User talk:Obina
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[edit] Welcome
Welcome!
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--TheParanoidOne 21:50, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you. For now I am focusing on the areas that I know from personal experience, adding detail, and removing clear falsehoods. There are not many falsehoods, but there are some.
Obina 09:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Sithism
- so you boldly redirect sithism to sith. should i have done that in the first place? for normal deletion, do i propose and wait for another to dlete or what? thanks
Yes, there was no need to nominate that article for deletion, as a simple redirect would have sufficed, but it's OK that you err on the side of caution (everybody's got to learn sometime). For normal deletions (things that should not exist in Wikipedia), you can nominate them and an administrator will handle the deletion (or determine if the article is to be kept). Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any more questions. Regards, howcheng [ t • c • w • e ] 00:14, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding afd vote
I'd like to encourage you to reconsider your vote on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel R. Anderson, particularly for Anderson himself. I you look at the first section of his revised article, it is evident he is a major force in the children's television industry, having helped develop Blue Clue's, Dora the Explorer, and Go! Diego Go!, the three highest rated programs currrently for kids 2-5 years old. -- user:zanimum
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- I was misled by the blanket AFD, my mistake. I've added to my AFD comment.Obina 10:45, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reunion Delete
Thank you for your balanced vote. The anonymous votes (probably sock puppets) and vote tampering raise my ire, but you kept your cool and offered a reasonable compromise. We need more of your kind on Wikipedia! --JeremyStein 04:04, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lally Katz
I came across it while stub-sorting and the claims, if true like enough to rise above the definition of vanity IMO. However, I didn't take the time to try verifying them. If they can't be verified then AFD would be appropriate. Caerwine Caerwhine 07:34, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] D6C
Hi. Following your comments on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/District Six Council, I was just wondering what you meant with 'nasty'? I believe I don't get the reference the D6C is alluding to? dewet|™ 21:40, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Question forom Janusz Karpinski
Hi, this is Janusz Karpinski. I am writing to you because you voted "keep" in AfD for aetherometry entry. The present situation is that by Wikipedia standards there is no reputable secondary literature at all about aetherometry. The minority view is contained only in primary sources, which do not even fulfill Wikipedia standards for scientific references, and there are no other publications, so there is no majority view. "Majority view" here does not mean view of majority of Wikipedia administrators, it means published and generally accepted view of outside scientific community. There is nothing like this for aetherometry. As result, nothing in entry can be verified or referenced, it is all interpretation and opinion. This is not how encyclopedia should work, and is against Wikipedia policy. Since you said that entry should be kept, you must have idea how entry can start to provide verifiable encyclopedic information when there are no existing secondary sources. How can this problem be solved? I think you cannot just say "keep" and leave to others dealing with this problem, which to me seems completely not solvable. Please, describe what your solution is, and how you will personally help make aetherometry entry honest, reputable and verifiable. Sincerely, Janusz. Januszkarp 22:58, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] David Dom
You are not the only person who thinks this should have been deleted. See this deletion review. I'm getting a bit tired of this druid group, so I'm still waiting to see if anybody else nominates Jenni Heiden for deletion. Thank you for your offer to help and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 21:14, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- I think the discussion at the deletion review shows that we should manage to delete this without having to campaign for it, which I would prefer. But I will leave a note here if the deletion review leads to the AfD being reopened. All the best, Kusma (討論) 22:07, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for telling me about the druid nomination! I had the page on my watchlist, but the new messages box is much harder to overlook. Kusma (討論) 23:15, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
- The rest of the druids are now being debated again at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karayana and David Dom and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jenni Heiden. Looks like they will be deleted this time. Kusma (討論) 15:34, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for telling me about the druid nomination! I had the page on my watchlist, but the new messages box is much harder to overlook. Kusma (討論) 23:15, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Mennen Co
Hi, Looks like it's cleaning up nicely, well done. Maybe more notable than I thought from Google (111 hits). Dlyons493 Talk 21:25, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you
Your note on my user page meant a lot to me; sometimes it seems like editing on Wikipedia is nothing but giving of your best efforts and taking only abuse for it. It really means a lot to have you affirm that no, it shouldn't be like that. -- Antaeus Feldspar 01:07, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hyperspace
Hi, could you do me a favor and revisit Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Hyperspace? ---CH 22:53, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding afd Kalendar Koffee House
Deleting Kalendar from the coffee house category is wrong. To claim that Kalendar is advertising is also incorrect. The Kalendar article lists date of opening and location with interior photo. The so called "vanity" aspects have been removed from the article. Kalendar may not be as "noteable" as the larger chains, but that should not preclude it from listing in the coffee house category. To call this article spam would be to call all listings in this category spam. The previous AFD article was edited down to be considered for inclusion - tis all. No harm intended. Please reconsider. The following is the opening paragraphs of the Starbucks listing. I imagine that all listings in this category are similar to this.
Starbucks NASDAQ: SBUX (SEHK: 4337), is a large multinational chain of coffee shops, often serving pastries, popular in the US especially among students and young urban professionals. The corporate headquarters are in Seattle, Washington. The company was in part named after Starbuck, a character in Moby-Dick, and its insignia is a stylized cartoon Siren. According to the company's fact sheet, as of February 2006, Starbucks had 6,216 company-operated outlets worldwide: 5,028 of them in the United States and 1,188 in other countries and U.S. territories. In addition, the company has 4,585 joint-venture and licensed outlets, 2,633 of them in the United States and 1,952 in other countries and U.S. territories.
By definition most of the listings in the coffee house category are "non-notable". In fact the majority of the listings are not known outside the constituency where they are established. Being "non-notable" has always been a difficult area for editors. In this instance for example, the band Pursuit of Happiness wrote a song and video about Kalendar (1996 Kalendar/Gretzky Rocks/In Praise Of (T.W.A.-The World's Address). This by definition makes Kalendar a noteable entity by Wikipedia standards see Wikipedia:Notability "A topic has notability if it is known outside of a narrow interest group or constituency, or should be because of its particular importance or impact". EllisCHanna 04:21, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re : AfD/Alan Brazier
Thank you for your message. Unfortunately, that isn't considered a reliable source. The key here is 3rd party sources that is reputable and can be relied on. If you can find one, please include it in the article itself, let me know again and I will reconsider. - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 10:41, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Masts for deletion
Hello. As the closing admin, I'm notifying the most active contributors to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of North Carolina Tower Chapel Hill, which has now been closed, in case they want to take any action about it. Best, Sandstein 12:03, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sophia Yin
I'm sorry, I have no wish to bite you or anyone else. You will appreciate, I hope, that a tag for notabilility does not imply a deletion risk, either now or in the immediate future. It is just a request that you, or someone, should specify the particular attribute which makes this an article worth keepng. Assuming that you can do that sometime in the next week or so, we have no argument. But I am sincerely sorry if I upset you - it's just how wikipedia works.--Anthony.bradbury 16:43, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Chad Hauf AfD
Thanks for your comment on my talk page. Both listings are showing up correctly here; I'm sure it was just a transient problem. Nobody seems to have looked at Nightlife venues since I did a procedural on that last week, either. Tevildo 23:12, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] proposed deletion
I have removed the {{prod}} tag from C Anderson Johnson, which you proposed for deletion, because I feel that this article should not be deleted from Wikipedia. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still feel the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{prod}} template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 19:50, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Aoife Mulholland
A tag has been placed on Aoife Mulholland, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article is a repost of either already posted material, or of material that was previously deleted under Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion. If you can indicate how Aoife Mulholland is different from all other articles, or if you can indicate why this article should not be deleted, I advise you to place the template {{hangon}}, and also put a note on Talk:Aoife Mulholland saying why this article should stay. An admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 4 under General criteria. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. We welcome your help in trying to improve Wikipedia, and we ask you to follow these instructions. Erechtheus 23:34, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed deletion of Coding conventions
I have removed the {{prod}} tag from Coding conventions, which you proposed for deletion, because I feel that this article should not be deleted from Wikipedia. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still feel the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{prod}} template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! . I have passed it on to WIki project Computer science. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 13:20, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Barnstar!
I know i have contested a couple of your prods in the past couple of days. However, there have been any I agree with! I gave you a shiny barnstar (on your main page). If you dont want it there, feel free to move it wherever you desire! Thanks again for your good work. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 14:21, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- It is an honour. How to express...hmmm...Politeness > Agreeement. Thanks for the encouragement. Obina 16:21, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reinrassig
Thanks for calling my attention to the page. I've made some edits, but will seek out more references. —Morning star 15:16, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Feast of Alvis
No problem. I would have probably done the same thing you did. Once the obvious consensus emerged, there was no reason not to just go ahead with the redirect. -- Kicking222 20:28, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Prairie Muffins
Thanks for correcting my tongue. Your extension of patience is appreciated. I really should have thought more carefully about how I was coming off. I had no reason to imply that you were remiss. I'm sorry for biting you, and I'll try to keep this in mind in the future. Peace, — coelacan talk — 18:51, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Phil of the Future
Fine with me -- there is already an episode list page, and I don't mind if the individual episode pages are deleted. I was just working on the uncategorized pages project. NawlinWiki 21:43, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] www.zlinternational.utb.cz is notable
Dear Obina,
as I do not share your point of view concerning the deletion of the article about www.zlinternational.utb.cz and am sure that the article is notable - because their had been newspaper articles about it not only in the biggest Czech Newspaper (DNES) - I would like to know what shall I do? If the problem is, that the newspaper is in Czech language, can I attach an English translation to the site so that it is not deleted anymore?!
Thanks
Michi pb 08:31, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re-Action Recordings
Your article Re-Action Recordings needs some further attention. It lacks an indication of notability and needs to be wikilinked. Cordially, Askari Mark (Talk) 05:43, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
- Yes this article needs clean up. It is not my article - it is our article heh heh. My contribution was to add importance tag some time ago. :) It seems no one has found any references - I certainly coundn't. Time to prod.Obina 22:40, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Okay. Askari Mark (Talk) 22:46, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Deleting Agency Entries
Regarding the deletion of entries on Osbrink Talent Agency and one other - the only reason I added those was because they appeared as a red link in another article (list of talent agencies). I can add more if it stops them being deleted, although there is little to say, and I am of the opinion that editors shouldn't make red links if they don't want people to write them. I hope you understand my concern. I'm still quite new to the site so I'm not sure what to do. --Snakeman 07:09, 13 March 2007 (UTC)