User talk:SouthernNights

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Done with Wikipedia

Due to irritations and stress with Wikipedia, I will be away from this dang place for the rest of the summer. I might be back at some point, I might not. But if you need admin help, try someone else. --Alabamaboy 14:47, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to see you go, neighbor. Have a good summer, and I hope we get to see you back here in good spirits. You've done more than your share of good work here, and I can't think of anyone who is more entitled to a break. -- Rob C (Alarob) 16:22, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry. I'm back.--Alabamaboy 14:02, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Shakespeare

I stongly shared the feelings/frustrations expressed by you and Wrad at the "Not promoted" thread. Personally, I'd stopped editing a few days ago, and taken the page and its FAC off my watchlist. I really felt there was nothing more I could add. However, thank you for your hard work and leadership throughout the process. AndyJones 14:15, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

FA Status

I have seen that you have greatly helped the improvement of the William Shakespeare article, and I have just nominated it for FA Status again. I seek your assistance with this project, so will you kindly help me with it?

Please help.

Sincerely, Meldshal42_{Comments and Suggestions}^{My Contributions} 15:31, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

You came up today

Greetings. I wanted to let you know that your name was used today on the Shakespeare Authorship Question talk page. I think you were missrepresented. I hope your vacation is going well! We certainly miss your leadership.Smatprt 05:30, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I think he means that I misrepresented you. This is an attempt to stir up trouble for me because Smatprt and me are fighting on the Shakespeare Authorship page. (Felsommerfeld 16:15, 11 July 2007 (UTC))

The Life of Times of BenJonson (a Wiki editor) in the Shakespeare Authorship discussion details the evidence for a deceitful sockpuppetry. (Felsommerfeld 23:04, 11 July 2007 (UTC))

Hi. Sorry you've been dragged into this. It's true, I have an expertise and I make edits about what I know. Felsommerfeld wrote the following about this article: "*I mean why are we even having this discussion? The guy from Stratford wrote it all, period." If he had his way there would be no article on the authorship question at all. Since he cannot kill the article he is trying to edit out anything which challenges his position, including deleting whole sections without input or discussion. Now you know...the rest of the story.Smatprt 01:25, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Felsommerfeld's accusations of sockpuppetry have gone way too far. He knows, as do the actual long-time editors of this article (of which he is not), that Ben Jonson and I are two very different individuals that happen to see eye to eye on the authorship issue. Feel free to investigate, research or whatever you need to do to confirm this. For starters, BenJonson lives fulltime on the east coast, I on the west. Check our IP's or whatever (I am not that technical to know how you check, but I know you can and immediately clear this up and stop Felsommerfeld from his one-man war.Smatprt 01:25, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Smatprt is smart enough to use different IP addresses. Please check out the Shakespeare Authorship discussion about user BenJonson and read the evidence in detail. You can form your own opinion. (Felsommerfeld 01:46, 12 July 2007 (UTC))

Wikipedia:WikiProject Shakespeare Collaboration

The Shakespeare Wikiproject is starting another collaboration to bring Romeo and Juliet to GA status. Our last collaboration on William Shakespeare is still in progress, but in the copyedit stage. If you have strong copyedit skills, you may wish to continue the work on that article. Members with skills in other areas are now moving on. Improving Romeo and Juliet article will set a standard for all other Shakespeare plays, so we look forward to seeing everyone there. Thanks for all your help with the project. Wrad 20:40, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

WP:AN

Hi. You're mentioned here. Bishonen | talk 22:51, 13 July 2007 (UTC).

Ethnicity-American actors categories up for deletion

I thought you might be interested in this - a number of Ethnicity-American actors categories have been nominated for deletion. But racial categories were specifically not nominated, and for that I'm personally neutral about the deletion nomination. If you have an opinion, take a look at the nomination:

• Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_August_8#Some_American_actors_by_ethnicity

Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 02:58, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

KKK and Fascism

Hi! I was just a little confused about your edits to Ku Klux Klan, and have taken up my disputes on the talk page. I was hoping that you could weight in, or explain. Thanks! ._-zro ^t_c 16:52, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Will

		The Barnstar of High Culture
		I commend your hard work on William Shakespeare. Choosing to edit such a high-profile, controversial and research-intensive article is a mark of patience, perseverance and dedication to Wikipedia that is rarely seen. We clearly need more editors, such as yourself, who are willing to raise the level of the literature articles on Wikipedia. Awadewit | talk 04:38, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 12 August, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Shakespearean performances, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--DarkFalls ^talk 08:01, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations

Congrats! Your hard work has finally payed off. I myself have only edited for 4 months, but as you say you have been working for years. You faithfully followed the William Shakespeare article and I along with the other users working on the page must thank you. Hope your summer is going well,

Meldshal42 11:33, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks. And congrats to you and everyone else who worked on the article.--Alabamaboy 22:21, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Romeo and Juliet

We're about to put this up for GA status and I thought we could use some of your input before we take the plunge. Wrad 01:26, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Also, a few of us are wanting to get William Shakespeare on the main page as Today's Featured Article. You have any experience with that sort of thing? Wrad 01:31, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

CSD AutoReason Updated

Attention spamlist! I've just updated CSD AutoReason to account for the new image deletion page. If you'd just hard refresh (Ctrl+F5 in most browsers), you'll get the new version and be on your way. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 17:59, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Hamlet

The Shakespeare Project's new collaboration is now to bring Hamlet to GA status. Wrad 00:34, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Deceased Wikipedians

Check out the latest post there. It appears that the editor User:Gaimhreadhan has passed away. An entry will probably be needed. — Moe ε 03:43, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll see what I can do.--Alabamaboy 12:36, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

This one's for you

Thanks so very much for supporting the recent FAC of Hispanic Americans in World War II. It was successful and Hispanic Americans in World War II has been promoted! I'm looking forward to hopefully getting Hispanic Americans in World War II on the front page. In the mean time, please accept this Beer as a token of my gratitude. Salud! Tony the Marine 15:18, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania in Atlanta!

Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!

P.S. While this is a template for maximum efficiency, I would appreciate a note on my talk page so I know you got the message, and what you think. This is time-sensitive, so your urgent cooperation is appreciated. :) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 06:09, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Please answer your mail

I consider it quite uncivil - and especially in respect of an administrator and in respect of such a sensitive subject - that you have not responded in any shape or form to the two e-mails sent you but have taken the time to revert the alert: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAlabamaboy&diff=155266801&oldid=155243460

I feel so strongly about this that a formal complaint about your lack of response will have to be considered if you do not reply now.

The only Wikipedia e-mail I've received in the last six days was received this morning, and I've already responded to that editor. I saw the "You've got mail" comment on my talk page but when I checked my e-mail there was nothing there. Even my spam filter box lacked any Wikipedia messages. As a result, I deleted the "You've got mail" comment, figuring it was a joke or something. I do not appreciate being threatened; if you wish to file a complaint, go for it. Otherwise, tell me what the issue is that's so important you have to threaten me over it. --Alabamaboy 19:34, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for responding appropriately to my e-mails.

I believe that this now temporarily puts an end to the matter.

If you concur, please signify your agreement by simply deleting this entire section (now that communication has been established). Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by W. Frank (talk • contribs) 01:07, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

You deleted a page about i386 cpu capabilities -- CPU flags

In this page I collect information around internet.

I think that this is technically important.

I agree in fact that this page, by now, has few information, but I think that it should be expanded not deleted.

Maybe I don't know that the same information are elsewhere in some other page or maybe there are some reason why these information should not be in Wikipedia.

I really think that this information are Know-how, please explain me your point of view that maybe will help me on future collaboration with wikipedia.

By Giovanni

Spazzatur 20:30, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Spazzatur (talk • contribs) 20:28, 6 September 2007 (UTC) 

Unfortunately, Wikipedia is not a mere collection of information. Unless you can create an encyclopedic article on the subject, it doesn't belong here.--Alabamaboy 00:31, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

The Leet World

I'm not sure if you got the "hangon" message on The Leet World article I created, it seemed you deleted it right after I hit submit on the talk page. So I'll just tell you here. The Leet world is a machinima web series. It has a large fanbase for a series released over a month ago. In total, 25,500 people have viewed all 3 episodes, and a trailer, on YouTube. Leet World is significant enough to fill a wealthy article on YouTube. It is developed by Smooth Few Films, and The Leet World website can be viewed here. I do not know enough to personally write the Leet World article, but I started it and posted it on their forums to gather attention to the article, as they know way more than me. So I hope you reconsider your decision about this article's creation. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FightingRaven531 (talk • contribs) 00:00, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

The problem is that it doesn't matter how many users view the web series, to be included here it must meet Wikipedia:Notability (web). See that link for more info.--Alabamaboy 00:02, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

The Leet World (2)

So let me get this straight. It must meet 1 of the 3 criteria, right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by FightingRaven531 (talk • contribs) 00:10, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes--Alabamaboy 00:12, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

The Leet World (3)

I'm going to say this fits the first criteria. The Leet World is now a featured series of Machinima.com, alongside the popular web-series Red vs. Blue, and 13 other machinima series. A title held only by these 15 out of the thousands uploaded. FightingRaven531 00:30, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

If it's a featured series on that site (meaning the staff of machinima.com selected the series for honors or highlighting), then it's possible the article meets the WP criteria. If you recreate the article, I won't redelete it. I do suggest, though, that you reference the info in the article b/c its likely others will challenge its notability.--Alabamaboy 02:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

What is AfD? --88.16.180.250 17:12, 14 September 2007 (UTC) I cant report references if was necessary. They aren´t sinonymes

Articles for deletion. Go here for more info:Template:AfD_in_3_steps.--Alabamaboy 17:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

But a redirect that is clearly wrong can't have a speedy deletion? Alternative music includes a lot of genres, and only one of those is alternative rock. It's like I redirect singer to Johnny Rotten just because he is a singer too. Really it's better a red link than a wrong link, because it confuses the reader and it avoids that somebody writes correctly the article. --88.16.180.250 17:28, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

The redirect isn't a candidate for speedy delete for the reasons you give. If you want to try to change the redirect or go through an AfD, be my guest. --Alabamaboy 17:33, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok, cheers. --88.16.180.250 17:37, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

DRV

An editor has asked for a deletion review of The Fight Within. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Carlossuarez46 17:21, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info.--Alabamaboy 17:34, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

DriveOK Inc

I was never given the opportunity to put the Hang On tag on my article because you completely deleted it within less than an hour after I created it. DriveOK Inc has been featured on the News and in Newspaper Articles. It creates its own technology and software. It is an OEM. You should try to be a little less jaded when reviewing new articles and give people a chance to defend themselves. Everything listed in the article was non biased and completely factual. Nomad1000 20:51, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

The article read as advertising and the subject appears to fail Wikipedia:Notability, specifically Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). As such, it was speedy deleted. But if you can provide referenced info on how the subject meets the notability standards, feel free to recreate the article.--Alabamaboy 23:51, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

SmoothStream Band is not just a music band, it is one and only music band promoting mental health through a public health approach...

Hi my page should not be deleted. It is 'one and only' music band in the world to promote mental health of migrants and refugees through music which is based on SmoothStream model - public health approach, which was presented and published two times in 2004 and 2006 in the International Health Conferences. Even though it is a music band it is so much different from other music bands in the sense that it is a registered Charitable Trust to promote mental health in migrants and refugees through music. It is also a doctoral research finding (PhD research with the ethics approval). Community mental health seems to have become a major health issue around the world with the release of the recent WHO report in which depression is identified to be heading the list of ten leading causes of DALYs (the Disability Adjusted Life Year lost) (Mathers & Loncar, 2005). The report is essentially a powerful driving force behind the upsurge of interest in mental health promotion which is believed to be the greatest tool to tackle this global health problem. SmoothStream Band is leading the world to promote mental health and prevent mental illnesses in this 21st Century. SmoothStream Band is showing real promising results everyday in terms of establishing informal social support networks, which seems to be the most important resource for positive mental health. The category of this article is in mental health. I hope you will consider favourably my request to re-launch for the benefits of the world community to learn experiences from the SmoothStream Band. I have many more to write for this article.

Mathers, C. D., & Loncar, D. (2005). Updated projections of global mortality and burden of disease, 2002-2030: Data sources, methods and results (Evidence and Information for Policy). Geneva: World Health Organisation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smoothstream (talk • contribs) 21:51, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

The band sounds worthwhile and I wish you the best with it. However, there are only 22 Google hits on it. The band simply doesn't meet our notability criteria. Best,--Alabamaboy 00:19, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

deletion of non-notable color articles

There are at least a hundred non-notable color articles, including thistle (color), which have no relevant sourced information (the usual content is something like "thistle is the color of a thistle" along with an unsourced color swatch that might as well have been pulled from thin air), are currently stubs, and are never going to be more than stubs. Every once in a while someone mentions on wikipedia talk:WikiProject Color that something should be done, but no one ever takes any action. Those that can be sourced should at best be merged into lists of swatches. The rest should IMO be deleted. I thought if I started tagging several of them with speedy delete tags, someone might either go find some useful sourced information to put at a merged-together article, or else we could build a consensus to delete them. But you seem to think that's not the best process. What do you recommend? Should I make a new "non-notable color" template, and stick it at the top of all of them, and then make a single discussion about canning them all? Is there some other better course of action? Putting each one separately on VfD would be an absurd waste of time/space/effort. --jacobolus (t) 21:48, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you should bring all the non-notable colors up for one deletion discussion. I've seen that done before. But using speedy delete in this case isn't appropriate. Best,--Alabamaboy 23:12, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

You think it's appropriate to put some "non-notable color" template on all of them? --jacobolus (t) 23:21, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I'd just start an AfD on one of the color articles then link all the other non-notable articles to that AfD. Just reuse the first AfD template on all the articles and list on the AfD all the other articles that are also under consideration. I'd also suggest limiting the AfD to 5 or 10 color articles; more than that will overwhelm people. --Alabamaboy 23:44, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Here's an example of how to list multiple articles in one AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Humanist Nobel laureates--Alabamaboy 23:46, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

So what do I do with those after the first 10? --jacobolus (t) 00:01, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

		My RFA
		Thanks for your support in my request for adminship, which ended with 58 supports, 1 opposes, and 1 neutral. I hope your confidence in me proves to be justified. Addhoc 18:09, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 26 September, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Earl Kemp, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 19:41, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

User and Talk pages

I will be collaborating with Johntex on a salvage effort on the Marshall, Texas article to avoid the need for a FAR. I would like my userpage and talk page unprotected for the duration of my activity on this project. Your opinions on the article renovation will be most welcome of course. Thanks. -JCarriker 22:39, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Done. I'll also check out the article and any critiques. --Alabamaboy 13:04, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

• I've had a change of heart after seeing that most of my work here is now worthless. I'd like my userpages deleted, except the Texan Cabal which I want given to Johntex. If you'd like to make a historical summary or soemthing that's fine, but I want the pages as they are now gone. Thanks. -Jay

Recovering data from a deleted article

Is there any way I can retrive the information from an article that has been deleted (i.e. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lyran Star Empire)? I am working to set up a workable article which would include information from this article and several others and am hoping I would not have to completely recreate it.

Or, is it possible we could get this rebuilt as a redirect to Alpha Octant?

Thank you for your time.--Donovan Ravenhull 18:50, 27 September 2007 (UTC)