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LaFlavour Page Deleted

Gee, thanks Anthony. Had you read what I posted, you'd have realized I was the ORIGINAL AUTHOR of that material, which I composed from SCRATCH for our "History Page" at laflavour.com. This is Vince Scarpitti, a member of LaFlavour, as well as the administrator of our website. I personally own every single word I posted, including the image I uploaded. I clearly stated that fact at the top of the page I created for us at wikipedia. I registered with my real name. If that's not enough to verify I am who I say I am, feel free to email me via the LaFlavour website- http://www.laflavour.com - where you can click on the "email" icon on our main page and send me a personal message. All the band's email messages come directly to me. In closing, I spent considerable time creating our Wiki entry, editing the bio I originally composed for our official website. Thanks for turning this into a colossal waste of my time. Check before you click, if you know what I mean.

Warm Regards, Vincent Scarpitti www.laflavour.com laflavour@aol.com

Channel 43 deletion?

Why was my addition deleted? I apologize in advance for my newbie mentality, but I am confused as to why my Channel 43 page was instantly deleted. We have several peers in the music community across the country who have articles on Wikipedia and have bot the accomplishments that we have worked dilligently to attain. Again, I hope that I am going about this properly, I am curious and confused. Briankc43 19:39, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Speedy tagging

I tagged them with db-vandalism because they were created by a very likely sockpuppet of Danny Daniel (see his contributions, especially the article Cartoon Idol and [1].) If you want, I'll try tagging pages with the tags at WP:CSD next time. Squirepants101 20:58, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Review

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Dead_Awaken. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. 74.72.119.9 22:50, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: MOOOOOPS' comments on my talk page

Anthony,

Thank you for your response. My concern (and it is not a great concern, mind you) is that if he intends to file some sort of greivance against me, I'd like to leave the comments as evidence of his hysterics and bad faith. But, they will always be there in the history, even if I delete them. So, delete them I shall. Thanks again, as always, for your great work and assistance. Cheers! ---Charles 17:59, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New Article

Thanks for your help! (JosephASpadaro 18:07, 29 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Hi. I received your comment. Thanks again. My deletion of the comment was intentional and not accidental. I always delete comments, once I have resolved the issue. I like to have a "clear" desk, if you will. Thanks a million! (JosephASpadaro 18:14, 29 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Rick Edwards

Personally, I'd leave it CSD if you don't feel confortable deleting it yourself. It gives the editor a bit more time to flesh it out, and it'll eventually come to the attention of another admin who can then see if it's still {{speedy}} worthy.

Not like I feel strongly about most CSD I make-- I'm just trying to look out for the s/n of Wikipedia. :-) Coren 18:15, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Apostrophe

Hi there (again)! When I write something, I tend to be a perfectionist. Thus, when I was editing my page, I checked to see that each link does, in fact, link to the correct page. Furthermore, I like to make sure that my links are the exact correct wording of the page being linked -- such that the link does NOT have to be redirected. (I can't stand redirects!) My feeling is ... if you are going to do something, do it right. Well, anyway -- my link to the Tatum O'Neal page came up as a "redirect." The difference was that I entered the apostrophe in her name as a curly apostrophe (on my computer). And Wiki has her page listed ("officially") with a straight apostrophe. Thus, my spelling of Tatum O'Neal with a curly apostrophe was redirected to the page of Tatum O'Neal with a straight apostrophe. I believe that this is what happened. I believe that ALL of the apostrophes that one enters in these Wikipedia edit boxes will come out as straight apostrophes (as well as straight quotation marks). This is to have ONE character, as opposed to two different characters for (say) open quote mark and close quote mark. Or, for that matter, open apostrophe and close apostrophe. The curly ones open and close (tilt left or right) -- while the straight one is used for both purposes. I suspect that Wiki uses the straight ones to avoid minor (yet hard-to-detect errors) in using and misusing curly quotes and apostrophes. Furthermore, I believe that my CURLY apostrophe was simply transferred into the Wiki edit box when I cut and pasted a Microsoft WORD document. Whereas Wiki uses STRAIGHT quotes and apostrophes by default, Microsoft Word uses curly quotes and apostrophes by default. So, that was the issue. Furthermore, I do NOT believe that the use of straight versus curly quotes/apostrophes has anything to do with the keyboard. I believe that, somewhere in the Microsoft WORD program, there is a "preference" selection that the user makes -- so that when you hit the keyboard key (quote or apostrophe), it will BY DEFAULT come out as curly. I believe that, in WORD, the user has the option to change the curly default to straight apostrophes/quotation marks. So, to answer your question, I have a Dell Keyboard ... but I think it is the WORD program at work here and not the keyboard. Sorry for the long-winded explanation. But, I figured that any Wiki user in his right mind who is "fascinated" by such minutiae as the use of curly versus straight apostrophes deserves a thorough reply and explanation! :) I can understand that as I, too, am a perfectionist with an eye for details just like that! Thanks again for your help. If you have questions, let me know. Thank you. P.S. I do not specifically know HOW to go into WORD and change the preference settings for straight versus curly quotes and apostrophes. But, with all of the help buttons and help indices on Microsoft WORD, I am sure that it would be easy to find. If you want, I can look it up for you -- or, if you find out, please let me know. THANKS! I hope I have answered your question. Although, I suspect that I gave you too much information! (JosephASpadaro 18:32, 29 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Hi. It got me curious, so I looked this up in the HELP features of WORD. I was able to find curly versus straight quotes (they are called smart quotes) -- but not apostrophes. I am sure that the apostrophe options are there in WORD, somehwere.

Word Home > Writing

How to change curly quotes to straight quotes and vice versa

As you type text, some Microsoft Office programs automatically change straight quotation marks ( ' or " ) to curly quotation marks (also known as "smart quotes" or typographer's quotes). You can turn on or off this feature.

Microsoft Office Word

Click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click Word Options. Click Proofing, and then click AutoCorrect Options. In the AutoCorrect dialog box, do the following: Click the AutoFormat As You Type tab, and under Replace as you type, select or clear the "Straight quotes" with “smart quotes” check box. Click the AutoFormat tab, and under Replace, select or clear the "Straight quotes" with “smart quotes” check box.

THANKS! (JosephASpadaro 19:07, 29 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Hi, it's me again. I just found out that turning on/off the straight and the curly quotes in WORD applies to both the double quote marks as well as the single quote marks (i.e., the apostrophe). So, the mystery is solved. Thanks for your help. (JosephASpadaro 20:54, 29 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]

RE: Speedy tags

Sorry, not yet used to Twinkle... will try to use the reasons from the list instead of typing in new ones... ^_^; 夢の騎士^{Yume no Kishi - Talk} 19:19, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Evading block

User:Referenced whom you blocked for repeatedly removing speedy delete tags, has just changed his user name to User:Coren, and boasts on both pages of having changed it many times before. I was just passing by about something else when I noticed, & thought you might like to know. DGG 19:24, 29 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

What the? I think DGG might have confused the perpetrator with the victim. User:Referenced did use a sock to vandalize both my user and talk pages (which I have duly reported. I'm not sure why he got confused by the contrib history, but given how hapazard User:Referenced's is, I guess that shouldn't be surprising.Coren 21:03, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

for the record, I did type the wrong word, I meant User:DEGRADE, DGG 21:13, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sysadm -> sysadmin

I don't think anyone ever confused me with a Wikipedia administrator, but given your misgivings I've changed 'sysadm' to 'sysadmin' (which is, admittedly, more common) and linked to System Administrator to make certain nobody ever does get confused. Coren 21:03, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. Sorry about making those replies minor by accident. Coren 21:04, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:Gwernol

Hey Anthony, if you take a look at the logs for Gwernols Userpage, you'll see you only semi-protected it, may have been a small bug in the system when you protected it, feel free to re-add full protection if you feel it's required. All the best, Ryan Postlethwaite 23:43, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just fully protected, then unprotected your userpage and it seamed to work fine. What you can sometimes find, is that although you fully protect a page, it only semi protects it - it's most probably due to the system making a very minor mistake (it's happened to me once). What I always do, is check the page history and make sure the protection I wanted, was the protection that was made. Ryan Postlethwaite 23:52, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

get well card

My adopter, NDCompuGeek is not doing so well. Can you sign his get well soon card? Spread the word please. Sincerely, Sir intellegent - smartr tahn eaver!!!! 02:48, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Meister Bock Deletion

You deleted the Meister Bock page, citing that it was an advertisment. It was not intended as such, so I shall recreate it soon, unless you can give me further explanation. - - Curious Gregor ^TALK 10:54, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HD325

Hi, seems the user re created the content you deleted. I moved it again to his user space. Can you delete it if you're around? Talk about a bad start for a RfA... :) -- lucasbfr ^talk 21:24, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Woohoo!!

		The Tireless Administrator's award
		... for being a total CSD-warrior and tirelessly helping to clear that backlog-from-hell. Awesome work :) - Alison ☺

Bio Deleted

Tony,

It appears that you deleted my bio from Wikipedia. I think it meets the notability criteria:

“Generally, a topic is notable if it has been the subject of coverage that is independent of the subject, reliable, and attributable.”

Below is a smattering of independent, reliable and attributable references for many of the key facts in the article. There are a lot more, some not online, but in print. Still, this seems sufficient.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Barnaby Dorfman

Peerflix, etc.

Police Beat Producer

A9/Yellow Pages

IMDb

Putney School Trustee

ps. I was planning on adding:

Patents

Bdorfman 22:58, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Title

Wow, that was fast, thanks!

This was the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_Dorfman

Bdorfman 23:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Much appreciated!

Bdorfman 23:14, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

indef block needed

hi Anthony - it looks like you're on now - User: Lawman8 has been confirmed as yet another sockpuppet of User: Dereks1x (I think we know of 9 now) who is under a community ban. Can you give Lawman8 an indef block or is there something else I need to do? ThanksTvoz |talk 00:52, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - and sorry for leaving off that pesky colon above...Tvoz |talk 02:22, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Block of Groser

Hi Anthony, could I just ask you to clarify whether you think my block of this user on the grounds of a 3RR violation is appropriate. I've just recently been granted adminship so want to ensure I'm not making mistakes. Thanks for your help. Adambro 11:04, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re. RfA

Hi Anthony, indeed I am an administraotr, my RfA can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ryanpostlethwaite. The reason that I've got that template on my userpage is because I'm trying to develop Wikipedia:Proposed adminship - simply, candidates put that template on their userpage which automatically adds them to Category:Proposed administrators, anyone can check through this cat, and if anyone has any concerns they simply remove the template from the candidates userpage - if it's not removed in 7 days, the candidate is sysopped. I've got it on my userpage as I'm using it as an example of how it would work, and to show that the cat works. Hope that explains a few things! Ryan Postlethwaite 12:25, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Need Help!

Hey, Tony! Remember me? I moved my userpage on to the mainpage (I didn't know you couldn't. Sorry) and User:EdGl moved it back. When he moved it back, he forgot my talk page. I talked to him and he said to get an admin to move it back. Thanks, Indie -0 14:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Farafina

You made a mistake. Farafina is the most notable music group from the nation of Burkina Faso, with numerous international releases, international tours, and collaborations with internationally regarded musicians. Please restore it immediately (you only gave me 25 seconds); as I was actively editing it. If you'd like, feel free to check my edit history to verify that I am a longtime, productive contributor, and I do not add frivolous pages to Wikipedia. I do expect a response, and for the page to be restored--within 5 minutes. My time is being wasted. Thanks. Badagnani 23:55, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"within 5 minutes" or what? [[2]] & [[3]] please be civil --Xiahou 23:58, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How nice of you to get back to me. Again, I was actively adding information about the group's many international releases and tours when you deleted the article entirely. Your first message stated "non-notable group." You were clearly quite wrong about that, so now you state that the article did not state that the group is notable. That is because you gave me only 25 seconds to do that, and I was in the process of adding that information. So, as you did not address this, do you wish that Wikipedia not have an article on this group, the most notable music group in the nation of Burkina Faso and one of the most prominent and internationally regarded of all music groups from the continent of Africa? Such a view, from someone of your clear intelligence, would seem most unusual, and I hope this would not show that you enjoy exerting your admin powers more than allowing other editors to enrich our encyclopedia on subjects in their expertise (even African ones). Thanks again for your response, because this business really is taking a lot of my time unnecessarily. Badagnani 00:26, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of ethnic slurs deletion

Of course the list contained only racist jargon. That was the point. If you feel the need to delete an article because it contains hateful ideas or speech, I'm sure that there are many other articles that fit the bill that would be even more ridiculous to delete. The list was interesting and contained historical and cultural context for most entries. It was a gem of cultural insight. I think that its deletion is akin to saying that it is possible not to be racist. It's not. When we acknowledge what racist tendencies we have, then we are able to move past them. The article is especially relevant at the moment with the debate going on concerning a certain term used pejoratively to describe illegal mexican immigrants. I believe that your decision to delete the article was wrong. While I am totally on-board with the idea that articles on Wikipedia should be held to a minimum standard, I also firmly believe that setting the standard too high is dangerous for the community. Besides, the article "What Wikipedia is Not" section 1.10 states that Wikipedia is not censored, and may contain content that is offensive to some readers. If Wikipedia is not censored, then why have you deleted this article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.171.71.96 (talk • contribs) 00:44, 2 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

This deletion is quite troubling, Anthony. Surely, you must realize that we don't remove content because it might offend people.

Furthermore, this page has survived four deletion debates, three of which were closed with a result of "keep":

Per the deletion policy, I've undone your obvious out-of-process deletion. I've also initiated a thread at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents to facilitate review of your actions and mine. —David Levy 03:55, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Awards

I didn't really expect this, but somebody just gave me an award for, apparently, reverting vandalism. How can I deal with it?Kfc1864 04:04, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Salting

I notice you created Chinaman cheese with {{deleted page}} and protected it. If you would rather leave the page deleted and protect against creation, list them at Wikipedia:Protected titles/May 2007/List. WjBscribe 06:15, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]