara Yoga Tantra. Zero sharp (talk) 22:43, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot man

Cheers for deleting my entire talk archive without even bothering to check. Maybe when I get to become an administrator I'll do that to you some day. Hammersfan 30/04/08, 15.30 BST

FlaggedRevs

Hi, I saw your work at Wikipedia:FlaggedRevs fact sheet, and just wanted to point you towards my request at Wikipedia talk:Flagged revisions#Documentation update?, in case you could help. Thanks. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:17, 30 April 2008 (UTC)