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Hy

Finaly another administrator on Macedonians pages. The previs Fut.P consider me as a nationalist and i dont think he is neutral either,maybe it is becouse of my bad english. I wonder if you can help or judge your poit of view in this debate here, the last one, it is about POV pushing and deleteing references which are controversal. I would like to hear neutral poit of view. Thanks --Makedonij (talk) 14:22, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for taking care of {{Ethnic Macedonians}}. Could you have a look at the comment I left at your latest "edit request" regarding the image please. Mind you, it's not that I'd raise any big objections, just to make sure you know what you're doing. It really is good to see a new face on that page :-) Fut.Perf. ☼ 16:33, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Kosovo

You should add Sierra Leone.84.134.87.152 (talk) 19:52, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you're talking about; please be more specific. Thanks, PeterSymonds (talk) 09:41, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Someone already changed the Higher Education in BC page--what do I do now?

I see that two people have already gone to the Higher Education in BC wiki article that I started. It seems after you moved it they came in and copied stuff. I've notified my professor about this in case my grade is affected. I guess that's the problem with Wiki--there's no copyright and people can delete/add whatever even if it is for a class assignment.  :-( (Dawnalee8 (talk) 05:28, 1 June 2008 (UTC))

A little help...

For the McGill University article, I have a small problem. Several cites do not have the sufficient information (i.e. some do not have access dates). Because I didn't support these, I do not know what date they were accessed. So what should I do? And take your time, as I see admin duties have busied you. --Sunsetsunrise (talk) 15:25, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

RFPP on Ni Hao, Kai-Lan

I'm not going to protect it after you declined, but Gladys is right about it being a copyvio; it reads word-for-word what is written on the Nickelodeon site, and the IP editors appear to be quite insistent about restoring the copyvio material and removing the warning template. Horologium (talk) 21:40, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

What if I completely deleted what's currently on the Higher Education in BC wiki?

What would happen to my account if I took liberty and replaced everything in the current Higher Education in BC Wiki article with what I have done in order for it to be graded properly? I have noticed none of my classmates had the same situation as me so I found that very strange! Maybe because I came to the IRC Help someone saw what I was doing? I don't know how to explain why only my article was affected and not my classmates?(Dawnalee8 (talk) 08:36, 2 June 2008 (UTC))

Image:Uyyi.gif

The image was previously speedy-deleted and then uploaded again, and the user appears to be a sockpuppeteer. I appreciate this may not change the situation, just thought i'd let you know. Ironholds 22:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thanks! its nice to meet an accessible administrator :). What exactly is the procedure with images that are pointless/unencyclopedic? do i tag them as vandalism or have to prod them and wait a week? Ironholds 22:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
No problem :). thanks for your help. Ironholds 14:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Pageonce deleted

I'm a little confused because the warning that my article could be flagged for speedy deletion only appeared when I added the information box to the left of the article. The article itself had already been up for almost 2 weeks with no problems. Why is it that the page got deleted once the info box was added?

I'm also wondering how you can assert importance without advertising the service. I tried to be objective by explaining what the service does and citing the sources. Would it be approrpriate to talk about why this would be a good service for people to use? Does that assert importance?

Also, would you mind sending me a copy of the deleted article so I can work on it?

Thanks for your time!

Leighna (talk) 22:35, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Japanese era name

Please help me to better understand the protected status of this article? An edit was made today by an anonymous editor. No problem was caused, and in fact, I would have considered this minor edit was an improvement ..., but I had understood that no anonymous edits could be accomplished because of the systemic protections which have been put in place? When you have time, could you please elucidate this minor matter? --Tenmei (talk) 23:02, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, the Higher Ed in BC page is ready to be added to my class' Wiki article

Took me a long time trying to reformat Word into Wiki, but done and just in time. I went in and edited the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Education_in_British_Columbia page to bring it back to where it was when I originally started the article.

It is linked on my class' Wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Education_in_Canada#British_Columbia

You asked me to let you know when I was done as you were going to do some re-directing. I know I probably broke every Wiki rule, but blame it on the professor. I don't think the professor will do this again for the next class. Okay, hope to hear from you soon. Cheers. (Dawnalee8 (talk) 07:39, 3 June 2008 (UTC))

Anonymous user causing trouble

User:69.29.70.177 is deleting my comments on a talk page.

I asked him why he deleted my comment and he just deleted that too. 15:48

This is his page. Will you please sort him out and tell him not to delete my comment and edits in the future? Thankyou.Ijanderson977 (talk) 15:57, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much ;) Ijanderson977 (talk) 16:24, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Bobby Jindal Disruption

I have to strongly disagree with the decision to decline the protection. The sheer number of times that this page has been reverted back to the incorrect middle name is causing other sites to cite wikipedia and say that this is his real middle name when there is absolutely no verifiable evidence showing that this is his middle name. Several of the regular editors of the page have had to keep a constant eye on it in order to revert back the vandalism. How many times does it have to be changed before it qualifies for protection? DanielZimmerman (talk) 17:34, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Two more vandalism examples since my request. DanielZimmerman (talk) 13:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
(in response to your comment on my talk page) The problem is that this figure is currently getting a lot of media attention and we have already found several pages that have used the incorrect information provided by those anonymous users. (And one of the editors contacted the writer of the article and that writer did indeed get his information from wikipedia in the brief amount of time that the wrong information existed. There is no way to have an exception to the normal rule for instances where the person is getting a lot of press? DanielZimmerman (talk) 13:37, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
THANKS! You rock! DanielZimmerman (talk) 21:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Charles

Hi. This user wishes not to receive talk page comments for now, as he is semi-retired until further notice. Please refrain from recreating the talk page.

This seems not acceptable. This user is far from semi-retirement, he's still ravaging on all the nobilities pages. I would kindly suggest to check his behaviour. Gerhard51 (talk) 20:43, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Ibeji

Thanks for your comment, but check the Ibeji image again - and please go to my talk page for the instructions as to what to do. --Dumarest (talk) 20:58, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU

Hello yet again. I regretfully inform you that the bot we were using to update the user status at Wikipedia:Highly Active Users, SoxBot V, was blocked for its constant updating. With this bot out of operation, a patch is in the works. Until that patch is reviewed and accepted by the developers, some options have been presented to use as workarounds: 1) Qui monobook (not available in Internet Explorer); 2) User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate; 3) Manually updating User:StatusBot/Status/USERNAME; or 4) Not worry about it and wait for the patch to go through, which hopefully won't take long. If you have another method, you can use that, too. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Useight (talk) 22:24, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

CeraSport

Peter,

I need to ask why the CeraSport page was taken down yet again. WE have tried in the past to make the page acceptable by taking out anything that can be construde as advertising. The past versions were based almost exactly on the postings of Gatorade and Poweraid. This does not seem fair that our page is being removed and theirs remains untouched. The Gatorade page even references Cera Products which was also removed for being blatent advertising. I would apprectiate some insite on this. Thanks

(bjanis)96.244.95.92 (talk) 20:36, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

It was deleted because the page was advertising and promoting the subject. Please see WP:ADVERT; when pages like these are created, they have to be speedily deleted under the criteria WP:CSD#G11. Please see the article wizard which offers a more step-by-step approach to creating articles; it will be far more useful to you than me writing a long paragraph about policies. Good luck, and if you need any help, don't hesitate to contact me! :) Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 21:12, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Granting me Rollback

Wow, you are the Lightning Speed Admin. Thank you for responding so very quickly (and favourably) to my request! --Bonadea (talk) 12:35, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Image:Brunello glass close up.JPG

Hi, Peter - I saw that you declined the speedy nomination on the above image with the statement "released into PD". However, the image source shows a noncommercial license. Are you seeing something I'm not? Thanks...Kelly hi! 13:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Yes, normally the image page here can be deleted if the image exists on Commons - I see lots of admins do this. I assume you're talking about the most common situation, where people add categories here to images on the Commons - that's really not necessary since Commons has the comprehensive categorization scheme. The exceptions would be the templates for the naughty image blacklist and for featured pictures. Kelly hi! 13:41, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Peter, if you are still active could you delete Image:Montserrat.jpg? It is blocking a Commons image used in the article Catalan wine. Thanks! Kelly hi! 14:13, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

MACLEOD

NO PLEASE DELETING R MACLEOD ARTICLES!!! GO HOME! (please) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexmacartney (talk • contribs) 14:26, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Laughing_man.png

PeterSymonds, thanks for deleting that image. Just a heads up, this is the second time he's uploaded that same type of image (laughing man logo) into his userpage. YOu may want to keep an eye on him in case he tries it again. Thanks F.U.R hurts Wikipedia 17:01, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Image tagging question

Hi Peter, you de-tagged an image today that I had tagged for speedy deletion as invalid fair use [1]. That case made me aware of an inconsistency in our tagging mechanism, which I've brought up at WT:CSD just now. – This is assuming that your de-tagging was purely process-motivated. If it was meant as reflecting on the merits of my deletion rationale, I'd appreciate a comment on that, because I'd then have to take it to IfD. Thanks, --Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:01, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem. All these different deletion mechanisms can be really daunting, I know! Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:28, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)

Here Gary King (talk) 19:54, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Protection

Thanks for protecting the Big Bro page. StewieGriffin! • Talk 20:59, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Could you take a look at MediaWiki_talk:Sidebar#Newpages. StewieGriffin! • Talk 21:26, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Didn't work. Could you do it? Thanks. StewieGriffin! • Talk 21:32, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I don't just want to walk away. But I am going to bed! See you! StewieGriffin! • Talk 21:35, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello!

You delete my page "http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/AcmePlan".
Why pages of the similar companies/products are not removed?
Omniplan [[2]]
List of project management software [[3]]
Artemis [[4]]
Primavera [[5]]
Microsoft Project [[6]]
Merlin [[7]]

PS
The page has been removed, but then restored.
"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AcmePlan&action=edit&redlink=1" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pilovik (talk • contribs) 21:21, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

The Sims 2: Apartment Pets

This article should not be deleted because it's about the next The Sims 2 game for Nintendo DS that EA Games will release soon. It's a part of The Sims (series). -- Iblis Trigger (talk) 21:22, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

History of modern Macedonia

The article History of modern Macedonia is a POV pushing article because it is trying to assort the only modern Macedonia is the Greek Macedonia, when in fact Greek Macedonia is part of the region of Macedonia. The article is trying to monopolize the term Macedonia and should be looked at carefully.

A differentiation is needed btw Republic of Macedonia and Greek Macedonia. Stating "modern Macedonia" is to state any part of the region of Macedonia, or the entire part of Macedonia... and this term cannot be used exclusively for Greek Macedonia. Mactruth (talk) 22:16, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Could you please explain more fully?

I see you were the administrator who deleted Att Will. But Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Att Will doesn't contain a concluding statement from you. Am I missing something? Shouldn't there be one? I am not about to defend the article. I know absolutely nothing about it. I only went to the {{afd}} page because I was examining someone else's contribution history, and noticed what I saw as a curious anomaly.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 22:50, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I also have a question about this close. Given that you stated its closure as a speedy delete, what was the resolution to the two (ineligible for speedy) albums included in the nomination? Did you see my comment that the AfD shouldn't be closed speedily because of them? —David Eppstein (talk) 06:04, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
To elaborate a little: I think it was completely appropriate to speedily delete Att Will. It's not that, but the closure of the AfD and the limbo it places the other two nominated articles into that I'm wondering about. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:11, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for resolving this. I came online this morning to find that all three articles had been recreated; I G4'd and salted them. —David Eppstein (talk) 14:14, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

1992 Nicaragua earthquake

Please undelete this article--it's not vandalism, and I will add sorces to it soon. I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed] 10:56, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, that was a typo on my part--it was just an article starter upon which I will expand. Once I stop the people who add the speedy tag (I've had two already in its fist ten minutes of existance, plus your deletion :). Well, best regards. I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed] 11:02, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Take a look at the article now. It's far from perfect, but certainly not CSD worthy either. I hold no grudge against you, as you were just carrying out your administrative duties, as I di support you in your RFA. Anyway, other than this I think you have been an awesome admin! I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed] 20:33, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

American Mustache Institute

Peter,

My name is Aaron Perlut. I am the executive director of the not-for-profit organization the American Mustache Institute. We are an advocacy organization and registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit based in St. Louis, Missouri. We make no money, as we pass all revenues through to charitable entities. We are a global membership organization, with a full-time support staff in St. Louis, which advocates for greater acceptance of mustaches in the workplace. There are dozens upon dozens of like-groups on Wikipedia and I cannot understand why you have delete our page. We are not trying to be difficult, just treated fairly, and we do not believe our deletion constitutes this. Thank you.

Aaron —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.69.39.92 (talk) 13:25, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Aaron. It was deleted because it did not assert importance/significance, and therefore I followed the speedy deletion criteria WP:CSD#A7. Please see the article wizard for instructions on writing articles. Good luck, and ask if you need assistance. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 14:49, 6 June 2008 (UTC)


Peter, Thanks for responding so quickly. I do appreciate your guidance. I'm still rather confused. Would it help to add that we are the "only true organization dedicated to facial hair advocacy in the world." That aside from the Wikipedia entry for "moustache," we are the most visited web site online visited for information about mustaches? Would that help as I don't think it was in our original entry. I really want to do this the "right" way and in the appropriate fashion that's acceptable to you and your peers. Thank you again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.91.228.66 (talk) 16:07, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Aaron. You need to do two things: mention why the organisation is notable in a neutral point of view. Often when this is said, new users try to "sell" the notability and it turns into an advert. Try not to do this, but any corrections can be made when the article is written. Secondly, you need to verify notability with reliable, third-party sources. So for example, we can verify the notability of the British House of Commons because it appears in secondary books, magazines, newspapers, TV programmes etc. Is there secondary coverage of your organisation? (Hypothetically as an example) Does it get mentions in the media, and can you prove it? These are all questions you have to ask yourself. If the answer is "yes", login and draft a copy in your userspace: User:USERNAME/American Mustache Institute (replacing "USERNAME" with your own, of course :)). Hope that helps; let me know if you need anything further. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 16:20, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you again Peter. This again is where I'm confused. On the 3rd party verifications. In the original article we link to 5 notable articles from well known media in the U.S. and U.K. discussing our work. Did that go unnoticed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.91.226.97 (talk) 18:19, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Peter, I have again tried to post using the Wikipedia guidelines. Here is the link. I hope I have done this correctly. I'm trying. Really.

Aaron —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aperlut (talk • contribs) 18:34, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Pic deletion

Thanks for your reply explaining the Pic Deletion bot. Please go to my Talk Page where I'd like to check I've understood. Thanks - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 15:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

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