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Eastern Software System

Deprodding of Eastern Software System

I have removed the {{proposed deletion/dated}} tag from Eastern Software System, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think this article should be deleted, please do not add {{proposed deletion}} back to the page. Instead, feel free to list it at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion. Thanks!

NeutralHomer

AFD close, should it be salted?

You closed the AFD on Trail Blazers Street Jam. How many times has it been deleted previously? If the number is more than 2, would you mind salting it? tedder (talk) 00:33, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Prying this open again- just FWIW, I thought it had been deleted more. That's because it has been created as Trail blazers street jam. A new one was pasted in there today. Note it's the same user who created the capped version above, which had to go through an AFD first. (I'll watch your userpage, you can reply here) tedder (talk) 16:35, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Hurricane Andreas

The NHC said that is was most likely stronger in the morning. Plus the Main Page for the season also says it. Darkspace72

ping

I apologize that we didn't get to start the RFA yesterday... my internet connection is lost, right now I'm using the family laptop (not permitted!). This weekend, as I've just been told, my sibling has a commitment, and unfortunately, we have to stay in a hotel for it. Do you think we should push back the RFA start date until maybe next week? I'll be available today, tomorrow, and early Friday. Tell me what works, I'm mostly flexible. ceranthor 16:34, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Update... turns out that it is in two weekends. My internet is back online, so today would be perfect for me, if that works for you, too. ceranthor 19:02, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Robert Reed Church

You seem to have made a mistake in deleting this article, and I think restoring it would be a good idea. About a week ago, when I stumbled on the article (or what little was left of it, the pink log entry), the Google cache was still visible, showing a reference to an entry in the American National Biography. This was one of two articles started by the same user and nominated for deletion by User:Tedder, see User talk:Tibalandre. The other article appears never to have been deleted. The user starting these pages has not made any contributions since the deletion. I don't care much for short articles with little to no content when created by people who ought to know better, but I think one should be more lenient with very new users. And from what I could tell from the Google cache (not sure if it reflected the very last version of the page), the deletion reason was downright wrong. I have no access to the ANB, but it is published by the Oxford University Press, and appears to be the American equivalent of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and similar European biographical reference works. Surely an entry there is a "reliable sources to indicate notability of an individual"?

Getting back to this again today, I found a newer article on the same topic, Robert R. Church, Sr., but it turns out to be plagiarised from one of the linked sources. That, on the other hand, needs to be resolutely deleted and the user warned that plagiarism will lead to eternal damnation in hell, hairy palms or some other unpleasantness. --Hegvald (talk) 17:35, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for keeping an eye on the troublemakers on the Islamic movie.
Warm regards, Jaakobou 17:50, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Julian - can you please help me understand what we can do to UNdelete the wiki page i nominated for Emily Terrazas aka Amalia Terrazas? I am new at this and would very much appreciate any help, as I feel this person is noteworthy. thank you. 76.171.169.146 (talk) 18:36, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

FLC move

Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/List of Vice Presidents of the United States → Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/List of Vice Presidents of the United States/archive1 (delete the former). Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 20:55, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for permissions/Autoreviewer

I have repplied you: User talk:Oashi#Misplaced Pages:Requests for permissions/Autoreviewer Franta Oashi (talk) 21:11, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Rollback permissions

That was fast; thanks so much. - PKM (talk) 03:25, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

AWB?

Hi Julian, I don't really know the ways of AWB, but is there any way for you to do a run on a group of articles to fix dashes? See this. Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 03:58, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a million. Dabomb87 (talk) 13:34, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Hate to bother you further, but have you finished the copyedit for Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/List of highways in Essex County, New York/archive1? It's the only thing holding up my support. Dabomb87 (talk) 14:05, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Kingdom of León in leonese language

Sorry for my English.

In the article Leonese language.It is doing what I think it's a sabotage. In the current administrative division of Spain is not the Kingdom of Leon, not as a province or autonomous region or any other administrative division. The Act is set as a reference, in 1830, was repealed many years ago (the current administrative division was 1983 in 1976 following the arrival of democracy to Spain).

In the Spanish wiki nuna this user who want to put this information here has done there, because he knows that is false. Are taking advantage of the ignorance of the English language that many Spanish users could report in a neutral manner and are attempting to enter false data.

In the Spanish wiki you can check or that such data have not been introduced or have been removed.

We step by step, we start with this.

Greetings.--FCPB (talk) 09:33, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Article: Todd Friel

I am wondering where the article on Todd Friel, presenter of wretched radio, has gone. I am very interested in this evangelical preacher, and his early life, and was surprised to find his page recently deleted by you... I am just curious, if you could get back to me it would be great! Stakingsin (talk) 18:13, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

JCbot task - post newsletter

To the user talk pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/OOK list

Append this:

{{subst:Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Newsletter/2009-06-25}}

Thank you.

Good luck.

Have fun.

The Transhumanist    20:37, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Outline update - Push push push - 06/25/2009

Work is proceeding apace...

• Julian is working on getting a bot account (and he delivered this update as his trial run).
• Penubag is working on the Project page and upcoming contest.
• Buaidh is developing all of the U.S. state historical outlines.
• Tarheel95 is writing a proposal to add a link to the Main Page leading to the the OOK.
• Highfields is integrating the OOK into the encyclopedia by deorphanizing outlines by placing a {{main}} link in the see also section of the subject articles that have a corresponding outline.
• I've been trying to keep up with them.  :)

New members

• Minnecologies - developing Outline of forestry and is watching the big picture.
• Mnation2 - improving Outline of Lebanon

Hatnotes

The current consensus is that we can't place a hatnote leading to an outline at the top of a subject articles unless the outline being presented is of at least the same quality-level as the article.

What's next...

Improve outline quality by completing them.

Place hatnotes for the outlines of high enough quality.

Guidelines pertaining to outlines need to be updated. Outlines emerged as a class of pages only a few months ago, and most of the relevant guidelines don't cover them specifically. For example, Misplaced Pages:Stand-alone lists is incredibly out of date.

Invite wikignomes, wikielves, and wikifairies (all 2500+ of them) to help on the outlines .

Identify 600 more subjects with coverage extensive enough to justify outlines, create rudimentary drafts for them, and post notices to the corresponding WikiProjects and subject talk pages to help build them.

Convert outlines titled "List of" to outline articles, and add them to the OOK. There are a few hundred of these. Conversion instructions are needed.

Add a description of outlines to About Misplaced Pages and Misplaced Pages:Basic navigation, and add tips about outlines to the WP:TOTD and Tips library.

Keep up the great work!

The Transhumanist    20:27, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

coming soon...

In the next few days, I'll have a newsletter to send to the members of the Countries Wikiproject.

The Transhumanist    21:03, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Please Restore List of Software Companies in Bangalore link

Hi Julian,

Requesting you to restore the link for List of Software Companies in Bangalore. It was a nice list to get info about different companies. It was very much helpful for job seekers.

Looking forward to your co-operation.

- Sibasis

Bangalore

Removal of Steve Holter article.

The article was written about me, and I was asked by Wiki if it was ok, I thought it was quite good, so why have you delelted it?

Steve Holter article

Can you out the above article back? It had links to other pages, it was verified, can't see why it was removed, especially as much of the text from my book on Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell has been lifted without permission and appears on Wiki pages on the Campbells and Blue Bird and Bluebrid vehicles. Only the info' lifted for the Rolls-Royce R type article has any acknowledgement!!

I have also been accused of "vandalising" the Reid Railton, I removed a reference to a book by Barry Stobart-Hook. I did this after contacting Wiki, as Railton's daughter strongly disagrees with the content of this book and wishes to discuss it with Mr Stobart-Hook. I expalined this and was told to remove it, I then got quite a rude message telling me to leave it alone!!

I am quite happy to proof read land/water speed related articles, but having my many years of research "borrowed" is a tad annoying!!

Many thanks

Steve Holter

Steve Holter Article/Reid railton Article

I understand your comments fully, the article was written about me, (with links to Blue bIrd, Arthur Benjamins, British Racing drivers etc, it was verified, can't see why it was removed, especially as much of the text from my book on Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell has been lifted without permission and appears on Wiki pages on the Campbells and Blue Bird and Bluebrid vehicles. Only the info' lifted for the Rolls-Royce R type article has any acknowledgement!!

I have also been accused of "vandalising" the Reid Railton, I removed a reference to a book by Barry Stobart-Hook. I did this after contacting Wiki, as Railton's daughter strongly disagrees with the content of this book and wishes to discuss it with Mr Stobart-Hook. I expalined this and was told to remove it, I then got quite a rude message telling me to leave it alone!!

I am quite happy to proof read land/water speed related articles, but having my many years of research "borrowed" is a tad annoying!!

Many thanks

Steve Holter

AfD nomination of Steve Holter

An article that you have been involved in editing, Steve Holter, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Steve Holter. Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:37, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Wirtland

Just curious, instead of no consensus, why not relist? Aside from the meatpuppets, there were only three editors participating in the debate. Nyttend (talk) 00:59, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

(Since the discussion was spammed on external sites, SPA/sockpuppet !voting would have likely continued even after the relist. As such, I think it's better to wait a few weeks and re-nominate it then. –Juliancolton) I see that even after approval some strong wording is still being used here, such as spam and meatpuppets, which is not only groundless but actually sounds insulting. Also, the author of article about historic house "Wirtland" used his Misplaced Pages adminisrator's rights to move the micronation entry to "Wirtland (micronation)", and to name his article as "Wirtland". In result of this operation, the search for "Wirtland" in Misplaced Pages now leads to the house, not to the micronation as before, and the same happens in the Google search, creating confusion. The administrator explained his action as follows: "...moving to make way for clearly notable topic", which appears as a case of subjective judgement of prioritization, when a single administrator decided which entry is more notable, according to his/her personal tastes. However, it is not our wish to waste your or our time on complaints, even if justified ones.

Wirtland stated that "As an internet-based community, Wirtland attaches high importance to being properly represented in the internet encyclopedia". Bearing in mind Jimbo Wales' principle "Newcomers are always to be welcomed", we were excited about publishing our article in Misplaced Pages. However, so far we have faced a lot of resistance, and very little welcome.

If there is anything about our article which is unacceptable for Misplaced Pages, please tell us exactly what. So far we have seen only subjective attacks, which were not founded on any clear and open rules. We have seen that some articles are considered notable, and some not notable, without any explanation. A 19-century house in rural USA is more notable? Ok, maybe, just tell us why. You want to renominate our article? Fine, just tell on which ground (or does Misplaced Pages arbitrarily renominate any entry?), when, and for how long. While Atlantium article is fine with Misplaced Pages, Wirtland seems to be permanently under attack...

I am sorry for being a bit over-emotional, but I hope our disappointment is understandable. We came to Misplaced Pages with friendly and open mind, and were ready to cooperate, but we won't insist. To be short: We will remove our entry if it contradicts Misplaced Pages's rules. We will appreciate to see a clear, official, conclusive, final answer. Of course we reserve our right to discuss such an official answer in a public forum. Thanks. Witizen (talk) 18:49, 27 June 2009 (UTC)Witizen.

John Wark

Hi Julian. You may be terribly busy, in which case feel free to disregard this, but you made some initial comments at the John Wark FAC, I was wondering if we'd dealt with them and/or if you had any others comments or suggestions? The nomination has become a little stale so I'd just appreciate some reviewers returning for a second look. Cheers! The Rambling Man (talk) 14:41, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Walter Mendenhall

I really don't think this one should have been closed no consensus. If anything, it would have been better to relist. But the sources listed in the AFD, which by the way were not put into the article, are trivial mentions. The one that looked like it might feature the subject (example 2) is not accessible. Would you consider reopening this AFD to allow for further participation? لennavecia 16:40, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Your block of User:Readin

Was wrong. Readin is an established editor with several years of history discussing subjects. The other part of that revert war was a non-discussing pseudo-bot making POV terminology changes against agreed naming conventions touching hundreds of articles in a day. When established editors get blocked for trying to maintain agreed naming conventions, is it any wonder when they leave? SchmuckyTheCat (talk)

Please see WP:EQUALITY. Regardless of their tenure, they still violated the 3RR. –Juliancolton |  17:43, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

They are free to seek assistance from other editors at various venues when another editor is causing a problem, so there's no need for them to feel discouraged or to have to revert war. It can be frustrating here at times, but there are usually lots of people willing to help. Sometimes you just have to ask for it. ChildofMidnight (talk) 18:05, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello

I just wanted to let you know that I am back. Sorry, I been away, I was having problems with a user(s) on here. Well, Have a great day..--Michael (Talk) 18:07, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Admin Coaching

Hey, I noticed that you have an empty slot for admin coaching, on the coach status page. Would you be willing to take me? Thanks, Fingerz 04:34, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

godsgreatestgift

Not unconstructive - this is a sockpuppet