User talk:Spiesr

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia

Hello, Spiesr, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• Tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions.

Thank you for having joined the South Dakota WikiProject. If you should have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to leave a message on the project page or contact me directly on my talk page here. We in the project are very happy you joined and want to thank you for having done so.

Again, welcome!  Badbilltucker 21:31, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TRM18

Hello, This is TRM18 and I am working on the Watertown, SD page. I am a student for Northern State University and this page is my assignment for the final. I am only trying to help the page and I would hope that if you have any concerns regarding this page that you email me (trmischke@wolves.northern.edu) telling me what you feel is needed. Thank you!

I am deleting the information and then within the next couple of days I am redoing the pages. I feel that I can do this because I have created the pages. Thank you for your concern, TRM18TRM18

OK, seriously, what is your problem?! Are you so insecure that you need to go around and delete everyone else's information just to make yourself feel better? Wow, that's really pathetic. What my fellow classmates have posted is excellent, factual information that I believe benefits the pages. I am sorry if I am being a little harsh, but someone should go out and play a little game of "hide-and-go fuck yourself". --Halo2 Gamer 17:35, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

• What exactly did I delete?Spiesr 20:32, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

It's an uphill battle keeping the Aberdeen page encyclopedic. I'm beginning to wonder if we need to request semi-protection for it. ObtuseAngle 21:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

• Just protecting it from the NSU students and their IP address would propably do it. They have claimed that they have to do this for a class, so theat will be the only real way to stop them. Spiesr 21:16, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

• The request for protection died due to no response. Spiesr 15:52, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Very grateful for all your work

The Exceptional Newcomer award is designed to go to those newcomers whose work has been, you guessed it, exceptional. You've been doing an extraordinary amount of work on the South Dakota articles lately. I know that there has been some controversy regarding it, but from what I've seen what you've been doing is upholding the standards and guidelines of wikipedia, which is a good thing. Thanks for all the work, and I do mean all the work. The project wouldn't be working at all without your extraordinary effort. Badbilltucker 16:38, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Using the "Username" templates

It's best to "subst:" the username templates:

{{subst:UsernameConcern|reason for objection}}

{{subst:UsernameDiscussion}}

{{subst:UsernameAllowed}}

Typing something into that "reason for objection" space tells the user just what you find worrisome about the name, like "Bitches" is considered a rude and insulting word, definitely not a good thing in usernames.

I have now taken the liberty to re-edit User talk:Duesh is back bitches to add the "subst:" but did not add a reason.

One advantage of "subst:" is that when that user edits the page to reply, the full text of your message (not just the template tag) will be visible in edit mode, so he can reply point by point if he likes.

Also note that the template will add the four-tildes signature for you, so you needn't add it yourself. This is explained on the template's page. -- Ben 08:35, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] South Dakota Counties

Hello.

Thank you for adding infoboxes to South Dakota's counties, but please use the latest {{Infobox U.S. County}} infobox. The infobox you're adding has, among other things, unneeded "map" and "map size" variables. Additionally, the newer template is much easier to use: just copy/paste from {{Infobox U.S. County}}.

Thanks again for your work. /Timneu22 00:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bite the hand that helps you!

The Nobel prize theft is real story, buy a newspaper to see it or visit the web: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/03/07_nobel.shtml

You are rude to delete good information I added, this is typical arrogant american behaviour. This is why we europeans want the gun-slinging yankee to go home, because you have no respect like citizens should have among each other. It is a shame and destroys wikipedia. 82.131.210.162 10:10, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

• See here. Spiesr 16:47, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. Your contributions make Wikipedia better -- thanks for helping.

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please tell me on SuggestBot's talk page. Thanks from ForteTuba, SuggestBot's caretaker.

P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on the SuggestBot request page. If this was in error, sorry about the confusion. -- SuggestBot 04:26, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] South dakota senate election 2008

hello- i would like to know y u keep taking off the potential canidates on this page.-Politics rule 3:37 pm est.

• Just as I said on the articles talk page I removed it because it was poorly written and not sourced. Spiesr 22:20, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
• Sorry, i did not look there. I am just happy you care about wikipedia. You may leave concerns on my talk page if anymore issues come up.Politics rule8:12am est.-4/17/2007.

[edit] Hi, this is John Mink (CyArk intern)

Hello, I would like to ask why it is that you removed the external links for CyArk on various Wikipedia pages, including Deadwood and Salvador De Bahia. Cyark is a nonprofit hi-definition heritage network employing 3D laser scanning at UNESCO sites worldwide for educational purposes, and has partnerships with prominent University and national institutions worldwide including UC Berkeley in California, University of Ferrara in Italy, ITABC, American Museum of Natural History, etc. (please see http://archive.cyark.org/partners.php for a complete list). It is a legitimate, noncommercial, archival site with a tremendous amount of information that could benefit those seeking further information on endangered sites. As a UC Berkeley undergraduate and a CyArk intern, I have taken it upon myself to provide wikipedia links because I believe the organization's mission is appropriate to an encyclopedic setting, and not simply an advertisement - there is nothing to sell, and the images are under creative commons licenses.

I would very much like an explanation for your cursory edits, particularly as you left links such as this one: http://www.marcioguide.com/ (under the heading "Salvador Bahia") which is an advertising page for a taxi operator. Did you even look at the CyArk site? I feel that hasty actions such as yours in this matter continue to endanger the legitimacy of Wikipedia as a site that is taken seriously by the academic community. Thanks, I look forward to your explanation.

Please note that this (and similar) responses were written by me as an individual on my own computer on my own time, and do not reflect official policy of CyArk or its affiliates. I have been a wikipedia user for a long time, though not an active editor, and grow weary with thousands of external links to commercial travel sites and the like which are never edited out, while legitimate educational resources are. For further reference, if you look at the Tikal page there is an article which has been linked for a long time http://vrm.vrway.com/issue24/SHOOTING_THE_MAYAN_PYRAMIDS_OF_TIKAL_FOR_UNESCO.html about the work CyArk does. There are also several links on the page to commercial travel sites seeking to sell tour packages, which I took the libery of pointing out were commercial sites.

I apologize for the exasperated tone of these messages, but I am a person who would really like to see wikipedia be a more legitimate source for academics as well as casual users. To reiterate, I feel that removing links to relevant major university-affiliated sites, including ones posted by enthusiastic student interns with knowledge of what they are talking about, undermines this potential. Thanks for listening.

--John Mink, Cyark intern —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.105.44.107 (talk) 05:09, 18 April 2007 (UTC).

Spiesr wrote (on Cyark's talk page): "I suggest that you read WP:SPAM. I deleted these links because they promote a service/product. (Nonprofit or not that is still spam.)) If they had been on a page which they had relevant information for, such as an article about the service itself, they could have stayed, but they did not contain relevant information about the articles from which they were removed. Spiesr 16:44, 18 April 2007 (UTC)"

Hello,

Thank you for the response. With all due respect, however, these links are not spam. There is no specific promotion of a service/product, there is nothing to sell through the site - all the images are under creative commons licenses for public and educational use. Cyark is supported by grants from national institutions, NGOs, site authorities, and educational institutions. People are paid to perform the work, but people are paid to perform academic research as well - and the pay for Cyark work comes from the same sources that power academic research, primarily public ones. By your logic, all academic research is also promoting a service/product, and in this case the product is knowlegdge and unfiltered information. If you really wish to exclude professional academic research and knowledge production from wikipedia, including that which is freely available to the public, then what is left?

Enthusiastic amateur sites, such as the one you left up for Tikal at http://www.authenticmaya.com/authentic_maya.htm, are still used as promotional sites (in this case, to sell rum and site tours) and, in addition, do not even have trasparency as to their affiliations and references. In short, they are not academic, though they may be adequate. Even "official" government sites, such as the national park of Tikal site, are involved in selling a promotion or service - getting tourists to visit the site.

Again, I'm not sure you even looked at the links I put up, but they led to sites with nothing but a series of enlargeable thumbnails containing detailed architectural, photographic, three-dimensional, and panoramic images of the park with commentary from site authorities and academic researchers. There was no service for sale, there is no "product" per se beyond publicly available archival information, and the direct links I put up did not even have any indication of the identity of Cyark or its mission unless you chose to search to the root website - mainly because Cyark's purpose is education and the application of new technologies (that we do not sell) in its service, not moneymaking. I would like to put these links back up because I feel they would be of use to those who wish to gain access to detailed archival images and maps of these World Heritage Sites, and I feel these are relevant links to the sites themselves. I would, however, be happy to remove the reference to Cyark in the links themselves and simply refer to them as Mapping, Hi-Definition Data Capture, Photographic, Panoramic, and 3D Imaging sites.

--John Mink, Cyark Intern (I am using the Cyark wikipedia ID to afford a measure of transparency)

• Fine, put the links back up. On a differnt note, remeber to sign messages on talk pages by typing ~~~~ as this links to your userpage. Spiesr 22:13, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, much obliged. I will pay more attention to proper process in the future. Cyark 00:10, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hill City South Dakota

Thank you for editing the Points of Interest section on the Hill City South Dakota page, I am new to Wikipedia and have just started figuring out all the the tricks of the trade. Feel free to do more editing of this page in the future. Although Hill City is a small town it has a lot of character - and hey its where I grew up! Lmielke359 14:52, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I am wondering if you can take a look at the Hill City, South Dakota page and let me know what is good and what should go. I have included every topic that I can think of. Things that still could be done are the adding of picures and the using books as sources - right now I only have websites as sources. Soon I will be ready to tackle bigger projects - like the Black Hills page. Thanks. Lmielke359 00:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bob Barker

The manual of style makes Wikipedia's policies regarding date linking very clear. Likewise, fair use image policies are clear as well. If you would like to discuss either of these further, that would be great, but do not re-add the show image or remove date links again. Rklawton 19:20, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

If you continue to revert appropriate edits - especially without discussing them - I will block you from editing. Rklawton 19:22, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Here's the section reference for autolinking dates.[1] The reason we autolink dates is to allow international readers to view a date in their local format. Rklawton 19:32, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman

I edited his page to say he had fallen ill and you reverted it. Why can't you leave well-meaning edits alone? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.228.151.114 (talk) 04:45, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

• I reverted your edit because "reports on the Internet have surfaced" sounds like speculation. Spiesr 14:27, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Welcome

Thanks! Lu Ta 20:11, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

What page are you talking about where I did this? I never just post links, I always do the titling. Please tell me and i'll fix it. Writer1400 (talk) 16:27, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't know how to do that though, can you show me or could you do it yourself? Writer1400 (talk) 17:14, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Baan Dek Montessori

We are new to Wiki but quite curious as to why you decided to delete The Baan Dek Montessori from the list of Sioux Falls, South Dakota private schools. The Baan Dek Montessori is the first and only accredited Montessori school in the history of the state of South Dakota and should be included on the list. Please feel free to talk to discuss this further... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dreamduke (talk • contribs) 18:34, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reported for vandalism

You have been reported for vandalism against custerwest.org's history portal on several occasions. Custerwest (talk) 19:33, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

• First I have a question. Where am I reported for vandalism? I checked your contributions and did not see it anywhere. Second, you statement says I have committed vandalism against custerwest.org, I don't see how this is possible as in order to do that I would have to go to that website and vandalize something there, which I have not. The only place where I could have committed vandalism is Wikipedia, and any such vandalism would be against Wikipedia itself and not another entity. Spiesr (talk) 19:41, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
  • I realized after reading some of your edit summaries that instead of saying "reported" you should probably be saying "reverted". Just a thought. Spiesr (talk) 19:57, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] djhd

Can you let me know why the Tableau Software page was deleted? It is a Business Intelligence company and I wanted to include it on the list of BI products —Preceding unsigned comment added by Djhd (talk • contribs) 20:24, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

• It was delted because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam. Spiesr (talk) 20:26, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

• How is that different from the other 29 companies that are listed here: Business_intelligence_tools? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.248.129.126 (talk) 02:18, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

• • Unlike the other pages this page appeared to be essantially an ad. Also I do not have the power to delete pages only admins can do that. Your page was actually deleted by User: WBOSITG. I just tagged the page as a canidate for deletion as it appeared to be a page for promotional purposes. Your statements about the company have no relation to the decision if the article would be kept. If you want to have the deletion reconsidered you can try a deletion review. Spiesr (talk) 13:40, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Magillem page deletion

Hello, Magillem page I created was deleted straightforward without any chance to add deeper content. Why?

• As you can see in IP-XACT, 2 companies out of 15 don't have their page despite they are contributing members of the standard.

• I expected other people working in Academic Institutions or big companies from the semiconductor industry to let some interesting data

• Besides their commercial product, they have several non-profit partnerships and programs: R&D Programs, Academic Programs, European Projects. They are steering contributing member of The SPIRIT Consortium.

• Their core platform is given almost for free. Customers are only paying for services building custom business layers on the top of their core platform. I don't know lot of companies "giving" their core technology. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bblanc (talk • contribs) 22:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

• • First of all I do not have the power to delete pages only admins can do that. Your page was actually deleted by User:Discospinster. I just tagged the page as a canidate for deletion as it appeared to be a page for promotional purposes. Your statements about the company have no relation to the decision if the article would be kept. If you want to have the deletion reconsidered you can try a deletion review. Spiesr (talk) 13:36, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

• • • All commercial companies having a page on wikipedia are there for promotional purposes, aren't they? For example in the 13 presented in IP-XACT, I didn't see any non-profitable purposed company. Magillem only sales service, it's their business and I don't really care. I'm interesting in sharing information I find useful to share with others from my standpoint, especially their involvement in Academic Programs which helps a lot in IP-XACT works.
    • My statements above are what I would have been pleased to argue, if I had the chance to. I didn't have this chance: this is strange to me for an open community to avoid dialog using administrating rights to delete pages without notification.
    • Thanks a lot for the tip to get the page reconsidered :)
    • Bertrand Blanc (talk) 18:12, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion review for Magillem Design Services

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Magillem Design Services. 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. Bertrand Blanc (talk) 19:25, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] My article

It is a notable published fanzine, and just because you are some american that hasn't heard of it doesn't mean it isn't notable! it is notable over in England, and articles of other fanzines go untouched such as The Mag and NUFC.com. Mackemfixer (talk) 14:38, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

• If it really is notable you need to provide references to prove notability. Spiesr (talk) 14:47, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Geminate

Dear user,
A few ago I have created a page for "Geminate Recombination". This is a very important kinetic theory, that is widely used by scientists.
Indeed, my version of the page was poorest possible, but as I stated - this is just to prepare the ground for my future editing this topic, thus including this theory at Wikipedia.
HOWEVER, you chose to ignore this and marked this page for deletion, without even waiting one week to see how this page will evolve!
It can very well be that, technically, this was a "good" deletion (which currently this topic does not appear at all at Wikipedia!) and I will gracefully accept your, unthoughtful, speedy and un-needed, request for deletion.
As you wish. I will not appeal the decision, nor will I take the time to create a solid page for this value.
Cheers, Omer. (user: omermar, date 18/5/08).
BTW - feel free to google "geminate recombination" to see how many research papers use it. Maybe next time you could give others some credit?
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Omermar (talk • contribs) 09:08, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

I ended up deleting the article, and have explained the rationale for the tag and deletion on the user's talk page. I also moved this comment to the bottom of your talk page, in cronological order. Best, UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 00:46, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Are you the guy who put the deletion thing on User:The SRS/SIGGY! ?

SRS here. Did you put the speedy deletion thing on User:The SRS/SIGGY!? THat was my new signature page! You're lucky SimonKSK remade it, dude. Anyway, if you're the guy who did it, be sure to let me know if one of my pages was nominated for deletion! Later :-|  THE $R$  Habla!  ^Hancock  03:12, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

• I tagged The SRS/SIGGY not User:The SRS/SIGGY! becuase it was in the article namespace. I warned put a warning on User talk:SimonKSK the creater of the article. Spiesr (talk) 14:56, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Worth Mitchell to afd

I sent this to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Worth Mitchell, as I think it almost asserts notability and I would like others to make sure. I did not see the vandalism, though. Would appreciate your perspective on deletion. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 18:19, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jesse

How is Jesse Hodges an inappropriate subject? He is a person who is going to sell millions of records after he wins American Idol in 2010!! It's not like there is any bad stuff in there. It is all true. He has a lot of fans including me! HE IS A REAL PERSON!!! I have pictures of him!!! Hannah Montana94 (talk) 01:59, 23 May 2008 (UTC)Hannah Montana94

[edit] aLIVE and hostile e.p.

Hi, listen I dont know why you want to delete my page on Pantera's aLIVE and hostile e.p. Its a very important release and one of the rarestat that. It is very often searched but there really isn't that much info about it online. With that said I ask you please not to delete it. If you can see any way of making it better then please let me know as im very grateful for any help, thanks LambOfLucifer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LambOfLucifer (talk • contribs) 12:26, 5 June 2008 (UTC)