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Query of Deletion :Treasure Beach

I have just noted that this page has been deleted apparently for Blatant Copyright Violation. Here is the entry I found in the deletion log.

16:52, 27 February 2007 Neil (Talk | contribs) deleted "Treasure Beach" (G12)

I am very sorry I missed any discussion that was held on this, since I usually watch articles to which I have contributed. Certainly when I last looked which was probably sometime ago I was not aware of major plagiarism/copyright problems. Unfortunately I cannot now find any trace of the article, because I would like to rescue parts of it that were not copyright violations and restore them. If it is not appropriate to restore the article for me to work on, could I ask for a copy of the deleted material so that I can work on it and make sure it is up to standard before recreating the page.

I note that deleting the page has created several red links which of course need addressing.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give. Op. Deo 23:12, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Adoption?

Hi Neil,

I'm looking to be adopted. If you would be so kind as to review my userpage and see if you'd be up for helping me out? Thanks in adv. TearJohnDown 18:50, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for accepting my request (you can call me John, BTW - my handle is a bit pretentious)!

My first order of business - a good number of articles in the area I'm doing a lot of work in (Music of New Jersey) are being vandalized by a non-registered self-promoter. What steps should I take to get this action to stop?TearJohnDown 23:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

You can ask him nicely to stop. If he doesn't, you can report it for attention at either WP:AIV (for simple vandalism) or WP:AN/I (for cmore complex cases. The end result could be anything from no action (this would be if your case was unwarranted) to the articles being temporarily semi-protected (so only signed in users can edit them), to the self-promoter being banned from editing. Neil (not Proto ►) 22:28, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

so I just leave a comment on the IP address' talk page? That seems to be the only way i would be able to get a hold of him...

TearJohnDown 20:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, although this can be tricky if he keeps changing IP addresses. You can also try explaining why his edits needed to be reverted in either the edit summary or on the talk page of the article(s). Neil (not Proto ►) 23:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I left a comment on the userpage in question. Let's hope that's all it takes. TearJohnDown 04:03, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I hate to bother you again...

I've been trying not to call on any one admin for too many favors with editing protected pages,so I'd put another request over at User talk:Daniel.Bryant#Templates handling usernames with equal signs, back at 13:01, 11 March 2007 (UTC) ... and here it is 00:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC) ... and Daniel now has a "backlog" note atop his talk page. Clearly it was a poor decision on my part to add to his inbox.

Wincing somewhat, I return with hat in hand to beg another favor of you. If (and only if) you have the time; and if Daniel's still had no chance to do the edits by the time you can look over there; would you be willing to tell him not to bother, and then make the edits yourself?

Considering that the problem with user templates not handling equal-signs has led to a call for blocking such usernames, I'd really prefer to get the code-and-documentation updates made sooner rather than later, so the username issue becomes a non-issue.

And I'm beginning to think you're right about the sysopping. Quite aside from speeding up such upgrades as this, it would lessen the workload I keep turning over to already overworked admins. I still doubt that such a short track record as mine will be very assuring to RfA voters, but at worst I'm left with status quo, and at best I get to do needed upgrades faster -- so it's worth trying, if you still feel that way.

But if there's a way to turn off "blocking" powers and just let a poor codesmith keep tinkering, I'd still be happy with that. I don't like having power-over-others; I just want the ability-to-do-things-myself. -- Ben ^TALK/_HIST 00:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi Proto, I mean Neil. I'll try to be a pirate, I mean ninja, now and you can rest assured that I heard every voice loud and clear during the discussion, and will strive to use the mop carefully and responsibly. Thanks for your support, and please don't hesitate to give me constructive criticism anytime. Xiner (talk, email) 02:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Rfa thanks

Hey, just popping by to say thanks a bunch for supporting my sucessfull Rfa, I'm honoured to serve the community, andif you ever want any assisstance, you know where to find me Ryanpostlethwaite contribs/talk 18:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:RFA/Ben

Before Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ben goes live, you might want to spell-check it. See "equual" and "criticismn". If you are using Micro$loth's Internet exploder, you can use the Google toolbar, but I recommend using the v.2.x version of Mozilla's Firefox internet browser, which includes a spell-checker (with several different English dictionaries available as add-ons). BlankVerse 07:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC)