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Delichon

I very much like your efforts on the Martins. It seems to me you are en route to create a Good Topic. Very nice. I addd a GAN notice on the talk page of Delichon. Maybe you would like to check that it is correct. --Ettrig (talk) 19:04, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Various

Some little things to note to and ask you:

• I've noticed these inaccuracies at Eurasian Tree Sparrow: 1. "A wild hybridisation with the Spanish Sparrow, P. hispaniolensis was recorded in Malta" – there are no Spanish Sparrows on Malta exactly, rather, there are some intermediates in the Italian Sparrow complex, the specific placement of which is not agreed. 2. Passer "contains 15–25 species depending on the authority" – Howard and Moore have 25; Misplaced Pages has articles on 26; and the IOC lists a different 26. What should I do?
• Would you mind expanding the description section at House Sparrow soon?
• What does the GA Crested Shelduck need to get to FA? I've made the reference style consistent, and I've started adding and correcting historical information.
• For your information, Chestnut Sparrow is up for GA review, as I've noted at WT:BIRD#Sparrow GAs.

—innotata (Talk • Contribs) 20:24, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Ah, and here's something I forgot:

• Can you add page number citations to The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds and The Birds of the Western Palearctic (Concise ed.) and maybe more information to Spanish Sparrow? (it seems you were the one who added the cits to begin with) —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 23:06, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the replies. As for the atlas, there is a book of this title, The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds, and the book, complete with ISBN is cited at present. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 23:12, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

The supporting text of the atlas is cited, so if you can't supply page numbers, I'll try to remove the citation and replace it with information from other sources. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 00:30, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

GAN for Tillson Harrison

Hi Jim! Thanks for your comments on Talk:Tillson Harrison/GA1. I think I've fixed up the issues you pointed out. When you come back from your short wikibreak, could you please take a second look? Thanks, JulieSpaulding (talk) 10:32, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Done :) I thought you were going on holidays? JulieSpaulding (talk) 11:13, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Jimfbleak! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 5 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 5 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

1. Patrick Buckland - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
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Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 23:21, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

notbroken

Thanks for your efforts at B. cuneata, and your support. One small nit: it constantly amazes me how many experienced editors, such as yourself, are unaware of the excellent advice at WP:NOTBROKEN. Hesperian 11:55, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

It's no big deal. I guess I prefer them as redirects; but if there is one thing more pointless than fixing redirects that aren't broken, it is flipping them back to redirects again! ;-) Rock on! Hesperian 14:08, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Plateosaurus

Just for info, I started reviewing this but withdrew because of the objections of another editor (HMallison). I've left the article in the queue and deleted the review page so hopefully no harm done, and it's as it was, good luck Jimfbleak - talk to me? 20:38, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

In case my comments are any use to you, I've recreated them here. After my review of Semicassis granulata degenerated into an edit war and automatic fail, I became less prepared to get enmeshed in this sort of argument Jimfbleak - talk to me? 20:56, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi Jim,

You are a serious and dedicated GAN reviewer, and I'm sorry you've withdrawn from the review. I have taken a look at your reservations, and will go through them tomorrow. I've converted one bare link and will work on the rest of the formatting on the morrow. Please reconsider your withdrawal, but do know that your review efforts are appreciated. Firsfron of Ronchester 08:25, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks so much for coming back to the review, Jim. I greatly appreciate it. HM is nettled by some of the observations you made ("bit of a mess"), but as you can obviously see (since you've done some of the work yourself), work is proceeding to fix the problems you observed. Regarding the images, these are indeed Arthur Weasley's own illustrations. He simply used his own (real) name when attributing the author (AW is his Misplaced Pages name). Anyway, thanks so much for your work, and for coming back to the review. We need thorough reviews like yours. Firsfron of Ronchester 18:58, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

I would have fixed the redirects myself, but have been asked in the past not to do so. Still, I like it better when the reader clicks on the correct article (and doesn't get a message telling him/her that s/he has been redirected to the correct article. So thanks for the adjustment here. Firsfron of Ronchester 13:37, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Horn colour

Do you know of any synonyms for the colour "horn"? This is the one remaining concern after Chestnut Sparrow's listing as a GA. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 20:41, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Lee Silber "largely unsourced BLP" deletion

Jim,

You deleted an entry I posted yesterday (Lee Silber), and I need clarity as to why.

The message only says "largely unsourced BLP," which I don't understand because I cited 16 sources at the bottom. These were almost all significant and acceptable traditional media publications.

According to the BLP Deletion rules:

Biographical material about a living individual that is not compliant with this policy should be improved and rectified; if this is not possible, then it should be removed. If the entire page is substantially of poor quality, primarily containing contentious material that is unsourced or poorly sourced, then it may be necessary to delete the entire page as an initial step, followed by discussion. Page deletion is normally a last resort.

My interpretation of this is that the article should not have been immediately removed, but rather, the necessary corrections should've been brought to my attention. It specifically says that page deletion is normally a last resort, whereas in this situation it seems to have been a first resort. And nothing I can see about the article appears to fit the criteria for immediate removal.

So, please clarify for me what's going on. I'm admittedly new at this, but I seemed to have followed all the rules.

Thank you.

Chapman53 (talk) 14:52, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Lee Todd Silber

Thank you for your explanation, Jim. I will make those corrections.

And yes, if you could please put the text in my sandbox, that would be helpful.

Chapman53 (talk) 13:53, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Mr Flash deletion

Hello. Please could you undelete Mr Flash? I was just about to add some more stuff with references and everything when suddenly I've found you got rid of it. Please could you give an article a bit more time for editors to get it up to speed? It clearly wasn't any kind of hoax or anything. Thanks. Coolug (talk) 18:47, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

I've added TheurbanApparel.com article and it's deleted

I'm a student and doing the research about E-commerce in Thailand. I've found that this website is going to be an inspiration for Asian & Thai entrepreneur as the website is very innovative and professional. This website might be very small in the world business. But if it's deleted like this, i believe that the third world will be the third world forever as you support only the big businesses. Small business information doesn't mean it is not worth for users to read. The information i've added might sound advertising, but i do take it from the website to make sure it is correct. Please advise. Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tkkbkk (talk • contribs) 19:08, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

I am trying to create a Misplaced Pages page for Mass Premier Soccer, so far all I did was write a short history of the club in a factual format then it was deleted, what are the reasons for this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Masspremiersoccer (talk • contribs) 19:56, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

RFC - musicians

Howdy, I've noticed some of your work and really like the way you help new folks out. Thank you for that.

If you have a moment, I'd appreciate your thoughts on Talk:Contemporary_Jewish_religious_music#Important_figures. The question is how to define an important musical influence. Thanks, Joe407 (talk) 17:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

dr gareth williams

i am completely new to this i dont fully uunderstand it your guild line are touch and you delete anythign ebfor it is even complete i am just testing it out but my aim for this article is a biography of dr gareth williams i want to know how to make it sick and like add photos details down the side and then do all the information. i am his son and i want to do this as a present an its bull if you wont even let me right it —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jack9790 (talk • contribs) 13:55, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

dr gareth williams

ok cool how do i do this allot of his noticed publications are not online there is little information bascily he is was the head developers for the airbus a380 plain and has been reconised in some engerning book with such names as brunel in it i have two site with little informationon it http://www.umari.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/people/eap/williams/ and http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Airbus-boss-vows-A400M-fly/article-1481346-detail/article.html will this be information enough but i will drive though the net to see what else i can dig out maybe i can find one of his publications for his phd. thnaks much help apreacheated :)

WP:COPYPASTE

Hi there. You might wanna look at this article. The content of the article consists of text copied & pasted from various websites. Amsaim (talk) 14:29, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Jimfbleak

The McGowan-Rudolph Constant is a perfectly legitimate scientific principle, and it is widely accepted by the scientific community. It would be a travesty to the world, especially the children, if it were to be deleted from Misplaced Pages. For these reasons, I implore you. do. not. delete. it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Twopeopletimesone (talk • contribs) 14:37, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

hey dude, blitz kids have charted at number 6 on scuzz and are due to do a Kerrang! Breakthrough tour early this year. just so you know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mreskimo (talk • contribs) 15:08, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Fundacion Proacceso

Hey, I wrote the page on Fundacion Proacceso ECO A.C. yesterday, and it was deleted. I am wondering if there is something I need to verify or edit out of it. I provided a link to the official website, which repeats much of the information mentioned. Please let me know if some of the content should be changed so that it can be published. Thanks for your time. Vanessackerr (talk) 17:10, 28 January 2010 (UTC) Vanessa

Palácio Grão Pará

I put it back in. Can't believe the master article was speedily deleted - I literally was in the process of translating it and had it as a placeholder.

I know you didn't delete the original article. I'm just astonished at the speed of deletion! PR (talk) 20:14, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Fundacion Proacceso

I appreciate your quick response, and I went over the article you forwarded. Are there other articles or databases where you could recommend I ADD information about the foundation, as opposed to creating an autonomous article? Vanessackerr (talk) 20:36, 28 January 2010 (UTC) Thanks

House Sparrow sectioning

Here's one of my sectioning problems I told you I'd have: I don't know what to do with the information on the House Sparrow's introduced range etc. Currently there is a short and concise distribution and habitat section, a lengthy "as an invasive species section", including the spread of the House Sparrow, and a lack of a general "human interactions section". I don't entirely feel up to adding the latter—I would write it from a "sparrow" perspective. If such a section is made should the rest of the article sections in question keep their current focus? That does not seem entirely right, but I do not want to change the focus of the distribution and habitat section. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 22:10, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

I've responded at my talk page. I'll start dealing with this next time I get on Misplaced Pages. Can you take a look at the survival section of House sparow soon? —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 19:49, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

		Thank You
		For your excellent and wonderful contributions at Misplaced Pages:Featured Article Candidates during the month of December 2009. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:06, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

IMM Graduate School of Marketing

Hi,

I have a question and hopefully you can answer it. I wrote the article on the IMM GSM you deleted. You say that I am advertising but I don’t understand why you say that. I admit that this is my first contribution but I feel it is unfair to delete without explaining. I quoted and referenced independent external sources and wrote the contribution in exactly the same format and style as most of the other South African University articles. If you really think I’m advertising you might as well delete the UNISA and Damelin articles that are in exactly the same format. There is a huge gap in the List of universities in South Africa and I was hoping to write contributions on others.

Please clarify why you deleted.

Kind regards, --Bertus Esterhuysen (talk) 05:54, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Template

Re Template:Flamingos; I wonder if we could give this a try without semi-protection. Snowman (talk) 14:56, 30 January 2010 (UTC)