User talk:Swpb/Archive/January 2007

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Welcome to Wikipedia!!!

Hello Swpb! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. You may also push the signature button located above the edit window. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! -- youngamerican (yo) 22:49, 16 October 2006 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial How to edit a page The five pillars of Wikipedia Manual of Style Be bold in editing How to write a great article WikiProjects Getting your info out there Cite your sources Neutral Point of View Point of View Verifiability Uploading images Image use policy Getting more Wikipedia rules Policy Library Getting Help New contributors' help page Where to ask a question Help Desk Frequently Asked Questions Getting along Wikiquette Civility Sign your posts Wikipedians Conflict resolution Getting technical Cleaning up vandalism Pages needing attention Peer review Utilities Village pump

Barnstar Award

		The Original Barnstar
		This is for you extensive work with the USS Gray (FF-1054). I really was quite impressed, and as you haven't recieved any Barnstars yet... Congrats and keep up the good work! Sharkface217 04:21, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

AfD

You forgot to add Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Hait to the AfD log. -- RHaworth 07:50, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Rectifying notabilty

Hello Swpb! I've attempted to rectify the notability guideline you expressed concern about on Ruxton Towers. I'm unsure how to remove the tags. Even if it does not meet your requirements for notability, I think that the strength of Wikipedia is that anything that anyone might want to find out about can be covered, and of course this means both some of the rather obscure things that might tweak my interest and many things that I couldn't care less about, but other people care passionately about. Thank you! I'm learning, eh? Chrismathewsjr 17:35, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

True thrush

Hi, bird species lists are invariably in taxonomic ordeer to show relationships. I've put a heading in the article now to avoid confusion, thanks, jimfbleak 06:42, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Nice space suit

Your space suit additions are interesting. You ought to try out some other topics related to space. Good luck! Jussenadv 06:52, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

UFO's Real or Not

i seem to understand that you have my article up for deletion and i have preformed all changes i have made to make it differ from the article you said it was similar to, hell i even sited the article to my article in question, might i ask why it is still on the list for deletion. i put all my powers of writing to make that article sound as real and as true as possible with out stealing information and calling it my own. so please do a new member a favor and keep the article and project it on Yahoo and Google please :'( Tu-49 22:56, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I moved the article to his user-space... should be a happy home for it temporary. ---J.S (t|c) 00:04, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes until i can make chnges to get it back together as well as making it better Tu-49 00:43, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Noontide Press

Nice work on the above article--your cleanup!

Thanks!

Ludvikus 21:07, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

If I'm correct

Hello swbp, I am quite sure that when you add the {{db-bio}} to someone's new page, you warn the user..? As you did to Vince shah, you didn't warn the user. I did, and hopefully you can continue you patrol new pages. If thats the case, this is just a friendly reminder from me. Thanks, Ardo 19:52, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, Thanks. Ardo 20:06, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

International pizza day

You db-nonsensed this page. The page creator removed the tag immediately. Thought you should know MNewnham 21:43, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Iota Sigma Pi/rewrite

Hi -- Thanks for your reminder about not blanking pages. I do not generally blank pages, but I understood the Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion point #7 that listed "Author requests deletion" as a category for speedy deletion to say "If the author blanks the page, this can be taken as a deletion request." I was the only author; it was a rewrite because a copyright confusion; the copyright confusion was cleaned up by an admin; I blanked the page for speedy deletion. --LQ 01:36, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Lowrider band

Ok, now, it still needs a reference. Otherwise, I will be forced to place it on WP:AFD. Happy Editing!

BTW, thank you for actually posting on my talk page rather than just removing it and not saying anything :) xxpor ^yo!|_{see what i've done} 03:00, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

User:Mets501/Sandbox

Thank you for bringing it to my attention, but I was actually testing out some template stuff, and had placed the tag on the page to test a few things out. Sorry for the confusion, and thanks for trying to help out! —Mets501 (talk) 21:36, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Lincoln Options

OK, I now understand the guidelines for notability better. Thank you.

WmCliff 01:00, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Your BUITMS (BUITMS) RfD nomination

It appears to me that you got the template arguments backwards in your nomination (No sweat; I screw up templates all the time). Since BUITMS (BUITMS) is the one you tagged with {{rfd}}, and since that's the one that matches your argument, I have gone ahead and changed the section title so that people won't be confused. If I got it wrong, feel free to correct the nomination or drop me a note so I know what to do. In any case, thanks for tracking down an obvious candidate for RfD. I voted delete on it already. Gavia immer (u|t|c) 17:15, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Love Torpedo

I saw you nominated Love Torpedo for speedy deletion. I agree with you, it's not my page I just found it through the Recent Changes.

What I was wondering was why you deleted it. Obviously some bands like my friends' band The Optimus Prime Experience are not big enough to warrent having a wikipedia article. But obviously some bands like The Beatles and The Darkness are big enough to warrent having their own articles.

But what is the cut off point? I've seen some really really crummy pages people have made to promote their even crummier bands and they obviously deserved speedy deletion but this one looked quite good. What is the criteria for keeping a page apart from having enough people to argue For on the discussion?Simondrake 23:44, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

WiiLi

Hi, I have removed the speedy delete tag that you placed on WiiLi. The reason is that there is already an article on this subject Wii Linux Project and I have converted WiiLi to a redirect to that article. At best the article Wii Linux Project is marginal and if you continue to have concerns then an AfD is the way to go. TerriersFan 00:35, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Scratch page you just moved for me

Sorry I have no idea about what I am doing or what the rules are. I just sort of grope around and make lots of mistakes. Thanks for helping.--Filll 05:21, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I did know that there were several other pages branched off physics to try to improve it. This page was just for me to work on a rough draft synthesizing the material from the several of the other similar pages that already existed, which contain lead proposals, so I thought I would try editing them together and merging them into something hopefully better than all 3. Maybe I should have hung it off my page instead, although I obviously do not know the rules about what you can and cannot do (or should and should not do is more accurate I guess).--Filll 05:31, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Hereford High School, Parkton

Hi, I have removed the speedy from Hereford High School, Parkton and I want to explain why. This article has been hanging around all day with the speedy tag on it but no-one has been prepared to touch it; too many people consider that high schools have inherent notability. I have cleaned up the article and stubbed it bit not researched its notability. If you still consider it should be deleted then a WP:AFD is the way to go. TerriersFan 02:59, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

List of Most Prestigious Consulting Firms

Unfortunately, original research is not a speedy deletion criterion, so I declined the speedy deletion of this article. Try sending it to WP:AFD instead. --Coredesat 01:33, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Brittain

I don't know if you're also the IP address 82.26.244.185, but there are some concerns about other Countdown champions being bundled with the Richard Brittain article that have been posted at the AfD discussion for the article that you nominated above. Just messaging you to let you know. Andy Saunders 19:07, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

It probably looks better if you, as the nominator, remove the bundle. Andy Saunders 20:12, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Access

The order of entries, and issues with piping and extraneous links. It's not as desperate as some other cases, but it needs cleanup nonetheless. A lot of entries have been added since its last cleanup (compare versions), and the result is that the page now needs attention to ensure entries deserve entry, are prioritised and sorted correctly and the page is simple to follow. In short, it's become messy. Neonumbers 23:56, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

I noticed :-). It looks very well done. Cheers, Neonumbers 23:32, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for pointing out the page on stub categories—I hadn't known about it. —JerryFriedman 15:12, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Katana (photocopier)

I didn't create that page! Cheers --Pak21 17:17, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm really not complaining, but I've had nothing to do with that page whatsoever: see the history (unless there's a really funny database bug around here somewhere). Cheers --Pak21 19:07, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

stub tags

Hi, just a comment: I don't really think it's appropriate to pressure editors into finding precise {{stub}} templates. If people want to spend their Wikipedia time on specific stub types, then that's great, even helpful, but it is not by any means necessary. — Matt Crypto 22:12, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps you could reword it less as a "lecture" template, but more as a "you might be interested" template, e.g.:

"I noticed you use {{stub}} template; you might be interested in WP:STUBS, a list of subject-specific stub templates which can make it easier for editors with expertise in the subject to find pages that need work."

 ? — Matt Crypto 22:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

(I moved the above comment from a user talk subpage that the poster created.) — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 22:19, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Re:Alpharetta Elementary School

I have become aware that you placed a tag on Alpharetta Elementary School requesting it be deleted by the proposed deletion process. I request you convert the deletion process to AfD to recieve more input from the comunity. Contact me at User talk:Natl1.--Natl1 20:49, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I now understand that being a school is not notable enough for being in an encyclopedia. You have my support in deleting the article.--Natl1 21:02, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Bear Creek Secondary School in the News

Hi,

Thanks for your nomination of Bear Creek Secondary School in the News for speedy deletion. Unfortunately, there is already a controversy regarding the page that demands this page to be in place. The contents of this page was originally located on the Bear Creek Secondary School page. It was then removed and created into a subpage due to vandalism incidents and the negative feedback from the Parent and Student Councils of Bear Creek SS. Because I had mistakenly created a subpage with a "/" instead of adhering with Wikipedia policies regarding subpages, I corrected that error with the creation of this page. I have removed the deletion template from that page, but I value your opinion greatly. If you still object to this page, then please leave a message on my talk page, and I will reply to it quickly.

Thanks, 17:29, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay, per your request for merger, I have merged the two articles. Note that edit wars may arise with the merger.. edit wars was the reason I had split up the articles in the first place.

And, sorry, it was a proposed deletion. My brain wasn't thinking when I was typing it. :)

About Bear Creek Secondary School, I have made some little changes after your major edit. I have rewritten and condensed one or two deleted sections, and I have reformatted a little. If there's something that I've done that is horribly wrong, then feel free to change it :) -- 20:54, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that the news articles were rewritten. I personally worked on them a while ago, and while I might've borrowed words from the actual article itself, it's definitely my own writing. As for the source for that one news, the rape trial one, I don't know where it went. I guess they just took it off the web after a certain period of time. I did a google search for it (it was published in 2+ newspapers, one national and one local at least) yet I just found letters to the editor stuff. I can't seem to find any other sources to it. I'll keep working on it though. Thanks for all your incredibly thorough editing to this; it really needed it! -- 00:33, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		I, Lovelaughterlife, award Swpb the Editor's Barnstar for recognizing that sometimes text removal is the most effective editing; and sometimes, a proposed delete could actually motivate more work on the articles involved. It was nice working with you! --lovelaughterlife♥talk? 23:17, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew Galambos (2nd nomination)

I'm rather disheartened by your dismissive characterization of a piece published in Liberty Magazine by an extensively-published writer and Presidential candidate of a national political party as just something posted to a personal website. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 04:18, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

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The AVB delay

It's a catch 22 there. One of the primary goals of the bot is to revert vandalism faster than the vandals can make it hence ensuring that their vandalism never appears to anyone and never gets seen by a human being. If I throw in a lag on it (which was very unpopular) it keeps the vandalism up for a little bit longer and gives the vandals a view of their "vandalized" page for a few seconds, something the bot tries to avoid -- Tawker 07:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!!

I was looking for the right stub template, but by the time the page of stubs would have loaded on my 56k connection, the world might have ended! As you might have noticed, I was having some trouble with the cite web template, do you know why the title wouldn't become the text of the external link? J0lt C0la 22:01, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

henri lefevre

Didn't you see that I refer to one of his books? Zigzig20s 04:45, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

He is cited in Tim Cresswell's "Place, A Short Introduction" as well. Basically he expanded the definition of space, which is a core topical issue in political/urban geography. Zigzig20s 05:01, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Added but it does not look like anything I have ever seen on Wikipedia. If there is another way of citing sources, please enlighten me - or better still, move around the sources in the article itself. I don't think we can leave it like I have edited it, but at least now it is perfectly clear that Henri Lefevre is not unheard of. Zigzig20s 05:10, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, done. Are you gonna leave the references tag on? (I don't have time to look for other references, but it is pretty obvious that he is not made up now.) Zigzig20s 05:19, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for moving my userbox. I didn't realize about the user part. Sodaplayer But hey, I just love Sodaplay. 22:53, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Ethylene glycol

Sikkema 23:23, 14 January 2007 (UTC) Ah that's right. I was, to be honest, completely surprised that no page on that chemical exists. I actually looked for it, but may have accidentally misspelled the search or something. (response to redirecion)

Modulate (band)

You marked the article on Modulate (band) for deletion due to notability, yet they meet the criteria on several counts. ie: chart hit on a nationally recognised chart and major national/international tour. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Echo mutate (talk • contribs). 04:20, 15 January 2007 (UTC)