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Non-believer

C'mon, I swear I'm God, why did you delete the page?! Now none of my broods will know of me. Rain-ash (talk) 17:54, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Topic ban?

I'm not sure what I did to upset you that much on the Transformers: Timelines deletion review. When I asked around as to how to get them looked at I was told to go to a deleiton review. Is there a better page to get opinions as a pre-deletion review perhaps? Some place where I can get an opinion as to whether sources justify an article? Mathewignash (talk) 14:49, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Spot on

Exactly. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:00, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Computing subject at AFD

• Is functions (AfD discussion)

You might want to go back to this one. Uncle G (talk) 21:23, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Deletion discussion

Hearfourmewesique (talk) 04:07, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Michael R. Vega

If a comic book artist had works published by a notable publishing company, that makes him automatically notable. Duh. --Stormwatch (talk) 22:49, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

• Not true at all. See WP:ARTIST. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 00:55, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

AfD Sedra Bistodeau - review?

Thanks for your support for deleting Khrystenn Asariah. That one went down messy (your vote actually got deleted by the creator of the article, at one point.) But it went down.

On Sedra Bistodeau, however, I fear there's a rush to judgment. The initial AfD listing significantly understates her accomplishments. ("15 year old fiddler and student that won a local state fair contest." ) I've improved the citations, added some material. This has moved me from neutral to Weak Keep, but it's possible I'm starting to get too close to the subject. Briefly: she's won several national-level U.S. fiddling competitions, has been the sole subject of one RS newspaper article, and also of 5-1/2 minutes of public television documentary (albeit metropolitan/state TV, not national.) Your added input on the discussion (per WP:MUSICBIO guidelines) would be welcome; it's possible she still falls short. Yakushima (talk) 10:36, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

• Your attempts to fix a questionable article have my respect, but I don't see anything so fundamentally different to reverse a vote. It seems to come down to whether the "National Old-Time Fiddlers Contest" is enough to pass WP:MUSIC on its own, like, say, winning a Grammy would be. I don't really think it is. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 01:01, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
  • Well, if it would clarify matters, feel free to nominate National Old-Time Fiddlers Contest for deletion. WP:MUSICBIO says the won/placed contests have to be "major" -- maybe oldtime fiddling is irretrievably small-niche country music. And we might agree that WP:N is necessary (though not necessarily sufficient) for a contest to be considered "major". I'd even support a change to WP:MUSICBIO, to make that clear. I looked into the other national competition mentioned (which claims certification by National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest (R)), and I suspect it hasn't quite gotten enough coverage for general notability. Maybe no oldtime fiddling contest could meet the requirement of "major". But with a 25,000 people showing up for the Weiser contest and its associated festival, how could anyone call it "small"? Yakushima (talk) 10:12, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
    • Firstly, it has nothing to do with genre. Fiddling might be niche, but that in and of itself does not have any impact on notability or verifiability. Indeed, I'd even say the opposite is true, that unusal performers if anything have an advantage because they make a potentially more interesting news story. Teenager who wants to be like Britney Spears? Who cares? Teenager who's a virtuoso Siberian throat singer or accomplished at playing the serpent? Send a reporter over there! No, we have to look at the notability of the award and whether it can reasonably be said to confer notability on anyone who recieves it. Grammy, sure. Tony award, sure. BRIT award, sure. Fiddling contest held in the local high-school gym? Heck no. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:10, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Require noting one's deletions of AfD votes and comments?

Your name and a comment you wrote arose in discussion of my proposed change to AfD Wikiettiquette guidelines. I'm interested in your thoughts on the matter, particularly since it was one of your votes that got silently deleted in the Khrystenn Asariah Afd, leading to my proposal. Yakushima (talk) 06:04, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Jory Rabinovitz

You deleted an entry on an artist that meets notability guideline: (b) has been a substantial part of a significant exhibition. Socrates Sculpture Park is a very reputable art center and the award he received is notable to anyone in the field of contemporary art. Also, he has won 5 silver medal world championships in Pinball. The article might have used some work, but I don't think permanent deletion was called for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinballfantasy808 (talk • contribs) 01:10, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

• Before I respond, I have a question: do you have anything that might be considered a conflict of interest regarding this subject? Specifically, are you Jory Rabinovitz or a member of his immediate family or friends? Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:16, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Academic Sports League (2nd nomination)

As you commented in the previous AFD (closed as no consensus), you may be interested in commenting at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Academic Sports League (2nd nomination). NW (Talk) 04:31, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

I just punched it delete. (like the first, it was simply "next on the list") However, I stand by my first close. When article creators or other interested parties come to my talk page saying "why did you delete my article?", I need to be able to tell them "because there was a consensus to do so here and I didn't feel that I could do that with a straight face with the first AFD. (that's why I don't like to close "1 voters" as "delete"). Since it was a low risk article without any WP:V or WP:BLP issues, I felt that "no consensus" was the proper close in this case. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:19, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

inre Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Jack and the Beanstalk (2010 film)

If you might take a look at the work performed on Jack and the Beanstalk (2010 film) and revist the AFD discussion, I believe a redirect and partial (and now sourcable) merge be done to the Jack and the Beanstalk#Adaptations... the one place where film adaptations of this children's tale have a reason to be mentioned in context. I also suggest a redirect of the film title to A) prevent a premature recreation and B) save the history so the redirect might be reverted and the article sourced if RS DVD reviews are found. Schmidt, 08:16, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

• Updated discussion. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:14, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Ray William Johnson

Hello, I see that you are the administrator responsible for salting Equals Three, the popular show name of Ray William Johnson. This article has now been created, and has stood for over a week without a deletion attempt. Could you please create Equals Three as a redirect to Ray William Johnson, as well as any other related pages which were repeated created, that I am unaware of? Thanks, 117Avenue (talk) 00:47, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

• That's not an article I want a hand in creating, though I have unprotected it per reasonable request. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 19:16, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Care to weigh in?

Care to weigh in on The Hot Club of Detroit? (I for one am disinclined to partake of the holy deletion debate sacrament any time soon). James470 (talk) 02:46, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

The Specials (internet TV series)

Hi there Starblind!

I have a question about a Misplaced Pages page I created for our web series about young adults with special needs called The Specials The page had been called The Specials (internet TV show) and was then moved on 1st August 2010 to The Specials (internet TV series). This new page was then deleted by yourself on 29th September 2010 on the grounds of A7 - "no explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content".

I was hoping you could advise me on whether you could Userfy this page so I could work on it (ideally with your guidance) and see if I could make it worthy of reinstatement? In terms of notability I was hoping The Specials would meet the criteria, though admittedly a lot of the following I had yet to add to the page:

We won the Webby Award and People's Choice Award for Reality category at the 14th Annual Webby Awards, we were also nominated in the Documentary Series category. We were finalists in the Original Series category in the Vimeo Awards 2010. We are currently nominees in the Banff International Pilots Competition. 'The Specials' has also been included in the TV Shows section of YouTube. Our series has been covered in the national UK press: The Guardian, BBC Radio 4, Ouch! BBC's disability website, .net magazine, The Brains Behind The Specials, September 2010. 'The Specials' is also an important web series for the learning disability community around the world and the housemates are listed in the Down Syndrome Misplaced Pages page.

Finally we are planning to bring out a new series later this year so our Misplaced Pages page would be destined to evolve. It would be great to hear your thoughts on this and I would be grateful for any help you can give me.

All the best

Katykada (talk) 12:45, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

• I would be willing to move this article to the incubator so that it can be worked on (I agree it wouldn't be an A7 today), though if it's to be made into a real article it needs to be done with someone with no conflict of interest regarding the subject, as creating articles for things you own is highly discouraged. If I undelete it to the incubator would you agree to let it go and leave it up to other users without a conflict of interest? Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:46, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Andrew that's great. Appreciate your point about the conflict of interest, so I'm happy enough to hear that it will be moved to the incubator. Hopefully some of the show's fans may want to work on it instead. Excuse my ignorance but will it be easy for them to find it in the incubator? Cheers, Katykada (talk) 18:01, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi Andrew, a blogger on disability issues based in the US is keen to write 'The Specials' wikipedia page. Could you confirm for me where the old page is? I have clicked on the above links and neither holds the previous content and I am not clear if either has been undeleted and moved to the incubator? Thanks again for your advice on all of this. Cheers, Katykada —Preceding undated comment added 09:34, 15 July 2011 (UTC).

The Specials - follow-up question

Hi Andrew, sorry to post a new section but you hadn't responded to either of my questions (above) so I thought maybe you hadn't realised they were there. I was hoping you could tell me where 'The Specials' wikipedia page now is - has it been undeleted and put in the incubator? Also which page is it? The Specials (Internet TV Series) or The Specials (Internet TV Show)? A blogger on disability issues from the US is willing to write the page and I wanted to let her know where it is and maybe access the old material including the photo we had uploaded. Thanks again for your advice on this. Cheers (Katykada (talk) 10:49, 19 July 2011 (UTC)).

Hi Andrew, ignore my posts on this page. I have sorted out the move to the incubator with another editor. All the best, (Katykada (talk) 16:56, 15 August 2011 (UTC)).

No problem, had a short wiki-hiatus whilst traveling this summer but I'm back now. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:58, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Why ?

I can not believe you live in a country called the land of the free yet you hate me so much I can not even post about my traditional native spirtuality.I will pray for you my brother.No matter what you do I will always have love in my heart. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randy shagalott (talk • contribs) 03:15, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

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deleted ROACE

Hi,

I have noticed that you deleted the article ROACE. I cannot see what the deleted text was about, but I was, nevertheless, warned to contact an administrator who erased it. The admin is you. I plan to create an article on "Return on Average Capital Employed", which abbreviates to ROACE. It is a metric used in stock analysis. I have written many articles about such metrics and ratios, and this one is still missed. One of the last ones.

May I re-create the article?

Best regards, Lamro (talk) 08:34, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

• Sure you can. I don't know what the deleted article was either, the only text in it was "ROACE", which was why it was deleted. It isn't protected or anything so you should be able to create a new one just fine. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 04:48, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Re: Your recent bizarre actions

Okay, so before you launch into personal attacks, perhaps you could engage with the current thread on WP:AN? And yes, I am aware that it is possible to cherrypick poor examples from my unprotections, and I am sorry for those mistakes, but I feel that they by no means undermine the value of unprotecting the rest. Regards, - Jarry1250  10:45, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Revert if you may

--George Ho (talk) 08:42, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Starblind,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Misplaced Pages administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 20:55, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of List of films considered the best for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of films considered the best is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of films considered the best until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Thank you, Schmidt, 01:36, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

An AFD you commented in before, has a sequel

The same articles in a previous AFD you commented in are at AFD again. Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Thelma Harper (2nd nomination) Dream Focus 21:20, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

TBrandley

Hghyux (talk to me)(talk to others) 02:29, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Hghyux (talk to me)(talk to others) 02:29, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

False allegation

You have made an allegation in AfD that I have been "using the article as a means to bother rather than improve the encyclopedia". This is both untrue and entirely without foundation. Unless you believe you can offer evidence of my motives to the contrary, I invite you to strike, or preferably remove, it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:58, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Absolutely not. And your failure to acknowledge your obvious misconduct has eroded any presumption of good faith (thugh admittedly, the fact that you've been at it literally for years meant there wasn't much of that left anyway). STOP PESTERING HAWKINS while you still have the opportunity to do so voluntarily. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:10, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

I note your refusal to remove, and you repetition and exaggeration of, your false and baseless accusation, despite there being no shred of evidence to support it. Shame on you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:51, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Help us develop better software!

Thanks to all of you for commenting on the NOINDEX RfC :). It's always great to be able to field questions like these to the community; it's genuinely the highlight of my work! The NOINDEX idea sprung from our New Page Triage discussion; we're developing a new patrolling interface for new articles, and we want your input like never before :). So if you haven't already seen it, please go there, take a look at the screenshots and mockups and ideas, and add any comments or suggestions you might have to the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:45, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

afd closure

I was asked a question about one of your closures, and commented, at DGG ( talk ) 05:59, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

My apologies...

I am the real person here, and I finally got my obsessive behavior under control. I have finally managed to control myself. Apparently the account Starkiller88 has been compromised early on in September 2007. I'd better avoid using this account. 115.133.222.178 (talk) 04:16, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

I've blocked this IP for 24 hours for block evasion. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 09:23, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

And just for info, he's been straight back to Fobos-Grunt again. I've blocked that IP for 24 hours too, and I guess we can semi-protect if he keeps coming back to it. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:17, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Stephanie Adams

I saw a comment or two you made in the past about the subject of this article being mistreated on this site. Is there something that can be done about a user on here who keeps posting controversial edits about her still? Can it be undone? Go to the page and you will see that he made the last edit, which doesn't seem right to add, and he just won't quit until something is done about him. In the real world, I work for an LGBT organization and I hear about people like her being harassed in indirect ways, just because of their orientation, and I hear it all the time. 74.115.212.21 (talk) 17:39, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Lord Huron

hi i saw you commented on the deleting of the article on this artist. i wrote a comment on the talk page saying why i think it should exist with some sources. can i make the article?Happy monsoon day 16:14, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

please note this is thoroughly resolvedHappy monsoon day 01:18, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:PC2012/RfC 1

Regarding your comment at Misplaced Pages:PC2012/RfC 1, it appears you misunderstand what is being discussed. The current RFC is only about pending changes level 2, which would restrict all editors without the reviewer permission from editing, not just new editors. As I understand it there will be another RFC covering the scope of pending changes level 1, which is the one the effects only new editors. I don't know if it will effect your !vote, but I thought you may want to know. Monty₈₄₅ 15:37, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Ok, clarified slightly. Still thoroughly less than thrilled about yet another Pending Changes vote, and it seems we're being overly cautious to the point of absurdity. Wars have been started with much less debate and consideration than Misplaced Pages wringing its collective hands over pending changes. After awhile it all becomes a bit of a farce. See you at the inevitable next one, I guess. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 17:20, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Dropping by to say I've added a question (below), but to respond to this: absolutely, there's a cost to having even one RfC (it can easily frame things as a battle and limit useful debate), much less as many RfCs as we've had on Pending Changes. On the RfC on PC/2, though, if you look back through the supports from the last RfC, you'll see there was almost no mention of PC/2 or anything related to PC/2 (I count 3 mentions that are even tangentially relevant in the first 106 votes). So ... this is something that actually does need some discussion, and both supporters and opposers are saying some things that I'd really like to follow up on in committee work. - Dank (push to talk) 14:12, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

One question added after your vote

Thanks much for voting. When we put the RfC together, one thing we were all agreed on was that it should run a week, so that it didn't take too much time away from more central questions ... but we decided not to put that in the RfC, I think because we didn't want to force a cutoff in the middle of a good debate. At this point, I've added that question, if you'd like to vote on that one too. - Dank (push to talk) 14:12, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Followup RFC to WP:RFC/AAT now in community feedback phase

Hello. As a participant in Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Abortion article titles, you may wish to register an opinion on its followup RFC, Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Abortion advocacy movement coverage, which is now in its community feedback phase. Please note that WP:RFC/AAMC is not simply a repeat of WP:RFC/AAT, and is attempting to achieve better results by asking a more narrowly-focused, policy-based question of the community. Assumptions based on the previous RFC should be discarded before participation, particularly the assumption that Misplaced Pages has or inherently needs to have articles covering generalized perspective on each side of abortion advocacy, and that what we are trying to do is come up with labels for that. Thanks! —chaos5023 20:33, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Arbcom elections

Sooooo, Any chance you might be interested in running this year? : ) - jc37 21:46, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

• Good question but I'm not nearly active enough--I only have 10 edits in the past two months. I've mostly dedicated myself to travel this year and most of next year too. I don't think I'd be able to put the time in to be a good Arb anytime soon. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:51, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

  Fair enough, thanks for considering it : ) - jc37 21:55, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Just a note: we were apparently talking about apples and oranges

In Australia school newsletters and other publications are always written by staff members (usually either a teacher or one of the school's admin. officers), and then given to the Principal for approval. If there's student content included, then that is vetted first by their Teacher, or the Faculty Head Teacher, and then still goes to the Principal for approval. This is because there have been complaints about things written in school newsletters that were unverifiable, overly promotional or non-neutral and so on and so forth, and, hence, the need for executive approval (and they have departmental and statutory guidelines that they need to follow in what they approve or disapprove).

So, for example, there's likely to be a whole slew of announcements around now about the end-of-school results for students, much of which (for example top in school) will only be mentioned in the school newsletters. They're also invaluable for finding notable alumni from certain schools.

On the other hand, you seem to be talking about student newspapers. Yeah, I'd agree that they're not notable. ˜danjel  04:07, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Deletion of Rahul Easwar wikipedia page

Sir,

This is regarding the page I want to contribute to Misplaced Pages on Rahul Easwar which was subjected to speedy deletion. In response to the objections i had provided with many resourceful links clearly showing the notability of Mr. Easwar in our nation and its media. Kindly let me know what i should do more to project my case and please let me know how I can reinstate this page. The link to the page i had created is given Rahul Easwar Also the page containing the discussions with the administrator who deleted the page is given. Misplaced Pages:Deletion_review#Rahul_Easwar Carolchriskevin (talk) 11:15, 15 January 2013 (UTC)Kevin

Caryacarya

Hi Andrew,
I was following through my watchlist, the conversations going on in the deletion discussion of the book series Caryacarya. I wasn't involved until now, but I saw that the period was extended another week. So, I was planning on voting and pointing out some points and even editing the article for its betterment. As a WP editor, my prime aim is the betterment of WP and I have no CoI. I'm myself an admin in the Ladino WP and I translate the interface.
The User:Abhidevananda, is actually a newbie of a few months. I think he means to contribute well to the WP, however without being well-acquainted to the policies and guidelines of Misplaced Pages, he used primary sources extensively to create or to edit neutral-looking articles. He is bold by behaviour but means no harm. Some other editors, instead of explaining him and/or trying to cooperate with him, used a bureaucratic language and challenged what he was doing. He felt personally attacked, especially due to the not-very-gentle language they were using, even though the intentions of the other party was probably not so. And as a result first he reacted back and then got cold-feet to WP.
I don't know whether it is considered canvassing or no, both parties (no need for names), went to ask others for help. As the other party, knew better the rules and the functioning of WP, got the upper hand in creating a bad image for almost all articles in which Abhidevananda was involved. The tones of "passion" in other editors siding with him, made the show case seem worse. This is my observation of what has been the unvoiced events in this conflict until now.
Quoting from WP:Trifecta, "Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia created by the community through collaboration." The two words out of three (namely, community and collaboration) is what I'm referring to. The responsibility always lies with the older and more-experienced party, the have to be wise and welcoming, especially to the new editors of WP. What they had to do, instead of edit-warring, constant content-removal and propaganda, was (and still is) what those two words - community and collaboration - requires. My message is not to you personally but to all involved parties.
While this is the case, I believe that the points that Keep parties were making were under-represented. The point, "The book has been considered by reliable sources to have made a significant contribution to a notable motion picture, or other art form, or event or political or religious movement." was never properly contested.
I believe that a temporary undeletion, would be for the best interest of Misplaced Pages, so it would give some more proper time to both parties to sort out things "in civility". And on the while, I can have more time to gather some RS and edit the article, so it has a neutral tone and doesn't look like an advertisement. If, at the end of a week, ther aren't any RS, I believe it is best to redirect the article to Ananda Marga, as it's the holy scriptures of it.
Most sincerely,
And friendly, --Universal Life (talk) 13:30, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Recent Deletion review revolving around Wildebeest

Hi there. When it came to the deletion review of Wildebeest, I was wondering if you have any further comments to contribute to that deletion review to have it officially restored. Especially since they might plan an appearance of a Wildebeest in the upcoming comics of The New 52. Rtkat3 (talk) 3:56, January 26 2013 (UTC)

Mention at AN/I

I have mentioned you at AN/I with regards to a request to block User:Danjel. ClaudeReigns (talk) 20:22, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Discussion on the AFT5 Request for Comment

Hey Starblind - this is to notify you that there is a discussion starting on the Article Feedback RfC talkpage that has ramifications for the RfC itself. Your input is much appreciated :). Thanks! and apologies if I've missed anyone Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:49, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Vampire clans

Eons ago, in a time called October 2008, you commented that a big merge discussion of all the Vampire: The Masquerade clans may be better, in the AfD for Assamite. Since you appear to be an admin (congratulations on that), you probably comment on a whole bunch of AfDs; but, I wondered if you might be interested in my mass merge discussion.

If you don't want to comment: best of luck to you. No doubt you have a whole bunch of administrating to get through, hope that all goes okay. – Bellum (talk) 23:28, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

FYI

Hello. In the event that you had not seen sysop TParis's question to you from a few days ago here ("Can you clarify, do you support the other direction?"), I thought I might bring it to your attention. Best.--Epeefleche (talk) 18:44, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks, I had a second look and support the amended proposal. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 04:06, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Badgering

Saw your comment on " Users sometimes disagree on notability/verifiability ". Reality is that users often don't bother to look to assess notability or verifiability and many articles simply should never reach AFD because there is an abundance of sources immediately available on simply doing a google search. Confusing lack of content/sources with notability is the biggest mistake most AFD nominators make, they simply don't bother to put in 5 seconds of research to make their case convincing.I "badgered him" because he not only didn't bother to look for sources or put two and two together than the article in German was to be translated but he implied that he had used AFD as an expand and demand service.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:10, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Cleanup

Hello, Starblind. You are invited to join WikiProject Cleanup, a WikiProject and resource for Misplaced Pages cleanup listings, information and discussion. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000 15:17, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

University of Florida Taser incident

Hello, I am recommending keeping this article, and have brought to the deletion debate quite a few references in newspapers, magazines and books discussing the event in detail over a period of five years. I respectfully request that you take a look at what I've found, and reconsider your decision. Thank you. Cullen Let's discuss it 03:33, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Why...?

Are you absolutely joking me? The Oceans Red page took me so long to make, and you just take it down? Why? Why? Why did you take my page down? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ScottIsAnAlligator (talk • contribs) 23:07, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

• Hi, that page was deleted as it did not assert notability whatsoever for its subject. Generally, articles on bands are expected to fulfill our WP:BAND criteria. It is extremely unlikely that an unsigned band would fulfil these criteria, and rarer still for an unsigned band that just released its debut single a month ago. The band may be notable someday, but it clearly isn't right now. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 23:33, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
• Oh, okay. I guess that's understandable. Scott Cameron - ScottIsAnAlligator 04:09, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

To Andrew Lanahan; your pro-deletion comment by starblind on my wikipedia article: Mundo (the hun)

I have read your pro-deletion comment to my articke about Mundo (the hun). It was not meaned as a hoax. Looking myself for further information on Mundo I haved registrated yesterday by night that there exists only the simple word in Misplaced Pages, but nothing more, so I decided to share the few details I know by reading here and there. I`m relatively new in the internet, so I can make technically mistakes. I`m a foreigner (not U.K.) and English isn`t my mother tongue, so my grammar may be awful. But be it as it be, everyone can correct my mistakes. So I sat there and wrote last night and saved my writings, to make a pause for some necessary refreshements. And when I got in again my unfinished writings had been smashed out by Mister administrator as a hoax. I`m of the opinion that a writer should have the right to finish his work and then the critics could come and like it or destroy his elaborate. Is it always the case, that you were stopped in between when formulating an article at Misplaced Pages??? I thought to get something done, a disputatio with thesis and antithesis is far more usefull than a wild standby discussion. I have some problems, because a lot of my reference books are not in English or old editions, so giving a page- or line-number may not be helpfull. On the other hand a chapter in Eugippius for example has in most cases only five to twenty lines. So the administrator must have find the words he looked for if he had taken himself some time. I had a lot more informations on the Mundos. Plural!, because there were at minimum three of them in the history books: Grandfather, father and son and they all had together an important role in the fights for Italy between the different powers (Scires, Goths, Gepids, Byzantines, Langobards). So the elder Mundo helped the side of Theoderic, but his son and grand-son got payed by the other party and helped Constantinople to destroy the Gothic kingdom just like those langobardic and gepidic warriors Narses had rented, too. The Mundos: Their men were called indeed Scaramuzes in different bowdlerizes and they owned realy a fortress called Hertha at the Morawa estuary (today Serbia), as you can read also in serious books of reknown academics. Many people have listened to the french Opera-Scaramouche of the baroque aera and never asked from where does this figure come. Others know he derived from the comedia dell`arte from Northern italy, from Lombardia, the Bergamo region. The Scaramuzzo is used also in the puppet-theatre there and he is an old folklore-figure since the early middle-age and then before rented soldiers were called Scaramuzzo, a langobardic term(!!!), not a word from the Italian or vulgary latin. Just there in Middle Lombardia we got the latest news from the youngest mundo and his elite-warriors called Scaramuzes. And if you now have read like me here and there from these mostly not nice fellows adoring the goddess of death or transcendance, Hertha, for example by Radenberg or Wolfram acting in the Danube region during peoples-migration-time, things began to add in your brain. So I let it here as it might be. With best wishes, Volant Federlin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Volant Federlin (talk • contribs) 15:24, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Please let me create my article

Dear administrator, I beg you to let me create my article about the Kingdom of Bogdania, Thanks in advance

Bogdan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kingbogdan (talk • contribs) 18:48, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

• No, Misplaced Pages isn't a place for silly joke articles. If you try to create it again, you'll very likely be blocked if you haven't been already. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:40, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of page I was still in the process of CREATING

My page was not complete yet. I was literally still typing in the main content (while periodically saving my work) before going to find citations to verify my content and you took the liberty of deleting the last 3 hours of my work. I would appreciate you please restore the page so that I can continue working on it. If I was missing citations it was simply because I: A - had not gotten to any citations yet, and B - am new to wikipedia and wanted to make sure I got all the information correct before messing up any citations.

Strife444 (talk) 22:22, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

• I'm taking you at your word that you can and will fix the article, and I've temporarily restored it to User:Strife444/draft for you to work on. I do need to tell you that referencing wasn't the reason it was deleted, but lack of notability, and if the website you're writing about can't be demonstrated to be more notable (and the claims of notability backed by reliable sources) it will almost certainly be deleted again and next time it won't come back, unless you have some real aces up your sleeve regarding notability and some rock-solid sources. Take a look at WP:WEB, WP:V, and WP:RS before deciding whether this is really something you want to dedicate more hours of your life to. Alternatively, you may wish to submit the article someplace where notability and verifiability won't be an issue, such as a general web guide such as aboutus.org Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 23:21, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Just out of curiosity, why is it that the original site (DenOfGeek.Com) and its publishers (our affiliates) rank as noteworthy and non-deletable?

Strife444 (talk) 00:10, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

• I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to. DenOfGeek.Com isn't an article and never has been as far as I can tell. There was a small article at Den of Geek deleted in 2009 and later turned into a redirect. If there's another article I haven't seen, please point it out and I'll take a look. But generally speaking, "x has an article so y gets one too!" isn't a very good reason to keep something. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 00:23, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

What is considered a reliable source for web content?

Hello Just read: http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:RS and I'm not sure what is considered a reliable source for a page for a website regards, Mainline421 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 10:37, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

• There aren't any seperate reliable sourcing guidelines for websites: what's considered a reliable source for websites is the same as for any other subject. The general hierarchy is Academic Peer-Reviewed Sources > Books > Magazines/Newspapers. Some examples of sources generally considered reliable that show up a lot on website topics include (but are by no means limited to) Wired Magazine, BusinessWeek, and BBC News Technology. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:06, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

YMCA Youth Parliament articles

I see that you weighed in on the YMCA Queensland Youth Parliament article, that was subsequently deleted. If you have a chance, do you mind weighing in on: Talk:YMCA Youth Parliament#YMCA Youth Parliament articles.

Thanks!--CaroleHenson (talk) 03:40, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

My ban appeal

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Misplaced Pages%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard&diff=551050869&oldid=551050508#Please_remove_my_ban. --TheShadowCrow (talk) 23:25, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Bionic Jive

You PRODded this, and I deleted it. Undeletion has now been requested on my talk page by a member of their "management team", so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to consider AfD. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:53, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

KumiokoCleanStart's block log

I noticed that you blocked KumiokoCleanStart on April 24, 2013 for personal attacks or harassment. Unfortunately, the block log does not provide the full URL to the edit you provided in the blocking reason. Can you please give the URL now? Thanks.

P.S.: You may want to exclude the "title=page title&" part from URLs the next time there is insufficient space for providing a blocking reason (or anywhere in general); it does not cause any difference, except for making the URL shorter. smtchahal 16:00, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

• Hi, I don't have the specific link anymore but the gist of it was they self-requested their block for trolling BMK on his talk page, then continued to insult him on their own talk page. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:52, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
  • Oh, alright. Thanks. smtchahal 01:16, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Draft topic ban Jax

I would like to see you comments and additions to User:The Banner/Workpage28, the draft for a topic ban proposal regarding Jax 0677. Hope to hear soon. The Banner talk 12:14, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Proposal: topic ban for Jax 0677 regarding templates

FYI: the proposal is filed here The Banner talk 15:47, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Your response to my comment at RfA

I was in the process of reviewing multiple different RfAs from the past several months, and I noticed that you had actually replied to my comment at Theopolisme's RfA. First of all, I think you are absolutely right about the Misplaced Pages of today being completely different from what it was back in 2005 — and in my opinion, that's an overall good thing. We should expect more from our administrators. That being said, I also think today's standards for RfA are a bit too strict. Most of the people who've gone through the process over the years turned out just fine. Yes, you do have your occasional "bad apple" types, and they typically wind up losing the bit. But most administrators have done a pretty good job.

Secondly, I was actually just pointing out the irony of your comment. It was not intended as a criticism of your rationale. Kurtis 18:14, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

User:Usmanwardag

Might want to stick a block notice on the talk page to cross the t's. --NeilN 17:42, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

"Sjakkalle doesn't look too good in being attached to all this"

Hi, I am curious if there is something you think that I ought to have done differently in relation to the ANI thread that you commented on. Sjakkalle (Check!) 12:32, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

• Probably not. As I pointed out, you were wise to advise the editor to drop it, but they don't appear to have followed your advice. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 12:57, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Troll

Please note that Special:Contributions/70.63.207.108 appears to be a troll with a history of blatant BLP violations/vandalism, including one made on the same day as his AfD comment. I doubt he is anyone of the registered editors participating in the tinywords AfD. Someone not using his real name (talk) 15:10, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Spam claim

You made some comment on the Doug Turnbull AFD that the spam claim was now proven. Not that I don't believe there is spam, but if there is some proof, could you point me toward it, for my own clarity? If it was because that one editor is connected to Virtually Speaking, her edit on the article was trivial. --Nat Gertler (talk) 03:38, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

• In the comment Bides time posted today, they specifically refuse to admit whether they have a COI. If there was even a 1-in-a-million chance in my mind that this could possibly have been a good-faith article attempt, that killed it. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 04:02, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't see that insertion. Fair 'nuff. --Nat Gertler (talk) 04:59, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Bleed from Within

In January 2011, you salted this page; however, a sourced article now exists (on the same subject, I presume :-)). An editor has requested a redirect for the alternate capitalization; do you mind if I unprotect the page and create it? All the best, Miniapolis 17:36, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

• Sure, that's fine, looks like they charted earlier this year so they pass WP:MUSIC now. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:27, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

"Retarded asshole"

Did you even click on that diff? I have to assume you didn't, as if you did, you would see that "'R' is for 'retarded and 'A' is for 'asshole'" was a comment made by User:Camelbinky. That diff, from his talk page, was referencing his comment. I have never called any editor "retarded" or "asshole". I'm not even going to bother asking you to retract your endorsement, as that RfC is largely comedy at this point, but please at least do some basic background research before clicking "support" in the future. Joefromrandb (talk) 00:51, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Whoever took that diff and put it in whatever complaint is going on, I hope reads my comment here- I should have been notified first off, and second off it is, yes retarded, to have used that diff against Joe as he was simply talking to ME on MY talk page about a comment that I made. If anyone wants to go after anyone for saying the word retarded, then feel free to make a complaint about me anyplace you want. But make sure better notification is made than the lack of notification that a diff from MY talk page was used someplace. Can you tell I'm pissed? My talk page is mine, and I want to complain about the use of retarded on it, Ill do it myself.Camelbinky (talk) 20:00, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Ivan Drago merge discussion

Talk:Rocky_IV#Merge_for_Ivan_Drago_into_Rocky_IV An AFD you participated in that just got closed today, is now at a merge discussion. Dream Focus 19:30, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool update

Hey Starblind. I'm contacting you because you're involved in the Article Feedback Tool in some way, either as a previous newsletter recipient or as an active user of the system. As you might have heard, a user recently anonymously disabled the feedback tool on 2,000 pages. We were unable to track or prevent this due to the lack of logging feature in AFT5. We're deeply sorry for this, as we know that quite a few users found the software very useful, and were using it on their articles.

We've now re-released the software, with the addition of a logging feature and restrictions on the ability to disable. Obviously, we're not going to automatically re-enable it on each article—we don't want to create a situation where it was enabled by users who have now moved on, and feedback would sit there unattended—but if you're interested in enabling it for your articles, it's pretty simple to do. Just go to the article you want to enable it on, click the "request feedback" link in the toolbox in the sidebar, and AFT5 will be enabled for that article.

Again, we're very sorry about this issue; hopefully it'll be smooth sailing after this :). If you have any questions, just drop them at the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) 22:05, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

New proposal regarding Wer900 at AN/I

In an effort to resolve the discussion at AN/I regarding Wer900, I have offered a new proposal at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Alternative proposal: Restriction on venues for complaints. Since you have weighed in on previous proposals regarding this user, I am notifying you of the new one in case you wish to opine. Regards, alanyst 19:00, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Sean Guerrier De Bey

Hello! I tagged the Sean Guerrier De Bey article yesterday for mutliple issues. I went back today having worked up the courage to nominate it for deletion, and discovered that my tags had been removed. (In all fairness, the editor DID add a source - a $77. "eBook" from Betascript). Then I found that you'd proposed the article for deletion, but that your tag had been removed as well. The article is nowhere near Misplaced Pages-worthy: There are two "sources" - one is a press release -- and, among other bizarre assertions, DeBey is described in the infobox as a "Record producer Music executive Media buying Publicist Attorney Inventor." Will you check it out? Thank you! I'm going to change my username to Tattletale. JSFarman (talk) 23:24, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

• Agreed, no way it would pass an AFD. The Betascript "source" is really just a reprint of the Misplaced Pages article and definitely not a source. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 17:55, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Steve Moraff

Hi Starblind. I've reverted your speedy deletion of Steve Moraff (consider it contesting the speedy deletion) because I believe that the article has a credible assertion of notability (even if it does a poor job of it) and thus, if it is to be deleted, it should be taken to an AfD. Canadian Paul 17:20, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

• You really should know better than that. If you have additional information that makes him notable, please add it to the article or bring it up at DRV. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 17:41, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Actually you should know better than to unilaterally speedily delete something potentially controversial without putting a tag on it. There was no chance for another administrator to review it nor for a non-administrator to contest the deletion. If I were a new user who just made that article in good faith, I would have had no warning that and no idea why it got deleted and would now be at your mercy to restore it. That would be very discouraging. I don't have any additional information, I just think that there information that is there warrants an AfD if it is to be deleted. Since when was discussion/consensus ever a bad thing? Canadian Paul 17:58, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment

As you previously participated in related discussions you are invited to comment at the discussion at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC for AfC reviewer permission criteria. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:39, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

New section on the Anime and Manga RfC

Hello there. Since the Anime and Manga RfC seems to have developed a consensus for the "It depends on notability and uniqueness of each adaptation", I have started a thread to see if we can offer metrics or further guidance for such case by case... erm... cases. I have no idea if such a thing is even possible to draft up, but since having it might help, I figured I'd try. The thread is HERE, and as a previous participant in the RfC I wanted to let you know about it using this overly long, rambling message. Cheers, Sven Manguard Wha? 16:11, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Nicolas hoax article

Hi. Would you mind speedily deleting the article at Afd? It has been despeedied by an IP editor w/o explanation. It would save a lot of time. thanks, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:31, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

• No problem, done. Good catch. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 03:41, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

That no consensus formed to unblock Jclemens within the last 24 hours shows you did the right thing. Thank you. — Scott • talk 17:05, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks. I was definitely confident that that was the right thing, but as always it's certainly good to know it also has the backing of the community. I appreciate it. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:54, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Arbitration

Regretfully, since this situation appears likely to recur, I am filing a request for arbitration regarding the Henry Earl issue. DavidLeighEllis (talk) 16:52, 14 December 2013 (UTC)