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Vyacheslav Sychev

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Vyacheslav Sychev, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. - Tragic Baboon (banana receptacle) 20:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Anal Stretching

Hi, thanks for your comments long back on January 2nd about Anal stretching in its deletion review, you said:
I normally wouldn't contend this kind of decision, but I'm having a couple of problems with it. It was nominated for AfD by User:SamKinney with the justification: "Wikipedia is not a how-to guide nor is it a dictionary. Nothing within this article is actually referenced and the bunch of external links at the bottom are not valid citations so I say delete this and salt the earth.". The article is encyclopaedic. Even if it were not the case, the subject has the capacity to be encyclopaedic. The rest of the justification is concerned with referencing: deletion seems like a rather destructive way of dealing with a lack of references. The article now seems to have been protected from recreation so even if I wished to create a fully referenced encyclopaedic article, I can't (being an administrator I could, but I won't). The subject of the article is notable (375k Google hits, several mentions in scientific journals), it is verifiable and referencable (the journals). I hope to have this article recreated so that the community can deal with it in a constructive manner. Oldak Quill 17:00, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I couldn't agree more with your sentiments I have been the ardent fighter trying to get the article restored. I've sort of given up rewriting the article from scratch because I believe this to be unfair to me - why should I be forced to rewrite from my userpage all by myself, given the fact that there wasn't much wrong with the originally deleted article? Anyways, I did begin to here: User:Rfwoolf/Anal_stretching.

On your talk page under the post DRV User:Yomangani says:
The Anal Stretching article went through DRV in December, and was recreated and deleted twice during the review which is why it is now salted. I believe the user who requested the review is now working on the article before attempting to resubmit it to mainspace. archive Yomangani ^talk 18:19, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well that was me, I tried to recreate the article twice, and the admins saw this as maliciousness - I neglected to put up a template saying I was working on a rewrite -- so it just looked like I had reposted the deleted article verbatim. This instantly cause the article to be locked from recreation meaning that you nor me could recreate it. After a lot of fighting they eventually said I could recreate the article in my userspace (User:Rfwoolf/Anal_stretching) and I've done what I can there for now.

Well I thought I'd get in touch with you, thank-you for your comments, and let's see what we can do to unlock the article from recreation.
Rfwoolf 04:02, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for contacting me about this. Sadly, I'm not having much of a chance to get on Wikipedia at the moment (exams, mainly) so don't have much opportunity to help with this article. It's still something I feel strongly about so if the issue isn't resolved when I do next have a few hours free, I'll try to help out. If you'd like me to weigh in on a particular discussion about the article or help in anyway, you're more than welcome to e-mail me. --Oldak Quill 20:20, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank-you for your receptive diplomacy on this. My attempts at fighting this issue from the very beginning has been hampered somewhat by the fact that I have been acting alone - in fact I've found the admins involved in the abolishing of the article seem to have too many cronies to make any decent debate.

I have rested my efforts in regenerating the article. The absolutely only recourse that has been afforded to me is that if I recreate the article myself without any errors in my userpage(!!!) and submit it back into Deletion Review then it may be put back -- but this recourse is already 3 months old and fails to acknowledge that the article is encyclopedic, should exist, and should be editable by all. Therefore I believe the article should be immediately unWP:SALTed! The salting was only to stop me from reposting deleted content - anything else has NO merit whatsoever. So I put it to you that if you as an admin unWP:SALT the article, *I* will not repost the content -- that will have to come from someone else - I will provide you with the old and new version of the article and it will be up to you or someone else to recreate or post the article in whatever form.

Perhaps we will discuss this matter again when you have finished your exams and it is both opportune and convenient.

As an aside, it may interest you to know that during this whole debacle, one of the prominent ~~deletionists~~ admins involved in the article's deletion and WP:SALTing (User:Guy) not only left 2 personal attacks against me in his edit summaries, but also locked my userpage for several days because of an essay outlining constructive criticism about the deletion of the article -- this very much pissed me off, and I have had a good mind to take him to arbitration - but once again, I am alone here. <-- I can provide you with all the evidence of this (already typed) should you be interested to see it.

Cheers Rfwoolf 12:05, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

James Mott

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can you take a look at the discussion page of the article "israel arts and science school?"

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Reaganamerican

Could you delete this account so that someone else can have the oppurtunity to use the name? I don't need a sock puppet and I don't want to be forced to use it badly so it would be terminated.Reaganamerican 04:01, 19 May 2007 (UTC) How will I know when it is deleted?[reply]

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Merge Category: Science awards

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John Wilkinson Taylor (educator)

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Response on my talk page. Jeepday (talk) 13:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:(Deed poll certificate for Elton John.jpg)

My mistake then :-) Actually I remember seeing some template that people put on image pages to remind people that it is linked to from some page, I'll put it in if I find it.--Konstable 09:55, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia UK

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Category:Harry Potter plants

Category:Harry Potter plants has been nominated for merging; you are invited to comment in the discussion located here. – Black Falcon ^(Talk) 06:05, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Christmas item on Template:Announcements/Community bulletin board

No complaint by me. I was being bold. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast 01:11, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Featured List of the Day Experiment

There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 21:40, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

invite to Somerset wikiproject

Hello, this is an invitation to join WikiProject Somerset.

You may be interested in joining WikiProject Somerset. This WikiProject aims to improve the standard of all articles relating to Somerset, which includes all subdivisions of the county, major buildings, roads and other related articles.

You can help by:

Creating new articles.
Expanding stubs.
Adding photographs.
Referencing articles.
Research topics.
Anything else really...

For more information, see the project page, and if you have any questions you can leave them at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Somerset and someone will get back to you.

— Rod ^talk 20:55, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Turdu Ahun

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Turdu Ahun, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you agree with the deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add {{db-author}} to the top of Turdu Ahun. Stewy⁵⁷¹⁴ talk 01:45, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: The Hobbit

I don't believe that's a compelling reason for this project to have its own article. As it's been shown in its history, production has been troubled. Articles like Spider-Man 4 and Jurassic Park IV are comfortably merged in broader articles. The placement of the prequel information at the trilogy article is an issue, so perhaps that article should be re-identified as "films", not "film trilogy", or content should be placed at the novel article. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 22:14, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for understanding the matter. :) To elaborate a little more on why this is the case, the film industry has many projects in the pipeline, and not all of them will come out in time. Even for major franchises like Batman and Superman, there had been failed attempts to produce films for decades before the recent reboots -- see Batman film series and Superman film series. Many issues that keep a project in development hell include scripting issues, budget issues, casting issues, etc. In my experience working with future films, there tends to be a knee-jerk reaction in creating such articles upon their announcements (which in no way equates a certain release in the future). For The Hobbit, it's fully welcomed to re-establish the article once production begins because the full film article layout is ensured -- plot, cast, production, reception, etc. The reason for the re-location of the content is usually based on how it's been reported. Some projects get reported because of the franchise's reputation, and some projects get reported because of the director's reputation (see Neil Marshall for an example). Unfortunately, a small portion of proposed projects actually come ahead, hence the threshold to address some of the "iffiness". Let me know if you have any further questions! —Erik (talk • contrib) - 22:43, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Volapük again

Hi OldakQuill. Perhaps you've already noticed that there is a new proposal against the Volapük Wikipedia: m:Proposals for closing projects/Radical cleanup of Volapük Wikipedia. In case you agree that this is not a good proposal for vo.wp, perhaps you could help us fight against it by casting your vote? Thanks! --Smeira 00:15, 3 oct 2008

Meetup

Hi there, I noticed you expressed interest in the Birmingham meetup last October. Just letting you know, another UK meetup is in planning stages, here. We need input on where and when we will meet so comments would be much appreciated. Thanks. Majorly (talk) 16:50, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov - Portrait of Stalin.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Karp Demyanovich Trokhimenko - J.Stalin and S.Kirow visiting the Wolkhow- Gidrostation.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Sergei Alekseevich Grigorev - Stalin at a session of politicians at the Kremlin.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Alexander Tschemissow - First of May..jpg

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Image source problem with Image:Igor Klein - Naked Woman on the Beach.jpg

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Image source problem with Image:Wladimir Gawriilowitsch Krikhatzkij - On the Beach..jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Wladimir Gawriilowitsch Krikhatzkij - Farmer.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Alexander Tschemissow - Farmers' Revolution 1905.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Karel Stehlik - Building of a Dam at the Moldavia.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Alexander Tschemissow - Life has become more cheerful.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Wladimir Gawriilowitsch Krikhatzkij - Look outside, the world is red!..jpg

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POTY advert

Please do not remove these ADs as they are there to get more voters for the WikiMedia picture of the year contest, they are allowed as it is withen WikiMedia. Thanks!--Kushan I.A.K.J (talk) 05:27, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]