User talk:Kateshortforbob/Archives2007/November

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Finland Plot

Thanks for your edits to the Finland Plot article. Patiwat 07:10, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

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Sheerness FAC

Hi. I'm sorry to bother you, but as a LoCE member, I just wondered if you would be willing to have a look through the Sheerness article. It is currently a Featured Article Candidate and needs a copy-edit for grammar by someone who hasn't yet seen it. Any other ways to improve the article would also be welcome. Thank you very much, if you can. Epbr123 12:24, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Conversion of canal water into drinking water

Hi. :-) Many thanks for your efforts on Conversion of canal water into drinking water, but I think that this "article" will be deleted post-haste (surprised it is still there days later, to be honest).

BTW, big fan of Blackadder, so couldn't resist acknowleding your username. :-D Please put at least a basic user page (as I have recently done for myself) - it makes you more human, and allows you to explain where your nick came from. Leevclarke 00:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Username

I just wanted to say, great username. :) --Yamla 19:09, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! --kateshortforbob 19:44, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Michael Pelster

Thanks for your note. By the time I read it, the article had already been deleted again. FYI - there's no problem with adding the speedy deletion tag again if you believe it meets the criteria (which this one pretty clearly did). If the author disagrees, he's supposed to take it to WP:DRV rather than re-create it. Frankly, I can't see any way this subject will meet the notability guidelines. So, if he doesn't take it to DRV and persists in re-creating, it may need to be salted - but I hope he got the message.

By the way, your analysis was spot on and I like the way you bent over backwards to be patient and try to help the author. Feel free to drop me a line if you ever need help or advice. I can't say I know everything (this place is huge), but I'm happy to share what I do know.--Kubigula (talk) 02:08, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Conserve africa foundation

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Aston Villa F.C.

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Random smile

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Well done, you beat me to the speedy tag of this page, i'd only just managed to find the copyvio--Jac16888 15:53, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Redirect of Patrick o'dell

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Czechoslovakia

You are absolutely right. Though only from technical point of view. Let me explain. My grandfather was born (1908) in Austro-Hungarian monarchy, in the region what has soon become Fist Czechoslovak Rep (1918). In 1939 his country changed it's name again. It was Slovak state/ rep now. Six years later, after World War II. (1945), it was Czechoslovakia again. In 1960 somebody decided Czechoslovak Socialist Rep sound better. Revolution in November 1989. 1990 new name once again - Czecho-Slovak Federal Rep. 1993, finally Czech rep and Slovakia. My grandad was just common man, proud Slovak - never czechoslovak although he was citizen of several form of Czechoslovakia almost all his life. My parents were born in 50s. In Czechoslovakia. I was born in 1979. In Czechoslovak Socialist Rep. My youngest sister was born in 1990. In Czecho-Slovak Federal Rep. All our papers says born in Slovakia. Nationality - Slovak. Those NHL players may have been born in Czecoslovakia but they always have been and will be Slovaks and Czechs. Both countries were too small to be recognised in 1918 so it was great political move to put them together then. Idea of Czechoslovakia diddn't work out though. Based in Belfast you should know what I'm talking about. Process of identification is going on right now over here in central Europe.

Anuway, talking about Montreal Canadiens... Mathieu Dandenault born Sherbrooke, Quebec. Josh Gorges born Kelowna, British Columbia. I thought they are Canadiens! Bryan Smolinski born Toledo, Ohio. Christopher Higgins born Smithtown, New York. I thought they are citizens of the USA! Shouldn't it be Jaroslav Halak born in Bratislava, Slovakia and Roman Hamrlik born in Gottwaldov, Czech Rep then?! Hope you get my point.

It would really help/ would really appreciate if you don't make people confused about where are those players from. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sasalap (talk • contribs) 13:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Zoe Grant

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Pilotboi / talk / contribs 19:47, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know; it's not mine, I just moved it for capitalisation, then realised notability was dubious. --kateshortforbob 19:50, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Angel Capital Education Foundation

Hi. I see that you did some rather heavy editing to the 'Angel Investor' article, and perhaps also deleted the article on the Angel Capital Education Foundation, apparently because of "copyright" concerns. Since nothing whatsoever in either article was subject to copyright (except perhaps the name of the foundation itself, the use of which in an encyclopedia article certainly comes under the heading of 'fair use') I am at a loss to understand what is going on. I'd appreciate it if you would clarify what went on here, and why, otherwise I'm going to assume that it was just a mistake and will revert the articles, thanks. Yorker 22:58, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

I left a message on your talk page. --Kateshort forbob 10:36, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Buxton

Thanks for the edits. I agree that obviously Greggs is not notable, but I wonder if we should mention any of the notable commercial businesses/hotels/restaurants in Buxton? I've eaten at Columbine and also found the restaurant at the Lee Wood (now Best Western) Hotel to be excellent, but maybe we shouldn't open this can of worms. Best regards, -- Ssilvers 15:53, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

proposed delete

20-20-20-20 club

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Help: UNC Chapel Hill School of Journalism Page

I work at the School of Journalism and personally wrote much of the material on the Website. I don't understand why I have to rewrite it for your Website. It's my work. That's why I put it up here. What's the deal? Do I have to rewrite everything? I worked hard on the page the first time and spent a whole work day doing it. I am very disappointed it was taken down and my work was thrown away. LINK TO THE UNC JOMC PAGE

Rachel Lillis Assistant Director for Executive Education and Distance Education School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB 3365, Carroll 309 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365 —Preceding unsigned comment added by RLLillis (talk • contribs) 18:47, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I've left a message with some information on your talk page. Thanks! --Kateshort forbob 19:18, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Lauren Fischer

Hi... Have a look here for the answer to the mystery: the editor recreated it after it had been speedied, which is rather a no-no. You could nominate to be speedied again with {{db-repost}} and withdraw the AfD, or you could note in the AfD that the article was speedied and recreated without admin permission. I'd tend to go with the former. It didn't make any assertion of notability the first time around, and still doesn't as far as I can tell. Being a murder victim isn't a claim to notability, and neither is being a backup singer for Michael Jackson. I'd just speedy it again if I were you and warn the editor against recreation, but I'll leave that decision in your capable hands, cause I gotta run and pick up the kids. :) Cheers. --Rrburke^(talk) 21:36, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Looks like I may have steered you wrong there: I thought {{db-repost}} applied to speedied articles -- my mistake. Prodded articles don't qualify either. Who knew? Well, I should have. --Rrburke^(talk) 00:42, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Mark Beauchamp Taylor

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Izzy Santino article

hi. im very sorry for this, i am new to starting a new article. how do i get it on and stay on? Do i need permission from Mr Santino to do so? Cheers —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darylmurphy (talk • contribs) 10:49, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Holcomb article cleaned up

I cleaned up the Steven Holcomb article if you wish to look. Chris 14:44, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Go ahead. At least it is how the rest of the bobsleigh articles are supposed to be. Chris 19:48, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Deletion tto Vernon Howard knowledge base

Kates,

Okay, the guidelines asked us to be civil. You talk about "self-promotion." SuperWisdom Foundation is a registered IRS educational nonprofit. Even with that considered, I saw nothing in the guidelines about even a regular profit making enterprise adding to an entry, as long as it is not over the top, but neutral and informing.

I believe a third party would easily see a very legitimate connection between SuperWisdom Foundation and Vernon Howard. Just search Amazon for the book SuperWisdom and note the people buying it and what they have purchased -- all Vernon Howard books!

Links abound on the www.SuperWisdom.com site to Vernon Howard. There are so many reasons this entry should be allowed.

Let's work together to find something we are both comfortable with, so it is resolved here. The latest entry you deleted was this:

You may also find the work at the SuperWisdom Foundation interesting. A weekly podcast tours the wisdom of the ages, and Tom's book "SuperWisdom" highlights his twelve years of work with author Vernon Howard. http://www.superwisdom.com

How about: SuperWisdom Foundation also delves into Vernon Howard's work, and the founder studied with Vernon Howard for many years. There is a podcast and other free material. (then the URL.)

So relatively few people are interested in these inner development topics. You obviously are one that is, so let's start from that point of mutual interest and resolve this here.

Tom Russell SuperWisdom Foundation —Preceding unsigned comment added by TomHRussell (talk • contribs) 12:50, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Replied at User talk:TomHRussell#Reply re Superwisdom --Kateshort forbob 17:13, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi Kate: Tom here regarding deletion to V.Howard Knowledge Base

Kate, I've simply added a line regarding SuperWisdom Foundation right in the paragraph where others of like nature are referenced. I understand your point better now. Thanks for the clarification.

I did add a link down in "References" but I'm not sure I spaced it correctly.

Again, thank you for your assistance. Hope this will now fly as it is indeed a legitimate addition.

Tom Russell SuperWisdom Foundation —Preceding unsigned comment added by TomHRussell (talk • contribs) 18:33, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Isofoton

Hi!!! is the article about Isofoton fine now?

By the way, can you help me to get rid of a category I created? "Companies of Andalucía" Andalucia with "C" is not an English word, is Spanish. But I cannot get rid of it.

Regards

Victor —Preceding unsigned comment added by Victor Lledo (talk • contribs) 13:32, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I've left a reply on your talk page. --Kateshort forbob 13:44, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Lovely article!!! :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.77.255.188 (talk) 13:59, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks - I had fun doing it! --Kateshort forbob 14:35, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

MOLLINGTON

WHY SO BRUTAL WITH YOUR EDIT, IT MADE A LOT OF PEOPLE SMILE, LOT OF WORK FOR NOTHING.

THE STORY RE THE GOLF CLUB IS 100% VERIFIABLE, YOU COULD AT LEAST RESTORE THAT.

pj —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soopahstar (talk • contribs) 16:06, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I've replied on your talk page. --Kateshort forbob 17:55, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

You sand tomk —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joekid23334 (talk • contribs) 17:09, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I Like talk —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joekid23334 (talk • contribs) 17:14, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I've left a message on your talk page. --Kateshort forbob 21:01, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Mollington

Yes that is fair comment.

The story re King Charles is also true though it was somewhat embelished with a bit of local flavour, I will rewrite it and repost.

The comment relating to cocaine and crack addicts was not me.

Also "The Pink Village" is also true and accurate and received national ppress coverage, out of a population of 513 there are 17 known gays, all of whom are very open about and proud of their sexuality, inddeed it was they who coined the name.

Personally I think they are just a buch of poofs.

Cheers

PJ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soopahstar (talk • contribs) 12:04, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

user pages

hello. I saw your comment on my page. Sorry for all the talk. I got another of my friends to make a page and she won't stop annoying me. She's had it for a week and dosen't exactly know what to do with it. Though I have a question I've been meaning to ask someone with more experience here. My question is if they're talk pages, wouldn't you TALK on them? I mean, I know you talk about the main page or whatever, but people say "hi" and nobody gets them, and saying "hi" always starts a convo anyway, you know? Just wondering. I'll make sure my friend dosen't do it again.

Lover of the sand 18:07, 19 October 2007 (UTC)*

I've replied on your talk page. --Kateshort forbob 23:22, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for helping me!!!! It is kinda confusing here, even being here for a few months. I get it now though, it makes sense. Thanks!!!!!

):):)*Lover of the sand 15:52, 20 October 2007 (UTC)*

AWB

I've approved you to use AWB, per your request. SQL^{(Query Me!)} 08:01, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Please don't do trivial edits like this one: [1] Haukur 22:58, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Or this one: [2] It doesn't matter one whit whether the stub template comes before or after the categories, I have no idea why AWB tries to standardize 'after' when I think most human users' intuition is to go with 'before'. Replacing underscores in filenames with spaces is also not worth an edit. Haukur 22:59, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

See WP:AWB#Rules_of_use for more on what not to do - and good luck. Haukur 23:01, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Apologies - I shall avoid it until I better understand the rules. --Kateshort forbob 19:48, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello!

Hi. Thanks for going on my user page. Your the first person I don't know outside of Wiki to write any comments. Love your name, Kateshotforbob! Well, see ya! Ichliebezuko 15:51, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Rex Gildo

Thank you a lot for solving this issue! --Lamme Goedzak 20:45, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

GlassCobra's RfA

		My RFA
		Hello there! I wanted to drop you a line and say thanks for your support in my request for adminship, which ended with 61 supports, 3 opposes, and 1 neutral. I hope your confidence in me proves to be justified, and please feel free to call on me if you ever need any help or opinions! See you around! GlassCobra 01:54, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Nelsondog (talk) 01:14, 17 November 2007 (UTC) Nelsondog Hi Kateshortforbob! This is just a little message that I'd like to leave to say 'thanks' for answering my question on communication. That was really helpful, and I realise now that the reason I was blocked for using my friend's account was that he was a vandal. Thanks again,

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Nelsondog (talk • contribs) 22:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

posting from more than one account

Back in the early seventies prior to personal computers but following graduation from computer tech school where access to the school's computer was permitted I began a news letter with a multiple question and answer format that reported the running statistics of responses to questions. Each user was identified by address until one day we got a complaint that someone was able to vote twice simply by using a different address for each vote. The way we solved this was not to accuse users of double voting but rather to change our method of identifying each vote not be address but by social security number.

This worked for awhile until we found that some people have been issued more than one social security number so we numbered each newsletter and each question such that the numbers had to be included with each vote. Then we found that some people were going to a retirement center where subscribers were just chucking their copy and then using the numbers we provided so we had to add the social security number again. We then got complaints that unless a subscriber had a social security number and a newsletter of their own they could not vote. Boy. Were we ever glad when the Internet came along. After the Internet we were able to track all of their voting with opinions about things like personal beliefs about sexual matters or drugs etc.

One day we got a visit from the CIA who wanted to know about a certain subscriber. Geeze we thought. Here we have made it possible to track how and what a person thinks and now the government wants a look at our records. Is this moral, we thought, to provide the information we have gathered without the persons knowledge or even suspicion that the government might be looking in? We had a hard time finding the records and after the CIA left we decided not to track the opinions or comments or voting or use of our newsletter by private citizens anymore.

A few months later we hired a new manager and unbeknownst to us he modified the new user (TOS) agreement that required agreement that any information provided was public information. After we got complaints from users and subscribers began to fall off we then fired the new manager, wrote a privacy policy and updated the user agreement to require the CIA to get a court order to obtain any statistics on an individual from us.

In short we think it is a bad idea to track people's opinions, comments, questions, interests and we find anyone or any organization who does suspect of an ulterior motive such as the Nazis most certainly had and otherwise not to be trusted. Enjoy! Dichotomous 21:31, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Replied at your talk page. -- Kateshort forbob 09:59, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Payton85

All I wanted was to make a page for a fictional league I created, it is not a fantasy football league, & I would like to keep the page, I will also put that it has nothing to do with your league. Payton85 00:42, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Payton85

I have changed it from the Backyard Football League to the B.F.L, sorry for any inconvence Payton85 00:44, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I've left a message on your talk page.-- Kateshort forbob 10:06, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

The Crucible

Thanks for locating the last good version. I went ahead and reverted the plot summary section to that version and cancelled the copyvio alert now that it appears good. Arakunem^Talk 15:59, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Lyudmila Putina

Is it correct with the "a" at the end, considering that her husband doesn't have the "a"? --Brewcrewer (talk) 08:26, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. -- Kateshort forbob 09:50, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Go Ape

		The Original Barnstar
		There used to be a barnstar given for rescuing articles from deletion... but I can't find it. So here, have a plain one. Great work on tracking down and adding in appropriate references after seeing Go Ape listed at AfD. Otherwise legit articles slip through the cracks all the time - it's uncommon to see an editor go out of their way to save one that belongs. Nicely done. Tijuana Brass (talk) 23:40, 27 November 2007 (UTC)