User talk:Athaenara/Deletions 2007-2010

This is an archive of deletion discussions from 2007 through 2010.

Please do not edit the contents of this page.

If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, do so on the current talk page.

See Wikipedia talk:Suspected sock puppets/Jean Girard for 2008-2009 discussions about repeated re-creations of a hoax article

2007

Rational mysticism

You deleted the term rational mysticism, a concept which I and a number of scientifically oriented individuals consider an important concept. There was certainly research included in the article. Do you find the term somehow offensive or is it some other personal opinion which you are expressing. I check my watch list frequently and this term was on my watch list. I find no notification that the term was to be deleted. How did you manage to circumvent the notification? I would appreciate the opportunity to discuss the deletion and dispute this deletion. Richard Dates —Preceding comment was added at 21:30, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article was proposed for deletion at 06:51, 29 October 2007 (UTC) by Hypergeometric2F1(a,b,c,x), whose concern was that the article was a violation of the no original research policy. In accordance with proposed deletion policy, it was deleted at 04:14, 4 November 2007 (UTC).

You may propose it for deletion review if you wish. — Athaenara ✉ 21:50, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Addendum 1: If you want to continue to work on the article to bring it up to policies and guidelines for inclusion, I can restore the previous content as a subpage in your user space to aid that process. — Athaenara ✉ 22:20, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Addendum 2: I went ahead with it—I can delete that at your request if you do not want it in your user space. — Athaenara ✉ 22:32, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've restored the page, the page was proded, so he is contesting a prod. Prodego ^talk 23:09, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think your solution was appropriate. — Athaenara ✉ 23:20, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have added it to WP:AFD, so if you would like to comment, here you are. Prodego ^talk 23:25, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know what this prod stuff is. All I know is that this term doesn't come from my original research. It discussed widely on the web. It was used as a core concept in a sermon by the former head of the Unitarian-Universalist Association, John Buehrens. It seems to be a key concept for a lot of significant people more important than me or most wikepedia editors. Sorry, I'm not an expert on Wikipedia technicalities like 'prod'. Richard Dates —Preceding comment was added at 00:37, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't assume you were familiar with the term*; that's why I didn't use it when I replied to you :-)

(*It's shorthand for proposed deletion.)

By its very nature, this encyclopedia covers far more topics than can be within the scope of any single editor. That is one of the reasons for the Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines for sourcing the content which is added to it: we must have something upon which we can rely when we're researching and developing material, whether or not we're familiar with it ourselves. — Athaenara ✉ 00:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your courteous answers and constructive work on the concept rational mysticism. It seems with the heat it has generated, it must have a bit of emotional impact for some of the other editors. It seems to be growing into a notable idea but definitely not a movement...yet. Richard Dates 23:26, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome! — Athaenara ✉ 23:29, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good work

Your revision and work on the rational mysticism continues to improve the article .Richard Dates 15:37, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. — Athaenara ✉ 18:00, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have been very positively impressed by your contributions to this article. There is now a lot of what appears to be good info in the discussion section which might be added to the main portion. I don't think I have the knowledge to do that properly. Any ideas? Richard Dates (talk) 16:07, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On the talk page, some of the information was kind of interesting, some of it was POV, some was both. I spent a lot of time finding references which established the notability of the subject itself last month and don't presently have an interest in expanding the article. — Athaenara ✉ 08:20, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Melon Juice

I'm curious, why did you delete this page? ChaosAkita (talk) 04:29, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:ChaosAkita#Speedy deletion of Melon Juice. — Athaenara ✉ 04:35, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VIN codes

→ in re: Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 December 21#List of Ford VIN codes and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/VIN Codes

An editor has asked for a deletion review of List of Ford VIN codes. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. On the 13th December you deleted Volvo VIN Numbers one of a number of articles relating to VIN codes these have been list for review. Gnan garra 06:55, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

2008

Old user page

I see you deleted my old user page, User:Wahkeenah. I wonder if you'd mind restoring it for 24 hours so that I can retrieve a couple of things from it. Specifically, there was a barnstar thing that I forgot to grab from User talk:Wahkeenah, and probably some other talk page stuff also. Thank you! Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 07:50, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done and done with edit summary "Temporarily restoring per 07:50, 15 February 2008 (UTC) request on User talk:Athaenara#Old user page by Special:Contributions/Baseball Bugs."

It was deleted because it was in the Category:Temporary Wikipedian userpages and was tagged as a user-requested deletion. Suggestion: why not stop asking for it to be deleted (twice now) and just archive it, or mark it historical? — Athaenara ✉ 08:08, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I will attend to it ASAP. I did not put that category on it. That showed up sometime between July 8 and 13 of 2007, without showing up in the history, so I'm assuming that it arises from a template. In short, I was not aware it was targeted for deletion. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 15:11, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that the block notice template is where that came from. Since I'm not using the page anymore except for history (and for notices by robots of old image uploads and stuff), maybe I should take away the block notice and that would fix it? Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 15:12, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies. I did it to myself when I added that template. If I take that away, is it still going to get deleted? Or can it just stay as is? Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 15:27, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If a template is subst'd, the category can be removed after the template is added.

How about this one? → {{subst:Indefblockedbecause| the user requested it}}

Let me know if you need more help with this. — Athaenara ✉ 22:46, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. I moved it to the top of the page. Thanks for your help. :) Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 23:04, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome! — Athaenara ✉ 23:06, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Motif (narrative)

Hi, can you please restore the contents of the article Motif (narrative)? I think that this subject is encyclopedic in nature and can be made into an encyclopedic article, which is more than just a dictionary definition. Even if you disagree, please restore the content and immediately convert the article into a redirect to Motive, in order to restore the history and let other users work on the content starting from the previous version. I am asking this because the article was deleted due to a PROD, and not a speedy or AfD, and therefore it does not require community concensus to restore its contents. Thanks, Ynhockey ^(Talk) 16:57, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Restored and removed dated {{transwiki}} template. — Athaenara ✉ 01:55, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Empty categories

→ in re: categories created by Buaidh

Howdy, thanks for deleting [Category:WikiProject Washington articles] (which I think was not only empty but misnamed). The same user created a whole slew of empty categories, but I'm not as sure about deleting these. I wanted to ask the user, but I wasn't sure how to phrase it. Basically, I'm not sure how clear it is that they need to be deleted. Should I nominate them all and warn him, should I just ask him out of curiosity, or should I warn him that they might be nominated for speedy?

Here are the categories:

Category:WikiProject Alaska members
Category:WikiProject California members
Category:WikiProject Delaware members
Category:WikiProject Hawaii members
Category:WikiProject Idaho members
Category:WikiProject Illinois members
Category:WikiProject Iowa members
Category:WikiProject Maryland members
Category:WikiProject Massachusetts members
Category:WikiProject Minnesota members
Category:WikiProject Missouri members
Category:WikiProject Nebraska members

Category:WikiProject Nevada members
Category:WikiProject New Hampshire members
Category:WikiProject New Jersey members
Category:WikiProject New Mexico members
Category:WikiProject North Carolina members
Category:WikiProject North Dakota members
Category:WikiProject Ohio members
Category:WikiProject Oklahoma members
Category:WikiProject Pennsylvania members
Category:WikiProject South Carolina members
Category:WikiProject Texas members

Thanks, JackSchmidt (talk) 00:26, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I wondered about that myself, and almost undeleted the category. I checked the history, though, and Buaidh had removed it from other categories before the CSD nom, so I left it deleted.

Generally, WikiProject members are listed on WikiProject pages, not in categories. My opinion is that the member categories are eligible for deletion, but perhaps the question should be asked on some of the WikiProject talk pages. — Athaenara ✉ 00:40, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Afterthought:

Maybe User categories for discussion is the best place to ask. — Athaenara ✉ 00:44, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I created the deletion discussion but did not tag the categories themselves until it looks more like the categories might be deleted but that someone might want them kept (i.e. something other than instant consensus). JackSchmidt (talk) 17:34, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well that went smoothly and quickly. Buaidh said it was just a mistake, please delete them. I did a non-admin closure of the UCFD and marked all of them {{db-c1}} with a link back to the UCFD. If you are familiar with xfd closing (and are feeling generous), could you check if my closure was kosher? It feels silly being so short, but it definitely seemed like the clear decision: the creator wanted them deleted and (before I mentioned them at ucfd) they clearly met the letter of the law for C1. Thanks for all the help. JackSchmidt (talk) 18:04, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome, and well done! — Athaenara ✉ 23:11, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User Omghax111

→ in re: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Omghax111

Hey, saw you were online from the clearing of the userpages I'd CSD'd. Would you be able to take a look at this AfD and close it? It's been around for two weeks now and I think we have a pretty good consensus. Thanks! Ironho lds 23:13, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Amazing. For now, I posted "Delete all per Wikipedia:NOT#BLOG policy" and watchlisted it for further developments. — Athaenara ✉ 23:26, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks for taking the time :). Amazing? Ironho lds 23:57, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I find it amazing that anyone thinks Wikipedia userpages may be used like a blog or a myspace page — clueless me! — Athaenara ✉ 00:00, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah ok, I get what you mean. I currently have one user who's page I MfD'd (it's a 2-3 page essay on the history of wizardry) who's excuse is "everyone does it, stop singling me out!", something I find amusing since a quick glance at my contributions would show I spend half my time nominating such pages. Ironho lds 00:03, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As of 10 minutes ago, they're gone. — Athaenara ✉ 04:35, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Happycat Image

Did you really delete an image based on a Wiki as a source? Furthermore, a very valid fair use claim could be made regardless. Weighted Companion Cube (are you still there?/don't throw me in the fire) 14:13, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I had deleted it as per Ned Scott's WP:CSD#I9 tag, which included this comment:

"While not much of a reliable source, [wiki.ytmnd.com/Happycat] claims (from July 2006) that this image was taken from "the front page of a Russian cat food company's website in 2003". Even without that, I myself have seen it for years around the internet, and it's very doubtful that this the uploader is the true copyright holder. -- Ned Scott 04:57, 19 June 2008 (UTC)."

I undeleted it as per your objection. — Athaenara ✉ 15:25, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Weighted Companion Cube (are you still there?/don't throw me in the fire) 19:42, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! — Athaenara ✉ 19:50, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Highway pages

→ in re: DeletedContributions/Freewayguy

Acutally I ask to delete [ Lists of Unsigned Main Interstate Highways ]. Because this went through numerous of page moves, is the place I put pink tag too. [ I-169 (TN) ] should be deelte too, since its pre original source. With Sadao S. Munemori Interchange I have no porblem with deleting it sinceits also pur original source. Mind if you delete those too.--Freewayguy ^{Msg USC} 21:49, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The page history (which goes back as far as January 2007) shows several editors, which disqualifies it for WP:CSD#G7: speedy deletion requested by only author. It is still in the CSD category and will be seen by other admins as well. — Athaenara ✉ 22:12, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually what's difference between speedy deletion and normal deelteion? Actually how long is speedy deeltion on average. I thoguht speedy deeltion means they get delete faster than normal ones and normal deeltion has to go through normal 10 days.--Freewayguy ^{Msg USC} 22:22, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Specifically:

the criteria for speedy deletion apply to limited cases in which pages may be deleted without discussion. Often deleted within minutes, the actual elapsed time depends on when administrators check the category and review the items in it.
with proposed deletion, an article will not be deleted until five days after it was tagged.
in the articles for deletion process, a consensus will typically be reached within one week.

A quick read of the first paragraph or two of each of these three pages should clarify the situation further if you want to know more. — Athaenara ✉ 23:00, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Peruvian articles

→ in re: DeletedContributions/Evelyn Z

Hi Athaenara, Please can you let me know why you decide and actually did erase the articles I wrote. I understood that even if you are an administrator, you have to actually make some research and questions before deleting any of the articles, even without putting any reasons in the discussion pages. Please let me know yor reasons ok? Thanks. --Evelyn Zuñiga 22:47, 28 June 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Evelyn Z (talk • contribs)

As Victor12 posted on your own user talk page (User talk:Evelyn Z#Copyright problems), they were tagged for speedy deletion and subsequently deleted as per WP:CSD#12: blatant copyright infringements of content on the peruturismo.com website.

Have you read Why was my page deleted? and Deletion review? — Athaenara ✉ 23:08, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wainkelly algorithm

It's back! Bongomatic (talk) 09:36, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's gone! — Athaenara ✉ 18:00, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Closing AfDs

→ in re: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bring da Ruckus

Next time, when closing AfDs, please use {{subst:afd top}} and {{subst:afd bottom}}. This is to make the closure more visually obvious and helps the bot sort out closed noms. Thanks. —Kurykh 01:15, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I was looking for those! — Athaenara ✉ 01:17, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Uw-joke4im deletion review

→ in re: Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 July 4#Template:Uw-joke4im (closed)

A template you deleted, Template:Uw-joke4im, is being discussed on Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 July 4. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DGG (talk • contribs) 16:50, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I followed up over there. — Athaenara ✉ 18:00, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the deletion of Heatrock

→ in re: Special:DeletedContributions/Heatrock

I'm thinking the now empty page Carlos Brown, that somehow was redirected to Alan Autry, needs deletion as well. It appears to have been done to make the link blue, so that the Heatrock article would look more legit. S. Dean Jameson 03:06, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome *whew* that one left a slew of redirects in its trail! I have no idea what Brown/Autry may have to do with Heatrock. I consider that I've done my bit in this tiny corner of Wikipedia spam and will leave the rest to you and others :-) — Athaenara ✉ 03:21, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template:AbortionbyCountry

I'm curious why you deleted Template:AbortionbyCountry. Well I know why you deleted it: because someone had listed it as WP:CSD#R3. However, I do not believe this template was simply an implausible typo (R3 only applies for recently created redirects). This was the title of Template:Abortion by country (sidebar) for over a year. Sardanaphalus, without any prior discussion, decided to rename the template, use automated editing to change the old links, and then requested the template be deleted in under an hours time. Redirects are cheap and I wanted to get your perspective on deleting this redirect given this information. (also this seems like a very specific reason to keep the redirect around, at least for a little while).-Andrew c ^[talk] 03:36, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I undeleted it and will leave it to you (and, presumably, to other neutral editors involved) to hash out the issues elsewhere, no problem! — Athaenara ✉ 03:52, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

J.W. Childs Associates

You recently deleted the J.W. Childs Associates page due to "copyright infringement". I believe if there was any material that was objectionable it mas minimal. I would ask that you point out specifically where the objection was as the text for that article was generally original, with certain sections referencing articles and various different sources. As this cites certain facts around areas of investment there will be certain words that are the same but this can be removed or corrected if necessary rather than deleting the entire article.

This article was created as part of the Private Equity Task Force. If there is inadvertant material included I will work to correct any issues but a speedy delete seems unwarranted here. |► ϋ r b a n я e n e w a l ◄| (talk) 04:50, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RHaworth tagged the article for speedy deletion as per WP:CSD#G11: blatant advertising. I checked the proprietary website www.jwchilds.com/, found the introductory paragraph in your article duplicated text on the site, and deleted it as per WP:CSD#G12 as well (note that both are linked in the deletion log). I recommend Wikipedia:Deletion review. — Athaenara ✉ 05:02, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The first paragraph is very generic and the list of industries is noted in various different sources. As you are talking about one sentence in the entire article, is it possible to reinstate the page without the objectionable material rather than spend the time going through a deletion review? |► ϋ r b a n я e n e w a l ◄| (talk) 05:09, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's not "your" article, nor is it "my" deletion—time is sometimes well-spent in straightforward community processes. — Athaenara ✉ 05:12, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note also that Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted?#What you can do about it (point 6) explains how to obtain a working copy for a subpage of your own userspace. — Athaenara ✉ 05:10, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I know. I just don't think that there is very much, if any really objectionable material here, and certainly not anything that would merit deleting the article altogether. The wording follows a very similar pattern that I have used in numerous articles on different firms and if I have to go through all of this I will but I really think it would be much easier to work through these very specific issues you are raising as edits to the page rather than deletions of the page. I have been working on wikipedia for quite a while and have not encountered this kind of issue before that could not be resolved relatively quickly and easily. As you can tell from my edit history I like to spend my time actually editing articles rather than going through the admin hassle of this kind of issue. If you are able to work with me that would be great. If I have to go through a deletion review and get a working copy of my article I will do it but it would not be my first inclination.|► ϋ r b a n я e n e w a l ◄| (talk) 05:18, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am going to be logging off for the evening and won't be able to reply further. From reading your other discussions you seem to be fairly reasonable. If you look at the content you deleted I think you will see you can very easily resolve any objections you might have and I certainly don't think the article needs to be deleted and any rewording would be fairly minor. That does not typically qualify for speedy deletion under WP:Copyrights. "Copyright law governs the creative expression of ideas, not the ideas or information themselves" In this case you are talking about very few words that represent a factual description about a company, which is why if you see the firm described in various articles around the web you will also see similar text appears. Thanks|► ϋ r b a n я e n e w a l ◄| (talk) 05:45, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion review is not arduous. The exposure there, where uninvolved neutral editors contribute a variety of views, is generally healthy for any article. — Athaenara ✉ 05:55, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I completely disagree about the purpose of that but fine if you won't be helpful. I am not certain I understand your point of view on this but ok. |► ϋ r b a n я e n e w a l ◄| (talk) 12:13, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion review for J.W. Childs Associates

An editor has asked for a deletion review of J.W. Childs Associates. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. |► ϋ r b a n я e n e w a l ◄| (talk) 13:23, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

→ in re: Special:DeletedContributions/Crystalchiang

Which tag should i add here [1]. --SkyWalker (talk) 07:03, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To me, it looks like there's no salvageable content (WP:CSD#A3).

However, the same editor has previously added similar pages and then blanked them, so it might just be a matter of time (WP:CSD#G7). — Athaenara ✉ 07:09, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nneonneo tagged it WP:CSD#G12: blatant copyright infringement (two webpages on weather.cpst.net.cn and www.hoodong.com). — Athaenara ✉ 19:10, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cecil Creepseed

→ in re: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cecil Creepseed

Probably was more a sophisticated hoax than a copyright infringement, both the blog and the article probably created on same day by same person... was WP:SNOW anyway. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 13:19, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Artaxiad

→ in re: deletion and undeletion of User:Artaxiad/Tigranes

I might have applied the wrong tag, but the user has been indef banned since last year. Nothing links to those userpages, and I don't think anyone would complain if they were deleted. VartanM (talk) 03:34, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's pretty much why I didn't remove the tag after reverting my deletion. I don't disagree with you. — Athaenara ✉ 03:42, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mononymous persons

In case you wish to comment...

There is a movement afoot to delete "Category:Mononymous entertainers," at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 July 31 — item 1.13. (There is also, slightly below that — item 1.16 — an analogous effort with regard to "Category:Mononymous porn actors".) Nihil novi (talk) 08:07, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The game's afoot again!

Current venue: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 August 6, item 1.3: Category:Mononymous persons. Nihil novi (talk) 04:07, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion review requested

Please take note that a deletion review has been requested for the category Category:Mononymous persons which was recently decided to be deleted. You receive this notification because you took part in the preceding discussion. __meco (talk) 16:51, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting to make way for a move

Hi, would you mind deleting (under WP:CSD#G6) the redirect page Rajah so that Rajah (dog) can be moved there? Per the naming conventions, Rajah should have been created there to start with anyway. In case you're wondering, I'm asking you because you're at the top of the deletion log for making the most recent deletion. Thanks, ~ AmeIiorate _{U T C} @ 07:16, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just tag it with {{Db-movedab}}. That will add it to Category:Candidates for speedy deletion where it will be visible to all administrators who are checking the category: — Athaenara ✉ 07:35, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh okay, thanks :) ~ AmeIiorate _{U T C} @ 08:00, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome :-) — Athaenara ✉ 08:02, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ACV-300

→ in re: user Oguzhantr (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and 88.228.222.33

Hello Athaenara,

As you are the Admin who deleted the copyright violating article FNSS Armored infantry fighting vehicle I ask you for advise. The deleted article was not only a copyvio, it was also redundant, as the already existing ACV-300 is about the exact same vehicle. The user who "created" the deleted article, User:Oguzhantr, has edited ACV-300 so that it is identical to the deleted one (and therefore contains versions that are copyvios). Even though I reverted that once, he changed it back already. My question is basically, what to do now? Can those copyvio-versions be deleted without deleting the whole article? Is it vandalism when he'll continue to revert my edits? The user seems, to put it mildly, "unaware" of copyright restrictions that exist here on Wikipedia, if you take a look at his talk page, and ignored the numerous warnings that he has received from numerous users throughout the time he's been working here. How can I now prevent him from doing more such stuff? --DavidDCM (talk) 21:41, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A little update. Admin Ian13 has just blocked User:Oguzhantr for a week. But now an IP-adress user keeps on doing bad things to the ACV-300 article... :( (Who that might be?) --DavidDCM (talk) 22:20, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oguzhantr seems to be a user who is indifferent to Wikipedia policies and guidelines, violates them regularly, and has never engaged in discussion on any Wikipedia talk pages.

If he (or she) uses anonymous IP addresses to evade the block (a diffs comparison reveals that 88* was used for that), they will be blocked as well. — Athaenara ✉ 04:34, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PoliticianTexas sockpuppets and copyvios

→ in re: {{db-f9}} images, sockpuppets of PoliticianTexas, and ongoing project spearheaded by DoriSmith and Uncia

Related discussions:

Over at Possibly unfree images/2008 August 22, you wrote:

After deleting the image as per WP:CSD#I9, I checked the blocked user's image contribs for other images which have not been deleted. It seems likely that some or all of them may be similarly eligible for deletion.

I recommend that along with looking at the images uploaded by Martinez07, you should also probably look at those uploaded by the other sockpuppets of PoliticianTexas. I haven't seen an image yet that hasn't turned out to be found online with a copyright attached—but looking for all those images one-by-one somewhere on the Web is time-consuming, and I'd be willing to bet they're all in some state of copyvio.

Thanks! Dori (Talk • Contribs) 00:00, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

These notices and discussions are a bit scattered over various WP:PUI logs for a number of different days.

I recommend that you post the combined multi-image multi-user multi-log info where it can get the exposure it needs, for example on the current Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/2008 August 29.

If you're not sure that's the best place to post it, a question posted on Wikipedia talk:Possibly unfree images may elicit a useful response. — Athaenara ✉ 00:10, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, Uncia (talk · contribs) knows more about the situation. — Athaenara ✉ 00:16, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Do you have an opinion as to which place to post would be preferable? I'd like to be able to do this once and get it all over with (until the next time he shows up... sigh).

And I've been suspecting that Uncia and I have been duplicating our efforts, and it would make more sense for us to work together instead. I've dropped him a line over on his talk page.

Dori (Talk • Contribs) 03:57, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I knew nothing about any of this before Image:ABQ.jpg turned up in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. My view is that you two should ride point on this: compile as much of it as you can, tagging for deletion, post them all in a single section in a single day's log (today's if you're that quick), and another chunk of the problem can be dispatched. — Athaenara ✉ 04:54, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for quickly deleting all the violating images that Dori and I flagged, even the ones we did not ask to have speedied! We have now cleaned up all of PoliticianTexas's images, and everything should be tidy until the appearance of his next sock puppet. --Uncia (talk) 13:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! [Deletion logs for images uploaded via the various accounts indicate other admins were following through as well.] — Athaenara ✉ 18:11, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Burns37 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

↑ Another one? — Athaenara ✉ 04:54, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's quite likely just based on WP:DUCK. However, I also thought that Dowhatyoudo definitely was as well and the RFCU said he wasn't. Is there some way to request that a checkuser be re-checked? Dori (Talk • Contribs) 21:51, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, add it to the top of the RFCU page. — Athaenara ✉ 22:00, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I thought you meant adding Burns37 to the RFCU, maybe I read your post too fast.

If you meant a second checkuser on Dowhatyoudo, I think it's recent enough, but I don't really know. — Athaenara ✉ 22:08, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More:

The deleted contribs for Dowhatyoudo and Burns37 show that they both uploaded the copyvio image ALBUQUERQUE NIGHT.jpg, to which 71.30.144.116 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) added "This is my own work ... I created this image entirely by myself" and the flickr.com "sparkys pics" link. — Athaenara ✉ 22:28, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering about asking for a re-do of the checkuser on Dowhatyoudo--because otherwise, do I tag Burns37 as a sock of PolTX, or as a sock of Dowhatyoudo? If I ask for both to be checked, I think it sounds like I'm fishing. But if I ask about a re-do of Dowhatyoudo, I think it sounds as if I have a problem with the RFCU process. Either way, I think they might turn the request down flat.

And it's not as if RFCU slows the guy down any; the next day, he just opens a new account and goes back to work. Sigh. Dori (Talk • Contribs) 01:26, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's a messy problem, certainly. Keeping in mind that I have limited experience with the checkuser and sockpuppetry processes, I think posting a request for clarification on WT:RFCU might be a good start. — Athaenara ✉ 01:31, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(71.30.144.116 may be both of them.) — Athaenara ✉ 01:34, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that one, and also:

71.30.144.151 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

71.30.147.14 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

71.30.150.198 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

75.88.233.20 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

216.135.172.188 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

216.243.118.166 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

not to mention the dozen or so more listed at Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of PoliticianTexas.

Which is why, all in all, I'm leaning towards not dealing with RFCU--it doesn't actually accomplish anything (so far as I can tell). Dori (Talk • Contribs) [05:29, 13 September 2008 (UTC)][reply]

I posted some questions on Wikipedia talk:Requests for checkuser#Image copyvio uploads and socks. — Athaenara ✉ 01:04, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate that, and I'll be keeping an eye out to see what kind of response it gets. BTW, Zedla passed through and did a good deal of blocking, tagging, and deletion--so things are in much better shape today than they were yesterday. Dori (Talk • Contribs) 02:31, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you have anything to add there, go for it. — Athaenara ✉ 02:46, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More PolTX stuff

I know that you're also following along with the saga, so I figured you'd like to know (if you don't already), that Uncia has filed another ANI notice (WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#More copyvio by User:LamyQ) and a suspected sockpuppet report (WP:Suspected sock puppets/PoliticianTexas (2nd)). Any help you can give would be appreciated! Dori (Talk • Contribs) 05:07, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added those links (diff) to the WT:RFCHU section. With so many anonIPs listed in the sockpuppet categories, I would think anonIP range blocks would help. — Athaenara ✉ 14:30, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

LamyQ was blocked as a sockpuppet (yay!). The action has now moved over to WP:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#More_copyvio_by_User:LamyQ, where there's now a discussion about a community ban and a range block. Please feel free to add your opinions! Dori (Talk • Contribs) 04:06, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

9 to 0 for a ban so far. — Athaenara ✉ 17:00, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As per Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive483#More copyvio by User:LamyQ:
all banned. — Athaenara ✉ 02:22, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright, Contempt toward officials

Hi. :) I was about to respond to this one when you got to it. I just wanted to give you a heads up, as you may not have noticed that, while hosted at About, it was actually text from the US Manual for Courts Martial, which is a Department of Defense publication in public domain. (Funny. I never noticed it was pluralized "courts martial." But open that at your risk. It's 891 pages long! I thought my computer was dead for good! But if you do decide to open it, the material is on page 294.) I wanted to just let you know, because G12 doesn't actually apply to that one, although it's got plenty of other issues. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:21, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gaah, no way am I opening that, sorry I didn't leave it for you! I think I'll undelete it so you and/or others can make this call. — Athaenara ✉ 21:26, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Believe me, I was sorry I had. :) As I said, I thought my poor computer was a goner. It's never choked like that on me without an immediate and heart-plummeting crash. I'll put the PD template on it. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:30, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:ComputerGuy890100/Sandbox/I-205

→ in re: the deletion and undeletion of ComputerGuy890100's I-205 subpage

Sorry to bother you, but I didn't request deletion for this subpage. Please restore it. ~~ ĈĠ ☺ ^Simple? 16:35, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done, sorry about that. The deletion message from the transcluded {{Infobox Interstate/Intrastate}} is still at the top of the page, perhaps because noinclude markup went awry in (or is missing from) one or more of the deletion tags on the template. — Athaenara ✉ 18:11, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Followup: According to Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 September 2#Interstate infoboxes, {{Infobox road}} has replaced Infobox Interstate/Intrastate. — Athaenara ✉ 22:11, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting content without notifying the creator

H. If you are going to delete content whether it is articles, templates or whatever in future can you please notify the creator of the work as a good gesture rather than just deleting something which appears misfitting. I'm talking about Template:CinemaofSingapore which shouldn't have been deleted, rather applied to Singaporean cinema articles as standard with other cinemas. Regards The Bald One ^{White cat} 10:29, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, yes, two months ago, 22:39, 7 July 2008 (UTC) to be precise, a few days before I learned that the editor who was moving many such pages and tagging the resulting redirects for deletion was doing much of that without consultation and without posting courtesy notices. After Andrew c's heads-up note (11 July 2008, in User talk:Athaenara/Archive 00#Template:AbortionbyCountry), I steered clear of pages which Sardanaphalus had tagged for deletion. — Athaenara ✉ 02:14, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

James King (pioneer)

Restored. You can't violate the copyright of a public domain source. Hesperian 04:10, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I saw the undeletion, and agreed, mere seconds before YOU HAVE NEW MESSAGES showed up. No problem (and I restored the talk page). — Athaenara ✉ 04:15, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers. Hesperian 04:24, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A10 road Sandbox

Please can you restore Talk:A10 road/Sandbox- this is part of a project I'm working on and is VERY MUCH USEFUL TO THE PROJECT. In future, ask before deleting. Thanks — MapsMan [ talk | cont ] — 11:19, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks! — MapsMan [ talk | cont ] — 11:44, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

You are welcome :-) Suntag had tagged the page at 02:01, 9 September 2008 (UTC) ("Added {{db-g8}}. Page was for June 2008 comment and no longer appears relevant to any ongoing talk page discussion"). I posted a little edit summary of my own (diff). — Athaenara ✉ 12:21, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orangemonster2k1

→ in re: a deletion summary

Not a sockpuppet. I don't (and can't) use the account anymore. Due to, let's say "user difficulties", I abandoned the account and made this one a week after abandoning "Orangemonster2k1". This isn't a sockpuppet account. - NeutralHomer • Talk • Work • October 3, 2008 @ 23:15

A question: why the "Userlinks" linkage? - NeutralHomer • Talk • Work • October 4, 2008 @ 15:47

I use "in re" and "see also" pointers in most sections. — Athaenara ✉ 15:55, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I just hate having attention drawn to that account. The whole thing was worked out (loooong ago) on ANI and I don't want to drag it all up again. - NeutralHomer • Talk • Work • October 4, 2008 @ 16:00

Zachri29

I've tagged several images today from Zachri29 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), and you handled one. Based on the talk page history, I dropped a final warning on his page. Since you can see his deleted history, too, can you take a peek and comment as to whether I was justified?—Kww(talk) 23:27, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's certainly justified, and if he continues to upload copyvios after so many warnings the account should be blocked. — Athaenara ✉ 23:35, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'll go move my warning, then, to make sure it doesn't get lost among the bot notices.—Kww(talk) 23:40, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that is unlikely to get lost! — Athaenara ✉ 14:14, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Schapendoes

Hi, I was writing a Schapendoes article but now see that there was already one that you deleted, so I don't know whether I should continue or if it will be deleted again. Maybe you could look? Not sure how this works.--Hafwyn (talk) 06:35, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The previous version showed up in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion after it was tagged {{db-g12}} as a blatant copyright infringement of www.schapendoes.ca/description.html. Your current version doesn't resemble it in the slightest. It isn't a copyvio, is it? — Athaenara ✉ 15:30, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nope --thanks for responding!-- Hafwyn (talk) 21:30, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alan Sues Page

I would like to create an Alan Sues page. Alan Sues is the only cast member of Laugh In not having a page, and as he is listed in several other pages in Wikipedia there is a need for an Alan Sues page. As this has been tried before, then several times deleted, I feel the need to clear this with another Wikipedia editor. Since you are the last editor listed as having deleted the page, I am posting this here. Thanks in advance. --VictorC (talk) 16:49, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The version I deleted in June showed up in the CSD category with a {{db-g12}} tag as a copyright infringement of www.webpan.com. It had been deleted twice before: once as a copyvio (an earlier tag noted that the webpan copyvio was mirrored on brainyencyclopedia.com) and once for no indication of notability (after the copyvio text was removed) as per {{db-person}}. A version which demonstrates notability without copyright violations will not fall at the same hurdles. — Athaenara ✉ 22:22, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Darn, you are FAST !!!

→ in re: this deletion two minutes after it was tagged

Thank you. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 03:15, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Serendipity, I think (I LOLed when I saw your heading). — Athaenara ✉ 03:30, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Again thanks for the quick service. I had debated holding on to the workspace for awhile, but the BLP I put together is sourced to the moon and back, so I decided to get rid of the sandbox. Seconds later... Poof! For just a second I thought I had screwed something up. Good looking out!! Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 03:43, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion request

Hi Athaenara,

Can you help me delete these 2 copyrighted images:

Image:Matipus Indians.jpg
Image:Índios Yawalapitis.jpg

Thanks. --Amazonien (talk) 23:43, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You uploaded them, so {{db-g7}} is all you need. — Athaenara ✉ 00:00, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Retrieving deleted pages

Hi, how do I retrieve deleted articles created with my old user name The Mary Pearl Willis Foundation? Are they gone forever and should be recreated? ThanksDembravesfans 05:02, 4 December 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dembravesfans (talk • contribs)

See Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles. — Athaenara ✉ 06:31, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ryld Argith

Hello.

Could you please restore the edit history of Ryld Argith for me? If you like, you can redirect it to List of Forgotten Realms characters. Thanks! :) BOZ (talk) 20:25, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! :) BOZ (talk) 22:04, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion

Thanks for dealing with those speedy requests. Cheers, Matt (Talk) 07:26, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. — Athaenara ✉ 07:36, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2009

Deletions

Thank you for deleting them all. ;) ✼ American Eagle (talk) 01:50, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, no problem, you're welcome! — Athaenara ✉ 02:00, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Metrolist

I am requesting protection due to the multiple times it has been created. Thank you for taking care of it, if you can take care of protection that would be super. Thanks! --Cerejota (talk) 04:54, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tiptoety got there first! — Athaenara ✉ 05:00, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I saw lol tanks anyways...--Cerejota (talk) 05:08, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you notes

for prompt help while dealing with categories Dc76\^talk 15:17, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. — Athaenara ✉ 16:40, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

deleting my userpage

Thanks!--Dem393 (talk) 00:20, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gema suara 17

→ in re: deleted article

Hi - I originally put all the tags and then only later the csd when i realised that the links at the base of the article had nothing to do with the group. We often have fly by edits of articles that come in english (usually very poor) or even Indonesian into the Indonesian project - and never hear from the editors again - it can be very frustrating at times as either their english is so poor that they do not understand either the notices or what is happening. Apologies for having muddied things by the tags and then the csd - probably should have left it with just one or the other - there are easily 100 articles in the indonesian project with similar issues - slowly trying to resolve them Satu Suro 01:08, 12 March 2009 (UTC) Just saw your delete - oh well another issue solved - but there are always more in the wings :( Satu Suro 01:10, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the deletions

→ in re: {{db-u1}} requests (log log)

I appreciate your deleting those pages - it was mortifying having them around after the mistake until I learned how to ask for them to go away. Alice (talk) 22:33, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. — Athaenara ✉ 22:44, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My user subpages

Thanks for deleting my user subpages. Am I allowed to have my talk page archive deleted as well, since all of the messages are still in my talk page history? GT5162 ^{(我的对话页)} 18:40, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. Cleaning up subpage space is fine, but I think talk archive deletion is a bad idea. You can ask other admins or just tag it for deletion and await results. — Athaenara ✉ 01:46, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will try that. Thanks. GT5162 ^{(我的对话页)} 10:16, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for deleting my subpages so quickly-very helpful so I don't get lost in them! dottydotdot (talk) 21:56, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. File:Dottydotdot's Userpage.jpg was among your requested deletions; did you know that an svg version was uploaded by another editor? — Athaenara ✉ 22:22, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, no I didn't?! dottydotdot (talk) 07:31, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Old images undeletion

→ in re: {{ImageUndeleteRequest}} found in Category:Requests to undelete images

Hello Athaenara, regarding your undeletion of File:Crabeatuk.jpg, you should not be undeleting images deleted earlier than 16 June 2006. That is the cutoff. Now what you can probably do is delete the page for good. Jay (talk) 09:59, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done (log) and thanks for the heads up. — Athaenara ✉ 19:42, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

→ in re: {{db-u1}} request (log)

//Blaxthos ( t / c ) 06:07, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. — Athaenara ✉ 20:00, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nifty! Is the → in re: you're using part of a template, or manually input? //Blaxthos ( t / c ) 03:33, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Happy you like it :-) It's one of the frequently used text strings stashed [embedded] in my studio for copying and pasting with the mouse as needed. — Athaenara ✉ 21:00, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Astro & Glyde Deletion

I believe that my article - Astro & Glyde - was deleted under false pretenses. While it may have originally been slightly biased, I subsequently altered the article to make it objective. After this was done, no justification was provided as to what was wrong with my article or why it was deleted. It no longer met the previous criterion, yet it was deleted under a criterion that only applied to the original edition. I believe that the deletion was far too hasty, aggressive and assumptive in nature. Can you please either give me some indication of what was wrong with the article, or reinstate it? Thanks. Higginson21 (talk) 11:26, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your three edits after the article was tagged {{db-g11}} did not substantially alter the situation. You are free to question the deletion at Wikipedia:Deletion review. — Athaenara ✉ 23:30, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mikogo

Hi Athaenara,

I noticed you flagged an article that I wrote about Mikogo for speedy deletion. I responded as requested on the talk page of the article. Please advise me on what I did wrong? I thought I had followed the guidelines for writing an article correctly, such as citations. Let me know - I'd like to learn the Wikipedia-way.

Cheers,

C. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Clint ml (talk • contribs) 23:41, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't tag it. I deleted it (see deletion log linked above) after user Calltech tagged it {{db-g11}} for speedy deletion as promotion, which placed it in the Category:Spam pages for speedy deletion. You may contest the deletion at deletion review if you wish. — Athaenara ✉ 23:54, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Undeletion of Mikogo

I've reversed your deletion of Mikogo, as, having reviewed it, I don't feel that CSD G11 applied. I don't think that the article constitutes blatant advertising. If you disagree with my action, or otherwise want to discuss it, feel free to revert my action. Cheers, {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 00:25, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have no problem with the undeletion. — Athaenara ✉ 00:56, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Nihiltres and Athaenara. If either of you have any advice on certain areas of my wikipedia writing that can be improved, please let me know. And then I'll try to improve the Mikogo page following your advice. Will be good knowledge for the future. Or if you want to contribute to the article, would be great too so I can learn from your actions. Thanks, C.

Undelete request

Hi, Athaenara. You deleted some of my user space per my {{db-u1}} requests on Nov 25. I see them here.

I would like those pages undeleted, please. I'm sorry for the fuss; there has been much wiki-drama in the last week. Some of my pages were deleted by User:Willking1979 here and I will posting a similar request, there.

My intent is to get back everything in Special:DeletedContributions/Jack Merridew concerning my user space for that day. If yet someone else handled deleting something here, I'd like that, too.

I'm going to blank User:Jack Merridew as I'm after the restoration of the page histories and once all is back I will take the pages somewhere I've not quite determined.

I noticed User:Athaenara/Gallery on your page and thought you might be interested in this current discussion:

WP:ANI#Jack Merridew's disruptive signature (or a recent archive) [archives 582 & 583]

Really, it's just a sideshow in a much larger bit of drama-mongering.

Cheers, Jack Merridew, who's a Street-Legal Sockpuppet — 09:53, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Athaenara, since you were offline at the time, I went ahead and done the undeletion. Hope alll is well, Willking1979 (talk) 10:53, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. — Athaenara ✉ 22:15, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2010

Talk:Biblical patriarchy

→ see also: deletion log

Pls restore Talk:Biblical patriarchy. I don't know the reason for the request. The article is active and needs a Talk page. Thanks. ─AFAprof01 (talk) 05:05, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The page (created, blanked, and tagged {{db-g7}} by WildBot) was deleted per the sole author's request. Any new discussion posted there will re-create the page. — Athaenara ✉ 05:14, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of one of my images

→ in re: Against Canada's New Copyright law.PNG and WindowsVistaStarterAppLimit.png

Thank you for deleting my image. I didn't feel like I wanted it but just didn't feel like putting up on on terms of CSD:7. I appreciate it. Ginbot₈₆ 00:40, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. – Athaenara ✉ 00:46, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Erik Gatmaitán

Could you please undelete and userfy Erik Gatmaitán to User:SMcCandlish/Erik Gatmaitán? (You were the deleting admin.) The player is certainly notable (he's in the top 100 pros in a major international sport with hundreds of years of history, so he's very much more notable that probably 90% of the football/soccer player articles on the system, most of whom are "notable" only in that they are/were pros at all). I can certainly find multiple reliable independent sources to establish notability, and hopefully make it less of a stub, with facts from those sources. It's not the highest priority on my to-do list, but this one should return. One of the problems with prod is that it's easy to target articles that are within the scope of projects that have few active participants: If a couple of those people are busy that week and don't notice, articles disappear that shouldn't. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 07:46, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done – Athaenara ✉ 07:58, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 23:32, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. – Athaenara ✉ 23:38, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User:Zach111493

→ in re: {{db-u1}} and three userspace work pages

Thank you very much for deleting the pages i requested to be deleted. Zach111493 (talk) 02:10, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. – Athaenara ✉ 04:00, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nice one!

→ in re: {{db-u1}} and three whoops two pages

(Deletion log); 21:49 . . Athaenara (talk | contribs) restored "User:Hamtechperson/Dutchess Day School" (2 revisions restored: whoops, wrong userspace) (Deletion log); 21:48 . . Athaenara (talk | contribs) deleted "User:Hamtechperson/Dutchess Day School" (WP:CSD#U1: user request for deletion in own userspace. Created and tagged by Hamtechperson.)

That made me laugh! Thanks! Ham tech person 17:05, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

East Indians

→ in re: user Semiticsmile's page moves, including these these four page logs
→ see also: Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics/Archive 43#The confusion regarding "East Indians"

Hi, since you were involved with this article in an administrative role, I thought that you may be interested in this discussion: The confusion regarding "East Indians" that I have started. No compulsion to join in. Thanks. --Deepak D'Souza (talk) 19:21, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That was indeed a confusing flurry of page moves; I'm glad an open discussion was initiated. – Athaenara ✉ 19:54, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My User Page

→ in re: this and Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#User pages

Yeah you are right sorry for adding the speedy delete tag on my talk page. I would like to vanish but before I do I would just like all my user-space deleted; I don't know how I go about doing that. Any chance you could point me in the right direction.--intraining ^{Jack In} 07:18, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think the easiest way is to tag your user page (and subpages and talk subpages) with {{db-u1}} and then archive your main talk page. Archiving's easy: just move it to User talk:Theoneintraining/Archive (see moving a page), then add {{talkarchive}} at the top. That will leave a redirect on your main talk page which you can replace with {{retired}} and an {{archive box}}. – Athaenara ✉ 11:55, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you don't mind me asking, how come I can not get my talk page deleted?--intraining ^{Jack In} 13:14, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Right to vanish covers it, I think. Even easier than what I suggested: tag your userpage and subpages for deletion, blank your talk page (put a retired template on it if you wish), and stop any newsletter deliveries. – Athaenara ✉ 21:03, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reply from Geo Swan

In reply, yes. I moved several articles of which I was the sole contributor of intellectual content to my user-space for review. I marked the others with {{db-author}}. And I planned to double check to make sure I had done so in ever single case -- when I was finished. Geo Swan (talk) 01:27, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. – Athaenara ✉ 01:41, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Geo Swan (talk) 02:25, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome :-) Athaenara ✉ 02:28, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of AfD talk page

→ see also: page log

Hi, you deleted the page Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/David Lewis Anderson, and I got a bot notification that it was deleted because I was the only author and I had blanked the page, but I'm having trouble remembering when I did that and what the circumstances were. Can you look at the history of the page and tell me if this was a recent thing, or something that occured a while ago and a bot just got around to noticing it? I'm just a bit confused. Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 01:33, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the page history:

00:24, 17 April 2010 . . FrescoBot ... (88 bytes) (Bot: blank page meeting G7 criteria for speedy deletion)
12:53, 7 February 2010 . . Beyond My Ken ... (empty) (self-revert)
12:52, 7 February 2010 . . Beyond My Ken ... (94 bytes) (add old afd)

Looks like it was the latter :-) – Athaenara ✉ 01:44, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks a lot -- now I know that it's my medium-term memory that's going and not my short-term memory! Best, Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:40, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are quite welcome! – Athaenara ✉ 07:33, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

La Troienne Stakes

Please don't redirect this to Eight Belles Stakes. It must first be deleted then the new race page set up then a disambig. Thanks. Handicapper (talk) 00:14, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I'll {{db-g7}} it. – Athaenara ✉ 00:18, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Arzignano Grifo

Hi! Are you able to recover the history of Talk:Arzignano Grifo? Thanks in advance. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 18:12, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

09:00, 1 May 2010 . . FrescoBot (80 bytes) (Bot: blank page meeting G7 criteria for speedy deletion)
16:27, 25 April 2010 . . Xtzou (empty) (remove mistake)
16:26, 25 April 2010 . . Xtzou (14 bytes) (project) [ {{blp}}{{bio}} ]

– Athaenara ✉ 20:33, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:06, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Uighur house

Needs to be restored. Tagger was not the only author and there's a pending discussion, with the possibility for WP:SALT. thanks. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 02:34, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – Athaenara ✉ 02:42, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I believe I offered an adequate explanation of that {{db}} at the {{rfd}} page. I was frankly surprised by Seb's comment, which seemed to show an unwillingness to extend the assumption of good faith. I am the only person who spoke in favor of this redirect, and I have honestly changed my mind. Deleting the redirect simply saves everyone time who might otherwise feel interested in voicing an opinion.

I think it is reasonable for me to re-add that {{db}}. Geo Swan (talk) 03:07, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Frugal engineering

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I'm not sure that deleting the talkpage is proper as the article is still alive. I tried to revert the incorrectly placed CSD tag as it did not apply as long as the article exists. Could you check on this? --Morenooso (talk) 00:27, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's usual for pages which have been blanked by the sole author to be tagged {{db-g7}}. Any new discussion there will create the page, but a blank talk page isn't useful. – Athaenara ✉ 00:33, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

IP user talk page deletion

Why did you delete User talk:174.100.202.111? It's a record of the vandalism warnings! Of course someone wants to delete it. It's not like they're a real user. Can we restore it? - Denimadept (talk) 15:15, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You were the only editor to that page, and you removed all the warnings you had given, saying "nvmd." That's a valid WP:CSD#G7 deletion, and Athaenara beat me to the punch by about an hour (serves me right for going to bed). Moreover, IPs provide the majority of the content here - saying "It's not like they're a real user" like that matters at all is really unwarranted. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 15:30, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, nvmd. :-D - Denimadept (talk) 17:44, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For that matter, why did you delete User:65.19.38.82, when almost every edit from this IP has vandalized one one Wikipedia article or another. (Yes, there is one exception.) Yappy2bhere (talk) 04:29, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Back in February, the sole author had added one line and immediately blanked it (see Amory's post above). You are certainly free to post vandalism warnings on the user's talk page at any time when it would be appropriate to do so. – Athaenara ✉ 05:44, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: User:Photographtv

On another user's talkpage, User:Photographtv requested that his account be closed. I am not sure if I made the right recommendation on his talkpage as just his userpages were deleted. Could you visit his talkpage and see what he needs done? Thanks. --Morenooso (talk) 21:59, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I guess I gave him the right template as his username changed from blue to red in one preview. Sorry for the interruption. --Morenooso (talk) 22:02, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please once more can you deled my page completly from Wikipedia,Photographtv user78.251.44.242 (talk) 18:49, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I {{courtesy blanked}} it, hope that helps. – Athaenara ✉ 11:04, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Just wanted to poke you and give props for deleting my user pages. Doing some housekeeping. :D --Sidonuke (talk :: contribs) 09:23, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, I'm all in favour of housekeeping ;-) – Athaenara ✉ 09:33, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

thanks

Thank you for deleting all of those pages for me. --Steam Iron 05:23, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome, keep up the good work. – Athaenara ✉ 05:26, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Request to restore article "Knife rest"

Hello! Could you please restore the article Knife rest for me so I can improve upon it? --Bensin (talk) 17:48, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – Athaenara ✉ 22:11, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! --Bensin (talk) 00:41, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File deletion

whoops that was kind of a test did you notice I put all three tags on it for author deletion. could yoou undelete it? when I say it was kind of a test I mean I might actually want it deleted but not now. I know it's a pointless image but everyone gets a few vanity pictures. Can the name be shortened? I actually wanted to move the file and was going to ask how. Daniel Christensen (talk) 02:18, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – Athaenara ✉ 02:23, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; is there any way it could be renamed to like "user:daniel christensen" or something like that so that it's clear that it's a userpage photo and that it's not intended to be a picture in an article so people know it's okay that it has no place. Thanks. Daniel Christensen (talk) 02:32, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Try {{rename media}} (see moving a file page). – Athaenara ✉ 02:40, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see; it says an administrator can move a file; are you an administrator? If you can delete it you must be right? Daniel Christensen (talk) 03:05, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

All right I also see you redeleted and restored it again. Daniel Christensen (talk) 03:06, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, my initial undeletion summary wasn't complete and that was the only way I knew to correct it. – Athaenara ✉ 03:09, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, performed my first file move! – Athaenara ✉ 04:36, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A.K.O.O Clothing

Can you put a copy of this article before deletion in my userspace please? The subject is notable but perhaps needed a few (or a few more) references. Thanks. OlYeller^Talktome 15:25, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – Athaenara ✉ 00:40, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for userfying it for me. I'm going to do a little more work on it and repost it but I really don't think it was an A7. A very famous artist created the clothing line and there are two references covering the line. I could definitely see an arguement for deletion at an AfD but it's at least asserted notability. OlYeller^Talktome 00:51, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Hi, thanks for such a speedy deletion! Loves Macs (talk) 03:10, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome! – Athaenara ✉ 07:45, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates/CTA Night

Why did you delete Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates/CTA Night? I would like to recreate it.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 23:05, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You created and blanked it last week, so it turned up in this database report, looking like a candidate for {{db-g7}}. I restored it. – Athaenara ✉ 23:33, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Victory Carriers

Hello, I would like a modified article on Victory Carriers to please be reinstated after corrections and modifications were made. Please advise, with sincere thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by IASONASHIOS (talk • contribs) 20:22, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you for mopping up my userspace with the speedy deletions. I realized I was using way too much of Wiki's space on useless stuff, so I appreciate your prompt work. You can call it pre-college spring cleaning. --- Dralwi k|^{Have a Chat} 01:00, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, I'm all for spring cleaning ;-) Athaenara ✉ 01:04, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

All the pages you're taking care of date back to when I first joined in late 2005 and early 2006. Back then, I had a bad habit of starting lists and abandoning them. So thank you for taking the time for all this. --- Dralwi k|^{Have a Chat} 01:38, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

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Thank you for erasing someone's attempt to recommend for deletion Sleeping Ariadne; you did it before I noticed. I would have been so cross and disappointed... So thank you for keeping an eye out. --Wetman (talk) 01:18, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That was just a WildBot-tagged page. Athaenara 01:22, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. Bots Gone wild! --Wetman (talk) 05:10, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

G7 Deletion of a template talk page

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Is it normal to delete template talk pages (re: Template talk:Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes football coach navbox? Not sure why the editor called it a G7, to my knowledge that editor had never made an edit on the page... ??? not angry, just confused--Paul McDonald (talk) 03:03, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It was created, blanked, and tagged by WildBot. – Athaenara ✉ 03:07, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey thanks!

Thanks for the quick response to those CSD tags~! :3 Audiosmurf ^♪/♫ 06:30, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! – Athaenara ✉ 06:32, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Donaghcloney

Hi i noticed the parish of Donaghcloney was deleted? Why? I know it may have had one page in it but i intended to expand it with more. As there are quite a few places within the parish i just havent gotten around to them all. Mabuska ^(talk) 00:48, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

After you created and blanked the category earlier this week, it was included in the Wikipedia:Database reports/Blank single-author pages and looked like a {{db-g7}} candidate. I restored it, but it's still in the database report (and it's still empty). – Athaenara ✉ 01:17, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry i just realised why i blanked the page initially. Its my mistake and i apologise. The title of the category was wrong, it should of been "civil parish" rather than "parish". As i already have a category created for Donaghcloneys "civil parish", i meant for this one to be deleted however i forgot about the distinction when i seen the deletion notification. My bad and i apologise for the misunderstanding. Please delete this category as its not required, my bad. Mabuska ^(talk) 01:48, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – Athaenara ✉ 01:51, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of IP talkpage

Hello! I see you've deleted User talk:142.167.207.95, however, I wonder why? Your rationale was WP:G7 (One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page), but if the user simply blanked the page, there is no reason to delete. Any block notices, warnings, or similar content is useful and will disable future users; if the user requested deletion (unless they were the only author), WP:G7 wouldn't apply: G7 specifically states "Note that this does not apply to user talk pages, which are not deleted except under very exceptional circumstances: see WP:DELTALK." So, unless there were privacy concerns, harassment, threats, gross offensiveness, or other serious violations, it wouldn't apply. Users frequently blank their page to "hide" warnings and nasty stuff, not realizing we could have looked in the page history (had you not deleted it). —mono 01:23, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the page history:

20:05, 16 June 2010 . . Mono . . (empty) (rm incorrect msg)
20:04, 16 June 2010 . . Mono . . (1,044 bytes) (Level 1 warning re. vandalism on Godparent (GLOO))

Clearer? – Athaenara ✉ 05:55, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, well. However, it would be clearer to mention that in the deletion summary. —mono 20:09, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, and using {{db-g7}} yourself in such cases would be clearest of all. – Athaenara ✉ 21:45, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for the mass deletion of my draft of a portal. I didn't realize I would have to create so many subpages, or I would have created it directly in the Portal namespace. Sorry for the hassle. - EdoDodo ^talk 13:24, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome, and nice job on the portal. – Athaenara ✉ 14:00, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Swapmypix

Could you drop a copy of swapmypix in my userspace? I want to see exactly why it was deleted. I have been helping out at WP:Request for undeletion and like to be able to see the article to see if my response was justified. Mr. R00t ^Talk 18:21, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It was spam. For a copy, try someone in CAT:UNDELETE. – Athaenara ✉ 18:46, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Women of Marvel trading cards

Just a note, you should really avoid speedy deleting any page that another admin has previously declined to delete this way (I don't say this though because I was the one who declined it). It may lead to wheel-warring and possibly encourage some users to try and game the system by tagging an article again and again until some admin decides to delete it - risks one should try to avoid. Regards So Why 06:05, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You declined it in March 2009, over a year ago, and there had been over twice as many edits since then as before, but they were all minor and there had been no improvement insofar as making it encyclopedic.

It was in CAT:G11 for two days this time. I gave it a lot of thought, and considered sending it to AfD, but what tipped it for me was the obvious promotional effect of more than thirty external links to the website which markets them. It should go straight to AfD for full discussion if it's restored, but I certainly won't wheel-war over it! – Athaenara ✉ 06:28, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thank you for deleting various of my user subpages and ex-subpages. I really appreciate it. I'd love it if you did me a favor. I want the following pages deleted, but for some reason, the "deletion template" doesn't work on them. (I'm guessing its because they're java)

I would really appreciate if you delete those as well. Again, thank you very much. Feed back (talk) 19:27, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! You are a goddess! Feed back (talk) 19:50, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I approve highly of thorough cleanup such as yours, you're quite welcome.

(Goddess!?! Whoot!) – Athaenara ✉ 19:55, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

There was a large amount of personal information I edited over the course of the page's history. I'm glad to know that no one now can look up the username and learn about me in modest detail. Well, that and I couldn't stand to think about how, er, odd I was a couple years ago. Again, thanks :) DiamondDragon talk 21:18, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. – Athaenara ✉ 08:10, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I tagged the wrong page

I appear to have accidentally tagged Template:Alternate/example for deletion. I meant to tag the redirect to it, Template:Alternate/yes", for deletion. Could you restore Template:Alternate/example, please? -Quinxorin (talk) 22:43, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – Athaenara ✉ 22:46, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User:SecretStoryStyle

Please review both the user's talk page and my own. When questioned about the purpose of the page, the user said to delete it. 69.181.249.92 (talk) 19:39, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And user: User:BigOz22/bigbrother ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by SecretStoryStyle (talk • contribs) 22:21, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ibrahim Quraishi

It says that you deleted page "08:29, 2 August 2010 Athaenara (talk | contribs) deleted "Talk:Ibrahim Quraishi/Temp" ‎ (G8: Page dependent on a deleted or nonexistent page)" Why? Even though it clearly states that admins don't delete. I was working on it. I understand why the first page was deleted even though it was not a copyright infringement as I had permission to use the bio. So I changed it completely. What gives?

Let me know. ronon44 Ron Kiley

Ronon44 (talk) 23:33, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Restored per your request. – Athaenara ✉ 03:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

a suggestion

User:Burpelson AFB recently placed a WP:CSD#G7 on Tha Truth/ Tha NonConformist Movement.

I am afraid this G7 was an instance of a hasty, careless nomination. Burpelson was not the sole author of Tha Truth/ Tha NonConformist Movement -- they left a heads-up on User talk:Ppleen, the contributor who did create the article. Their heads-up says they placed a {{prod}} on the article, not an G7.

No offense, but isn't the speedy deletion process supposed to require two sets of eyes to look at the article? Shouldn't the deleting administrator check the article's history, when they encounter a G7, to guard against careless nominators who claim to be the sole author -- when they aren't?

I see User:Ppleen has several admonishments since Burpelson's heads-up. Unfortunately, hasty and uncivil new page patrollers turn good faith newbies into vandals.

May I make a suggestion? Why not regard the G7 Burpelson did apply to have been the {{prod}} they said they were going to apply, and restore the article, and let the {{prod}} run its full seven days? Geo Swan (talk) 03:00, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ppleen, the sole author, blanked the page after Burpelson AFB added a prod tag; Dwayne reverted that edit, and Jeff G. added the {{db-g7}} tag which is consistent with sole-author page blanking. – Athaenara ✉ 03:14, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of leafcutter ants

Hi. I'm an idiot who needs more coffee. Could you please restore List of leafcutter ants? I just realized that I made 40 articles with external links to this article. I think it is useful if I strip it down to list form. Soooooo sorry for the trouble. Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:26, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:52, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, you are welcome. – Athaenara ✉ 08:56, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:Boixos.jpg

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Hello Athaenara, I just wanted to let you know that the uploader of that file had also requested the deletion at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2010 August 22, trying to get rid of it. But as that was clearly a non-controversial request I went ahead and changed the tag to speedy deletion. You might want to close the case at IFD. Regards, De728631 (talk) 21:35, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for deleting all the linked pages. Kanatonian (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:01, 28 August 2010 (UTC).[reply]

You are welcome. – Athaenara ✉ 01:11, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

CSD Thanks

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You are welcome, thanks for the cookie. – Athaenara ✉ 06:11, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help!

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Thank you with my help with my CSD esp with the .js that I wasn't sure how to ask for! --Wolfnix • Talk • 04:55, 8 September 2010 (UTC) {{Cookie}}[reply]

Deleted talk pages

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I would like to apologize if I did anything wrong, as far as the talk pages that I "created". I still have a lot to learn here, and I'm not quite sure what I'm doing. I came across several articles (Yoso, and Trysting Tree, for example), that were, for lack of a kinder word, just terrible articles. I realized that if I cleaned up these articles, I would have to remove just about everything written. As there were no real BLP violations, I figured the safest thing for me to do would be to simply place "original research" tags on them. Of course, the OR tag suggests using the talk page, as a means of attempting to make improvements. Several articles, these two among them, had a red-link talk page. I figured (perhaps not too brightly) that it would be inappropriate to suggest discussion on a page that doesn't exist. This is why I "created" these pages. They were talk pages for actual long-standing articles. I blanked them, as I felt that it was less than prudent to have a page that says simply, "page created". I did (or at least I think I did) leave an edit summary each time, explaining the reason why I created, and then blanked. After noticing that you deleted them, I figured it was just a misunderstanding, and so I created, and then blanked them again. I've now gotten to thinking that maybe I shouldn't have done that, and that you deleted them because I didn't know what the hell I was doing in the first place. So again, I apologize if I've caused you any trouble. I acted with the best of intentions. Please let me know if I should have gone about it in a different manner. Thank you! 2tuntony (talk) 00:34, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted them after they turned up in Wikipedia:Database reports/Blank single-author pages. I apologize, it was dim of me not to understand your intention from the "blanked page/original post was to begin page, as article is tagged, with discussion suggested" and "blanked page/page created in response to original research tag in article" edit summaries. I'll certainly not delete them again, but be aware that if they remain blank they will probably be included in that database report again, so someone else may delete them. – Athaenara ✉ 01:14, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response. Do you have a suggestion as to how I should go about it, so that they do not get deleted? 2tuntony (talk) 02:17, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A brief signed explanatory comment would do it, e.g. "Created page for discussion of article issues." – Athaenara ✉ 02:24, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

THank you! 2tuntony (talk) 07:53, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. – Athaenara ✉ 05:55, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category talk:UConn Huskies

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Hello. I saw you deleted the page Category talk:UConn Huskies under speedy deletion criteria WP:CSD#G8, as it is a talk page of a page that does not exist. However, I believe this page should be restored. Originally there was discussion at several different places over the correct name for the categories for University of Connecticut athletic teams, that eventually coalesced into an RfC. Consensus at the RfC was to rename Category:UConn Huskies as Category:Connecticut Huskies, which was then done through a subsequent CfD. The RfC was originally located at Category talk:UConn Huskies, which after the CfD was moved to Category talk:Connecticut Huskies. However, the deletion of the original Category talk page caused the links to the RfC in the original scattered discussions to go red. In order to make it easier for anyone who later finds one of the archived discussions to find the RfC, I recreated the original talk page as a redirect. I believe this page should be an exception to the G8 criteria as it is, to quote the criteria itself, "useful to the project". I probably should have tagged the page with {{G8-exempt}} except I just learned of the existence of this template. Please restore the redirect or let me know why you think it should stay deleted. Thanks for your attention. –Grondemar 15:58, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! –Grondemar 16:15, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. – Athaenara ✉ 16:18, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note...

An editor who's article you deleted (upon my speedy deletion request) asked me for a full explanation as to why I nominated his article for deletion. I gave him my non-administrator side of it, but pointed him in your direction if he has any further questions (basically explaining to him that while normal users can request speedy deletion, administrators pretty much have the final say). Just a heads up to let you know he might be headed your way. You can view my response to him at his talk page that I linked earlier. Ks0stm If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. 02:21, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted category

Athaenara, why did you delete Category:Geophysics journals? RockMagnetist (talk) 13:24, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It was created, blanked, and tagged for deletion by Steve Quinn last month:

07:05, 18 August 2010 . . Steve Quinn . . (13 bytes) (Request speedy by author. This category is not needed at this time. There are not enough geophysics journals on Wikipedia to support this category. This category can be covered by other categories.)
06:39, 18 August 2010 . . Steve Quinn . . (57 bytes) (Removed Category:Physics; Adding category Category:Physics journals (using HotCat))
06:39, 18 August 2010 . . Steve Quinn . . (48 bytes) (Adding category Category:Physics (using HotCat))
05:41, 18 August 2010 . . Steve Quinn . . (28 bytes) (Adding category Category:Earth sciences (using HotCat))

– Athaenara ✉ 20:14, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

O.K. There are more now. I'll contact him. RockMagnetist (talk) 21:59, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad it's back, well done. – Athaenara ✉ 05:43, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Accidentally created (IP editor):Talk

Thanks for deleting a page I created accidentally and then blanked. (I intended to post a level 1 warning to another IP user, whose inappropriate edit came immediately afterward in the history.) Should I make a similar error again, is there a better way to deal with the situation? Thanks again. Odysseus1479 (talk) 00:26, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, just tag with {{db-g7}} or {{db-author}}. – Athaenara ✉ 00:32, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Does “tag” mean merely to add that code to the end of the page? Odysseus1479 (talk) 04:51, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, sorry I wasn't clear. Blank as before, then type {{db-g7}} at the top of the empty edit window before clicking save page. – Athaenara ✉ 00:08, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. I’ll do some reading on those tags & related matters. Odysseus1479 (talk) 01:09, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

your recent deletion

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I was trying to move the AfD debate from one cat to another but didn't know how to do it short of staeting clean again! Can you help me move it another way without invoking deletion? Unioneagle (talk) 02:23, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think there's a bot that handles missing AfD deletion categories. The field just needs to be filled in (the page doesn't need to be moved for that). – Athaenara ✉ 02:32, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've cleaned this up a little—somehow it ended up that there were two AfDs opened. I moved the second over the first, and deleted the redirect. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 03:17, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

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Hi. Thanks for helping me with my CSD tags. -Porchcrop ^{(talk|contributions)} 08:00, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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CSD Thanks!

Hello. Thank you for deleting User:Syed Kazim/StatusTemplate as I requested. If you could also please delete User:Syed Kazim/Status, I would greatly appreciate it. --Syed Kazim ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 00:15, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. --Syed Kazim ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 00:40, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Andrea Liberovici

info on the deleted page

Hi! I have just discover that the page I have created for Andrea Liberovici has been deleted. I was wondering why, since I provided references (mr liberovici's official website + an essay in which his work is mentioned). The note I got said that there was a conflict of interest, but I am not in any way affiliated to Mr Liberovici, nor I know him in person. I am only a big fan of his work and wanted to pay tribute by spreading the news on who he was! Plus, there is an italian version of the Andrea Liberovici wikipage: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Liberovici and that hasn't been deleted! Why is that? I am new and not so expert on these matters, I just wanted to salute a musician I really like and thought creating a wiki page would have been a great way to do so... thanks for your time and assistance. hope to hear from you and to recieve advices on how to have this wiki page published!! thanks! valentina —Preceding unsigned comment added by Liberovici (talk • contribs) 11:35, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Blood Money

Hi,

Can you tell me what happened to Blood Money (documentary)? I see it was deleted under "G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page". But looking at the editors contributions I can't see any such request or blanking.

I am only interested because I gave some feedback at Wikipedia:Requests for feedback/2010 August 19#User:Morgankevinj/Blood_Money_(documentary). I followed this up on the article talk page when the article was moved to main space, but I can't see those comments now because the talk page has been deleted.

My first thought when I saw that the page has been deleted for G7 was that User:Morgankevinj didn't like my feedback or couldn't be bothered to respond to it. But after looking at his edits I am now not so sure.

Yaris678 (talk) 10:24, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the history of the page:

21:18, 21 October 2010 . . Morgankevinj (3,225 bytes) (Requesting speedy deletion (CSD G7). (TW))
11:51, 21 October 2010 . . Yaris678 (3,211 bytes) (Tag with multiple issues)
21:35, 9 October 2010 . . Morgankevinj (3,062 bytes) (Adding category Category:Abortion in the United States (using HotCat))
21:29, 9 October 2010 . . Morgankevinj (3,019 bytes) (Allegations against Planned Parenthood: fix links)
21:27, 9 October 2010 . . Morgankevinj (2,981 bytes) (Adding category Category:Pro-life movement (using HotCat))
20:39, 7 October 2010 . . Morgankevinj (2,950 bytes) (Adding category Category:American documentary films (using HotCat))
19:52, 7 October 2010 . . Morgankevinj (2,910 bytes) (moved User:Morgankevinj/Blood Money (documentary) to Blood Money (documentary): move to main space)
19:50, 7 October 2010 . . Morgankevinj (2,910 bytes)
02:12, 20 August 2010 . . Morgankevinj (2,969 bytes) (added ==Allegations against Planned Parenthood==)
00:00, 20 August 2010 . . Morgankevinj (2,391 bytes)
23:02, 19 August 2010 . . Morgankevinj (2,307 bytes)
22:29, 19 August 2010 . . Morgankevinj (2,305 bytes) (added ==Controversy over the premiere of the film==)
21:58, 19 August 2010 . . Morgankevinj (1,874 bytes) (Moved infobox to top)
21:56, 19 August 2010 . . Morgankevinj (1,877 bytes) (added ==Persons in the documentary== section)
19:57, 19 August 2010 . . Morgankevinj (1,040 bytes) (Created draft article)

Hope that helps. – Athaenara ✉ 15:24, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. So the contributions page doesn't show a contribution if the page has since been deleted. Hmmm... Thanks. Yaris678 (talk) 15:56, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Right. They're here. – Athaenara ✉ 16:00, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to know it is recorded somewhere... Even if I can't see that page because I am not an administrator. Maybe I should go for RFA. :-) Yaris678 (talk) 16:16, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Have a Barnstar

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I've noticed that you are very fast with Speedy Deletions so I decided to give you this Barrnstar, Happy Vandal Fighting Winner 42 ( Talk to me! ) 19:56, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! – Athaenara ✉ 20:20, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User:Arctic Night/To do

→ see also: page log

In attempt to not make it look like wheel warring, could you please restore User:Arctic Night/To do? The user requested to have it restored at WP:REFUND, which you deleted seconds later. — ξ ^xplicit 07:18, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – Athaenara ✉ 07:33, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You missed 1 and 2

→ in re: Wikipedia:Did you know/Halloween 2010#Halloween DYK Hooks - Prep Sets

You missed Halloween P1 and P2, so I bagged them ;-) — Rlevse • Talk • 19:34, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting a page

Can you help me delete Duchess of Braganza? I want to move my user page there. Thanks.--Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy (talk) 22:53, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Duchess of Braganza currently redirects to Dukes of Braganza and has been edited only once, so you can move the proper page to that title per Help:Moving a page#Moving over a redirect. Let me know if this doesn't cover the situation adequately. – Athaenara ✉ 00:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can't move it.--Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy (talk) 00:50, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, which page needs to be moved there? – Athaenara ✉ 01:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Duchesses of Braganza.--Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy (talk) 01:24, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – Athaenara ✉ 01:34, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.--Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy (talk) 01:36, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. – Athaenara ✉ 01:38, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

G8 deletions

Hello Athaenara, I'm just curious is there's a specific page that lists possible G8 candidates because I see you're doing a lot of G8-ing in the deletion log without the pages being listed at CAT:SD first. Regards, Airplaneman ✈ 06:52, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Database reports/Orphaned talk pages. – Athaenara ✉ 06:55, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Airplaneman ✈ 06:56, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! – Athaenara ✉ 07:00, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Couple More in the Pile

I have a couple more {{db-author}} pages in the pile, if you wouldn't mind deleting them. I am going to re-create them almost immediately, just some information I don't want eyes to see anymore. Thanks...Neutralhomer • Talk • 00:58, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, just as soon as I clicked back to my Watchlist, User:DMacks had gotten them. Thanks anyway...Neutralhomer • Talk • 00:59, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A recently g7 deleted file

Howdy. You recently deleted File:2007roadruleslogo.jpg. Now that the file is deleted, I have a question. The edit previous to mine on that image marked it as speedy due to sensitive metadata. I checked the image with this tool and this tool and neither of them showed anything sensitive. Are you aware of any sensitive metadata on that image? I'm not asking what that information might have been, only if it was actually there. I'm also asking because if the previous editor was tagging my resize as having sensitive info, I would prefer to fix that. :) I know I could ask the original uploader, but I'd like to make sure I'm not losing my mind first. :) Rockfang (talk) 00:04, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know anything about the metadata. I just went with the original uploader's deletion request, which you subsequently (and correctly) tagged as {{db-g7}}. – Athaenara ✉ 00:16, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Thank you for replying.--Rockfang (talk) 00:18, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! – Athaenara ✉ 00:21, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Page deletion

The user page Utharamalabar has been deleted. But it is still available, Why?--59.90.7.159 (talk) 07:06, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

For your prompt deletion of File:Royal British Legion Standard.svg. -- Wally Wiglet (talk) 02:29, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. – Athaenara ✉ 03:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!!

It's been a busy night for the vandals. Thank you for taking care of all the CSD tags I placed. jsfouche ☽☾ talk 08:04, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! – Athaenara ✉ 08:16, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned talk pages

→ in re: Wikipedia:Database reports/Orphaned talk pages

Good on ya. Seems like half of the time I try to delete things when the database report comes out I get the already deleted error. Nice to have company in the early morning. Courcelles 06:11, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, likewise after 10 in the evening. – Athaenara ✉ 06:27, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DBpoweramp

Please RESTORE the deleted page for: [2] There is NO reason to clown around and destroy the pages one might bbe interested with! If YOU do not liked you do not need to read it, but others have a right to have access to it. DBpoweramp is one of the best soft for the purpose for which it has been issued. It is evident that Athaenara: vandalizes the work of others because of his own review criteria's with which others might NOT agree. It is really ridiculous, who needs brainless moderators with chip on the shoulders? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.91.134.18 (talk) 06:00, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Back in May, after another editor tagged it for deletion per {{db-g11}} as advertising, it was automatically included in the Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as spam. It looked like spam to me so I followed through. For now, I've undeleted it, but as it still looks like spam (see the Wikipedia:Spam guideline) it may not last. – Athaenara ✉ 06:22, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted Rave Wireless Page

Hello Athaenara,

I'm looking for information about why the Rave Wireless page was deleted on January 18 2010. Is it possible to get a copy of the old article? I would like to update the page but it would help a great deal if I knew why it was taken down in the first place.

Thank you! Andrew Reed —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reedandrew49 (talk • contribs) 05:29, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It was tagged for deletion per {{db-g11}} by RBHendrick ("Add db-g11; this article is pure advertising, with all links and references pointing to the company site") and deleted in January 2010. I've restored and re-tagged it per your expressed intention to update it. – Athaenara ✉ 21:24, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Requested user page deletion

Hello Athaenara, I have blanked the contents of my user page and ask that you please delete the page. Many thanks. Schmausschmaus (talk) 15:08, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – Athaenara ✉ 00:42, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Athaenara Schmausschmaus (talk) 11:50, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. – Athaenara ✉ 22:44, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Postitnz's articles

Hi, I am concerned that User:Postitnz has been thoroughly and, I believe, unfairly bitten. You deleted Otaki Forks and Catchpool Valley per the user's db-author requests, but those requests were put on after the biting. I have not yet communicated with the user in question - I was just looking at the situation when you deleted the articles. Would you look at the talk pages of that user and Active Banana and see if you agree with me? LadyofShalott 02:17, 23 December 2010 (UTC) P.S. Lest there be any confusion, I am absolutely not accusing you of biting this new editor. LadyofShalott 02:20, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think some of Active Banana's posts on User talk:Postitnz looked bitey, as you say, and perhaps looked worse than they were because they were replies to Postitnz's messages on User talk:Active Banana. To my mind that's supporting evidence for an assertion that replies should be on the page on which the original messages were posted, but that's a separate issue, and I rarely wade in between people who seem to be having a little trouble getting along. I would not oppose a decision to undelete the articles to give them time to be improved. – Athaenara ✉ 04:12, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for looking and commenting. I will offer to userfy the articles for Postitnz to see if the editor would like to have time to work on them. I don't know how notable those subjects were, but they did not look irretrievable to me. Perhaps the editor can find some guide books or something to provide some better sourcing for them. (As for keeping discussions in one place, I certainly prefer it - they are much easier to follow that way!) LadyofShalott 04:33, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Usurp fixes

Thank you very much for sorting out my links and CSD requests as a result of my usurp - very much appreciated. Mato (talk) 22:52, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are very welcome. – Athaenara ✉ 22:55, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

For tidying up my sandboxes WhaleyTim (talk) 22:13, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome, and happy New Year. – Athaenara ✉ 22:48, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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