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Deletion of article

Hey, since you deleted the article, can you copy over the deleted text to User:Akhristov/Estophobia? I want to give the article another chance and see if anybody else is willing to work on it. Thanks. — Alex(U|C|E) 07:40, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I have a very strong feeling someone will take this to Deletion Review; if this does not happen over the next few days, then I'll be happy to do so. Is that okay? Neil ╦ 10:40, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Just want to note that it has been a few days now, and nobody has contested the deletion. Martintg 01:40, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Estophobia

Thanks for being bold in closing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Estophobia. You may have restored the community's faith in the system :-) -- Petri Krohn 10:32, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Petri, but I hope this isn't gloating that you "got your way". Neil ╦ 10:41, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
In fact I voted rename. I was expecting the "article" to stay, but wanted it to have a more factual content. -- Petri Krohn 11:06, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
I would imagine that something on Russian-Estonian relations will end up being created. Neil ╦ 11:07, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Haha, it's already an article (was expecting a redlink!) Neil ╦ 11:08, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
It was created during AfD as "my way" fork. But we will be working on it.--Alexia Death 11:18, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Talking about forks, what is Anti-Estonian sentiment? And what is Estophilia? WP:POINT? --Ghirla-трёп- 18:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
I haven't created neither but they look like things that belong into Wikdictionary as Estophilia and Estophobia...--Alexia Death 18:23, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
One is a redirect and the other has now been speedied. Note Wiktionary does not accept neologisms. Neil ╦ 22:34, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Adoption

Hi Neil. I recently left a message on your talk page, but I fear it may have slipped under your radar due to a large amount of other messages (it's since been archived). Hope to hear from you. --CA387Talk 21:31, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I did reply - I don't have the time to take on any more people at the moment so I pointed you back towards WP:ADOPT, I'm afraid :( Neil ╦ 22:35, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your support in my successful RfA. I appreciate the trust you and the WP community have in me. Carlossuarez46 21:45, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team

Actually, the parameters for the current release version selections are the quality of the article and/or the importance, regardless of quality assessment status. I've recently nominated several articles for inclusion which are at this point neither GA or FA, but which I think qualify as being articles which any respectable encyclopedia would have. Articles like Moses, Mary (mother of Jesus), Saint Peter, and the like. There is a bot in development which is supposed to help in determining which articles should be included in the various release versions based on importance. Reports are that bot might be available by the end of the month, but it's still in development right now. I wish I could find the page that it's mentioned on, but for the life of me I can't right now. John Carter 22:31, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Deleting

Hey Proto... oops, I mean "Neil" can you delete this for me? It's served its purpose and it's just a waste of space now. Why'd you change your name, I like Proto better than Neil.Sam ov the blue sand 01:00, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Because my real name isn't Proto. Although, it would be awesome if it was. Maybe I should have changed my real name to Proto, rather than my user name to Neil. Neil ╦ 10:52, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Estophilia

Neologisms are not a valid reason for speedy delete, as you state here [1]. See Wikipedia:Speedy_delete#Non-criteria. Your reason given in the deletion log [2] "no real content" is not valid either, as it had basic information with references and was tagged as an article stub, as per the guide Wikipedia:Stub. Please restore Estophilia. Martintg 05:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Seconded. The article should be give a proper AfD. And BTW, I seriously doubt its a neologism, I have seen this term used in my history books at school(seven years ago) to describe Estonia sympathetic Germans during the national awakening.--Alexia Death 05:43, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Crap. That article was created to make a point, and both of you know it. An AFD would just be another venue for the squabbling that's been going on recently. But if you sincerely believe it should be here, the big writing at the top of the page, WP:DRV is the place to go. Neil ╦ 06:17, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  • That is not a very civil reply from you Neil. It was necessary to ask you first to restore the article, since it is clear that you will not, the way is clear to take it to deletion review. Cheers. Martintg 06:34, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Neil, you are an admin, if pointless squabbling or incivility do occur then it is your right and duty to block/warn who ever is responsible for disruption and to prevent hostilities from escalating. Just deleting potentially controversial articles is like hiding head under sand. It will not fix anything.--Alexia Death 07:14, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Estophilia. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Martintg 06:44, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


Neil, I can understand that creating an "opposite-of-A" article immediately after "A" was judged as non-notable and deleted, could be judged as a WP:Point, heck, I would probably do the same if I was in your posistion. However Estophilia is a signifcant subject of Estonian history, it just is unfortunate that it was quite understandably associated with Estophobia. As I said, most sources are either in German or Estonian, but I have listed a few that I have found here:

  • Online Encyclopedia reference: [3]
  • Book reference: [4]
  • Online Britannica quote: "Written literature began in the so-called Estophile period (c. 1750–1840) with moral tales and manuals written by Balto-German enthusiasts for the native language and culture." [5]
  • Another book reference: The History of Estonia, 2nd edition, by A. Maesalu, T. Lukas, T, Tannberg, et al [6] (ISBN 9985-2-0606-1) Quote from section beginning on page 167: Estophiles and the first Estonian intellectuals: "The growing interest in exotic and minority peoples in Europe launched the Estophile movement in Estonia. The Estophiles - Baltic Germans interested in Estonia - studied the Estonian language and culture, published fiction of considerable artistic level, newspapers, textbooks for schools, and founded various scientific societies....."

There seems to be a consensus forming in DRV to undelete Estophilia, so as deleting admin you could just wrap this thing up and undelete it.

It is my hope that the Estophilia stub is not immediately listed for AfD, given the sources above and elsewhere, because it will be a disruptive waste of energy. Note that the original stub of Estonian national awakening [7] was subject to an AfD that was defeated quickly[8]. As you can see, that was eventually developed into a good article. Cheers. Martintg 01:37, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Swami Shankarananda Saraswati

Thanks for your recent input into the Speedy Deletion discussion this article. It ended up with unanimous support for overturning Speedy Deletion. Now it has been tagged AfD. The original nominator for speedy deletion was again very prompt in providing his support for the present round of discussion. As a result I am now seeking further input on the article. Detractors are using the 'lack of notability' excuse argument, so I have updated the article to cite coverage from mainstream Radio and Newspaper. After this, one of the complainants reversed their judgment, but I still have work to do. If you could spare a few minutes to review the updated article and provide your perspective on the evidence of notability I would be very grateful.Yogidude 12:55, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

I hope you have also contacted those who advocated deletion in the deletion review discussion. Neil ╦ 14:00, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
I contacted all of the contributors to the deletion review and AfD discussion. In the end there were two that did not revisit their position publicily. The page has now passed the AfD. Thanks again for your time. Yogidude 01:26, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Picture of Sirrus

I was looking at the article Sirrus and Achenar, and I noticed that Image:Sirrus.jpg had been deleted, but not Image:Achenar.jpg, which also appears on the page. They both are from the same part of the Myst game (trapped in the books), so I'm wondering why you deleted the image of Sirrus, saying "not fair use," while not doing so for Achenar (which does have a rationale on it)? --Temporarily Insane (talk) 17:39, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

It didn't have a rationale ... it had a template. See Wikipedia:Non-free content. Neil ╦ 21:33, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Ah...right. Silly me. --Temporarily Insane (talk) 23:08, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
No worries Mr/Mrs Insane. Neil ╦ 08:36, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Mr, thank you. --Temporarily Insane (talk) 10:17, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: WP:SOCK raised to "teach me a lesson"

Reply on page above, but here also (Sprigot 14:54, 24 July 2007 (UTC)):

"Neil I don't want to seek punishment - but I do want to be vindicated (as not being a sock) - saying 'assmume' innocence is a bit much - isn't it supposed to be disproved ? I don't want the allegation of being a sock hanging over my head - perhaps if an admin could rule that I wasn't a sock it would bring some 'closure' to the matter. Sprigot 14:44, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Doesn't this send out the message to Giggy (and others) that it's OK to accuse people of Sock Puppeteering, even via a formal route, because nothing happens if they do ? No warning of Disruptive (WP:POINT and WP:BITE) behaviour, no clam down don't be silly - no 'anything' ? Sprigot 14:53, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you Neil (see WP:SOCK raised to "teach me a lesson") - I feel better now that you have put this into context for me - I appriciate the time you've taken to help here. Sprigot 15:05, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem, happy to help. As WP:BLOCK says, blocks are used to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia, not punish users. Neil ╦ 15:12, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Misterrick Talk Page addition

I noticed that you protected user Misterrick's talk page. Could you make an edit please? the image Mgmgranddet-rendering.jpg has no source or fair use rationale and i was going to paste the links on the templates listed on the image to the user page like it says, but I can't do this because it's been protected, since December actually. If you could add the notices for both the source and the fair use rationale it would be great. Thanks. Ejfetters 10:02, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

He's permanently blocked, there's nothing he can do anyway. Neil ╦ 10:37, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

"Good Faith" Edit to Jazz (Transformers)

I noticed your response to my reporting of User:70.65.138.93 for vandalism. The user in question has repeatedly reverted to a very old version of the page. It is not merely me disagreeing with his/her edits; there has been a discussion about the information that they keep re-adding on the talk page here. How this can be considered a "good faith" edit when they have been repeatedly asked not to make these changes is beyond me. -- JediLofty User ¦ Talk 12:19, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Aphex Twin

Hello. I hope you are having a sunny day. I want to remove the IDM from the genre list of Aphex Twin, and some others will remove it also, but it is readded by others. I looked at 40 Aphex Twin articles from many educated British publications. IDM is never mention. I want to show Electronic Music, Ambient Techno, and the sincere musical genres only. I want to show IDM is the messageboard list. http://music.hyperreal.org/lists/idm/ I saw recently your opinions in the IDM article. Sorry to use your time. Susume-eat

I am not having a sunny day. The UK has had no sunny days. We live under eternal cloud. BAH. I'll have a look ;) Neil ╦ 10:36, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Amy Mihaljevic

Please review my additional references on the discussion page for Amy's article. Please re-edit article including these details and remove article protection. This is an unsolved case that is generating a lot of new leads in Ohio. By protecting or deleting this article you are hindering the investigation by limiting information to potential witnesses or suspects.—Preceding unsigned comment added by JamesRenner (talk • contribs)

Y Done! Neil ╦ 10:35, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your help with this article, Neil. I realize I'm very green at this. If you could check in on it every once in awhile and make sure we're doing things right, I'd appreciate it. You seem like a good non-biased editor. -James

Really

It's editing like yours that makes me want to give up. I am trying to update the bloody thing! SlimVirgin (talk)(contribs) 10:05, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

So am I; do you have special dibs? Neil ╦ 10:10, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Help desk

Ahoy there! I was wondering if you could lend me a hand here. -- Zamkudi Dhokla queen! 11:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Unusual Adoption Request

Hi! Im an English teacher in Toluca Mexico (west of Mexico City). My Advanced B classes will be contributing to Wikipedia as the focus of their English course for Fall 2007. I am looking for people who would like to mentor my students (who will be working in groups) as they do the following assignments: Edit and article (adding a citation), writing a stub with a citation, translating an English language article for Spanish Wikipedia and for the final project, writing a full article for English Wiki (they can expand on the stub mentioned previously). What I would like to do is put a list of "mentors/adopters" on my talk page as a kind of short cut for my students, who have limited time to get things done. The semester begings Aug 6, but the real Wikipedia work wont begin until the beginning of Sept. If you would like to add your name to my list, please go to my talk page and add it there, perhaps with a short introduction, if you like.

Thank you!

Thelmadatter 20:24, 26 July 2007 (UTC)Thelmadatter

Maarten van Rossum

Hi. You seem to have deleted this article some time ago. I don't know what the content was, but the subject is somewhat noteworthy in Dutch history. Could you tell me what is was about? An interwikilink was added to it on nl: on April 21st, so I suppose it might have been a legitimate article (most hoaxes don't have interwikilinks I'd guess). Cheers, Niels(F) ? en | nl 15:08, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

A user had created a number of hoax articles on Frisian historical people, this was understood to be one of them. I have restored the article, thanks for letting me know. Neil ╦ 15:17, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks a lot. Niels(F) ? en | nl 17:12, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Stepdad

Hi Neil, As I'm adopted by you I guess you are my wiki-stepdad. I need some fatherly advice: I want to create a page for the singer and composer Andrea Martin, but there is allready a page called Andrea Martin. How would you go about the disambiguation?

Best regards

Sorenw 11:11, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi son! Create your page at Andrea Martin (musician), and at the top of the Andrea Martin article, put the following:
:''For the singer and composer, see [[Andrea Martin (musician)]].''
That should do it. Everything else okay? Neil ╦ 12:09, 1 August 2007 (UTC)


Thameside Radio

Hi Neil,

You have deleted my page on Thameside Radio because of possible copyright infringement. Another user identified the content as being similar to an existing web site www.thamesideradio.net. Since I am the original author of the article as well as author and owner of the web site there is no problem. The web site also makes it clear that the text is published under GNU free documentation licence. I hope that this is sufficient to have the page reinstated. If there is anything else I need to do I am happy to do so.

Thanks

Martin Wood

Hi Martin. Give me a little bit of time to look into this, I will try and sort it out. Neil ╦ 13:47, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Clear keep consensus

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amy Mihaljevic has a clear Keep consensus. Twice as many people are arguing for keeping instead of deleting, there are a large number of unrelated reliable sources, and it's a real stretch to bring up BLP concerns when no living people are mentioned in the article (some were before, but that was addressed). If that isn't a Keep consensus, then almost nothing is. Please change your closing. --AnonEMouse (squeak) 13:32, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

It was closed as "no consensus, default to keep". What difference does it make? Neil ╦ 13:33, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
The main problem is that every other closing will have to take the risk of being compared to that one. ("Hey, there are only 12 people arguing Delete to 7 arguing Keep, look at this, that means that's a No Consensus.") It was a prominent AFD, mentioned on several notice boards (take a look at Special:Whatlinkshere/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Amy_Mihaljevic - BLPN, ANI, COIN), we need to get it right. There is also a minor difference in that a No Consensus close is more open to being reopened than a Keep close; that shouldn't be as much of a problem here, as the original issues have been addressed, but still not negligible. --AnonEMouse (squeak) 14:10, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Ten keeps, two weak keeps, 7 deletes. Policy arguments were strong on both sides, ergo, no real consensus. It could not be argued there was a an obvious consensus to keep ... my definition of consensus is usually - if both sides have put forward good arguments - about three-quarters. Neil ╦ 14:23, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Amy Mihaljevic image

Neil, you've been a voice of reason for the Amy Mihaljevic page. I thought the debate was over, but her image was deleted, even though I have shown the photo to be undoubtably covered under fair use. The copyright to the school photo belongs to the parent. Amy's surviving parent has repeatedly granted use of this image related to his daughter's tragic story. It is historically significant and specifically relevent to the article. Also, it has been reprinted numerous times in the Plain Dealer, the Cleveland Free Times, Cleveland Magazine, the Milwaukee Journal, the Beacon Journal, the Record Courier, the Lorain Morning Journal, the Elyria Chronicle Telegram, Sun Newspapers, and several other publications. Can you do anything about this? Thank you. JamesRenner

Halia

Hey, about that Halia article. I'm sorry about that hoax. You see I originally made some articles on my user page, e.g. User:Monbro/Halia and then I moved the article to /wiki/Halia because it was annoying seeig the article title User:Monbro.ALfred instead of just 'Alfred' or something, but because of this Ill just use my user page now.

Sorry for any annoyance I caused Wikipedia. By the way, how did you find out about the article? I'm just interested. Also, I like the format of your user page, show me how to do that. Oh and you may beg to differ but my imaginary state is actually very interesting, its not one of these plain stupid things that I thought of in a minute. I've been working on it for 8 years and I thought about putting it on the computer, layed out in a Wikipedia-style thing and this is why i did it in the 1st place.

As I said, it is actualy very interesting. It's got its own monarch, legislature and all the political parties and head of states and provinces and everything. I know you may laugh at this but keep looking at my user page cos ill update it. Its name is the United Provinical Federation of the Halian Imperial Commonwealth and its the biggest federation in the world. Its eastern european but its official languages are English, French and Halian which is a fictional language in the Romance family based on mixes of ENglish, French, Spanish, German and Latin. I've said enough you can reply :) Monbro 19:06, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Allegations of Chinese apartheid AfD

Following your recent participation in Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 July 30#Allegations of American apartheid, you may be interested to know that a related article, Allegations of Chinese apartheid, is currently being discussed on AfD. Comments can be left at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allegations of Chinese apartheid. -- ChrisO 15:24, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA

Do not post "to match the name of the nearby Amsterdam ArenA, home of AFC Ajax" on the article of Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA railway station. It's not real. You can not know why the name is changed. I know it, because i living in The Netherlands. Tahrim 18:23, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Why else would they call the station the Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA? It's on ArenA Boulevard in Zuidoost. Just like the Villa ArenA, and the cinema's called the Pathe ArenA. So they changed the name of the system to match this. Kindly stop removing information. Neil ╦ 11:32, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Elonka 2

Thank you for taking the time to participate at the discussion in my Request for Adminship. Unfortunately the nomination did not succeed, but please rest assured that I am still in full support of the Wikipedia project. I listened carefully to all concerns, and will do my best to incorporate all of the constructive advice that I received, into my future actions on Wikipedia. If you can think of any other ways that I can further improve, please let me know. Best wishes, El on ka 04:35, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Fangio/Nelson

Air Force One AfD

Re this, then yes, please, a copy of the deleted article to work on in my userspace would be helpful. Thanks. AndyJones 17:38, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Ref desks

If indeed, I did something wrong, you are sadly mistaken if you think wronging me as well makes it right.

Calling people "assholes" is offensive.

My post was intended to be humorous... and helpful. The OP will find more music fans at the Ents desk.

I've noticed all too great a tendency for Wikipedians to consider it acceptable to call each other "asshole" or all kinds of other abusive terms. Coming from an admin it's even less acceptable.

I'm immensely proud of my extensive record of helping people at the Ref Desks. I'm also one of the least bitey contributors you'll find.

If you're in a bad mood, go find a vandal to whack, don't sound off on me. --Dweller 15:16, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm in a wonderful mood, thanks. Please don't be an asshole to newbies on the reference desk again. Neil ム 15:20, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
I see you've now called me an "asshole" three times. On my talk page, here and, indeed in an edit summary at the Ref Desk ([11]). Stop it. It's offensive. --Dweller 15:23, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
Dweller, I haven't called you an asshole once; please do not put words in my mouth. Saying someone is being an asshole on one finite occasion, and flat out calling them an asshole are not the same thing. I apologise, however, if use of the term "being an asshole" upset you. How about, please don't be snarky and cruel to newbies on the Reference Desk again? Neil ム 15:27, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Not sure if I know how to be cruel or snarky. Anyway, I'll trade you. I'll do my utmost not to be either of those things, if you desist from using insulting terms in a way that people could conceivably construe that that's what they're being called by you, rather than it merely being a word applied for one finite occasion. Then, we'll both have benefited from this rather inglorious exchange. Deal...? --Dweller 15:36, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

I will try and be more delicate in my phrasing, you try to be nicer to new editors. Okay, deal. Neil ム 16:32, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
I'll keep my (finely structured aquiline) nose out in that case. The Rambling Man 15:31, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Omagh bombing#List of names Interpretation of decision

User:Domer48 is now making accusations of edit warring, I should be grateful if you would consider the state of consensus building at Talk:Omagh bombing# List of names . We need further illumination on your Obiter dictum in light of [12] and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Names of Omagh Bomb Victims Aatomic1 17:03, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't have time I'm afraid. Why did you ask me, anyway? I haven't had anything to do with this. And what "obiter dictum" am I supposed to have made (unlikely, as I'm not a judge)? Neil ム 21:25, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Where You not the admin who closed the debate? Aatomic1 23:08, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

It does say on your front page feel free to ask you about your admin actions

Aha, sorry - I was looking for "Neil", didn't even spot I'd closed it under my old user name. Still, I don't see what there is to decide - the names do not go in the article. Neil ム 08:02, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

There is an ongoing discussion here, [13] . If you could apply your intellectual rigour to the situation it might save a lot of people a lot of time. Aatomic1 21:29, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I myself sought Adminstrator clarification here [14]. May I courteously invite you to take a second look. Aatomic1 21:39, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I applied my intellectual rigour and made an edit to the article. As an editor, not as an administrator. And also note that you didn't once point me in the direction of Birmingham pub bombings (again confusing me why my editing this article became an issue you had to raise on WP:AN/I). Neil ム 13:58, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Juan / Chris

Both of you, stop it, now. Please squabble between yourselves on your own talk page(s). There's nothing else that I can do, as the pair of you are dead set on fighting with each other endlessly over some really, really minor semantics and it's become tedious now. Juan, either file an user-conduct Request for Comment, or drop it. Any more of this endless complaining and sniping will be removed on sight. Neil ム 21:46, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Neil, I will leave you alone if you wish and feel free to delete this, but as long as you read it I'm fine. It is true I have said I'm right many times, although I have proved it. I have NEVER said I don't care about any consensus, because a) Jmfangio has no consensuses; and b) because I would always respect a consensus if it were in place, or at least discuss it before making edits against it. So I'd appreciate you not accusing me of things that are untrue when it's only a result of you not knowing enough about what you're talking about. That's not how an admin should behave. You can delete this now I guess.►Chris Nelson 22:06, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment

Thank you for your humorous comment on my RfA, which was successful. LyrlTalk C 00:48, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Farrell Heyworth

Can you salt this page? It's been recreated and deleted 4 times now. The sunder king 12:09, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

User Page

Neil, My userpage was brought before the ANI approximately one year ago, and it was determined through a consensus of users and admins alike, that it violated no policy. NPA pertains to USERS, not subjects. I am sorry that you don't like my user page, but it has been ajudged to violate no wikipedia policy...and as such I would prefer if you would refrain from removing items that you personally find offensive. If it is truly bothering you, then you are free to edit other pages and leave mine alone. Happy editing. Batman2005 09:17, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Neil, once again, my page was brought before the Administrators Noticeboard over a year ago, and consenus was made by various admins and editors that while it may offend some, it does not violate wikipedia policy. As I said, i'm sorry you don't agree with my page, but your disagreement is not grounds for a block. Please stop threatening me. Batman2005 09:24, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm not threatening you. Stop using your talk page to soap box and attack editors. Neil ム 09:26, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Request from User:Padraig

Neil, could you take a look at these [15] [16] [17] posted by User:W. Frank who has been warned for edit warring on these and other articles, can I remove these posts as they are intended to harass editors who disagree with his POV, he has posted the same on other article talk pages as well.--padraig 11:23, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Padraig. No, please don't remove his comments, even if you don't agree with them. It will just make things worse. Feel free to explain why you do not agree with his interpretation of policy, though. Neil ム 11:36, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
He is accusing editors of working as a team against him, simply because other editors disagree with his POV, as one of the editors name I take offence to this, there is a discussion here to try and resolve this issue that this editor has ignored and made clear on his talk page that he will continue to make his changes dispite and agreed compromise decided. I was of the opinion that article talk pages are intended only to discuss that article and its content, not for soapboxing in this fashion.--padraig 11:44, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
They are, but trust me, removing comments made by others never ever makes things better. Neil ム 11:47, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
It clearly states here Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines that The purpose of a Wikipedia talk page is to provide space for editors to discuss changes to its associated article or project page. Article talk pages should not be used by editors as platforms for their personal views. so I feel his attack should be removed.--padraig 12:47, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I do not disagree with you - the policy says that, and it would be technically correct to remove them. However, my recommendation is not to. Other admins might recommend otherwise. Neil ム 16:52, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Smirk

I r in your comments, snickering at ur edit summary ~nya. Kyaa the Catlord 11:56, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

I set my preferences to require edit summaries, it's making me be far more creative. :) Neil ム 12:36, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

AfD

Regarding this AfD, shouldn't they only be closed as a withdrawal if the nominator was the only one that thought the article should be kept? --Eyrian 14:35, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Revocation of GFDL on images I have uploaded

The GFDL, like the GPL, is not a contract; thus, the initial author of an article written under the GFDL is not bound by its terms. I can, therefore, revoke the license by giving notice to the licensee (Wikipedia). Any language to the contrary in the GFDL is unenforceable. Therefore, until an intervening substantially-transformative edit occurs, all such submissions are subject to arbitrary revocation on mere notice to the publisher(s) by the original author, and upon revocation all publication must immediately cease.

Once a substantially-transformative edit occurs, copyright in the resulting work rests not with the original author but with the person doing the substantially-transformative edit, who is then obliged to relicense any further distribution under the terms of the license allowing the edit in the first place, and is prohibited from revoking that license by virtue of being the licensee on the original edit. Since such secondary licensees receive their licenses not from the original licensor, but from the licensee (whose rights have been terminated by the revocation), their licenses remain intact until they also receive actual notice of the revocation, and derivation licenses predicated on those licenses remain valid. It is probably possible for an original licensor to revoke these relicenses as well, but meeting the requirement for actual notice for termination is likely to be difficult.

All of this flows from the fact that a license that is not a contract cannot impose an obligation upon the licensor. It is also established law that a license cannot be made irrevocable without consideration, and there is no consideration received by the licensor for licenses granted under the GFDL (or GPL). There is simply no way to prohibit the original licensor (author) from revoking their grant of license, which is why you have to allow for author's perogative to delete. Neil ム 18:14, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I don't know why but you're on my watchlist and I noticed this comment. Is this about something in particular? Is this true? Everyone seems to imply that it is irrevocable but the contract/license difference you bring up is interesting, seems like I remember something like this from the two horrible semesters I once spent in Economics class, part of which pertained to contract law. IvoShandor 18:18, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
It is true, and it is about people wanting to move images I have uploaded to Commons without the courtesy of asking. Neil ム 18:21, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Neil. IMO, if your image is already moved to commons or mirrored at answers.com, nothing can prevent them from being used no matter what. But I think you have a right to do what you are doing. The real problem is the copyright situation in Wikimedia projects being controlled by non-encyclopedic admins. This should be addressed rather than this or that image in particular. --Irpen 18:19, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

The two that have been moved to Commons are going to be deleted as they failed to retain the chain of attribution. Neil ム 18:21, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
This is a bit much for even a mop wielding mouse without a law degree. User talk:Mikegodwin#Time for the WP's official copyright lawyer to weigh in. --AnonEMouse (squeak) 18:35, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

It's the Wikimedia Foundation's policy that the GFDL is irrevocable. If you would like to prove otherwise, you'd have to do so in a court of law. But merely arguing on-wiki isn't going to get you anywhere. You licensed your photographs under the GFDL and there are no take backs. --Cyde Weys 03:52, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Cyde, please do not talk about things you don't know. --Irpen 04:30, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Irpen. --Cyde Weys 04:34, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Not a contract doesn't mater, releases are defense against infringement claims

First let me say I find this behavior profoundly disturbing. It is well-known that free-license images are moved to Commons all the time without notifying the uploader, and to expect differently strikes me as conceited. The resulting deletions seem profoundly contrary to the goals of the project. While it is true that the GFDL is not a contract, that doesn't matter. Issuing a release prevents you from being able to enforce your copyright. There are many rights you can waive by simply making assertions as you did when you selected the GFDL license and copyright is one of them. ←BenB4 20:13, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, BenB4, for your opinion. Neil ム 20:17, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
I've done some research on this. Under British law, a license is revocable at any time upon serving notice in writing (I'm not sure what that would entail.) Wikipedia's servers are governed by US law, which allows for license revocation "during a period of five years beginning at the end of thirty-five years from the date of execution of the grant" 17 USC 203(a)(3). ←BenB4 00:27, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
(Let's discuss here instead of Mike's page) The GFDL license is a conditional grant under copyright law, so the US law governing grants of copyright applies. ←BenB4 06:08, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
The only legally recognized license is copyright. GFDL is only tacked onto copyright and can be revoked without a binding contract. Any interference of a user wishing to amend or revoke voluntary licenses by an admin causes the Foundation to be a party to copyright infringement since the admins are tacitly acting on behalf of the Foundation. The Foundation would be liable for damages. Malber 20:50, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Two things - 1, I won't agree or disagree with you as I'm leery of WP:NLT, but want to state I am in no way threatening any kind of legal action, whatsoever, in any way shape or form. 2, would you consider the situation to be any different given that the revoker is, themselves, an admin? Neil ム 20:52, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
As for 2, "Administrator status does not place you in an elevated status within Wikipedia." ←BenB4 21:31, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
That's what I thought. We're just users with a few extra buttons, not elite wingéd agents of Jimbo. I am interested in the IP's views, though. Neil ム 21:32, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
From WP:NLT: "A polite, coherent complaint in cases of copyright infringement or attacks is not a 'legal threat'." However, I don't think that would stop an admin from blocking someone for arguing their copyright. Any admin on any Wikimedia project that uses the block tool to prevent an author from altering or revoking their licenses is causing the Foundation to commit copyright infringement. It doesn't matter whether or not the author is an admin. As a matter of fact, it should be easier for authors to delete their own works to lessen the deleterious affects of having works published and distributed when the original author no longer wishes this to occur. Malber 22:08, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I should point out that Malber is currently blocked for using sockpuppets to evade a ban, and as a general rule we don't allow blocked users to post on wiki, so if he says anything else, I'll have to remove it. Sorry Malber, but you really must learn how to play by the rules. --Cyde Weys 22:27, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Blocked

Your ongoing use of your admin tools to delete images on a massive scale to make a point is extremely disruptive, and irresponsible of an administrator. I apologize that it has to come to this, but as it seems you have no intention of stopping your deletion spree, I have blocked you for 24 hours. --Krimpet 18:32, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Neil, can you agree to stop deleting your images until this is discussed properly and resolved? Sarah 18:42, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I'm presently discussing this. User talk:Mikegodwin#Time for the WP's official copyright lawyer to weigh in contains a request for some clarification. Neil ム 19:01, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Discussing this with Neil in private, he has promised me that he will stop deleting his images, and discuss his concerns in the proper forum instead. I apologize for the misunderstandings here, and have unblocked him. --Krimpet 19:06, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Incident

Since you were the original blocker, please get involved in here. A user is evading and continuing to troll and harass. Mr. Neutron 18:45, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

If you check just a few sections up, you may notice he's a bit busy himself. :-(. Will look at the AN/I section. --AnonEMouse (squeak) 18:49, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks AnonEMouse. Neil ム 19:03, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
You're welcome; now that you're back feel free to take a look at that section and see if you can do it better, since you may be more up on the situation. Nothing personal, I realize you were temporarily overheated. Happens to all of us. I hope people will be kind when it happens to me! --AnonEMouse (squeak) 19:21, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

FYI: User_talk:AnonEMouse#User:Frightner. --AnonEMouse (squeak) 15:49, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Halia 2

OK. I promise I won't make any hoax pages. Please tell me how to use Wikia. Also, how did you find my articles that I created? It didn't appear on the New pages page. how did you find it?

User:Monbro

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Controversy among United States mobile phone companies

Would your please elaborate on your closing decision at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Controversy among United States mobile phone companies. I see you addressed my move, but did not explain how you interpreted consensus. I am considering a DRV, but would like to see your reasoning first. Dhaluza 11:15, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. My main concern is that the AfD never really rose above the level of name calling. As I said in my comment, the shortcuts tossed around, WP:NOR, WP:SYNTH & WP:POVFORK didn't really apply. NOR requires advancing a position, and SYNTH requires synthesizing a position, which I didn't see in the article. And a POVFORK creates a different version of reality from another article. So just because someone pins a tag on an article, that doesn't mean it applies. Most of these tag comments were made without elaboration, so are hard to evaluate objectively. The one cogent argument was the question on encyclopedic value in the nom, repeated in one other comment, which I think I addressed by recasting it as a list.
Notwithstanding this, one of the delete votes was to keep the cited content and merge it back into the parent articles. Also if this was actually a POV fork, that is the proper way to address that anyway, because deleting a POV fork would create a non-NPOV (assuming it was not a tiny minority POV). So really deletion is not the proper solution.
I found this AfD while doing a background search for another article, so I didn't have time to work on it yesterday, and when I came back to it this AM, I saw you had closed it already. If you userfy it to my user space, I can take a crack at it and see if it can be cleaned up to stand as a list as I suggested, or to see if the WP:V items should be merged back in. Dhaluza 00:37, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Image deletions

Hey Neil. I think the Commons issue is resolved now, so would you be so kind to restore the remaining of these images? Thanks in advance.
Melsaran (talk) 11:40, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Fair use

The image, Image:FreecellWinXP.PNG, is fair use so it really shouldn't be in your user gallery right? Feel free to revert me if I did something wrong in that removal... --DarkFalls talk 10:39, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Nope, my bad. Thanks! Neil ム 14:30, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toy museum

As you closed this debate as delete, could you please clarify the deletion, as you have recreated the article? Thanks. The Evil Spartan 00:13, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

It's not a recreation. Neil ム 06:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Well, I guess you're right. Thanks. The Evil Spartan 22:45, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Well

Frankly I don't see how, as you seem to indicate, comments are unhelpful unless made in an RFC. What bothers me about your behavior is not that you made a mistake or two, as everybody makes mistakse; what bothers me is that you started deleting a substantial number of pages essentially out of spite. Aside from that, just because it is technically possible to have multiple copies of an image, does not make it a good idea, as per WP:CFORK. >Radiant< 08:17, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

4 != substantial. They have since been undeleted. Comments such as "Neil should be desysopped" are unhelpful because they make me feel uncomfortable - I would very much appreciate you either taking action on these comments or to stop making them. How would you feel about comments such as "Radiant should be desysopped" being made? Surely you would ask that person to either act on their comments or not make them? Neil ム 13:30, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Actually no, I would be interested in learning why that person made those comments. Or to put it differently, if the result of my actions cause other people to leave me "uncomfortable" statements, perhaps I could learn a lesson from that. >Radiant< 13:37, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
I think it's clear why you made the statements. The point is that most people seem to have accepted that the issue has been resolved - your view is the exception, not the rule. Neil ム 13:40, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
  • I agree the issue is resolved (which is also why I don't think an RFC is at all necessary). I see no reason not to drop the matter. Happy editing, >Radiant< 11:38, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Danke (re: diff)

Thanks for fixing the category tag on my welcome template! —MrSomeone ( tlk • cntrb ) 03:24, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Commons

Just in case, you didn't notice: [18] Regards, --Flominator 06:29, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

AFD closure

I'm not challenging your good faith: I understand why you closed the debate. But why isn't an AFD an appropriate way for an editor to seek consensus about whether his article should exist? I've brought an AFD for an article I created to get the community's consensus on whether it complied with Wikipedia policies and guidelines. In this case, the editor was trying in good faith to create an article, and editors were edit-warring with him by deleting all the content and redirecting on the basis of a stale consensus created before the movie had been out. It's the editors who are deleting all the content without using the AFD procedure who are creating the problem, not the editor who wishes the content to remain and brought the AFD to avoid edit-warring. THF 11:55, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Neil,

My question is about the same as THF's. Perhaps it wasn't proper for me to nominate the article, but I didn't understand your justification for closing it. Was there some AFD rule I violated? Could you please point me to some kind of authority that shows I can't do what I did? It would help out a lot. If you can show me where I violated some procedure or guideline or whatever, then it would save me a lot of trouble. Feel free to respond here and I'll watch. Thanks! Noroton 17:42, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

I've since gotten my answers elsewhere. Never mind. Noroton 21:12, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Help when you have time.

Can you please review this when you can (well in the next 24 hours would be nice) because I think what's going on there is crazy how majority seems to rule even though the majority hasn't given good reasons as to why they want it kept besides "he's important" and "I like him". So if you time please look over it and tell me if what's going on there is in fact legitimate.Sam ov the blue sand, Editor Review 00:19, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Interpretations of NFCC#8

I saw your close of the TIME evolution cover debate, and thought it was a well-reasoned close. I did want to raise a few points though. Does this decision mean that if more relevant commentary were to appear in the article at some future point, the image could be restored? What would count as more relevant commentary? Also, thanks for actually mentioning the article in question (Intelligent design), as the nominator failed to do this - a failure that gets really annoying when looking through these discussions after the event. Anyway, I wondered if it is worth comparing four different approaches to commentary on an image:

  • Image:Time evolution wars.jpg in Intelligent design: "The public controversy was given widespread media coverage in the United States, particularly during the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial in 2005. Prominent coverage of the public controversy was given on the front page of Time magazine with a story on Evolution Wars, on 15 August, 2005. The cover shows God facing off against a chimpanzee"
  • Image:Time-magazine-neville-chamberlain.jpg in Neville Chamberlain: "During his tenure as Chancellor, Chamberlain emerged as the most active minister of the government. In successive budgets he sought to undo the harsh budget cuts of 1931; he also took a lead in ending war debts, which were finally cancelled at a conference at Lausanne in 1932. In June 1933, Britain hosted the World Monetary and Economic Conference. Describing the event as the "most crucial gathering since Versailles," top U.S. newsmagazine Time featured Chamberlain on its cover, referring to him as "that mighty mover behind British Cabinet scenes, lean, taciturn, iron-willed... [I]t is no secret that Scot MacDonald remains Prime Minister by Prime Mover Chamberlain's leave."[2]"
  • Image:Burningmonk.jpg in Thich Quang Duc: "Browne's photographs quickly spread across the world wire services and leapt off the front pages of newspapers worldwide. [...] no news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one [...] In Europe the photos were hawked on the streets, and Communist China distributed millions of copies of the photo throughout Asia and Africa as evidence of “US imperialism”. One of Browne's photos remains affixed to the sedan in which Thich Quang Duc drove to his self-immolation and is part of a tourist attraction in what is now Ho Chi Minh City commemorating the event."
  • Image:WW2 Iwo Jima flag raising.jpg in Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima: "The photograph was extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of publications. Later, it became the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year as its publication, and ultimately came to be regarded as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time." (from the lead section), plus Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima#Legacy and other sections.

Given the examples above, is it possible to come to an objective decision on NFCC#8 cases? There is a whole spectrum of way to add commentary, from a range of sources. What should be assessed? The relevance of the visual information to the commentary, the impact of the actual image, the lasting legacy, or what? I think some consideration (and this doesn't apply to the TIME evolution pic) should be given to the educational nature of historical images. I think the simplest way to put this is that sometimes old images are needed in history articles purely to increase the reader's understanding of the history. Text descriptions can only go so far, and the educational value of showing what things looked like at the time cannot be overestimated, in my opinion. This would apply even when the particular picture was not iconic or remembered as a picture. Carcharoth 09:49, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually, the above probably belongs on a page giving examples of photo commentary. Sorry about that. I'd still be interested in your views if you have time. Carcharoth 09:50, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Well, of the four examples you give, only the latter two contain critical commentary on the image (note that critical is not used in the sense of criticism, rather in the sense of discussing the value/impact/legacy/etc of the image). I don't, personally, see how showing Image:Time-magazine-neville-chamberlain.jpg adds to the current text when the current fair use criteria are applied. It is possible to come to a subjective decision - the important question as regards the NFCC#8 criterion is "is the image itself (not what the image portrays, or the fact the image exists) discussed within the article"? If yes, NFCC#8 is met. I agree that educational value of "what things looked like at the time" would be really useful; this is not, at present, within the criteria - and in the present climate, I don't forsee any attempt to make the less stringent or more inclusive being succesful. Neil ム 10:00, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I tend to agree. Maybe sustained impact is a better way to phrase all this. The two TIME images certainly had an impact at the time, but it needs distance in time to ascertain the historical legacy of something. My gripe is with 70+ years old images which are old enough, in my opinion, to qualify as genuinely historically educational (eg. Image:1heldeplatz.jpg), without the image itself having its own legacy. The problem seems to be people applying the letter of NFCC#8, rather than the spirit of it. Historical images that are educational due to their age are definitely in the spirit of NFCC#8, in my opinion. My evidence for the spirit comes from {{non-free historic image}}, which seems to have been meant for images of historic moments regardless of whether the image was itself notable with its own impact and legacy, and also, surprisingly to some, from the Foundation licensing policy itself: [19]: "Their use, with limited exception, should be to illustrate historically significant events..." I can't interpret that any other way than to say that the WMF is saying that it is OK to use images just to illustrate historically significant event. NFCC#8, which is part of Wikipedia's response to the WMF policy, seems to be to go beyond what was intended. What do you think? Again, I'll need to copy this over to the main talk page. :-) Carcharoth 11:33, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I've copied my comments over to WT:NFC, and invite you to do the same. It's probably best if I put my thoughts in that thread over there, instead of here. Carcharoth 11:41, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Good idea. Done. Neil ム 11:52, 28 August 2007 (UTC)