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I've departed for a short wikibreak of a few months; real life barges on and as such I need to take care of some stuff. Wikistress++ as well, but there are some loose ends to take care of over the next few days so I'll take care of those before recharging my batteries.  RasputinAXP  c 20:20, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

A useful article deleted by you...

I'm a writer and I do work for 2000AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine, which makes an easy, handy, editable History Of Mega-City One very useful to me in my work as a quick reference source.

So can I have it back?

I don't know who created it originally, but they might well have done me a huge favour and saved me trawling through a bunch of old boxes for simple info or asking endless questions on the 2000AD message boards. It might not have been as useful as that, but I'll never know now, thanks to your efforts.

I realise that you're very proud of deleting things and it's a very big deal to you, but I'd really appreciate it if you could undelete that one. Cheers.

(I'm not giving you my name because I've actually got my own Wiki entry which is also very useful to me. And I'm a little worried you might tear that one down as well in your lust for deletion. Unless you're going to go on a pogrom against all British comic writers listed on the Wiki, I reckon I'm fairly safe so long as I don't give you any clues. I also enjoy long walks on the beach, unicorns, and poetry.)

An exercise in civility, in One Act, by The Writer.

The old sage sat on the edge of the fire, encircled by children. He began his story thus: "Once, there was an article. This article was remarkably well written, and placed on the wiki. The administrator did smile, for he was well familiar with the subject. The adventures of the Judge were not far from his heart. Unfortunately, something struck him as he read the article. He'd seen it somewhere before! Sighing inwardly, he went to Google. He typed the title of the article in the search box and sighed again. The article, whose topic he loved so, was there as well."

"He buried the article in its grave, with the epitaph 'copyvio, http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=dredd&page=timelines '."

One of the children raised a fist, exclaiming "That bastard had no right!"

The sage looked intently at the child. "Young one," he said, "it is not the way of our community to destroy without cause, and just because one has been buried does not mean one is truly dead! These things may be brought back, but only by one skilled in such arts! They must supply a release of copyright by the owner, and thus granted, live again!"

Chastisted, the child fell silent.  RasputinAXP  c 22:23, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

World Junior Hockey Championships (or whatever they are called

I just added a merge proposal tag to Ice Hockey World Junior Championships to blend it with World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. They are both well written, but about same topic. ... ColtsScore 08:14, 9 June 2006 (UTC) -ps-hope break was good.

Question.

I want to ask you about AOL. As I have been reverting some vandalisms on article, I have recognized many IP ID. I think that same IP user is shared by other user. If I become an administrator, Should I block AOL if IP vandalized article? or Like If same IP demonstrates good behaviour, and provides good information on article, it will be good to any IP that is not changed. What's the reason that AOL can not be blocked sometimes? Could you explain to me in my discussion's Page? '''*Daniel*''' 03:06, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Go check out Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Unblock_request

You made a deciding change to the blocking structure surrounding zigzogger, ziglz0gger, Big.P, and kitteneatkitten. FloNight seeks more discussion on the matter, and I'm not an admin. I went and defended zigzogger after seeing a checkuser result in the face of prior assumptions made surrounding zigzo.. vs zigz0..., but you should go there and talk to FloNight, because there's not much else I can say about the issue. Thanks. Kevin_b_er 03:22, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Global Reserve Bank

Hi. I have, with a bit of digging, uncovered a lot of information that supports the un-deletion of the Global Reserve Bank entry. It is, apparently, a real plan that has a lot of mentions in various mainstream and reputable publications. Here are some links:

Now..Does this bank exist yet? No, but Misplaced Pages covers many things that don't exist yet..hell, there is even an entry for the New World Order (try and prove THAT exists). Anyway, I think the article should be put up for un-deletion....please review and adivse as i wish to avoid the nonsense of the last time. TruthCrusader 07:57, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

The only problem is, none of the links dug up prove a thing. I mean, did TruthCrusader actually bother to read them, or did he, as I suspect, pull out sites that happen to have the text string "Global Reserve Bank" in them? The first link is a self-reference, since it's the homepage of the subject of the article, so is automatically not a reliable source. The others are sites that use "Global Reserve Bank" in an entirely different sense than the deleted article, as economists's hypothetical global version of the US Federal Reserve Bank. Provide some actual reliable sources of the actual concept being discussed, and maybe he has a shot at convincing anyone. Until then, it doesn't deserve yet another bite of the apple. --Calton | Talk 08:22, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Well I will show you wrong and then hope that you will be sorry for your ignorance and bad attitude dude... --Swedenborg 16:25, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Here is just one of many, many reliable sources that can support the excistance and the argument for at least letting an article about GRB be able to developed at Wiki, It should actually start from that version that was for 5 years on wiki before these stupid deletionists started thire vandalization tours...http://www.singleglobalcurrency.org/ GRB at Singcurr conference 2005

--Swedenborg 16:33, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Junior B Teams

Hello, a user has decided that he does not want us placing hockey stubs on Misplaced Pages to expand later into teams. In particular he doesn't like Junior teams... I was wondering if you could please voice your opinion. Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Thunder Bay Northern Hawks DMighton 03:43, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words. The last 24 hours have been absolutely retarded. But... I have faith. Thank you. DMighton 13:06, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Jumping Shark

I changed it to a disambiguation. Can you take care of Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Jumping Shark. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:31, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

David Jewell

Why did you delete my article on David Jewell, written a few hours ago? I realise now I was actually incorrect in my citation of sources (should have been "The Times" rather than "The Daily Telegraph"), but it was otherwise a perfectly accurate article. It wasn't a copyright violation, as I clearly (though incorrectly) credited my external sources, and marked quotations from the source as such. It also wasn't a lie, vandalism, or an article on an unremarkable person (Jewell was important enough to have an article in a major broadsheet newspaper). Walton monarchist89 14:32, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Your source was an obituary, at least is was when I looked at it. WP:NOT a memorial.  RasputinAXP  c 14:34, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Just because the source was an obituary doesn't make the article an obituary or a memorial. It was a valid biography of a man who was prominent in the field of English independent schools. I have created the article again - please don't delete it - and have cited the correct source this time. Walton monarchist89 14:39, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

...for removing the personal abuse but surely some of the perpetrators need action taken against them? Robertsteadman 14:36, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

See my comments on your user page. I will take no action against anyone, including you as long as respect is maintained. I will not tolerate any more incivility.  RasputinAXP  c 14:41, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

The Protomen

I would like to ask why the Protomen's article has been determined fit for deletion, considering that, during the argument (to prevent such), evidence was provided in their favor. For the most part, those against the article's permanent place in Misplaced Pages simply quoted rules without defending their arguments. Considering that the discussion itself had a foreword about how votes do not matter, but the debating does, the decision to delete the article seems to completely contradict that. More people voted for Delete than they did Keep, yet more of those who suggested keeping the article were capable of providing reasons that fit in with WP:MUSIC. Why, then, was the decision made to delete the article? I'm sure you have read the entire discussion, but if not, it's here: http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_Protomen_%28second_nomination%29#.5B.5BThe_Protomen.5D.5D RazMasters 18:38, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

What the hell does this have to do with me?  RasputinAXP  c 18:48, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I see, now. I closed the first discussion, which was 4 deletes and 1 keep. Looks to me that it's still non-notable. In the future, if you're referencing something, it's usual to reference what the person was involved in.  RasputinAXP  c 18:52, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Please forgive me for continuing to ask questions here, but I do not fully understand why they are considered non-notable. I've read WP:MUSIC, and have provided evidence that explains why the Protomen do meet the requirements (have been printed in more than one magazine with millions of readers, have been broadcast on a radio station for more than a half hour, have sold out of several album pressings, have toured across part of the US, have fans all over the world, et cetera). References for the above claims were provided, too. What else must be given? I'm at a loss... RazMasters 18:36, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Fluffy (The Lion King)

I see you've speedied this article. However, the reference _is_ genuine; it appears in the director's commentary on the DVD, and in the book "The Art Of The Lion King"; it may also appear in other canonical sources. I would request that, at least, it's returned to the normal AfD process. Tevildo 20:25, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

36481?

I restored the deleted article, giving a lengthy reason. I am sure you'll understand - but I didn't want the dude working so hard on it to feel wp:bitten twice. I strongly feel, and I am sure you will agree with me, that both the deletions were out of process. Thanks. - CrazyRussian talk/email 02:24, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

WTF? Somebody redeleted it again... I give up! - CrazyRussian talk/email 12:54, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Huh. Not me. I agree, I was hasty in deleting it but I didn't redelete. Sorry.  RasputinAXP  c 13:11, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

The Steven Gao Controversy

Personally, I thought the redirect was a grand idea on this article. The main editor sent me a "can't we vote on this" type of message, at which point I figured AfD was the appropriate forum for the article's future. So that's why I reverted the redirect and nominated it for deletion. Myself, I say keep being bold with redirects like this. —C.Fred (talk) 16:33, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

He requested deletion on the AfD so I've Speedied it as G7. This Wikibreak isn't working out :P  RasputinAXP  c 17:16, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Fluffy (The Lion King) on deletion review

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Fluffy (The Lion King). Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review. --Deathphoenix ʕ 02:07, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

nn-bio

Whoa! I was just looking at the admins actions feed and saw your work on deleting nn-bios. Good work =D --mboverload@ 00:44, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Heh, thanks. Ctrl-Tab is my friend ;)  RasputinAXP  c 01:25, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

World Hockey Association (proposed)

I put the correct ticker symbol back up the other one was outdated. John R G 21:29, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

New to Misplaced Pages

Good Day, Mr. Leyden I can understand if you delete redundant pages to subjects. I will even go so far as to apologize to ALL USERS for my having posted redundancies. Forgive my inexperience, but it seems you have performed over 3000 deletions! (gasp)

Have any of YOUR articles been deleted? Do you write articles, or just delete everyone elses?

If it is your intention to delete every reference to a subject you deem "non-notable" you will, in effect, be placing a limit on the nature of "open source" knowledge that this site offers!

What some may consider a matter of the utmost importance, may be trivial in your eyes, and is carelessly deleted. Understand the nature of Karma dictates that when you least expect it, similar practices may be visited upon you.

As a responsible administrator, you must resist the urge to impose your personal tastes, while performing your responsibilities.

YOU ALL...have my apologies for any redundancies, however. Misplaced Pages is fast becoming my 1st reference for a great deal of "random info". In the future I will be posting information that I feel others may find useful. I can only hope it is treated with some degree of respect.

Regards, Aria Metzenberg

An administrator's job is to be a janitor. I am cleaning up after you and everyone else. For a list of articles I've worked on, see User:RasputinAXP/Pages I Have Worked On. Karma is as karma does. Your addition of so-called "random info" is deleted because you offer no single claim to notability or noteriety other than "this person exists." You also created it over several pages (what you refer to as "redundancies") without understanding how Misplaced Pages works.

The number of deletions I have made is, overall, irrelevant. I delete things because they have been tagged and when they're applicable deletions, I perform them. There's a large number of things that I remove deletion tags from. As you can see from my contribution list as well as the Pages I Have Worked On link above, I do far more than delete. In the future, please understand that respect is given to you when you give respect to others. If Karma is to be visited on my for deleting every small band who wants the world to know who they are, every student that gets bored in class or every spammer who wants to boost their Google Pagerank, then so be it. Misplaced Pages may not be paper, but there is a limit to what should be in it.  RasputinAXP  c 21:08, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: New To Misplaced Pages

Thank you, Mr. Leyden. I did not say however, that I will be ADDING random info. Wiki is where I GET my random info. I will be posting INFORMATION about people who I feel either HAVE... or WILL make an impact on some level. I am thus far, a "non-notable" historian, but then again, aren't all historians? :o) I do appreciate your taking the time out to reply. As well, I am familiarizing myself with more & more regarding the policies / procedures this site, and others. Your patience is also appreciated.

Regards, Aria Metzenberg

Inanimate Carbon Rod

Neat award (and deserving first awardee!) but the image is copyrighted, you may want to see if someone can draw a non copyvio version for you... copyrighted images should theoreticaly only be used in articlespace. ++Lar: t/c 05:02, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Thunderhead (The Incredibles)

Did you notice my message on the talk page before you deleted the page? I kind of want an explanation. The context of the page was obvious from the title. he was a character in the movie. I was in the middle of writing that first sentence when you deleted the page. Ansell 04:30, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Insufficient context for expansion. Yes, he was a character in The Incredibles. He was also in the movie for all of 5 seconds, if I remember correctly. That's never going to go beyond being a stub. Wait, how many of these stubs are there?  RasputinAXP  c 04:35, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Thunder Bay Northern Hawks

Just wanted to say that I endorse your decision to remove the merge tag from this article. You deserve a medal for being so patient with Robertsteadman, or at least a beer. -Hit bull, win steak 18:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Podlounge listing deleted

I noticed you had deleted the "PodLounge" entry...

this entry detailed information regarding the podlounge (one of the largest podcasting directories on the web) and was intended to be informative and within the guidelines

why is it that other directory entries such as podcast pickle still remain? (fwiw I have nothing against the podcast pickle listing remaining - however Im unsure as to why the podlounge listing was removed?)

It was marked as a prod deletion, meaning it was marked as "If there are no protests, this will be deleted in five days." I was just cleaning out the Prods for the day. I also agreed that with an Alexa rating of about 600,000, it was a non-notable site. That said, because it's a prod, if you're contesting it I'll undelete it and move it to an Articles for Deletion discussion instead.  RasputinAXP  c 11:36, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply - I now understand why you have done that - I would like to contest it however so if you could move this to an AFD discussion that would be much appreciated. --Darkaz 13:49, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

It's been put on AfD at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/PodLounge.  RasputinAXP  c 14:42, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Your ID.

Hellow, RasputinAXP. my purpose here is to ask you about your ID because I'm just curious about your ID. As I have been working on Misplaced Pages, Some of wikipedian's ID is also interesting. Ahh, What does Rasputin mean to? I'm so curious about your ID. Is Rasputin one of the person's name? Please, Explain to me what does your ID (Rasputin) mean to. Also, I hope you could send me message about your ID. Sorry to bother you.

*~Daniel~* ☎ has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

*~Daniel~* ☎ 00:34, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

WP:Canada

I am not quite sure how it is that you can expect others to notify you about changes made to pages you've written on your talk page.

Any case, perhaps you can integrate the little bit into the Avenue Q article. It would probably fit in there. If you want to start a collection of Americans on Canada you could link to Blame Canada... and then discuss the flip side, such as Talking to Americans. Nephron  T|C 21:33, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Article needing deletion, or something...

Have a look at the article Bose Headphone Family... it's not an article but rather a big long ad, obviously created by someone that works at Bose. I think this quote from the last section says it all: "Bose's commitment to excellent customer relations has been longstanding and their family of headphones is no diffrent. Year after year Bose has been addressing customer problems/concerns and meeting customer wishes, and are expected to address remaining concerns and/or wishes in the future. The changes made from QuietComfort, QuietComfort 2, QuietComfort 2 Second Edition, and now the QuietComfort 3 displays an unprecedented level of customer relations, and as forseen by the Tri-Port Original Release and the Tri-Port Re-Release, Bose remains committed in customer satisfaction and customer service."

--Shadowlink1014 17:31, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Inducted members of the International Hockey Hall of Fame

I noticed you deleted the above page. I counted 2 MERGE votes (RGTraynor and DMighton), 2 DELETE votes (BoojiBoy and Khatores) and 3 KEEP votes JohnnyCanuck, YoungWebster and SupermanAboveTO) Wasn't the result was to KEEP? Please note that the two delete votes were also prior to sources being provided. --JohnnyCanuck 22:32, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

AfD is not a vote. Your sources did not actually provide verifiable information.  RasputinAXP  c 00:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Procedure inquiry

Hello there, I realise you are on a wikibreak, its not an urgent query, but regarding this deletion debate, should I assume that the same result would have been reached in a similar debate over each of the band's albums? Their discography was rather exhaustively covered by one rather diligent editor, and while I understand that the albums themselves are not considered notable in themselves, there is a lot of information spread over all the articles, which if all lumped into the band article would I feel prove rather unwieldy. I'm happy for that, if everyone else is, just as long as its consistent. I missed the deletion debate, otherwise obviously I would have raised these points there, but how should I proceed from here do you reckon (I have kind of taken it upon myself to upkeep the Nuclear Death article, since the contributing editor, while dedicated, makes various and frequent format and style errors and I feel paternal towards their contributions)? Cheers for any guidelines you can give me. Jdcooper 23:18, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Honestly, I'm of the opinion that Misplaced Pages is not Allmusic. Ultimately, I understand others feel differently about it. My best suggestion is to create List of Nuclear Death albums and put them all there, with a Main article: List of Nuclear Death albums in Nuclear Death. That's pretty much the way it's been broken out with other articles I've worked on, such as Baritone -> List of baritone roles and List of famous baritones, Jack Kerouac -> Jack Kerouac in popular culture and other such breakouts. It's a lot simpler to maintain things like that.  RasputinAXP  c 00:16, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much, I'll get onto it. Jdcooper 00:18, 31 July 2006 (UTC)