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Speedy deletion of M. Maurice Hawkesworth

A tag has been placed on M. Maurice Hawkesworth requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

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Explain to me how you come to the astonishing conclusion that a producer and songwriter who worked with severel of Denmark's biggest bands and made two albums that were chosen as among the year's ten best albums by the country's biggest radio station is not notable! --Minutae (talk) 00:29, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Said the Shark

A tag has been placed on Said the Shark requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for musical topics.

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Sytten

Hi, Minutae. Thanks for your edits on the Sytten article. It's usually better to add remarks to an article's talk page rather than leave them hidden in the text. Most editors won't find those hidden comments, whereas the talk page promotes discussion. Actually, next time, feel free to be bold and add corrections and references. Cheers — CactusWriter | ^needles 20:09, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Point taken and duly noted, thanks! --Minutae (talk) 23:37, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Masturbate-a-thon deletions

Hi, until you can provide reliable sources to support to content you wish to insert we need to stay with the reliably sourced content we have. I'm quite happy to discuss how sections could be reworked but simply mass reverting numerous changes to a less acceptable varsion is considered vandalism. If you continue you may be blocked. Please discuss any reliable sources you have on the talkpage before reinserting. Thank you. -- Banjeboi 01:18, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

In fact you are the one who is basing massive edits on wild, completely unsupported speculations and hence you are the one who will be blocked! --Minutae (talk) 15:07, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm citing the actual group website which coordinates the event and keeps records and posts the world records. That is among the best sourcing available. You are welcome to try to have me blocked but it would likely be wiser to simply work on finding reliable sources to support the content you wish to add. -- Banjeboi 17:24, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

You've cited a website which perhaps claims to keep and post records, but doesn't seem up to the task. In the present case, a more reliable source is available if you understand Danish. It's hardly unique for Americans not to know what's going on in Europe. I've replied in more detail at the article in question. --Minutae (talk) 22:06, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

That website is the group that started and coordinates all the events; they page currently lists an upcoming event for the end of July. It would seem to be a regularly updated site. And now that I've searched just for Copenhagen information I see that the record is not 222 times but 94; and "come to come" is about how far a participant travelled to get to the event. I'm removing those as unneeded trivia. -- Banjeboi 11:14, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Clearly you are doing incredibly bad research: The 94 number is from 2008, the 2009 number is 222, look again! The "come to come" issue has nothing to do with me. --Minutae (talk) 11:51, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

If you can direct me where on the Masturbate-a-thon.com website the 222 orgasm record in Copenhagen is cited I will be quite happy to reconsider - on Wikipedia we go by verifiability not truth. -- Banjeboi 23:34, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

I've replied on the article's discussion page. Please go there. On my discussion page, we go by the truth. --Minutae (talk) 22:51, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Since the above discussion, the official US Masturbate-a-thon website has been updated, confirming that my claims and edits were 100% correct. I've updated the Wikipedia article accordingly. Funny how people who scream loud threats about blocking me invariably turn out to be in error. --Minutae (talk) 11:25, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Maya Ababadjani

Hi, Minutae. I noticed your comment at the Porn project on the deletion of this article. It's pointless to try to get any kind of sympathetic reaction from the Porn project-- They're the people to go to for help in deleting something. I trust what you say about the subject, and a look at the AfD shows its closing was absolutely ludicrous-- besides the nominator, who is on a self-announced "Crusade" to delete porn-bio articles,[1] (though he's deleted FAR less than the leading voices at the Porn project, which is very telling) there was input from only one editor, and that was a "Keep".I must have looked at a different AfD closing here, not this one And no concession was made that the subject is outside the Anglosphere, and that foreign language sourcing may have been available. Anyway, I think your best bet is to forget about getting any help from the Wiki-bureaucracy-- they're the people who created this absurd situation where articles on notable subjects are routinely thrown out-- and just put together whatever good sources you have, write your own well-sourced article showing the subject's notability, and post it. Regards. Dekkappai (talk) 03:24, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying that, it's all news to me, very interesting and good to know! --Minutae (talk) 10:32, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

No problem, Minutae. When I first came here I saw similar things going on with the Japanese industry, so I just made it my pet project. You might want to do that with the Danish, if it's of enough interest to you. Cheers! Dekkappai (talk) 14:10, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maya Ababadjani (3rd nomination). Spartaz ^Humbug! 04:29, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of mainstream films with unsimulated sex

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Thanks for the heads-up! --Minutae (talk) 21:59, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Minutae! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 937 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

1. Marcelle Perks - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
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January 2010

Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did to Pubococcygeus muscle. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. You were told multiple times *NOT* to add the information, as it is not within the consensus in the talk page. —Duncan (that's me!)^{What I Do} / _{What I Say} 15:03, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Calm down, hothead, it's not unsourced, it's just that Nutriveg has trouble with the English language. I was in the process of making the sourcing even more obvious, so that even Nutriveg can understand it, when you interfered! --Minutae (talk) 15:14, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Besides, Nutriveg is referring to "rules" that don't exist. To my knowledge, he holds no authority here. --Minutae (talk) 15:25, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Excuse me, but who does hold authority here in your eyes? And why are you blatantly attacking him? "...trouble with the English language?" Calling me "hothead?" Perhaps someone with "authority" can point you in the right direction. Would you like to bother the arbitration committee? How about the Jimbo? Go ahead and read this and maybe you can post a more non-attacking version of your commentary later on. —Duncan (that's me!)^{What I Do} / _{What I Say} 17:19, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm calling you a hothead, Duncan, because you make comments on cases before bothering to look properly into them. There was no unsourced or original content, as you claimed. And noting that communicating issues arise because a user has trouble both understanding and writing English is not an attack, it's simply a statement a fact. Facts seems to be something you don't focus on much, but I've no doubt there are many rules and principles you and others can hide behind to prevent you from dealing with that sort of criticism. All things considered, calling you a hothead was the polite version. --Minutae (talk) 10:09, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Right. Well, I am not interested in anymore of your rambles. If you indeed have a problem with the way we come to agreement around here, then that's something you need to discuss elsewhere. For the record, I do not appreciate being called a hothead, nor do I think it is appropriate for you to think the articles are not important. I suggest that you harmoniously appease the situation next time by just simply being civil. Thanks. —Duncan (that's me!)^{What I Do} / _{What I Say} 16:18, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

If you stop making fly-by edits and hurling unsupported accusations at people, I'd have less reason for calling you a hothead. As for "simply being civil", you still haven't apologized for accusing me of adding unsourced content, when in fact I had added four sources for just two lines of uncontroversial information (a movie plot) and even added a fifth source, much more than is normal for such information here at Wikipedia. --Minutae (talk) 11:19, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Edit warring at Pubococcygeus muscle

Please see the result of WP:AN3#User:Minutae reported by User:Nutriveg (Result: Protected). The warring in this case was quite blatant; please don't make a habit of it. See WP:Dispute resolution for some better ideas. EdJohnston (talk) 07:15, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

At the AN3 report, Nutriveg has claimed that three other editors support excluding the material, and you are the only one in favor. In that case, please consider dropping the matter. If you agree to stop the war, the article can be unprotected. EdJohnston (talk) 15:47, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Actually, only two people were arguing against me, one more or less agreed to let my edit remain after I took his criticism into account and rephrased it accordingly, the other used completely bogus arguments, calling my one example a "list of trivia" etc. I can find no mention of this discussion on the page you link to. My edit was factually correct, sourced and in line with tradition at Wikipedia. So now a majority of two can overturn everything Wikipedia stands for? --Minutae (talk) 10:46, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

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