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United Push

Deleted as requested!  (aeropagitica)   (talk)  12:28, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I was in the act of tagging for speedy deletion when it got deleted. Thanks.MER-C 13:03, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

the Caridee English trainwreck

Do you want to wait a bit, then start nominating these individually, say, five or six articles a day? wikipediatrix 19:47, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Bump me on Sunday morning (UTC) and I'll do it. MER-C 08:38, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

ricky clousing

hey, i hope you reconsider, check it out again, ive added some stuff. And by the way, jeez did u jump on the deletion wagon fast, i think that was uncalled for. give me a sec to get it off the ground will ya, i think that actually is policy. Plus it would scare away a newcommer i think, and that is also a rule. not scarrinf them away and i dont think that you know if i am new or not. allthought i am not. check it out and any suggestions or comments would greatly be appreciated. Qrc2006 09:31, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

The question is, is he notable? Now that you have asserted notability, it is fit to stay and I have withdrawn the speedy. It's technically difficult for me to wait a half hour or so because of the software I use. Usually the hour or so of backlog at CAT:SPEEDY sorts out the good articles from the crap. MER-C 09:42, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

thank you for withdrawing, allthough i am disapointed that we did not dialogue. Qrc2006 09:58, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for prodding me on this one, I've written a script to automate speedy warnings. MER-C 10:09, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

No probs. It means you're popular :) -- Samir धर्म 09:55, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Blocked

• I just blocked you, by accident - that "Michelins" thing. I misperceived. Sorry; you've been unblocked. If there's still a problem, let me know. DS 13:37, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I think there's still an autoblock to clear, autoblock ID is #241026. MER-C 13:38, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

You sure it isn't cleared? I just tried to unblock you, and it showed you were not blocked. alphaChimp ^laudare 13:43, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Yep, its gone. Thanks. MER-C 13:46, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Great. Syrthiss 13:48, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

SD card adapter

i can understand why you might have redirected from this page to the main SD card page but the information is not present anywhere else on wiki. if its the external link to a nintendo sales page then fair enough, get shot of the link. but the whole (if brief) article? Kryss hon 23:59, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I've added the picture to Secure Digital Card as it could be a useful addition. Feel free to edit the image caption. MER-C 03:00, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

ESA page confusion?

I am a new Wikipedia user. Just made numerous edits to the Endangered Species Act page. All were quite straightforward (adding citations, grouping like information together, deleting redundant statements, clarifying distinctions, and correcting one error). If I'm reading the page correctly, it appears you wiped out all my changes and reverted the page to previous version. Why did you do this? There was nothing partisan or malicious in my changes.

I did create one problem. All the text from the section title "Does it Work" (formerly called "Criticism") appeared to be missing from the completed page though it appeared to be present in the editing page. I was attempting to determine why this was happening and how to restore the missing text (which I kept a copy of) when you reverted page back to the previous version.

Can you tell me what is going on? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.63.217.58 (talk • contribs)

Oops my bad. Problem fixed. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. MER-C 05:46, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

-- Thanks, I'll pop the text back in that I accidentally deleted. 24.63.217.58

Thanks for reverting the Endangered Species Act page back. There is still a problem. When I view the article, it ends in the middle of the section entitled "recovery plans". When I select the edit mode, the article is much longer. What I see in edit mode is the correct version. Not sure why the full text doesn't appear in the article.

24.63.217.58

You haven't got your references code correct. You'll need to put the {{cite web}}s in the ref tags. See Wikipedia:Citing sources, or look at another article (e.g. Mars) on how to do this. MER-C 06:16, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I Hope You Die

The lyrics to I hope you die are open-source. Do not mark for speedy deletion. --GoOdCoNtEnT 05:44, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Song lyrics are copyrighted, regardless of whether they are available on the internet publicly or not. You're going to have to determine the license these lyrics are available under. Otherwise the speedy stands and the article gets deleted. MER-C 05:49, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Your AIV report for Bernard_O`Mahoney

You recently posted:

Bernard_O`Mahoney (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - username, see contributions

on WP:AIV. It is not clear what vandalism you are reporting. He purports to be the subject of the article (which he did not create.) There have been no warnings of any kind on his talk page. I'm removing the AIV notice. Feel free to re-add it with additional information and after appropriate warnings issued. — ERcheck (talk) 13:17, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

This user is in violation of the username policy. There's not much I can do to verify he is the real person (because of a non-working email) apart from posting on his talk page. If he doesn't confirm tomorrow morning, I will report again. MER-C 13:27, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Malaysia Students

Please reconsider Malaysia Students entry. Do visit the blog yourself to check whether it's a spam Wikipedia entry. Cupid9 16:12, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

The only way to save the article is to establish the blog's notability. Blogs generally aren't notable, except for a select few. There are only 866 ghits for this one so it's going to be hard. MER-C 01:45, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Wilkinson (surname)

Hey I just Got a Message From u MER-C And i want to know i wasent here on september 2nd so how could i vandelise it could be 1 of my family members but it wasent me so i am sorry and buy the way is this the proper talk page or not —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skippz (talk • contribs)

Um, perhaps you can tell them not to. I guess that's a valuable lesson to be learned there. Feel free to remove the warning. MER-C 03:14, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Foreign Language

Hi, can you teach me how to create another Wikipedia entry in another language? How do we make a link within the same article linking it to another language? thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.69.229.244 (talk • contribs)

The English Wikipedia is not the only Wikipedia, see here for a complete list. As for linking, look here for how to do it. MER-C 04:39, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

ANTM articles

You shouldn't have bundled them together as one nomination... that's what caused the previous trainwreck. wikipediatrix 05:01, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I was a bit more careful this time - it wasn't a blanket nomination. The deletion should be clear cut as I have only selected the stubs. In fact there are now two additional delete arguments. I'll nominate another ten tomorrow. MER-C 05:22, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for catching and reverting the vandalism on my user page (probably by Ericsaindon2). I have been too busy with work this week. --Coolcaesar 16:34, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. MER-C 11:55, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Martian Vandals

Do you also edit Vandal pages when the Martians aren't around? User:Pedant 06:00, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

All the long term abuse pages (except Wikipedia:Long term abuse/North Carolina vandal and my Blu Aardvark page) have been deleted by Cyde, so I can't. MER-C 08:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my user page. -- thunderboltz^(Deepu) 10:04, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. MER-C 10:06, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my userpage. Much appreciated, Gwernol 11:09, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. MER-C 12:37, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Hokey Pokey

Hey! Was there a particular reason for reverting the removal of endless copies of 'see also' in this article, or was it just a mistake? Just wondering. Skittle 12:35, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

It's just a mistake. Came across a large deletion on the order of 100kB, assumed it was vandalism and reverted. Oops. MER-C 12:42, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Ah good. Wasn't sure if it was maybe a code thing, that perhaps it only looked odd to me and one other user... Skittle 14:40, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you for reverting vandalism done to my user page. Thanks! --Porqin 04:32, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. MER-C 08:13, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I too am very thankful! - Dozenist talk 08:57, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. MER-C 09:03, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

... for reverting my talkpage. That was indefbanned user Thewolfstar, please see this and this. PS, I just returned the favor... :-) . Your own misbehaving anon has been blocked for 3 hours. Bishonen | talk 10:25, 8 September 2006 (UTC).

Great. :)

P.S. Only three hours? It looks like a static IP. MER-C 10:30, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh. I didn't know that. More, certainly. Please change it to your preference. Bishonen | talk 10:33, 8 September 2006 (UTC).

I'm not an admin (so I can't block), but I would recommend 1 day and double if he returns. MER-C 10:57, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism by me

Hi. A while ago I started a new account on Wikipedia (here) and decided to removed the text on my old userpage ([User:Oli888|here]]). I'd just like to point out that this wasn't vandalism - it was my old account. 0L1 16:14, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

OK. Thanks. MER-C 03:54, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Mystery Academy

Could you please advise me as to your decision that Mystery Academy is "not noteworthy"? What information can I post that would make it noteworthy in your eyes? What if you find it noteworthy but another wiki anti-vandalism person doesn't? What happens then? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Magicbymccauley (talk • contribs)

First, you need to familiarize yourself with WP:CORP, our guidelines on corporations. There are plenty of ways there in which you can establish notability. As for other people, AFD is a deletion debate. If you (or someone else) can successfully argue for the keeping of the article (by addressing the concerns raised), then it is kept. MER-C 10:09, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Mystery Academy is not a corporation, which is a for profit entity. It is a not-for profit entity. I don't know if this is relevant though.

Some of the guidelines in WP:CORP are still relevant, though.

It seems like the criteria for notability has to do specifically with published materials on the subject. If there are no such materials (or I don't know about them) does that make my subject un"noteworthy"?

Yes, unless one of the other criteria is satisfied. You can still save the page by addressing the concerns raised in the deletion debate.

Is it better to make the article more consice since it is "not-noteworthy"? Or is it better to include details so that it will be seen as noteworthy?

No, a whole load of one line stubs were deleted yesterday, see here.

Who is the ultimate decision maker as to the noteability of something?

The Wikipedia community, through the WP:AFD process.

Is there a voting process? If it's something that's never been done before, is that enough? Or does it need a certain membership number of people?

AFD is not a vote, it is a debate to discuss the merits of the article and whether it should stay or not. If someone proposes a new policy, there is discussion and debate and a poll to determine consensus, but the only form of voting is straw polls.

I'm new to wiki posting. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Magicbymccauley (talk • contribs)

There's some editing help over here. Please also sign your posts using ~~~~. MER-C 10:35, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Mass sockpuppetry

I hope you'll set up an RFCU/ANI thread to see if we can block any open proxies on that one. He almost got to 30 spins. Ryūlóng 10:25, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Three open proxies were blocked yesterday, see WP:RFCU#Checkuser request ON WHEELS!!!!. I lumped them with the WoW account and a few other username blocks, would more be required? MER-C 10:38, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

You mean you added all of the "You have sat through x spins" accounts? Ryūlóng 20:39, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

I'll hop on it, because whoever it was reappeared yesterday. I think it might be a dynamic IP though. MER-C 03:02, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Chess

Thank you for participating in my game of chess. The game was won by black. A new game has started at User:GW_Simulations/Chess/Game 2 if you are interested in participating. GW_Simulations - 10:53, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

User talk:IPA

I noticed you nominated this for deletion, as it's so new, do you think blanking it and adding a welcome and a spam warn to it instead would be better? Saves going through the MfD process.--Andeh 11:16, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Looks like a single purpose spammer account. I wouldn't bother with the welcome. MER-C 11:19, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

WP:AGF, do you want to do the above then?--Andeh 11:37, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

OK then. MER-C 12:27, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Glad you took my idea into consideration, also this way users know the they are a possible spammer. ;) --Andeh 22:09, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Checkuser request

I notice on your recent checkuser request you say "there was a sustained Willy on Wheels attack today". Did any of those actually move pages, to me it just looked like a trolling username creation session. Just not sure where the Willy on Wheels bogey man comes into it?

Thanks --pgk 13:58, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it wheely was Willy, see my move log and this. MER-C 14:00, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

OK it's quite interesting, from what I can see only one actually moved any pages, so the others may or may not be the same individual. You may or may not be aware but there was a problem at around that time yesterday (maybe a bit later) until a similar time today where a change to the wikipedia code meant even brand new users could move pages, the account which did the moves is actually 2.5 years old (at least)... --pgk 14:14, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Speedy delete criteria

You recently tagged NetUP for speedy delete with criteria G7. This is for author request deletion, which was not the case. I don't think you meant A7 (non-notable person, band, club). — ERcheck (talk) 14:06, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

The author did blank the article, see this diff. MER-C 14:09, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert button

I have noticed when you closed the above AfD, you did not remove the category template, "REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD". By deleting this when closing it pulls the discussion out of the category. I have deleted it from this discussion, but if you could review any other closures you have done recently and remove the tag from them it would be greatly appreicated. Thanks. --Gay Cdn (talk) (email) (Contr.) 14:19, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Vielen Dank

Thanks for reverting the defacement of my userpage. Heimstern Läufer 17:51, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Firedog

Hi, Sorry - I'm not a big wikipedia(er) but strongly believe in the opensource principal. I find it discouraging that there is a Firedog page under wikipedia that points to a company. This is not what I believe this initiative was designed for. Could we see a decent article that talks about what an actual firedog is? Clifford —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.158.206.10 (talk • contribs) 12:21, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

What exactly is a firedog? And more importantly, is it encyclopedic? MER-C 12:23, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry - I hope I'm doing this right, by editing this part of the post. Firedog has been submitted on wikipedia as a company, which is a bit against the principals of wiki as far as I'm concerned. Ok, I also have a company under a similar name but have not gone to these lengths to promote myself. A firedog is essentially a victorian device that is used in fireplaces/hearths. It was originally designed to support the grate that contains the hot coals and was typically designed to represent an animal of sorts. Sometimes in dog form or even sphinx form. In addition to this, Firedog was a famous flight mission in the second world war. Do I need to add all these references on the site and whats the best way to do this? 212.158.206.10 12:31, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Firstly, articles on corporations are permitted as long as they satisfy our guidelines on corporations. Secondly, if you want to create an article(s) on various Firedogs, you'll need an account, or request one at WP:AFC because there are a few nitty-gritty things such as disambiguation and possibility of moving pages. MER-C 12:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Ok, it seems like I will not be able to resolve this as it is not easy. I just believe it is unfair and constitutes advertising.Cliffordboobyer 12:47, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Help:Editing is your friend. If you do end up creating articles, make sure they aren't deletable because it's a common mistake. MER-C 12:55, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Its quite hard to edit something out that has been placed already as that may constitute vandalism as that has been proven already! In the situation of two instances of identical information for example two corporations - How is one chosen over the other.?Cliffordboobyer 13:01, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Create a new article and place a disambiguation notice at the top of the original, much like the one on the top of this one. MER-C 13:03, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Would you mind having a look at this to see if it fulfills the company guidelines? I tried to make it written by external source by including articles written about the company Cliffordboobyer 10:18, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

It's somewhat marginal - it's not an obvious keep, but not a clear cut deletion either. I'm going to abstain. MER-C 10:50, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Metrologic Instruments

An article you prodded is now in AFD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metrologic Instruments. -- Merope 15:52, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification, I see that the AFD is now concluded - the page is still rather spammy but not as much as before. MER-C 08:09, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

G4 Global Gambling Guidance Group

Hi, Im sorry but what is specificaly wrong with this article? Thanks in advance. David

It is an article that does not assert the notability of the subject, i.e. I do not feel that the company/charity/whatever does not give a reason why it is notable enough to be included. See WP:CORP for our guidelines on what makes a corporate entity notable, WP:NN for stuff in general. It helps us (and you, because the article might not be deleted) if you address the concerns raised in the deletion debate. MER-C 12:24, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Ahh okay, well I can see your point here thanks, would the fact that this organization is the first in the world to deal/tackle the ongoing issue of internet gambling push this into an acceptable category? Many thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidlightman (talk • contribs)

Well, I really can't comment on that. Many articles on bands/people/groups claiming that they were the first to create a new style of music fare even worse than your article - if I were an admin, I could come along and delete it without warning. I guess you should bring this up in the deletion debate and cite a third party source to back up the notability. MER-C 12:40, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

... for reverting vandalism by User:208.182.75.11 to my user page! ... discospinster _talk 13:25, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Absolute poker

Hi. I noticed you prodded the above article. I'm removing the prod, since it's (IMHO) notable [1]. The article needs a complete rewrite, though. I'll put the appropriate tags on. If you want to AfD it, that's fine by me. I'll vote keep, but will bow to community concensus. The title should also be "Absolute Poker Inc." or something to that effect, but anyway.... --Storkk 16:20, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

It's already nominated for deletion and looks like it's a keep. In the form I saw it, it was a very deletable article, but I'm glad something good came out of it. MER-C 08:41, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

my-boi

please reconsider your vote against my-boi i think it is very important since it made national attention in the media, read the article on james barnett the 18-yo who was expelled from his conservative high school for creating the website. the website will soon be joined with xy.com an even more noteworthy website with millions of registered users somthing that makes it very notable, i think this is premature. why did you vote for delete? Qrc2006 21:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

At the time, the article failed to provide one assertion of notability. As it stands now, I still don't think it is notable: WP:WEB says it should be the subject of multiple independent news articles and to cut to the chase - "what makes that particular school scandal more notable than the rest?" MER-C 08:35, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Links are useless

You removed articles due to copyright but the links you provided are useless as it is only for the subscribers. What do you suggest?

Swadhyayee 14:47, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Have you tried bugmenot.com? MER-C 08:26, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

My Posts

Hello, I know its been a while, but I would just like to know why a few of my contributions to wikipedia were reverted, as no reason was provided. Here are a few examples: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

It may have been reverted as I was falsely accused and banned for vandalism, but I do not see a reason that those posts had to be reverted, as to me they did not seem like vandalism. --Aa35te 01:33, 14 September 2006 (UTC).

Yep, that was it. If we find a vandal only account, it's standard practice that we revert all edits (blindly by going to the contributions list and clicking rollback) by that account just in case we missed some vandalistic edits. MER-C 08:38, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I see. I understand what you did and that is a smart idea. Thanks for the clarification! = ) --Aa35te 04:56, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Who is the vandal?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:MutterErde&diff=75673503&oldid=75673413

c.u. 195.93.60.6 09:38, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Chances are that the other editor is an admin. Note that the user is indef-blocked and restoring the user page looks very suspicious. MER-C 09:43, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

They have banned many admin-vandals in de, and I remember that they have banned JTKiefer from en (only one example) 195.93.60.6 10:15, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Only two admins have been banned over here: Karmafist and Isis. See here. MER-C 10:38, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

thank you for your help on marine current power

--Enr-v 10:09, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

That's what Wikipedia is all about. :) MER-C 10:10, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Battu Chinbat

I respectfully disagree with your speedy tag. Please take a look at the talk page on the article. --Dweller 11:39, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Cruft

I've seen you use the term cruft in your AFD votes several times now. Since cruft can mean anything from "I don't like it" to "this is unverifiable", I would like to ask you to be more specific in your reasoning, so there's no doubt as to what exactly you mean. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:43, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Done. MER-C 08:46, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Good Job as RC

Keep it up Buddy. --Marwatt 13:11, 15 September 2006 (UTC)