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Redlinks aren't empty pipes

In Huntsville, Texas, you undid a redlink I created, with an edit comment "rm empty pipe". What do you mean by "empty pipe"? Thanks. -- JHunterJ 13:23, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

It's a wiki-link to a nonexistent article. If you intend to create an article for the link, please do so first. Then you can link to it in other articles. --Evb-wiki 13:55, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

That's called a redlink, not an empty pipe. Please see WP:RED; redlinks can be useful even when I myself do not intend to create the article. -- JHunterJ 14:07, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

If the subject is important, why not create an article for it first. Otherwise, you're just assuming someone else will do the work. It's not like its real hard. I went ahead and created the article. I've also relinked it in Huntsville, Texas. --Evb-wiki 14:10, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. FWIW, I didn't indicate that it was hard, just that it is not a requirement for a link, and there's no reason to remove redlinks to subjects that are notable enough for (eventual) articles. -- JHunterJ 14:36, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I understand. Notwithstanding, Wikipedia's "guidelines," I do not believe they are appropriate. They are very distracting, IMHO. --Evb-wiki 14:41, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Then please discuss on WT:RED rather than reverting edits that are within those guidelines (since they reflect the editorial consensus so far). No quotation marks are needed around guidelines, BTW. You can also set your preferences to render the redlinks differently, although probably still too distractingly for you. -- JHunterJ 15:02, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

As an editor whose intent is to improve articles, I'll make my edits freely. If there is a dispute, I will certainly follow consensus. This "dispute" was resolved simply by creating the missing article. Again, IMO, no harm, no foul. --Evb-wiki 15:17, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

You don't think you need to follow the guidelines, then? -- JHunterJ 15:21, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

From Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines (emphasis added):

A guideline is any page that is: (1) actionable (i.e. it recommends, or recommends against, an action to be taken by editors) and (2) authorized by consensus. Guidelines are not set in stone and should be treated with common sense and the occasional exception.

I temper any Draconian urges with a committment to do the work. --Evb-wiki 15:34, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely. Sorry to have carried this conversation on so long -- you've been perfectly civil, even as we continued to disagree, and I suppose I just found that too refreshing compared to my other recent User Talks (with other users). I'll let you get back to the work. But first:

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Thanks for the civil discussion! JHunterJ 15:48, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

-- JHunterJ 15:48, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey thanks! :-) Although it certainly wasn't necessary, I appreciate the gesture. You seem to be involved with a lot of the stuff here that I find tedious, especially as far as cohesiveness. Please keep up to good work, and thanks again. --Evb-wiki 16:03, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

DB tags

Hello, when nominating a page for speedy deletion please remember to notify the author, it is not a policy but it is considered civil and polite to, even if the page was created in bad faith, Thank for your co-oeration and happy editing! The Sunshine Man 14:49, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Please do not removed speedy tags

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles that you have created yourself, as you did with OptionsXpress. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please place {{hangon}} on the page (please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag) and make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 10:49, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I did not create OptionsXpress. If you check the article history here, you will see that I placed the original db tag. By the time I removed the tag here, the Co.'s notability had been established. The article has since been vandalized, and the notability-establishing refs. have been removed. I have now restored them. Perhaps you should pay more attention to what you are doing. --Evb-wiki 14:20, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Duplicate images uploaded

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Houston

WHat the hell happened to Houston, Texas?? I'm going to go revert everything. The references are missing! Postoak 19:00, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Wasn't that Stevie Wonder blindly editing articles? --Evb-wiki 19:16, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

None of his edits were really great, but they apear to have been done in good faith. He got sloppy here and removed a /ref . --Evb-wiki 19:25, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

LOL, yeah, it was Stevie. I'll probably catch heat for reverting his edits. He can go back and put them in. If he reverts me, he will screw everything up again. Maybe I'm overprotective, but we all worked hard to get this article featured. Postoak 19:32, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, Stevie..check out the architecture article refs, they look kinky :) Postoak 21:11, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I just thought that's the way we were going to start doing things. I guess not. Geeesh, ya gotta be so picky. --Evb-wiki 21:15, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Have you seen the images in this collection? They are amazing. [1] Postoak 04:52, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Lady Paula Merry

Check this out - [2]. Do you think this "Lady Paula Merry" thing is legit? Postoak 22:52, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

This link suggests the person is for real. She may be a self-promoting one-booker, or even a nut, and the article may be POV or an autobio, or maybe even spam (it's unsourced for sure), but it appears she's got a book published. See this. There's more about her than just being an author. Novelty? --Evb-wiki 23:05, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I can't find anything on her. You would think the claim "Lady Paul was an early pioneer in grassroots journalism and alternative media" would result in something in a Google search. Maybe the book isn't selling very well. I'm going to dinner. Postoak 23:18, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Here's a few more [3], and this one [4] under the "You See Everything II: We will have lives in Jamaica" heading claiming "Cajuns are backstabbing cowards and their leaders are the biggest cowards ever and should be dead." Whoa sister! Postoak 07:36, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Alley Theatre

I have the Alley on my watchlist, and I just wanted to pop by and say what nice work you are doing there! The pictures look grand. (I kept meaning to get some up there myself, but my camera is terrible.) Good work!  :) --Cabiria 00:17, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I found the picture of the Alley (and other notables) on flickr - WITH creative commons licenses. --Evb-wiki 00:26, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

J. Don Boney

Just wanted to congratulate you for the work you've done in cleaning up J. Don Boney — as the one who initially tagged it {{nn}}, it's good to see people making the effort to clean up rescuable articles like this — iridescenti (talk to me!) 12:54, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Interesting guy, yet not as colorful as his son. Cheers. --Evb-wiki 14:24, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

User talk:66.182.207.218

Hello Evb-wiki. I have removed your last comment from User talk:66.182.207.218 per WP:RBI. This is not an actual policy, so feel free to put the comment back if you like, it's just something I think we should all go by. Someguy1221 01:59, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

That's cool. It was an unnecessary comment. --Evb-wiki 02:17, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Motorcycling Wikiproject

Welcome to the Motorcycling WikiProject. Hopefully you have a good time, start many new articles and can contribute lots to the existing ones as we need that. Cheers ww2censor 17:57, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I've been around for a while, but only recently got around to joining the project. See ya on the pages. --Evb-wiki 18:38, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Gcd test

Actually i was not known how to place links and now i added source information as well but dont know the complete method to write........but this pagedeserves to be on wikipedia as it is must for CSE peoples

Welcome

Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm trying my best and learning more and more every day!--Thenderson1 02:17, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Most of us here learn by doing (and being corrected), plus it's a lot of fun. Good start. Cheers. --Evb-wiki 02:37, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Motorcycle

Well spotted with the duplicate interwiki links. I reverted it. I do have one comment on your editing. You seem to overwikify the articles. One wikilink is all that is necessary to a topic from any page. While I did not go through the whole edit history of Motorcycle history, on which you have done lots of work, it is definitely overwikified. Many of the manufacturers are linked more than once and the years do not need it at all. Check this out. ww2censor 16:09, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

True enough. I believe most often that's a result of making several lump additions over a period of time. I guess I do need to go back and cleanup after myself. Thanks. --Evb-wiki 16:16, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Of course, on the wikification of years, at least in an history article, they are useful because they add historical context, as a reader can see what was going on in the particular year. But I agree, once should be enough. --Evb-wiki 16:22, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:Lon morris seal.jpg

Hello, Evb-wiki. An automated process has found and will an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that is in your userspace. The image (Image:Lon morris seal.jpg) was found at the following location: User:Evb-wiki. This image or media will be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. This does not necessarily mean that the image is being deleted, or that the image is being removed from other pages. It is only being removed from the page mentioned above. All mainspace instances of this image will not be affected Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 18:54, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:Three_Eras_-_Houston.jpg

An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Three_Eras_-_Houston.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. Please go to its page for more information if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. MER-C 09:20, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm. I thought Wikipedia was non-commercial. I've sent an e-mail to the artist, Tom Haymes on flickr.com, to see if he will provide an acceptable license. --Evb-wiki 14:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Mr. Haymes has graciously modified the license on the flickr page here to {{CC-BY-SA-2.0}}. I hope that will do. Cheers. --Evb-wiki 16:47, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:TxBarCollegeLogo SM.jpg

Hello Evb-wiki, an automated process has found an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, such as fair use. The image (Image:TxBarCollegeLogo SM.jpg) was found at the following location: User:Evb-wiki. This image or media will be removed per statement number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. The image that was replaced will not be automatically deleted, but it could be deleted at a later date. Articles using the same image should not be affected by my edits. I ask you to please not re-add the image to your userpage and could consider finding a replacement image licensed under either the Creative Commons or GFDL license or released to the public domain. Please note that it is possible that the image on your page is included vie a template or usebox. In that case, please find a free image for the template or userbox. Thanks for your attention and cooperation. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 05:10, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Recent Edits to Cynthia Ozick are not Vandalisms

The recent edits to Cynthia Ozick's page aren't quite vandalisms. I prefer to think of them as being entertaining decorations. All of this is a part of an absurdist internet project of mine encompassing the not so great minds of literature. If you wish to know more about this, please contact me as I am very willing to share the details.

Many thanks,

JSW

Jesus is Lord

Cynthia Ozick's Images

Your recent change to Ozick's page is deplorable. Such vandalisms must be brought to the attention of the moderators. Evb-wiki1 23:13, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Both blocked

The imposter is indefinitely blocked, and the other is blocked for a short time. If there is any further harassment, let me or any other admin know. WP:ANI is best for incidents like these. --Steve _(Stephen) ^talk 00:00, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much. Cheers. --Evb-wiki 00:03, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I got news for ye, Buddy

Don't fuck with me. Not on Wikipedia anyway. Feel my wrath. Bitch.

JSW

Jesus Saves

re: User:Jsw46

Hi. I'm not admin, but when you have clear cases of disruptive socks, you can report them directly at WP:AIV. Especially here where the name is very similar. I usually do something like "Sockpuppet of User:Jsw48" with either a link to the puppet master or using {{user}}. Regards, Flyguy649^talk_contribs 04:07, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

• I reported Jsw46 to AIV. Flyguy649^talk_contribs 04:11, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm trying to wade through the reporting process. --Evb-wiki 04:12, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I should mention that cases of suspected sockpuppetry go to WP:SSP and not AIV. Regards, Flyguy649^talk_contribs 04:24, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah. I posted the issue there. Thanks again. --Evb-wiki 04:26, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Good job, I saw it had all been sorted and blocks extended all round. Now it will be on the radar of a few more admins which never hurts! --Steve _(Stephen) ^talk 05:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

re: User:Mcneillg

Hi, please feel free to remove this if necessary Evb-wiki - but this was the only way I know how to contact you. One quick question, i've beenn getting involved in other pages Malcolm Ross (courtier) and the Master of the Household. Now that I've added references as requested by Wikipedia for ensuring the page is accurate and thus provides evidence for the comments, when will the boxes at the top requesting sources disappear? When an admin notices?

Hello. This is the correct way to contact another editor. Yes, when an admin notices. Of course, the tag lists it among the other articles that have been challenged and this is one of the many tasks they do regularly. Please be patient. Since it has not been deleted already, chances are good that it meets Wikipedia standards. Understand that this is an important part of the process. Thanks. --Evb-wiki 14:20, 23 May 2007 (UTC) ps - Please remember to sign your name after your comments on talk pages.

Re: the "need refs." tag on Malcolm Ross (courtier). It is appropriate to remove this tag when you have provided the refs. Tags like "refs. needed", "cleanup", "wikify", etc. do not require admin. assistence to be removed. Please note that a tag that has been removed before the requested work has been done will likely be replaced. You will find that many articles live with tags for a long time. Cheers. --Evb-wiki 14:36, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

John Luke

Oops. My bad. It's been restored now, though. Mangojuice^talk 15:14, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Sure. Not a problem. Thanks. --Evb-wiki 15:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Recent Edits to Cynthia Ozick

The last image edit to Ozick was properly placed, properly cited, and only improperly captioned. You dumbass! Evx-wiki 03:25, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

And this user is indefinitely blocked too! --Steve _(Stephen) ^talk 03:30, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again, Steve. --Evb-wiki 03:35, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

You've created quite a following Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Jsw48! --Steve _(Stephen) ^talk 05:40, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

I feel so loved. Well . . . not really. "Jonathan Worthington" <jsw45@yahoo.ca> has sent me a real-world e-mail to continue his attacks. (yawn.) Seems the poor guy has had his heart broken. What to do??? What to do? --Evb-wiki 12:18, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Two more down! Do you want semi-protection of your user page for a while? --Steve _(Stephen) ^talk 03:37, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again. Sure, I guess semi would be nice. I'm the only one that edits it anyway. I appreciate your help. Cheers. --Evb-wiki 03:39, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Protected for three months. He's a very sad individual if he's still playing his games then! --Steve _(Stephen) ^talk 03:44, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I can't wait. I have a feeling he's not going away. He may move on, but he loves his little game. --Evb-wiki 03:46, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

You poor, poor, poor, thing you. This whole game isn't about you, it's about Cynthia! Long Live Ozick Vandalisms! 218.102.125.231 04:25, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Stop wasting your time on Wikipedia. You're a lawyer aren't you? I guess the Texas Bar must be pretty easy to pass if someone made it and is just spending all their time on such a farce of an internet institution. That, or you're just a God-Awful lawyer and haven't seen any work in quite some time. Go to Bed! PurpleJesus66 04:43, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

removed an attack

I just removed an attack on this page by indef blocked from a new sock (User:Jsw45 of Jsw -- you can find in in the edit history before this edit by myself, MrMacMan ^Talk 04:03, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Lighthouse

Yes I have that lighthouse on my user page - i collect great images -strange coicidence. Sorry to mess you up with the deletion pages -creating and writing articles is usually my work but I happeneed to be browsing the new pages. All the best ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 16:26, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Edits to Evb-Wiki

Hey, sweety pie, I've missed you. Give me a call sometime. I'll sure to milk you real good...

194.169.192.183 04:19, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Architecture article

What else do you think needs a ref? Postoak 02:30, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Other than a couple in "Residential", I think we've got at least one ref. in every paragraph. --Evb-wiki 02:34, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I think the downtown section needs a few also. I'll add some there. Oh, please get rid of the comments above from the milk maid.  :) Postoak 02:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

		The Half Barnstar
		Actually, if a 75/25 barnstar existed, you would deserve the 75% portion for your contributions to Architecture of Houston. Thank you for your assistance. Congratulations! Postoak 00:03, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm not so sure I'm responsible for the lion's share of the work. It was another good collaborative effort. Thanks. --Evb-wiki 00:34, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Sylvia Plath

Dear Evb-wiki,

I broke down the Life section on the Sylvia Plath page because I wanted to expand it with more detail and I thought two sections will provide better organization than one more diluted section. I am pretty sure the references, as they are now, follow the wrong format style. I will try to clean up and help as much as I can. LaSaltarella 16:44, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

That's great. I felt "early years" could not be seperated from "Life". Perhaps:

• Biography
  • Childhood
  • College years
  • Wife, mother and poet
  • Death
• Works
  • Journals
  • Poetry
  • The TH controvercy

or something similar might work. Cheers. --Evb-wiki 17:01, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

• Sounds great. I like the order of the sections as you list. By the way, if you don't mind use my talk pages for responding. I am aiming at spending a significant amount of time on the article in the coming months. LaSaltarella 02:10, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Team Lloyd Irvin

Hi. You tagged this article for speedy deletion under A7 - no claim of notability. As there is a claim of notability, I have removed the tag. If you feel like the claim is spurious, I would suggest WP:AFD. Natalie 14:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

my bad.Anon345 19:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Alvin K. Daett

I changed the tag on that article to one for speedy deletion ... reading it, it's such obvious crap that it should be speedied (per CSD A1).Blueboy96 19:44, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I really thought about it, but since it asserted notability . . . Though I'm sure it's complete bollocks. Cheers. --Evb-wiki 20:32, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Atlantis submarines

I wasn't using the db-copyvio template because I wanted to request the page be protected after deleting. I don't quite think this person understands the notion of copyright, let alone the notability issues that would arise if this were recreated. -wizzard2k ^(C•T•D) 04:10, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. The text in the template didn't make sense. ("please use salt"???) And since his hold-on template wasn't properly placed, I thought he screwed it up. I didn't notice your edit. --Evb-wiki 04:15, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I could tell you were just trying to get rid of it. Salting is the term applied to deleting with extreme prejudice :) -wizzard2k ^(C•T•D) 04:19, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

gotcha. learned something new. I also hadn't noticed it had been deleted before. peace. --Evb-wiki 04:22, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Mistle Thrush

Thanks for you input. I also reviewed WP:BAND and cound not find a criterion that it met (thus the afd) Is it possible to acknowledge which point it meets? For the benefit of future debates? Thank you! Toonot 17:06, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

• w/r/t Mistle_Thrush_(band) sorry for not clarifying

Please see my response on the AfD page. --Evb-wiki 17:32, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

References tag

I see you reverted my revert of my edit to the references tag. I have now read up on this and basically all I see is that {{reflist}} just produces a smaller font size that the regular ref tag. You might want to read this part of a discussion on the matter, or even the whole page though some of the links to other discussions on the same thing no longer work. I am not sure that {{:reflist is newer, better, or preferred. It seems to be matter of individual choice. Cheers ww2censor 01:54, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah. I believe it is a matter of personal choice. I thought you were searching . . . so, I provided the one I've seen used more often lately. I'm not sure of the difference between {{reflist}} and {{reflist|2}} (this apparently doesn't make 2 columns) but they both get the same result as, and (if anything) are more efficient than, <small><references/></small>. I didn't mean to suggest you did something wrong. I just thought I was providing what you were looking for. --Evb-wiki 02:08, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I have been using the <small><references/></small> for quite some time but just saw the {{reflist}} tag and wondered about its use. It is easier to use and remember when editing but as you say it looks like it is a personal choice. Thanks. Cheers ww2censor 02:14, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

re: Carrom equipment

I've replied to your comment on my talk page. Arkyan &#149; ^(talk) 15:18, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

How's it going

Any more trouble lately? --Steve _(Stephen) ^talk 10:01, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Steve. No, it's been pretty quiet lately. I did run into a vandal who was replacing images on another article, Gary Neville (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), who I thought might be my little "friend," but he/she did not relaliate. I haven't checked on that guy's target article in a while though. . . . Hmmm. I guess he's still at it. See Cynthia Ozick (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Oh well, I guess it wasn't all about me after all. --Evb-wiki 12:49, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Pish afd

You voted to delete, but I've made some changes so perhaps you could take another look. Sabine's Sunbird talk 01:10, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Done. Nice save. Cheers. --Evb-wiki 02:19, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

I am sorry for my erroneous comment on this article's talk page...I had a 'senior moment' and thought I was talking about a different article and a different editor! Jack1956 19:42, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

non-theism entry

Dear Evb-wiki,

Thanks for your editing of non-theism, aiming for concision. "God," for many, has specific connotations (which often relate to one "supreme being"), and which doesn't necessarily include the divine (or "devine," as you spelled it), meaning supernatural (i.e. non-material, in the sense I mean). I wonder if we might possibly please include the word divine in the "nontheism" entry, to encompass a wider sphere of meaning?

Thanks, Aphilo

Can you provide an example of what you mean by divine? I don't understand the difference you are suggesting. --Evb-wiki 23:52, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

For example, the Greeks and Romans each considered their pantheon of Gods and Goddesses divine, yet Pan, or Venus/Aphrodite, were not supreme, and Pan wasn't a God or God, yet was divine. Similarly, in Hinduism, there are many! expressions of the divine, yet they are not Gods. -Aphilo

Countries in ESC2008

Just so you know, there are a few more articles on putative participants now. Should I bundle them together, or would you like to since you've done the bundling so far? BigHaz - Schreit mich an 22:11, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

I nominated all the articles listed here. Where are the others? I didn't find any other articles for 2008. --Evb-wiki 23:51, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

P.I.T.

Hi, I noticed that you put the (db-band) tag on the above article, I have slightly improved the article although I have no knowledge whatsoever of the topic. I improved it to give the creator of the article a chance to improve it further and add sources etc and it could maybe become a reasonable article.

Thanks

--The-G-Unit-Boss 19:47, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

The article makes no claim of notability and provides no reliable soiurce. It still qualifies for {{db-band}}. I placed a request for references tag on it. If it's not improved promptly, I'll send it to AfD. --Evb-wiki 19:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Shane Hagadorn AfD

Now unbundled per your concerns, the other articles can be found through my contribs. Darrenhusted 00:20, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Apologies over the vote move, I was trying to make the intentions clearer, fee free to move the comments back if you wish. Darrenhusted 02:49, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Edward Guinan

Artifax, Edward Guinan, the guy who discovered the ring systems of Neptune is notable. The discovery is attributed to him in Google Scholar and elsewhere. . Even if for some reason you didn't think such a discovery notable, the directions for A7 say not to place it where there is even an assertion of notability. Please pay attention to what you are doing when you place a speedy delete tag--that claim was at the end of the article, not the beginning, and it was referenced. I declined to delete it , of course, so no harm done. (The picture, though, was copyvio, and you appropriately deleted it.) DGG 15:46, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

others

I was trying to see why this happened, so I checked some other edits & most of them seem altogether right--very good vandal fighting. So I noticed that you marked Fred Rompelberg for deletion last week, as "db-hoax" saying you did not believe the speed record. But it's confirmed on the first page of Google hits by the TY Times, & more important: Hoaxes may not be speedied, they have to be nominated for prod, or afd, in order to avoid this kind of error. Early one, I once or twice said things were hoaxes without sufficient checking, and been greatly embarrassed at what people said. No one of us knows about everything.

This is what i think was the reason: You do very well fixing things, so perhaps I can take the liberty of some personal advice: don't try to go too fast or do too many of the same thing in a row. One extremely experienced admin had to admit on a policy page last week, that after deleting a few dozen nonsense bios in a row, he sometimes stopped looking at them carefully, and deleted some clearly inadequate bios, but they happened to be about important people. He was using a bot. I don't--it's easy to go too fast.

Also, about edit summaries: please be aware that edit summaries cannot be removed , unlike comments on talk pages, so you've got to be extra prudent, so: "(if you don't know the diff btw "no one" and "know one," don't edit)" - It's not a good idea to criticize an editor in these terms no matter what the error is, or ever make fun of one. Everyone makes typos, And this one was probably a specific sort of psychological error--the brain automatically uses the shortest word, or the word that was used just before--not a grammar error and you will see this particular know/no slip a good deal. Just fix it.

Happy editing, DGG 17:25, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. I must have forgotten to take my meds that day. :-) Cheers. --Evb-wiki 18:26, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Hello -

Haven't heard from you in awhile, how's it going? Postoak 04:11, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Hey. Been a little busier lately. And piddling with some housekeeping stuff. My watchlist had also gotten a bit unruly. What's up with you? Any interesting new articles? --Evb-wiki 04:26, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Nothing new really. I have my eyes on Johnson Space Center as the next article for GA candidate. It needs some work when compared to Kennedy Space Center. I think it's an important article, since we are Space City...or was it Screwston? Postoak 04:36, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, JSC is an important article. It needs quite of bit of work, but I do believe it could be a good one. Of course, we could always do Cough syrup in Houston. --Evb-wiki 04:48, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, what a dilemma. Cough syrup in Houston is incredibly important...according to the leaflet I read downtown being distributed by Lady Paula Merry. I think I'll go with JSC for now :) Postoak 04:57, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Check out Talk:Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, just some prelim notes and a sandbox if your interested. Need to get to bed, have an 8am meeting. G'night, Postoak 05:53, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Licenses

Hello, reading on your user page that you're a lawyer (and thus shoud be used to legalese like these cc licenses), I am frankly a bit surprised that you alter the licenses found on flickR (e.g. cc-by-sa-nc-nd-2.0 to cc-by-sa-2.5) when uploading to Wikipedia. This concerns Image:Capitan_Theater.jpg, Image:Cellist@LyricCentre.jpg, Image:Hobby Center Houston.jpg and possibly others (I didn't check more). I tagged those with the correct licenses, but that means they have to be deleted right away, since Wikipedia does (with good reasons) not allow works with "non-commercial" restrictions. Did I miss anything? Did you get (written) permission to re-license these pictures? If so, please do add this crucial information to the description pages. It'd be sad to see so many nice pictures of theaters deleted (also my greatest hobby – pun intended, since the "other" image in Hobby Center is by me...) --AndreasPraefcke 18:12, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I was not aware when I uploaded these images that Wikipedia did no allow "non-commercial" licensed images. I thought Wikipedia was a non-commercial site. As I noted the flickr licenses were cc-by-nc-sa, if I tagged them with the wrong tag (as it appears I did), it was completely unintentional and my mistake. I'm afraid I have no way to salvage them at present. --Evb-wiki 18:25, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Too bad. :-( The pictures are lovely. But Wikipedia, being uncommercial itself, has the goal to provide free content for anyone to reuse in any way, including commercial use (e. g. if someone wants to print the encyclopedia or parts of it and sell it, or use it in a textbook). --AndreasPraefcke 18:49, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Commercial use of Images

[Please note that I have removed multiple warnings/notices concerning the use of non-commercial image licenses received as a result of uploading images from flickr.com that were not properly licensed for use on Wikipedia. See this page's history to view those warnings/notices.] --Evb-wiki 13:40, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Flickr

Please do not upload "non-commercial" or "no-derivitive" licensed images from flickr. We can not accept them anywhere. Also, you should upload free images from flickr to Commons to help protect the free license of the image and make the image available and same someone the work of having to move it over later anyways. Thank you for understanding. MECU≈talk 12:46, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

David Greco

It is interesting that you were the first to jump on the deletionist path for this Delete David Greco and the person who started it has vanished; clearly they signed up with that in mind. It seems rather disappointing that all that was started by someone who didn't care to be a user at all and rather wanted the Greco page deleted. Thanks for getting on that bandwagon. Ultimately, though, the irony in all of this is genius. Thanks again. 24.202.85.2 02:42, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Teresa Lipowska

Hello, while patrolling recent changes, I saw you slapped a speedy-tag on Teresa Lipowska about one second after it was created by a new user. Very often, new users will save the page as they are editing, instead of using the preview button. I think we shall give the creator a little bit of time to expand the article on this Polish actress, and see when he or she is done wether the article varrants a speedy deletion or not. Dr bab 12:53, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. As I often do, once the author showed an attempt to correct/expand the article to meet Wikipedia standards, I provided assistance by correcting some formatting and added an external link source. Or didn't you notice? Very few new-article patrolers do this. And, the tag was removed as appropriate. I've assisted some new editors with creating pretty good articles from crap through this process. It seems to work pretty well. --Evb-wiki 14:09, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Good man. Perhaps it is not only you who should be less eager to speedy-tag, perhaps I should also be less eager to shout at editors for being so eager. Anyways, well done on that article, your methods seems sound. Dr bab 22:22, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Apologies

I was merely making sure all comments and votes are marked so on afds. I'm aware of talk page refactoring and I do avoid ti. Once again, sorry. -WarthogDemon 16:25, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

No hard feelings. I just thought that the double indent, coupled with the lack of a !vote, made it clear that my comment was made in response to the foregoing query. Peace. --Evb-wiki 17:18, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Sean Diaz tagged for speedy deletion

An article that you have been involved in editing, Sean Diaz, has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Bushcarrot ^Talk _Guestbook 16:07, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I have been involved in placing speedy delete tags. They have been removed by the author about a half dozen times. --Evb-wiki 16:12, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

AfD attention request

Not sure if this is out of order, but there's a somewhat contentions AfD (here) that has received little outside attention. Since the AfD was initiated, a number of single purpose accounts (likely sockpuppets) have started editing (and discussing on the talk page) the article; not !voting, fortunately. In any case, I wanted to see if some AfD regulars could stop by and weigh in. I'm not looking to sway !votes here—I haven't targeted deletionists; I'm asking editors that seem to !vote a lot on music-related AfDs. No reply is necessary but your opinion is valued. Pr 2.0 13:24, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Articles for deletion: Liero

Because of the deletion/merge outcome of the article Liero Xtreme that you participated in, several related articles have been nominated for deletion on the same grounds. Please see the discussion. --Snoopydawg 08:39, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

User:Xx--emo--x--chicken--xx

I have removed the {{db-nonsense}} tag from this user page, because I feel there should be some leniency in what we require users to keep on their pages. If he wants to display a personal eccentricity by having a silly user page, I don't think it harms the project. If you have an additional reasoning, I am open to further discussion on the issue. Leebo ^T/C 15:39, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

my bad. --Evb-wiki 15:41, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the speedy deletion of Eeenix

Hi, Evb-wiki, I noticed you tagged Eeenix for speedy deletion; I agree that this is an acceptable measure, and agree that the page in question is an example of copyright infringement. It undoubtedly is--the text has just been ripped off the project's site--but moreover, the article is completely non-notable. Have you gone to AfD yet? Ragaxus 15:04, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

No. i believe it's speediable as a copyvio and as spam. I would only take it to a 5-day Afd if it was simply nn. As a copyvio, it needs to be deleted as fast as possible and needs no discussion. --Evb-wiki 15:08, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

I understand; thanks for your quick clarification. Ragaxus 15:10, 29 July 2007 (UTC)