I just reverted the anon mostly-blanking of that page, and your cleanup template came off. Think it needs to go back on?--SarekOfVulcan 02:15, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!--DarkEvil 04:17, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi,
my name is Federico (alias Pain) and I am creating a section for nominating th best user page, I was wondering if you were interested in joining the project.
The project has just started, and we need help to spread the word and ameliorate it.
I want to sincerely thank you for voting on my adminship nomination. Whenever I mess up, please let me know. I want to learn from my mistakes so they don't become patterns. Superm401 - Talk 05:10, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much for your support during my recent Admin election, I appreciate the trust that you have put in me. Please contact me if you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding my work as an admin.
Kind Regards, Elf-friend 07:38, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I totally agree with her now and I'm not argueing at all and after I saved page about the vote I thought why on earth am I putting this so I pressed the back button until it was gone then switched off the computer; it obviosly didn't work. Sorry about the hassle, you and Hermione have my apologies, also shall we delete the whole heading as it has nothing to do with Harry Potter? One last thing, could you help out at the Harry Potter Wiki? It's a fan club for Harry Potter fans on Wikipedia that I recently joined but where running low on editors for it. To get to Harry Potter Wiki, type Harry Potter Wiki on google and it's the first one that comes up. Thanks. Daniel Omy talk. 18:45, 22 February 2006 (UTC) P.S. You may see that I've changed my signature so it's all colourfull, if you want to know how, just ask me on my talk page.
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Hi DeathPhoenix I too am a tad confused now..... what happened to my edit? I hacked at the text and removed all the crap (as in my earlier post above on the 21st Feb) after I clicked save on my edit I came straight here to put it on the talk page. I'm now back after a 3 day wikibreak and find no sign of my Feb 21st edit in the history and therefore you ended up having to do the pruning yourself even though I had already stated I had done it (penny has now dropped why you asked what i had pruned). EH? oh well it's all sorted now and good work on the merger. Death Eater Dan 18:39, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It is okay. Thank you for your apology; I believe this entire situation was an misunderstanding from the start and I am slightly dissapointed Moby brought it to AN/I for review. I really attempt to be honest about everything I do here on wikipedia, and would just appreciate if he had assumed good faith.
That said, I sincerly hope he holds no anomosity towards me any longer, and I am glad that this is cleared up, I dislike having bad relationships with my colleages. Also, I've spied your name around quite a bit, but neglected to actually talk with you. Its nice to meet you. -ZeroTalk 18:05, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It looks somewhat problematic to me. The target article doesn't contain the term at all, making it something of a "mystery redirect"; it only gets about 370 unique google hits (certainly often cited as evidence of a term not being well-known in certain other contexts); one of the "redirects" was specifically conditional on the citation of a scholarly use of the term, which as far as I know, wasn't forthcoming. Also, it should be at the abstract noun, rather than adj/individual noun, if anything. I'm not arguing for nothing but strict vote-counting, but if the well-argued and per-policy opinions for "delete" greatly outnumber the well-argued and per policy opinions for anything else put together... Personally, I'd delete as per about 80% of the original debatees, certainly if there's not a more helpful target for a redirect. If recreation is the main problem, protect as deleted. Alai 16:17, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Can't say fairer than that; thanks. Alai 18:24, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Greetings! Congratulations on making sense of the awful Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Let's Boogie For Jesus! for which I apologise. Once the {{prod}} had been removed from Let's Boogie for Jesus! I felt they all had to be nominated together, but with hindsight I would have done it somewhat differently. It wasn't helped by a real-life interruption which meant there was a delay between my afd creation and the nomination of the rest of the articles. However, I think you got it just right. Regards, --RobertG ♬ talk 15:55, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I add my thanks for the Solomonic closing. Carlossuarez46 02:00, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
As you know, the reward for doing good work on Wikipedia is .... more work! As Phoenix is now a disambiguation page, it gives me great and perverse joy to assign you and Evilphoenix the joint task of clearing the disambig links to that page, and keeping it link free. Cheers! BD2412T 04:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'd just like to chime in here and let you know that I actually disagree with the choice to make Phoenix a disambig page, and I'd like to ask you to offer your opinion as well on Talk:Phoenix. ËvilphoenixBurn! 05:57, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Hi Deathphoenix/Archive4 thank you for your support in my Rfa! It passed with a final tally of 86/0/0. If you need help or just want to talk let me know! Again, thank you! – Dakota~° 16:11, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
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The link to the page is,Here, farther down the picture is labeled c10-luna-lovegood. That is the picture. if you think its too blurry or something please tell me because the other picture might be better. There are some pretty good pictures on the page, if you see any others, feel free to take a look at them. Thanks an advance, IamHermionie 19:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC
I saw your edit at this page's talk page. I already sent User:GregAsche a message about this, but it looks like has has gone for the evening (and it seems you have too, for that matter). Based on your comment about an AfD being in order, I'm assuming you don't think the extra page at Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Summary should be speedily deleted. I agree that it doesn't seem to meet WP:CSD, but I wasn't sure if it could be deleted under WP:IAR or WP:UCS. Either way, I have WP:PRODed the page, and I suspect that no one would object to this being deleted. Let me know what you think about this matter, as I'm trying to get a firm grasp of policy in borderline cases such as this. Thanks for all your help! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 06:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Deathphoenix I've replied on my talk page. I think you may be mistaken - I was not an admin at the time, so I wouldn't dream of closing an AFD. I was being bold as an editor, that's all. I am an admin now, but only since earlier today. (If a reply is needed, please leave it at my Talk. Cheers!) --kingboyk 22:07, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
May I ask how you reached a "no consensus" from the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Problem Reaction Solution? From my count of the votes 14 deletes and 7 keeps (one being from the author himself) and the user has created his own Wikiproject to try and save his articles from deletion and has also gone around asking people in talk pages for keep votes.--Jersey Devil 04:19, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Most of what was posted there was technical matters, such as when the HTML Tidy program had failed, which may have initiated 1,000s of vandalisim reports, since it fouled up 1,000s of user pages, etc.
Martial Law 20:12, 7 March 2006 (UTC) :)[reply]
We've just double closed two AfDs. One we both said to delete, but the other you said keep I said delete... - brenneman{T}{L} 00:49, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
On GMax it was "You then me", on rainbow radio it was "Me you me". Niether time did I get an edit conflict, by the way. I only noticed the Maxwell one when I saw your notice on the talk page. I've corrected the double div on the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Radio Rainbow page. - brenneman{T}{L} 00:55, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hey fellow Phoenix. Since you maintain the Harry Potter Watchlist, you might be interested in my new toy, Category:WikiProject Harry Potter articles, a automagically created list of all articles tagged with {{HP-project}}. Cheers!
Hi Deathphoenix, got your name from the "user restore" category. Can you get me the name of the closing admin on the recent speedy close of Carrie Dashow? I want to ask him (nicely of course) to restore it send it to Prod instead, I see it as marginal and not a proper speedy. Herostratus 14:42, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Ah, I see your point and thanks for the history. Rather than bothering him I'll just put it my to-do list to see if she's worth an actual article and write it if she is..Herostratus 15:29, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
My RfA recently closed and it was a success, passing at 84-02-00. I would like to thank you for taking the time to weigh in and on your subsequent support. And I know it's quite cliche, but if you ever need any assistance and/or want another opinion on something, grab a Pepsi and don't hesitate to drop me a line on my talk page. Thanks again and thanks for defending Pepsi. If there were a "Defender of the Pepsi barnstar", I would award it to you. Pepsidrinka 04:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well thanks for taking the time to reply, but personally I think you are setting the bar pretty low on civility if you found my comment here to be offensive. Eusebeus 21:26, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind lending your opinion to a content dispute that I am currently involved in on University of South Carolina. USC has a strong athletic rivalry with Clemson University. I feel that the athletics section of the article should discuss this rivalry, and I feel that this discussion should include a reference to the overall record between the two schools in various major sports. Other editors have disagreed, and feel that the record should not be mentioned. As it happens, Clemson leads in two of the discussed sports and USC leads in the third. I would appreciate it if you would consider lending your opinion on this issue on Talk:University of South Carolina. Thanks! ËvilphoenixBurn! 00:43, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your participation in the discussion. However, an anon has removed the section that deals with the rivalry and the record of the rivalry. I maintain this section should be left in the article, however I don't wish to personally continue edit warring. I was wondering if you would consider visiting the discussion again, and if you would consider replacing the information in the article? Thank you again, and I greatly value your contribution to this discussion. ËvilphoenixBurn! 23:04, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
He beyond notable... I really don't understand why.
Due the change in his career and the fact that people couldn't be sure that he was actually in the Film Freedom Writers i think it's safe to say that he should have another article made. He has his own IMDB 1, the name "Parys Sylver" now get's over 12,000 google hits 2 He is working on a book about The Hayden Christensen and Trevor Blumas connection 3. He is indeed bigger than other people who have articles. Such as [Staylefish] which i have noticed also has and article.
Thank you for your support vote on my RFA. The final result was a successful request based on 111 support and 1 oppose. --CBDunkerson 13:24, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
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A character at 204.169.120.9 has just vandalized the Bill Tilden page. I've corrected it. You'd think this guy would learn, especially since he was once banned (and warned by you). Best. Hayford Peirce 16:43, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the info about the school vandals -- I see what you mean. Geez, as if life wasn't complicated enough as it is, hehe.... Hayford Peirce 17:40, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I'm planning on only forcing a few things through. But my fiance is pretty good, and luckily we have similar tastes! Good advice though :-) Ta bu shi da yu 07:50, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I understand that you prefer the manner in which you rendered [[Death Eater]]s. As for the idea that one way is more aesthetically pleasing than the other, I find that foolish. My edit was simply intended to bring the link in line with the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)#Form, which dictates that a redirect, in this case, is unnecessary. Guermantes 13:39, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
"You may find my opinion foolish, but I don't think the same of yours." If you don't stop this silliness I'm going to nominate you for a kindness award. =) Guermantes
Request to undelete entry from my userspace.[edit]
Hi, I hope I am doing this right, a wikipedia article was recently drafted about me and then deleted as I was not deemed notable; I was wondering if you could undelete from my userspace. The article is titled "joshua wolf" and my username is joshwolf -- thanks.
Hi Deathphoenix, I notice from some of the histories that you have contributed at some point to various David Eddings articles/discussions. So I just thought i'd point out to you the changes I have made to The Elenium. I would value your opinion, as I am slowly (very slowly, not enough time) trying to improve that and other Eddings articles further as they dont seem to have been getting alot of constructive input lately and most of them are pretty poor stubs. Anyway thanks, Death Eater Dan(Muahaha) 08:45, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, thanks for the help in regards to putting the article in my userspace... I'm curious as to whether my concerns regarding the fact that the article "Josh_Wolf" is a redirect to the Soccer player, "Josh Wolff" While I am perhaps not notable to warrent an entry into wikipedia, I do feel that I ought not to be relegated to the realm of an assumed typo regarding a soccer player. Your thoughts on this matter would be appreciated. Joshwolf 05:45, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, DeathPhoenix. I'm Daniel5127. I'm new member of Harry Potter Wikipedian. So, May I ask you something? How can I get banned-star from Harry Potter Wikipedia. Could you explain to me about Banned-Star? so that I could search someone who vandalizes the information, then I could get banned star. Please, It's very important. I have been jealous about him or her whoever. Anyways, Please Reply My question. OK? bye.
April 11, 17: 54, Written by Daniel5127.
Hi Deathphoenix, it's me Daniel5127. Thanks you for reply my question, and I had thought that gettinf banned star is from protecting vandalism. He or She changes anything as He or She wants. So, Thanks a lot. Is getting Banned Star from other Wikipedian if I do best things in Wikipedia?
April, 12, 2006, 15:45, Daniel5127
In recognition of an apparent lack of Vandal fighting Barnstars, I , Evilphoenix, hereby award Deathphoenix (no relation) this Flamethrower of Vandal Doom (+3 vs. Troll), for use in Vandal Whacking cleanup tasks. ËvilphoenixBurn! 06:20, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I've pulled out my personal Barnstar for you. I started giving these out to new Admins in CVU when I was more active in it a few months ago. There was a fun moment where I gave Drini one, then Titoxd (back during my days as an honorary member of the Mexi-Cabal, having not yet incorporated the Phoenix Cabal (subset of the Potter Cabal (shouts to Hermione1980))) got one. Then Essjay wandered in and stole Drini's Flamethrower +7 and put it on his own page, so since he wanted one, I gave him a Flamethrower -3, which was a photo of a match. It was a good day. If I weren't lazy I'd look up the diffs for you. Either way, you deserve it. Cheers! ËvilphoenixBurn! 06:20, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I actually didn't mean that there weren't enough vandal fighting Barnstars in general, just that you had a lack. Fixd. ËvilphoenixBurn! 16:08, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I hereby present Deathphoenix with the Nuclear Editing Award, for his willingness to eradicate unneeded verbiage. ËvilphoenixBurn! 19:09, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Death Phoenix. I haven't been able to write you back. Thanks you. I still look at someone who vandalises the article page. I have a question, do I have to leave the article only color has been changed? or Revert it. Because few Harry Potter Wikipedians change the color in the each Character's background color. Also, Do I have to tell him or her that Color is based on HP Template, if He/She changes the color? Thanks you for help my job to protect vandalism.
User:Daniel5127
He's going around blanking his own and others Talk pages while logged out, then immediately reverting it, then logging back in and claiming not to be that IP. Then leaves me a message on my Talk as himself. The edits bounce back and forth between accounts, there's got to be a connection. I'm utterly confused. ËvilphoenixBurn! 03:42, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That was my fault that I used Two IDs to vandalise the Wikipedian's own page(included Mine, and Evilphoenix(Administrator)). So, I realized that Wikipedia is very strict on editing and vandalism. Therefore, I'm going to use Wikipedia seriously on editing. Anyways, HAve a good day.^^
Daniel5127, 04:12, 21 April 2006(UTC).
Don't stay away too long mate. Anyway grumpiness is just the result of ones mind being busy contemplating other weightier issues and having little patience for trivial things, at least thats what I tell my wife when I grouch about having to do something and she calls me a grumpy old b*st*rd. :) Death Eater Dan(Muahaha) 08:04, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hey DP! I see you are on semi-Wikibreak — so it may be some time until you find this message. I knew I hadn't seen you around much at RfA, but had thought that it was just a coincidence that you hadn't been editing there. First, and most importantly (and a little late), I'd like to thank you for your kind words on my RfB. I decided to withdraw when it was halfway through with a consensus of ~55% (<sigh> the other time around I got canned at the end with a consensus of 80%...); I was also wondering: why did you decide to leave Esperanza? I was checking it today, thinking of joining, and when I saw your name in the list of former members, that got me thinking: why would DP decide to leave this? Is there anything I should know before thinking of joining?? And come back soon! Your friend, Redux 01:43, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Wow, that was quick! Nice to have you back, even if just part-time! Indeed, in my previous RfB I had received a considerably higher support when it was half way through, and, which is perhaps even more relevant when one needs consensus of 90%, a lot less opposition — that's really why I withdrew: although it was possible that I'd receive a lot more support in the four days I had left in my RfB, given the number of oppose votes already in, it would have been very, very difficult to attain the consensus necessary (I'd need ~150 supporting users, provided no one else opposed for the remainder of the time). Something must have jinxed me ;)... But once we've taken over the world, I'll just make myself über-Bureaucrat of all the wikis, and my army of sysops shall make me invincible!! [pause to breathe] Interesting what you said about Esperanza. It's got me wondering what exactly would I have to offer the project as well, apart from adding my name to a list. Not even my services as an Admin are really necessary, since there are already plenty of Admins on the list. But going back to where I can be of some use, I hope I'll see you at RfA, and I've also been meaning to go back to the Barnstar project — I imagine by now there must be lots of archiving to be done there. Thanks for the e-mail note, btw. And I've just set up an account for use on the project, although I haven't registered it yet. You'll be the first here to get it: reduxwikipedia at ig dot com dot br (just replace the words in italics with the actual symbols). Feel free to drop me a line there sometime! Redux 02:09, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Deathphoenix. It's me Daniel5127. Do you remember me? I still remember you.... I solved my problem with him(Him means Evilphoenix). So, Where have you been??? You have been taking Wiki Break? Ahh, I realized that Wikipedia is not Playground, it is serious encyclopedia, and it is also very strict on editing, and vandalizing. I think that Editing good article would be easy way to get Barn-Star. Sorry for making you angry about vandalism. I apologize for that. Nice to see you again.
Daniel5127, 06:09, 2 May 2006(UTC)
Hi, Deathphoenix. Is it sure that Andromeda Black was in Slytherin? Ahh, In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Book, Professor Slughorn(Potion Master, Head of Slytherin) told Harry that Rest of Black family were in Slytherin except Sirius Black(Gryffindor). I think Her house was Slytherin from Black family. Ahh there is also evidence about her house in the article Nymphadora Tonks's talk page. Anyways, Thanks for the message. Me too, I glad to see you again.
Daniel5127, 02:51, 4 May 2006(UTC)
Hi there, DP. I'm requesting an account at the Wikimedia Foundation website, and this needs to be approved by the Board of Trustees. In my request (here), I put you down as reference. I need to convince them that I'm not going to go crazy on the website (gee...). I hope you don't mind. Cheers, Redux 02:41, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much for taking the time to endorse my request DP! You can always count on good old Redux to get you work early on Saturday ;) Yeah, I must be a little crazy... basically I'm looking to establish the account so that I can do translations for the foundation when needed. But the Board needs to approve new accounts, so I must prove that I'm not going to delete the Foundation's website's Main Page. Again, thanks for taking some time to attest my mental sanity :) Cheers, Redux 18:07, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, deathphoenix. How are you doing? I'm so sorry that I haven't sent you message because I have been busy with my school work. Are you still working in Harry Potter articles? Right now, I work with Harry Potter article a little bit, not much. Today is my seventeenth birthday.
Daniel5127, 02:27, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
My signature gives the time zone as UTC, but that's not my time zone. The time of day it gives is incorrect for my time zone. Can you advise? Noneofyourbusiness 18:15, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Deathphoenix. I was curious about the closing of this AfD. I know the wording was somewhat confusing, but the majority of editors actually supported keeping the article, and merging the list at Italian-Americans TO this page. I understand that it's not a vote and that the consensus is up to the closing admin, but perhaps this is just a case of misreading the comments (I know I did the first time around). Let me know what you think. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 01:50, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like i'm not the only one wondering about the closing of a recent AfD :)
I don't have a huge stake in the article or anything... before today i've never even saw the article, but I do have to wonder how you came to the conclusion to close the AfD through a "no consensus" especially as a clear majority voted to delete the article because of lack of notability (4 to 1). I'm wondering if somehow you weren't thrown off by seeing that the only person who voted to "Keep" (User:Bacmac) the article voted 3 times to Keep and added 4 "Comments" which makes the AfD look like its being debated back and forth by several editors for the article. Anyhow, like I said, I'm just curious, sincerly, i'm not being sarcastic, haha, i don't really have anything to gain with the article being deleted or kept one way or the other. Ok well... thanks--Adrift* 02:27, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hey no problem. I figured it could get confusing.--Adrift* 02:32, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oops, I meant BMurray, apparently you figured it out (sorry Bacmac wherever you are).--Adrift* 02:36, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
My pleasure--Adrift* 03:37, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I don't understand, can you explain how many votes were for which? -- - K a s h Talk | email 12:54, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I dont agree at ALL. How was the consensus keep? how did "The result of the debate was Keep." I dont agree with your decision at all. How did you come in to that decision? -- - K a s h Talk | email 14:02, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Lol so the votes are the same, there should be "no consensus" not "result of the debate was keep" -- - K a s h Talk | email 14:21, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting. Well, thanks for your clarification, but sadly this is just stupid I can't believe some people didn't bother to read the nomination and just voted Keep for the sake of it.-- - K a s h Talk | email 14:55, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Why the AFD reversal? It was 4:2, and none of the incoming links are aimed at any extant article other than the comics character (and one's a dicdef going to a redirect (against WP:D guidelines) and one's a band that any reference to can go under {{db-band}} - SoM 17:23, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, could please reason your decision to delete the article on the "Focus-Metaphor" ?
Have you read the discussion completely?
I cannot really understand how you decided to delete this. Early "delete" votes in the discussion were based on an early version of the article which has been adapted/altered to meet the requirements set by wikipedia.
By the end of the discussion it should have come more cleary that this is a worthy article for wikipedia.
Please reason your decision.
I also would like to make the comment that I cannot really understand how people can judge the deletion of such an article who have no understanding of the topic what so ever. Clearly, an article describing a novel scientific method in computer science can not really be judged by e.g. a 16 year old. Basing a decision for deletion of an article on people's decisions who just vote for the sake of it is not really fair in my opinion. Moreoever again, these votes were based on an early version that has been changed to fit to wikipedia policies.
Please feel free to reply to my email as well.
thanks, Sven laqua. (email: slaqua@gmail.com)--Slaqua 00:17, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Xaxafrad, I know you're trying to be helpful, but please do not merge content to other articles while an AfD is in progress. The consensus turned out to be a delete, and since you merged content, it would violate GFDL to do so. I will now have to delete the Street cricket article and selectively restore all but your edits. This is going to be very difficult to do. Please take a look here for a list of things you can do while an article is undergoing an AfD. Thanks, Deathphoenix ʕ 15:06, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for the misconduct. I'll refrain from bold actions like that in the future. I guess I'm more of an inclusionist. So, since the consensus was for "delete", what's this business about violating the GFDL? How does one violate the GFDL by deleting content that was moved from one article to another? You could've just deleted the list item and two references that I added to street cricket. Maybe it was too much work for you to look at the history and compare the differences I made. I would've fixed it myself if you had asked (apparently, somewhere between one half and two thirds of wikipedians would rather tell somebody what they did wrong, rather than just fixing the problem; you're the first person to do something to the edits I made, rather than simply sending me a message about what I should do to fix the bad changes I made).
Why did you have to delete the whole street cricket article because I merged in content which should've been deleted? "Selectively restore"? I haven't heard that phrase thrown around wikipedia yet. Does that mean you compared the differences between all the edits made since my edit, and then reinstated the genuine, non-vandal edits? In my efforts to figure out what you did, it seems you covered your tracks pretty well (at least, this newbie can't find the bread crumbs). The history for street cricket seems to be corrupted. Neither my edits, nor your deletes and restorations can be found.
Actually, I was slightly confused, but it made sense after reading it a couple more times. That's some really subtle stuff. I'm still learning the ropes on the whole "references" issue. Yeah, that whole delete thing is too heavy-handed in my perception. Purge nothing. It's always good to be able to flip through history pages and be able to reference something that happened before (damn faulty neural memory). Or maybe not. Anyway, I'll just keep a ten foot pole between me and broad content changes from now on. Xaxafrad 04:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
By my count, there are 12 Deletes: Ilyrch, Fluit, Kimchi, Jtrost, Kevin, Leflyman, 195.173.23.111, Arru, Amalas, FCYTravis, Stevage, Hahnchen
195.173.23.111 may be counted, as shows extensive edit history, particular in Lost-related topics
Additionally, while not stating a specific recommendation, Barno wrote, "WP:NOT a fansite to "let 'losties' have their fun." See also WP:FICT"
to 5 Keeps (Coffeeboy, Timwi, Dreadpiratetif, agapetos angel, ArgentiumOutlaw)
One unsigned "keep" came from 199.26.230.102, which should not be counted, as showing few recent edits and none in the subject area
That seems a pretty clear consensus to delete. —LeflymanTalk 17:17, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thanks for the reply. I'm not sure where you find the requirement of 80% to delete. The Deletion guidelines for administration has no numerical requirement, but call for a rough consensus: "The Administrators necessarily must use their best judgment, attempting to be as impartial as is possible for a fallible human, to determine when rough consensus has been reached." There was some discussion of a suggested 75% on the Wikipedia_talk:Deletion_guidelines_for_administrators but that was never incorporated into the guideline. I understand that AfD is not a vote, per se; however, the consensus is (to the fallible human that I am) that "Valenzetti" is not an appropriate or notable article for Wikipedia. The AfD discussion was not necessarily about the content of the article, but the topic.
Thanks also for removing the promotional aspects. as you note, the article is now basically a stub; that's the sum length it will ever be, as "Valenzetti" is not a character on Lost, per se: he is fictional scientist claimed to be the subject of a fictional book by the fictional author "Gary Troup" of a tie-in novel "Bad Twin", which has been incorporated into the alternate reality gameThe Lost Experience. The name "Valenzetti" has a mention on a fictional promotional Web site, http://www.garytroupbooks.com. That's a whole lotta fiction! The only place it might be merged into is Bad Twin, which if you think is appropriate, I can do so. —LeflymanTalk 17:55, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, again; yes, that's the reason I was asking: there's no listed numerical cut-off for consensus, so I was wondering where you derived the 80% from. I've not seen such a "historical number" claimed before. thanks, —LeflymanTalk 18:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You recently shut down the Brownian Motion AfD page, citing no concensus because of a 2:1 ratio in favor of deleting (after discount anons, first time posters, etc.). However, by my count, after discounting anons and first time posters, there were 7 votes for keep and 6 votes for delete, which would seem to not be no concensus but a definitive vote for keep. If this is truly the case, I would appreciate that the debate result reflect this in case an attempt is made in the future to delete the article again. Below is my count on the votes:
I will post my response to another editor with the content you requested
The TTJ is regularly featured in the two Yiddish newspapers “Der Yid” and “Der Blot” that are the official newspapers of the two satmar factions (the Aron’s and Zalmons) and for that matter the most notable Yiddish newspaper with a combined readership of tens of thousands (not counting the forward which is considered modern by a lot of Hassidic Jews) .The question is would it be considered a verification of TTJ works and structure if it is spelled out in the above newspapers?
If yes, I would be more than glad to present such writings and let the Yiddish speaking and reading editors here, confirm the content.
However I would need more time to do just that, since they don’t publish the newspaper on the web I would need to contact them, go to there office and get a hold of the articles.
I just read your statement of frustration about AfDs...and wanted to say that I hear ya! I find the whole process of AfD challenging at times even from a basic user stance. Just know that you are appreciated. Peace, Kukini 18:10, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
No problemo. Have a great day! Kukini 18:15, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Sorry about my comments after the AfD closed. I started typing them before it was closed, and I didn't noice it as a result. --CRGreathouse 06:11, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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