User talk:Redvers

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Redvers is back!

YOU'RE BACK!!! Redvers is back! Now I've got all the reasons I needed to have a wonderful weekend! You've been sorely, deeply missed, my friend. I trust your long wikibreak has proved to be relaxing, and that you'll be back with us to stay... I couldn't bare to think you'll stay away again, so let me try and bribe you with some "welcome back" cake :) It's so awesome to see you agaian, dear Redvers! Love, Phaedriel - 11:51, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

About an image

Hello,

Sorry to disturb you, as I'm sure you have a life outside Wikipedia, but I have a question regarding an image you deleted. The image was Bangor Grammar.jpg and was on the Bangor Grammar School article. I believe that I may have put a misleading summary on the image accidentally. Wikipedia has a lot of rules, and I don't know a lot of them, so the summary was incorrect in terminology. The image that I had uploaded was created by me for the school and is free to use. I just want to know if I'm okay to upload the image again, as in the page titled Your Image that you have, it says that if I reupload the image after changing the license it will be deleted again.

Thanks if you can help, Count Ryan 17:47, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Replied on user's talk page. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 19:24, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Deleted entry

Excuse me, but why did you delete my entry on Mobilephoria? This was the beginning of a meaningful Wiki entry on a company in the mobile telephone space that is (a) culturally relevant, (b) verifiable, and (c) NOT spam. Wikipedia users depend on Wiki to find out much about a lot of stuff, and your deletions (I checked your deletion log) appear to be arbitrary, judgemental, and culturally narrow--not the premise on which Wikipedia was built.

I understand your predicament as an administrator (so many posts, so little time), but wouldn't it be better for your users to simply edit the offensive material. What was it anyway?

Thank you, --Wikiwallace 21:00, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I tried to contest the deletion, but another administrator deleted the contest before I could restore the page and add the reason for contesting it. In the interest of fairness, could you (a) restore the original article text with the {hangon} tag and (b) recover my then-orphaned reason I tried to post to the talk page? Thank you :)

Replied on user's talk page. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 19:24, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Jake Sheridan

Hi,

My name is Jake Sheridan (From Canada) and I was editing the "Jake Sheridan" entry on wikipedia. I believe that the name "Jake Sheridan" should not be wholly represented on wikipedia by the soccer players "Jake Sheridan" from England. It's unfair to those of us who have the same legal name and who also wish to be represented online in this encyclopedia.

Please let me know what I need to do in order to edit the "Jake Sheridan" page properly.

Thanks,

Jake Sheridan

The real jake sheridan 21:54, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

You wrote:

You can edit any article you like, in any constructive way you like. But you can't add details of yourself to the article of a notable namesake; and you can't alter your notable namesake's article to express your displeasure at the coincidence. It's just basic commonsense, really. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 22:59, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

My response:

I was born in 1972. So therefore the "Jake Sheridan" from England is not my namesake. In fact he was born a full 14 years after me. I'm not displeased with the coincidence that we share the same name, however I do believe because wikipedia is in the public domain that I have just as much right to include the details of my history and biographical data as "Jake Sheridan #2" from England. Instead of arguing with me over details like this please direct me to your supervisor as I wish to pursue further action that doesn't involve you. I look forward to your response. Thanks for your help so far.

The real jake sheridan 05:45, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

You are being held in a queue. Please wait for an operator to become available. Your call is important to us. You are being held in a queue. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 07:42, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

My response:

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I wouldn't classify myself as a troll or my behaviour as maladaptive. My objective is to find out more about Wikipedia's policies regarding changes that can be made to articles that contain my legal name. I would appreciate any help you could provide but assumed that you were dealing with me in an offhand manner so request to speak with a supervisor or another administrator in order to get clearer answers and possibly some policy documents to read over. Please be direct in your responses rather than covertly aggressive (see your previous post).

The real jake sheridan 22:24, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

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John Azzopardi

Why was the breaking point records page deleted, and can you supply with me with the deleted text so i can make it compliant? Johnbpr 12:32, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Replied on user's talk page. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 19:24, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Antivandalism

Thank you for the antivandalism at the article Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Commator 12:59, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome! ➔ This is REDVEЯS 19:24, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

You seem familiar!

I say! It's good to see you back on wiki Redvers, I myself am going to try to get into the habit of doing some editing each day. I hope all's well and that you will remain as valuable a user as you used to be in the evergrowing fight against vandalism. Your old "friend" -- JiMoThY^TALK20:16, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Certainly, I only decided to come back to wikiepdia today and havn't looked at my user page yet, it appers that most of the content needs to be updated. I've also forgotten how to stop all the code from my signature coming up... is it something like subst:?? JiMoThY^TALK20:28, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Replied on user's talk page. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 19:24, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Welcome back!!! :) Jmlk17 04:18, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

This is madness!

*whistles innocently before you respond with your sig* Will ^(talk) 22:54, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm saying nothing. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 19:24, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Meols

Sorry you felt it necessary to remove the Meols railway totem image after my recent additions. Could it still be put somewhere in the Meols article? (Quite liked it!) Or perhaps on the Meols railway station page? Snowy 1973 13:25, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I tried various places to make it fit, but it doesn't. If the article expands (or if you can find a place for it to go neatly) then it can go back. This is actually the image that wouldn't die - it keeps coming into and going out of semi-related articles, too bad to keep, too good to lose. As it is one of the few totems I still own, I may get around to taking the picture again with a better camera and lighting etc. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 19:22, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

John Azzopardi

By 'Hobby record label' it was intended to convey that the record label was started as a hobby, many successful organisations (Virgin records for instance) were started as a hobby. The label is active, has put out records, and thus one could argue it is notable. Thanks. Johnbpr 14:15, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

And when your hobby record label is close to the size of Virgin Records, please get back in touch. Thanks. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 19:14, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

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Now its more readable and there is a link to the templates page at the bottom of the list. 70.233.156.5 18:15, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that. The reason the text was so small was to avoid any horizontal scrolling; enlarging it produces horizontal scrolling, which, as we know, is a crime against humanity :o) or else breaks lines across the table, making copy-and-paste selection difficult. The link to the templates page is a good idea, but the link would open in the sidebar, making it unreadable. Some targeting could open a new window but that would annoy the hell out of most right-minded people :o) (I think I'm channelling Jakob Nielsen now). But the prompt to update the page was valuable - it had gotten stale and was out of date on many common templates. Sorted now. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 19:14, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Go you - supernanny...

lol. WjBscribe 19:59, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

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Cheers for blocking that page from being edited for five days, cos everytime I looked at it, there were new superstars every time. Cheers again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rfcucl1972 (talk • contribs) 20:45, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

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Re:Signature

Is the new sig better or worse? AngelOfSadness talk 19:20, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

No problemo. I thought it was about time for a colour change in the signature anyway. Cheers AngelOfSadness talk 19:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the barnstar. It's so pretty. AngelOfSadness talk 19:42, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Travis Middle School

I see you deleted Travis Middle School (Irving, Texas), which had a speedy-delete tag. I had found this article on Special:Newpages and fixed it up somewhat. I wonder whether I should have removed the speedy-delete tag. After I fixed it up, it was still very short but was not lacking in context, in my opinion. Note that the other six middle schools listed at Irving Independent School District have Wikipedia pages. If the page had been left, perhaps interested people would have added content to it. In other words ... perhaps this should have gone to AfD rather than be speedy-deleted? --Coppertwig 21:40, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• I've restored it; but the article is a clearly a classic CSD empty as it just states the existence of the school and provides a link. Of such articles an encyclopedia is not made and I'd expect deletion to take place again by someone else. AfD isn't appropriate unless it doesn't fit a CSD (it'd be CSD'd by the AfD !voters if it did) but I will consider it for tomorrow if the article survives. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 21:49, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

... On the other hand, speaking of deleting pages, you might want to have a look at 5 Hour Energy. I'm tempted to put a db-spam tag on it but am not familiar enough with the criteria. --Coppertwig 21:48, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

• Good call. Had already been deleted five times as spam. Now deleted and the earth thoroughly salted behind it. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 21:53, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, and thanks. :-) --Coppertwig 22:05, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Request for assistance

Hello Redvers. About a year ago, you helped me out with my wikaddiction by blocking my account from editing for a year by my request. I thank you for that.

I am contacting you for assistance on another matter now. I wonder if you or another administrator knows how to delete the history of my user page (but not the user talk page). I ask this because in earlier versions of the page, I imprudently included some personal information about my real life identity. I'm not asking for account deletion or anything like that, because I want to continue editing. I just would like to start the user page completely fresh.

Are you able to help with this? Thank you. Rohirok 16:46, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• Replied on talk page, awaiting reply. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 21:30, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

My silly proposed deletion of User talk:C06bx700

Ah, sorry about that. I was in the wrong window; I thought I was still on the talk page of the article the user had created. I'll be more careful in future. Best regards, Liquidfinale ^{(Ţ) (Ç) (Ŵ)} 20:34, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• Heh! Don't worry about it. My motto is: a day on Wikipedia has been wasted if I haven't done something silly. Three years I've been here, and I've stuck to this every day! :o) ➔ This is REDVEЯS 20:37, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the support

I thought I was going to be reverting waterdoor's vandalism all night. I guess he's been blocked now. Either that or it's past his bedtime ;-) Cosmo0 21:13, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• The former. See his block log. Clear vandalism-only account, also nasty personal attacks. Gone. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 21:15, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

User:172.201.229.182

The guy who's been vandalising Theft is back since you blocked him. Can you deal? --Rodhullandemu 21:20, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

He's now back as User:Ketias. I have a feeling we're in for a long night. Could you protect and freeze Theft for 24 hours? Thanks --Rodhullandemu 21:26, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• Gave it three days so we can see if he's bored or just very, very sad. Also blocked the account he created. Clearly it's someone who knows the system. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 21:28, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

But still doesn't seem to realise that vandalism will be picked up. Bizarre. His IP points to somewhere in Brooklyn. Maybe it's been quiet there of late. Thanks anyway. --Rodhullandemu 21:31, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Why did you delete republic of korea passport?

Kingj123 21:42, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• Explained in the deletion log. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 21:44, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Midtown Connection

I noticed you deleted Midtown Connection, and agree with your A7 band deletion. I was wondering if we should also delete the slew of photos and sound files that User:ITecture uploaded to go with the article. It's not clear to me if they meet any speedy criteria, and was wondering if because in my gut I feel the sound files and images will not be useful to other pages, and the purpose of them were to promote a non-notable band, that it would be ok to IARs and delete the images. Or should we just tag them as no-source/no-license and wait 7 days? Your more experienced admin opinion would be appreciated. -Andrew c ^[talk] 21:58, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• There's no CSD to cover them, but they can be tagged with subst'd {{nsd}} and {{nld}} and will evaporate in a week or so. I think a bot might do this, given time, but it doesn't harm to do it first. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 22:05, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Moved to more logical place

The photos in question were taken by my father in 1938 & 1939. He is now 86 years old and thinks the internet is the lining of a mens bathing suit. How do I secure his permission to use his photos freely. Bobhaybob 9/20/07 Bobhaybob 22:06, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• Ensure he understands that he needs to release the photographs irrevocably under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike licence and/or under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. This precludes him, or anyone else, from ever making any money out these images and cedes the rights to the general public for any use and any modification. Then contact WP:OTRS and tell them what you've done. ➔ This is REDVEЯS 22:12, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

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		Redvers, I award you this barnstar for making me chuckle with those little witty comments you leave sometimes when you block someone! Meateater 11:59, 21 September 2007 (UTC)