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RE: Deletion of an article.

Hello Juliancolton,

My name is Paul Schindler and I wanted to ask you for the reason you have deleted the Wikipedia article on Chi Rho Omicron in Jan. 2009. The organization is very near and dear to my heart and I am saddened to see it not be available for others to see on such a respectable site as Wikipedia. I am asking you this because I see your name and link to the deletion page and would like an explanation and possible action I or Chi Rho Omicron can take to reinstate the stub. The page is important to establish our credibility and exposure. Since we still are a relatively young fraternity (8 chapters) we are trying to grow our membership and a vibrant and open Wikipedia article is essential to this end.

I look forward to your reply and I trust the situation can be remedied. You can reply to my personal e-mail @ schindler(dot)paul(at)gmail(dot)com.

Sincerely,

~~Paul Schindler XPO 247~~

CE

Julian, I've given Coldplay Expert a bit of advice at his mentoring page. Hopefully, he'll get the message and listen to what you're telling him. Nobody else can help anymore. This is something he needs to figure out by himself. ceranthor 20:27, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Sounds good. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 21:16, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Im willing to listen now.--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 21:43, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Ok. Im ready for the next thing.--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 00:29, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Replied again.--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 00:08, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

I check back regularly; no need to ping me with every response. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:10, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

oh...im sorry.--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 00:11, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

So, are you only going to go to my mentor page when I mess up?

Brenda

Reference 7 is broken. Once it goes to the right place/source, I'll pass GA. Thegreatdr (talk) 19:19, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

yo quick question on a storm

hey, i'm making another storm article (Hurricane How (1951)), and i ran across a problem. one source clearly says there was no damage, but i found a newspaper source saying the storm caused a shipwreck which caused 6 deaths. what should i do? thx bro --Viennaiswaiting (talk) 04:11, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

I may be wrong but could'nt you just say that the damage varies widely among sources?--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 04:17, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Eh, reporting the differences in sources is a bit self-referential, and should generally be avoided. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:19, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

hmm, not sure what happened (it said a conflict or something), so i'll post again. thanks for the advice. this [1] was the source, and i found a little blurb from a pay-per-view site [2] (no way am i paying for that shit!). both of 'em say there were deaths from that shipwreck... so yea, i'll go with that. thx! --Viennaiswaiting (talk) 04:21, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Oh...sorry Julian. I was thinking inot he problem too much.--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 04:22, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

wow, good thing i looked more into it, the us military wrote a full report on the shipwreck! thx again for the help --Viennaiswaiting (talk) 04:44, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

yo, regarding your last edit, i was wondering about that. should it be the 6th or 7th for dissipation? i looked at other articles, and i assumed dissipation was when it became extratropical, but the best track has it as extratropical exactly on the 7th. is that what i should do in the future? --Viennaiswaiting (talk) 04:46, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

hah, now i got another long archive to go thru when writing an article! interesting image you added... is that a weather map or something like they have on the weather channel? --Viennaiswaiting (talk) 04:52, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

crap, i tried getting a map, and i got a weird file name, and it crashed my internet :( maybe it'll work on my other computer. --Viennaiswaiting (talk) 05:00, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

thanks a lot jerk :P --Viennaiswaiting (talk) 05:06, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Scream (film series) semi-protection declined.

Here's what you wrote:

No bad-faith edits AFAICT, and not a really overwhelming level of unproductive-yet-good-faith contributors either. Consider adding an editnotice as a substitute.

There's already an editnotice and it's not working. Any other suggestions? Geeky Randy (talk)

Wikicup 2010

Hi Juliancolton, I saw that you submitted the Tropical Storm Henri (2009) to count as a GA for the wikicup. The article was last changed by you in december. I tought that only articles count which have been worked on in 2010. the scoring says: Content must have been worked on and nominated during the competition. Thanks --Stone (talk) 20:43, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Whoops! Sorry about that, thanks for the note. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:48, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Admin coaching: The coachee strikes back

Hi Julian, just to remind you that I completed the "rollback" scenario question. I am back to editing normally tomorrow morning (UTC) after the weekend, so am happy to continue when you are ready!

Regards, -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 22:17, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

question about list articles

Isn't a list article that contains only blue links to other articles, automatically accepted under WP:LIST? If it aids in navigation, shouldn't it be accepted? Dream Focus 02:45, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Pages should almost never be automatically accepted, no. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:47, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of the Game Show Congress article

I believe you were completely wrong and unjustified in your deletion of the Game Show Congress article on the following basis: you did not wait for consensus to be reached before you did so (4-4). Also, in doing so, you chose to disregard legitimate votes to keep the page, which IIRC a Wiki admin does not have the right to do. I would urge you to reconsider. --ChrisP2K5 (talk) 05:24, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes, as an administrator, my job is to decide which arguments to consider and which to discount; you can see my rationale at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Game Show Congress for a slightly more detailed explanation. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 05:46, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Um...don't you think I read what you said before coming here? Your logic for dismissing the arguments did not assume good faith, and were kind of close to violating NPOV. That tells me you were determined to delete the article regardless of what the voting results were. --ChrisP2K5 (talk) 06:56, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Feel free to take it to WP:DRV then. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:08, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Coke Zero Facial Profiler

Hello again,

I've posted an article today (1/1110), for your review, in my userspace.

Please let me know if you feel the article is suitable for publishing.

I appreciate your time and assistance.

Lynch8274 (talk) 17:20, 11 January 2010 (UTC)Chad Lynch Lynch8274

Rollback request

Hi Julian, I was wondering if you would grant me rollback--this is an alternate account I use in the classroom for a Wiki teaching project. I will be happy to email you from my "real" account to confirm who I am: I have rollback on that account, and some 25,000 edits, some of which are decent. ;) Please let me know. Thanks, Dr Aaij (talk) 19:02, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

 Done as per WP:AGF. Good luck with your project, let me know if I can help in any way. :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:05, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Julian! I appreciate the help, and the promise thereof. Dr Aaij (talk) 19:07, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Hey, perhaps you can help me with this: the PC that I'm on, I don't know if I am allowed to download onto it--and if I can't, then I can't install Huggle, right? But I don't know if Twinkle uses with IExplorer, which is what we have on campus. I use Twinkle on my other account and find it decent enough. Do you have any advice? Thanks, Dr Aaij (talk) 19:11, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, Huggle requires downloading sadly. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 22:15, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

errr

This is about Wikipedia Watch, not Google Watch. --Enric Naval (talk) 22:12, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, dunno why I typed Google. Thanks for the note. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 22:13, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Start as you mean to go on?

Well, my first excursion into mainspace with the mop was "fun"... Olaf Davis (talk) 23:15, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

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Admin coaching: The return of the coachee

Rollback granting homework done! -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 16:06, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Your wish has finally been granted

TS Danny TCR

Also, the NHC has updated their list of hurricane names. No names were retired in either basin last year.....could have sworn they would at least retire one.... Cyclonebiskit (talk) 17:26, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Hah! Finally. :D Dunno what took them so long though, nothing that unusual there. As for the lack of retired storms, I'll go through and update the articles. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:28, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll be back online in a few hours. I'll discuss why it's strange for there to be no retirees then. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 17:38, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Game Show Congress

DRV time again. Seems some members of the game show community aren't happy with your deletion. I've worked on a draft in userspace that uses some sources I somehow missed last time. I'm tempted just to say "hell with the DRV" and dump it back in article-space. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 20:08, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

OptiPNG

Could you provide a full rationale for your "no consensus" closure of that AfD? Thanks, Pcap ping 04:33, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

I don't believe it really needs one, but I'll explain I guess. Quite a few of the keep "votes" were exceedingly weak and relied on unverified claims, and although they were in the majority, there was no consensus either way. Hope this helps, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:35, 13 January 2010 (UTC)