User talk:Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Dahnoltirockfest.jpg
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- Image deleted. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 08:21, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
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- I have made amendments. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 12:24, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Advice (for Harish)
Hey there! I'm just a random editor who's seeking advice. I was curious to know if it's fine to quote from the same online article, and to reference the same article multiple times (due to the quotes in the references). To maybe help explain what I'm doing, I'm currently working on the article Akshardham (Delhi) in my sandbox thing (as to be able to work on cleaning up the article in peace, as such), and if you look at the article in my sandbox, you'll notice I have a lot of quotations going on in the 'References' section. Many of the references are from the same article, but it's fairly huge... so I was curious to know if it's fine, really.
Also, if you have time, would you be willing to briefly go over the work I've done to the article, everything that's referenced is the work I've done (even on the official 'Akshardham' article). The rest I'm still working on, so a brief thought of my direction would be cool. By the way, I picked you randomly from one of the raandom Indian wikiprojects, seeing you to be an Admin. Sorry if it's a problem, bro. I just wanna make sure I'm heading the right way for a REALLY GOOD article (Featured, if one day possible). I appreciate any help giveable, and thanks for at least reading.
P.S. - I see where you wrote that you mention you prefer to keep convo's without breaking, so if you inform me of a reply, it'd be really nice if you dropped the link in my talk page, for Archive purposes... please! :) -- Harish - 19:59, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Western Chalukya architecture
Thanks for the support.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 13:59, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Boundless Planet Deletion
Can you explain your deletion of the Released MMORTS title Boundless Planet's entry and retention of the Mankind, Time of Defiance, Ballerium, Dreamlords, and other titles? Seems that this game keeps getting deleted with no explanation by folk with no idea or clue about MMORTS games. Boundless Planet is a genre defining game and one of the only ones to have every boxed ticked. Come to www.mmortsgamers.com or www.mmorts.com if you want to debate this as you need to check your facts. Soon we will be doing an article on the wiki entry and featuring each member who has edited it and hindered our genre's development and coverage. Feel free to engage me over this beforehand to get an explantion in.
12 jan 2008 - Stoneface1970 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stoneface1970 (talk • contribs) 00:17, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
ArbCom decision on User: Dbachmann
Well, well! The ArbCom may be of some use after all ;) (though I keep in mind that four arbiters voted to ban me for nothing and that Bachmann got off without any sanctions whatsoever -- just a reprimand and a "reminder," like he'd somehow -- oops -- "forgotten" he's supposed to behave). I never did find the patience to focus on the prosecution of User: Moreschi for his actions, or all the proposed remedies, but perhaps he and Dbachmann will both find themselves a little chastened by this recent decision. It was about time someone did something to rein in these rogue admins who think they can get away with anything. Well done -- all around. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deeceevoice (talk • contribs) 20:49, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Oops. Yeah, I done did dat. deeceevoice (talk) 22:30, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Radiomirchi.jpg
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User:Soumen_thakur
Deleted User:Soumen_thakur Sir, Today it was very unfortunate to see that you have deleted my userpage (User:Soumen_thakur) mentioning the reasons: self-gratification, vanity, advert. (Vide deletion log "13:00, 19 September 2007 Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (Talk | contribs) deleted "User:Soumen thakur" (self-gratification, vanity, advert)"
However, I had created said user page clearly following the guideline of wikipedia i.e. how to create a user page and I would like to mention a paragraph from the said guideline as quoted below,
".... Some people add information about themselves as well, possibly including contact information (email, instant messaging, etc), a photograph, their real name, their location, information about their areas of expertise and interest, likes and dislikes, homepages, and so forth..... "
Therefore, if one mindfully sees the content of the said page (deleted), it will clearly reflect that I have included more of my bio-data related information and about myself on that page but now it becomes confusing that you have deleted the page on the grounds viz. self-gratification, vanity, advert!?
As far as my knowledge goes I do understand that 'self-gratification' means, 'the act of satisfying ones own desires and giving oneself (himself) pleasure' BUT it is not understood how one can even term my "personal information" as a self-gratification, instead of treating the same more like a bio-data! Shall I, from now on, treat a 'bio-data' more as a self-gratifying content instead of considering the same as "personal information"?
You have also included the term "vanity" as one of the reasons for the concerned deletion while, according to my understandings, vanity means, "excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others"! BUT I do not really understand that how a bio-data like personal information can be interpreted as my excessive belief in my own abilities!? This reason shown by you for the concerned deletion is very confusing to me but it does really enable me to realize what should have been the proper (ideal) page content, can you please throw some light on it?
And finally, the last reason for deletion stated by you is 'advert' BUT it would be my pleasure to inform you that necessarily an 'advert' is a public promotion of some product or service (generally for commercial purpose) OR a form of communication whose purpose is to inform potential customers about products and services, here please note the term 'customers'. And a customer is generally a buyer. BUT can you please explain me how the deleted user page was displaying my service for commercial purpose. Here, I would like to add that I (rather my business) have more than enough publicity in the print media here in national market and I don't think that placing an advert in the wikipedia user page would be of any commercial gain to me as the effectiveness of any intended advert here is almost nil (if not negative value)!
Therefore, considering the stated facts and circumstances, I can not really accept that said deletion was at all the act of an efficient administrator, however its my personal interpretation about said act and in this regard, I may not agree with your views.
So can you please enlighten me explaining what I should have included in my user page so that one would consider the same as a proper or near ideal content? What was wrong with the deleted page, any explanation?
Thanks regards,
- SNT (talk) 00:44, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
- The page was deleted because your account has very few contributions to the encyclopedia and most of them were on your userpage itself. There are a lot of people who use Wikipedia as a tool for self-promotion, and it reasonably appears that, at that time, you were using the page for the same reason. It also appears that you turned up on Wikipedia after you realised that Google had stopped turning up your name on search. Wikipedia is not for self-promotion. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 11:35, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Attack on another editor
You might want to review this section again. Please provide evidence we can review in public or strike this attack. Thanks. Lawrence § t/e 18:24, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Fair use rationale for Image:Hddcs.JPG
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Admin Coaching Re-confirmation
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- I am sorry, I cannot renew. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 15:30, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Yatra
- As you seem to know plenty about Hinduism, it would be useful if you could add any useful information to the page Yatra, which ia currently under threat of being AfD deleted for lask of content. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:46, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you for contacting me, Mr. Appleyard. However, I regret to tell you that it would be difficult for me to contribute regularly to the encyclopedia for sometime, at least, as I am busy with my academic life at the University. Best wishes, — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 15:13, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Adoption
Hello. My name is Stephen Dixon(but you can call me Drance). I am curently looking to be REadopted seeing as how my former adopter has gone into hideing. I was wondering if you would be willing to take the job. Contact me at my talk page.
- Dear Sir Drance, thank you for your message. However, I regret to inform you that I would not be in a position to coach you for adminship, since I have been out of touch with Wikipedia since a considerable time now. The encyclopedia and the community evolves continually, and it is essential that when I come back, I am able to accustom myself to the environment. There are, obviously, better suited coaches around – like User:Riana for instance. Best wishes, — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 15:17, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Adminship
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Wishing Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 00:44, 4 March 2008 (UTC) |
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 Wishing Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! |
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Wishing Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Hey, another one can't hurt. Besides, Harry Potter (series) rules. Two One Six Five Five τ ʃ 18:13, 4 March 2008 (UTC) |
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--Nadir D Steinmetz 19:04, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
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Wishing Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 23:22, 4 March 2008 (UTC) |
- Gah. Someone must have screwed with the records. The date is 4th August 2006. But, thanks anyway. <blushes> :*) — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 07:49, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Films coordinator elections
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Board elections 2008
Hi Nick,
The 2008 board elections will be in a few months (1 to 14 June) and the election committee is looking for people willing to translate the election pages into various languages. I noticed that you seem to be interested in Meta translations en>hi. Would you be available and interested in translating the board election pages into Hindi? I'm looking for at least two people per language so no one translator feels overwhelmed, so they can mutually proofread each other and help each other out as needed, but if only one is available that is fine as well. (To get an idea of how much work is involved you can take a look at last year's election pages.)
If you are not available or are not interested, it would be nice if you could point me in the direction of users who might be interested in helping, or show them this message.
Please contact me on my Meta page (meta:User talk:Arria Belli), where you can write to me in either English, French, Spanish or Italian, whichever you feel most comfortable with.
Happy editing,
Arria Belli | parlami 15:32, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star [1] and [2] --Bhadani (talk) 17:19, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Any comments?
[3]... the deleted article nominated by me... was against WP:RS and WP:CRUFT. If you had known the policy of Jimmy Wales that “Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information, you wouldn’t contrib this kind of crufts. Again my advice to you is take off some time and read WP:AGF and WP:5P. Hope it helps. --Tomb of the Unknown Warrior tomb 04:51, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
I would like to know if this is why you deleted the article, because the way I read it, it was because the "title of the article is POV ", and the material looked like commentary. But if the real reason is that religious harmony in India is "misleading or false information", then please tell me so that I can take rest.--talk 07:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
- As arguments progresses, more opinions would be formed & clear consensus will also be shaped. Sometimes, the nominator has his own points to delete and others have their own points to delete. Check my reason for nomination & others comments (including the closing admin). --Tomb of the Unknown Warrior tomb 08:08, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
- Let the closing admin speak. --talk 07:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
- There is no false commentary. The article was an opinion piece, and cannot be objectively made independent from articles like Religion in India. Best wishes and apologies for the delayed response. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 18:17, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- Let the closing admin speak. --talk 07:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Question
May I ask you why haven't you replied until yet? As an admin it is your responsibility, don't you think?--talk 14:15, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
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Backlog at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user
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There is currently a backlog of 52 users at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user. Please consider offering adoption to one or more of these users. Don't forget to change their {{adoptme}} template to {{adoptoffer|Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington}}. Thank you for your continued participation in Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User. xenocidic (talk) 19:57, 1 May 2008 (UTC) |
