User talk:Sandstein/Archives/2005/August

Deletion of Rab - Ryukyu postage stamp article

Instead of demanding the article is deleted, why not ask me , the author, about it first? How will you like it if I call for some of your stuff to be deleted without writing to you first?

The philately project is being worked on daily and you can see on my user page and talk page what I am doing and what I intend to do. It's very easy to demand that something be deleted just because you don't understand it and are too lazy to seek an understanding.

--Jack 21:14, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

• Sir: Established Wikipedia VfD procedures do not require contacting the author before submitting a VfD request. In cases where deletion is appropriate, the article would have to be listed on VfD anyway in order to be deleted, the author can't do that by himself. At any rate, the author can participate in the discussion on VfD. Please do not consider my VfD request for your article (which was recognised as non-encyclopedic in the VfD discussion) a personal attack; it was not meant as such. Best regards, Sandstein 14:36, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

The point is that I am new to WP and I have seen in the VfD procedures a directive about "do not bite the newcomers". Also, although I am new, it must have been obvious by looking at the category that I have hit the ground running by introducing a major (by philatelic standards) project (not forgetting substantial work on the cricket project too). I had already been advised by interested parties that the naming convention I started with was unsuitable and that I should use pipelinking. This was in my user page and on the talk page as something to be done asap, time constraints permitting. As it happens, it has now been done and the deleted article was easily restored under its new title, so no harm done. Sorry for getting annoyed but this is a serious project and all I needed was a little time to get used to the ropes, as it were. All the best. --Jack 09:30, 27 August 2005 (UTC)