User talk:WODUP
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Good luck and happy editing!--Sir James Paul 00:27, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Andrew Dimakis
The problem with the article is that using rule A4 (not notable) is a judgement call and requires that everyone beleives it is not notable. It would also be questionable (but valid arguments could be made) to deleted it as G3 (vandalism). By using the RfD, once it is voted as delete, rule G4 (previously deleted) can be used without question to keep deleting it (or just salting the page). As I had already A4 deleted the article, I felt it better to let the author himself and the rest of the community make the arguments for the choice. -- Creol(talk) 22:01, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] vandalism tagging
On pages like the talk for Harmony, don't bother deleting the text if the only entry is a vandalism post. Its one thing if it were a vandalism of an existing page, that needs reverting, but if they just create a page to spam on it, tag it as a QD and ignore it. One of the admins will get to it soon enough (one could be watching as they made it and just was too busy to delete before you got to it, we are sneaky like that :) ). Blanking the page makes us have to take an extra step to see that it needs deleted where as a big delete tag on top of a page that says "OMG!!1!!! I RoXor!one!!" tends to end up with just a shake of the head and a delete. -- Creol(talk) 07:20, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Vgood template
Because the vgood template is used on talk pages, only the talk page can get the category it gives. All the changes you tried were just changes to how the talk pages were being sorted. They couldnt change which page was showing up in the category, nor how the pages were named in the category. They could only change their sort patterns and while many of your changes did cause them to be sorted by their Main space titles, it would have had no bearing on what shows up in the category list since the pagename for ArticleX and Talk:ArticleX is Article X in both cases. If they were sorted without a sortkey, they would fall under T for talk, but with {{PAGENAME}} and many of the other magic words, they are identical. -- Creol(talk) 07:09, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
