User talk:Orangemike

User talk:DrummerMike

He says all the right things in his latest unblock request. I am inclined to grant it based on the sincerity of his statements about not advertising anymore. If he continues the same behavior, he can always be reblocked, no? --Jayron32.talk.contribs 18:15, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, but he is at least professing to want to stop this behavior, and to become a better editor. Again, he seems rather new, and not wanting to be too bitey and all, perhaps we could give him a second chance. If you want, I could personally take responsibility for blocking him again should he get "out of line"... --Jayron32.talk.contribs 19:49, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ephox

Hi Michael,

I found that my article on Ephox had been deleted on the grounds of Blatant advertising (see log below).

  * 02:04, 30 October 2008 Orangemike (Talk | contribs) deleted "Ephox" ‎ (G11: Blatant advertising)
  * 02:03, 30 October 2008 Roux (Talk | contribs) marked Ephox patrolled ‎

I was careful to follow the format of existing articles on wikipedia describing companies such as Atlassian Software Systems and Telerik (and many more besides). Those articles have been around for some time so I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that they were a reasonable template to follow. Having read the criteria for speedy deletion I can see why my article was deleted.

Would you be able to provide some guidance on what changes are required in order for the article on Ephox to be considered as acceptable as those referenced above? Thanks.

PS I work for Ephox

Mgabbiani (talk) 20:22, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your note on COI. This article is also particularly relevant Wikipedia:FAQ/Business

Mgabbiani (talk) 18:19, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Block anon

Can you block this anon 130.58.213.197, he keeps vandalizing the World War III article. Zombie Hunter Smurf (talk) 16:50, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

I took care of this. It was block evasion from one of my previous blocks. -MBK₀₀₄ 17:53, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Pollo-pescetarianism

Hi.

I just recently come to this article: [1], and I noted that you deleted this article with the reason of A3. I plan to re-create this page, but beforehand, would like to see how the page looks like before deletion, so I can decide whether to re-create - which will involve some research, or just to ignore it. I think, IMO, this article (either Pesce-pollotarianism or Pollo-pescetarianism) should exist as it is different from Pollotarian (who only consumes poultry), and Pescetarian (who only consumes seafood). They are all can be categorised as Semi-vegetarian and definitely not Flexitarian. Thanks in advance. w_tanoto (talk) 21:32, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm. I see. Any idea if I can be any help of this article? I am pesce-pollotarian myself, but don't really know if I should re-create the article w_tanoto (talk) 21:52, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of User talk:Bagstorageforyou

A tag has been placed on User talk:Bagstorageforyou, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on [[ Talk:User talk:Bagstorageforyou|the talk page]] explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. DanielRigal (talk) 20:03, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Malcolm Edwards

It's a fair cop guv ;) (I notice you didn't chastise the other vandal/brother though!) 86.20.159.131 (talk) 13:54, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Why did you delete Lawrence Smith (cricketer)?

Hello. I wrote Smith's article, and am very surprised to see it deleted. WP:ATHLETE says that to have "competed in a fully professional league, or a competition of equivalent standing" generally meets notability standards, and WikiProject Cricket's own guidelines (at WP:CRIN) expands on this with relation to cricket specifically. Smith played four times in first-class cricket, including three matches in the County Championship, which is without doubt "a fully professional league".

When I wrote Smith's page, I provided links to two major cricket sites' biographies of him, and inline citations to several games in which he played, including (from memory) two first-class matches. I suppose there might just about be a case for taking it to AFD, though similar nominations have usually been defended, but I very strongly dispute that speedy deletion was correct in this case. Loganberry (Talk) 00:23, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

The Foxes

Hello. Regarding the article 'The Foxes' that redirects to 'Leicester City F.C.' could you please unblock it so an article can be created? The Foxes are not a garage band, they are classed as one of the hardest working bands in the UK! They are a rock and indie band and were in at number 9 on Radio 1's Indie chart. Sorry to post this on the article's talk page and your talk page, but I wasn't sure if you would receive my message or not. Thanks for your time. :) Blaze42 (talk) 11:47, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

a second oppinion

Hi Mike, I'd love your opinion on this discussion with Rspeer (started on my talk page). Mister Senseless™ (Speak - Contributions) 05:09, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Straw polls for the Republican Party 2008 presidential nomination

An article that you have been involved in editing, Straw polls for the Republican Party 2008 presidential nomination, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Straw polls for the Democratic Party 2008 presidential nomination. Thank you. Burzmali (talk) 18:10, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

User:Brooklynmuseum

I have unblocked Shelley's User:Brooklynmuseum account and restored her userpage. This is not advertising at all, but someone who is interested in making great contributions to Wikipedia with the Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art project. Thanks.--Pharos (talk) 19:04, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

She has not inserted any external links since January 2007. There is nothing wrong with discussing her institution on her userpage. And she is actively coordinating a major project to donate thousands of images to Wikimedia and free content, and needs to be able to participate in on-wiki discussions. Thanks.--Pharos (talk) 03:30, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

This is not an instance of violation of Wikipedia:Username policy#Company/group names because the account is being used by a single person. Use of an institutional name may not be "recommended", but according to policy it is not prohibited either. Again, I offer my apologies if you marked it before you saw my comment; it was rash of me to put it that way—a breach of etiquette I tried to correct with my following null edit—and I shouldn't have assumed anything on your part. Let us simply say that we disagree about what is "obvious spam", and when something is not obvious to everyone, it probably should not be speedy-deleted. Thanks.--Pharos (talk) 03:06, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review

one of your speedy deletions Schaffer paragraph is being considered at Deletion Review [2]. You may want to comment. DGG (talk) 01:03, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Ultimo

I am writing an article for a manga series called Karakuridôji Ultimo. I just have figured out that the official English title is Ultimo. Would you mind moving the article to "Ultimo (manga)" (which has already been created as a redirect). : ) — J U M P G U R U ^{■ask㋐㋜㋗■} 01:28, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

From red to blue again

Please see User_talk:Orangemike/Archive_7#Deletion_question. Flowanda | Talk 01:55, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

The Foxes Band

Please could you at least reply to my question? I have seen you reply to others after mine was asked. Thanks. Blaze42 (talk) 16:16, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you - much appreacited. Blaze42 (talk) 09:25, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Ron Paul

Ron Paul has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured quality. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. --Andrew Kelly (talk) 05:16, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

The Foxes article

I will thank you now for your comment: "reads like it was composed by their press agent; full of unsourced vanity claims and peacock words". I would like to know your unsourced vanity claims that there are 'peacock words' and the claims are unsourced - look at the reference section at the bottom of the page! And did you put enough tags on there? I think there's just about enough space for some more, but not for the article itself!

I am not their agent, I am simply a fan - The Foxes band are self managed - as I wrote - and do not have an agent! Thanks. Blaze42 (talk) 09:43, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

I have added additional refrences for the supposed "unsourced vanity claims" that I added. I didn't remove any information.Blaze42 (talk) 10:32, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

My page

Please do not touch my personal page - I can put what I like on there so long as it is not offensive; which it wasn't. There is nothing wrong with what I have on there - Wikipedia suggested that I create the article on my page first, which I did. Please do not touch it again! Thanks. Blaze42 (talk) 16:29, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Image question for you

As you have been here for a while can you look this over. I tagged an image that says "Photo taken by Pinter's husband David Percy. I am uploading this photo in the presence of David Percy and he is granting the license below". I tagged the image {{di-no permission}} on November 9, 2008 however what seems to be a "fan" of the uploader objected to it and removed the tag today as it was about to be deleted, sending it to Pui saying that, because of who the user is, we should "trust the user". The image is Image:Frances pinter.jpg and the user who uploaded the image is User_talk:Johnbuckman. I am not sure what the next move is. Thanks. Soundvisions1 (talk) 23:36, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

User talk:FrankLloydGallery

Just so you know, this user (whom you recently blocked for COI/username violation) has left several messages at his talk page requesting your input. The discussion there is extremely long and tedious, so I don't want to force you to go and read through all of it, but I just thought I would let you know in case you want to comment. —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 05:13, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

He's now asked for unblock. Could you comment? Thanks,  Sandstein  07:29, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

As a slightly involved user (from COIN) I endorse his unblock for the reasons stated in the unblock-request section on his talk page. Arakunem^Talk 16:35, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

I understand the blocking status and appreciate the patience of all concerned. I am looking forward to contributing in other areas, and with a new username.FrankLloydGallery (talk) 21:37, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey I'm New To Wikipedia

I see that you guys have deleted the first yung d page. I was just going to ask y did he or she not have the right information about that artist. I'm asking because I was going to do my first page on him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yungd360 (talk • contribs) 17:20, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

That's a rather orange shirt

That's a rather orange shirt, fellow worker! If I ever run into you I'm sure I'll have seen you from a mile off. :) The Wednesday Island (talk) 05:00, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Looks like more issues over on the Violet Blue page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Violet_Blue_(author)#The_birth_year_recently_added

Just FYI. I don't plan to do more than make this comment, but it looks like some of the folks who want to annoy her further have been at work.

It's just weird to me that you can have true information that even stands up to legal scrutiny that you cannot include in an article's mainspace. I'm tempted to put in her name, though, as that has appeared in AVN; http://www.avn.com/law/articles/32421.html But I am not sure if even that meets up with Wikipedia standards... --BenBurch (talk) 03:28, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Problem with an admin.

[[3]]. Is this edit by an admin. over the top and is it actionable? If so , could you ask that he edit it and is it cause for a report? ThanksDie4Dixie (talk) 18:47, 17 November 2008 (UTC) It appears to be resolved.Die4Dixie (talk) 00:44, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Question about copyright violations

Hi Orangemike, when I tagged this article [4], the author admitted that he had lifted the text from other sites, and that it was 'fair use'. I've noticed that they have created other articles with copied text, but Google hits show that the contents are being used on many sites. Are these copyright violations, plagiarism, or do they indeed constitute fair use? I also have questions re: the necessity of this disambiguation page [5], which seems designed mainly to lead to the newly created article. Maybe these are all good edits, but I'm skeptical, and would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks, JNW (talk) 03:02, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Howdy! And yes, that would be me creating and editing the articles, I'm really brand spankin new to contributing and still learning the ropes. I'd like to re-write/edit the deleted article (CCO) and have read up on how to "resubmit" with the necessary corrections, but I don't know who to ask.. you, OrangeMike? I have more references and texts, and I too would like to have a confirmation of whether or not lifting texts that are all over the internet is copyright violations, plagiarism, or fair use. (This legalese internet stuff is crazy complicated to me.) Thanks in advance for your help; I would like to get this article fixed and up and running as it is a widely-used resource in my field. Thanks! Mybihonteem (talk) 23:23, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Backwards T Productions

The page was currently being edited, to prevent speedy deletion. But you deleted it before anything could be done to it. Backwards T is a major film company and the wiki was the only current resource for fans. This is the second un-needed deletion of a Backwards T article. If Miley Cyrus can have her own article, why cant Backwards T? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dantetelfrado (talk • contribs) 04:12, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Ghostbusters: The Video Game

Why was the article deleted?. --SkyWalker (talk) 07:56, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey, just dropping a note that I restored the page. The information in the page was cut out and put back in by apparently a new user. I realize the appearance of the page might have looked similar to a standard G11 case (with the copy/paste and all), but a check of the history would have showed a valid diff to revert to. In any case, no harm done. Not to say that the article certainly can't be improved upon, but it wasn't really in G11 territory. Cheers, — sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 08:19, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey, Thanks. The article will certainly improve overtime. Many thought the game would be canceled. Now that Atari has brough the game it on track to be released. --SkyWalker (talk) 08:35, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your help! Blaze42 (talk) 13:43, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I award this Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your speedy efforts in protecting my page. Thanks! Blaze42 (talk) 13:43, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

History Of Houston Astros article to be deleted

I am asking for your help in a matter. I put the speedy deletion logo on the History of the Houston Astros article for it has no citions and was an exact copy of the Houston Astros article. Another admin declined the deletion without giving a good reason. The main Houston Astros article is being upadted and frankly do we need two articles telling the story of the Houston Astros?--Mickey 19:37, 18 November 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mickeyp2814 (talk • contribs)

Username Block

WRT this username block, based on the heading you placed on the editor's talk page when you left the block notice, I assume you were aware of the RFC on the username. In the future, if you could close such discussions when blocking such usernames, it would be helpful. Thanks. seresin ( ¡? )  23:35, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Guidance needed on a Wikipedia related study

Dear Mike,

I am a Graduate Student at the University of Minnesota and am currently undergoing a research project to evaluate new interfaces in helping editors maintain quality on wikipedia. I needed some guidelines from you on how to obtain participants without violating any Wikipedia policies. If you find the time, please get back to me or leave me a note on my user page. Thanks so much

Avanidhar (talk) 22:23, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

PR

Hey there. Since you were pretty clear that PR would be unblocked as soon as he unequivocally stated there was no legal threat, and that he did so, I went ahead an unblocked him with a reminder to behave. Poke me if you feel that was overstepping you. — Coren ^(talk) 00:28, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Social Democrats USA

It was noticed that there as been much confusion over this webpage which was revert by you:

"01:02, 18 November 2008 Orangemike (Talk | contribs) m (6,916 bytes) (Reverted 1 edit by 76.122.29.109 identified as vandalism to last revision by Skew-t. (TW)) (undo)"

Please check the facts and ask questions before making an assuming to know. It is mistakes like this that gives Wikipedia a bad name in university circles for credit of citation ability.

The website socialdemocraticpartyofamerica.org has been formally changed to americansocialistvoter.com, but may still show up in general searches for several weeks to come due to the nature of backlogged material at the website being transferred to the official Social Democrats USA website socialdemocratsusa.org under different controls. The older website, socialidemocrats.org will expire soon and be taken down; however, it may too appear in some back searches as text when the time comes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.171.114.93 (talk) 07:45, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:2010FordMustangLogo.jpg

You mind telling me why you deleted a properly tagged image? I provided a source, explained that Ford claimed it as a CC-BY image, but because the logo is trademarked, that on Wikipedia it's a logo, ergo, it's non-free, and I added the right tag. So unless you zoned in on the explanation of the CC explanation from the Flickr page, then I think you made a very grievous mistake. --293.xx.xxx.xx (talk) 09:12, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

http://flickr.com/photos/fordmotorcompany/2807601226/ Look at the link, perhaps you would understand why I only chopped it in half and didn't edit it further. I think what you should've done was ask others about the conflicting licensing problems, seeing that Ford hasn't been too good with the CC licenses. --293.xx.xxx.xx (talk) 22:23, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

The Ergs!

Just a friendly note on The Ergs!. I had to decline the speedy request because there were definitely claims of importance. Weak, granted, but they're there. However, I won't be broken-hearted if you prod or take it to AfD. :) --Fabrictramp | talk to me 16:09, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

ANI Discussion

I started an ANI discussion on an old friend of ours, User:DrummerMike. Feel free to comment there as you see appropriate. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 22:27, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Join The Impact

Join the Impact has gained total public attention recently by orchestrating hundreds of thousands of people to protest in the matter of a week. This is a notable phenomenon that comes on the wings of the Obama victory using the same technology. There are articles about the group and the protests all over the news, including the four page NY Times article I sourced. I feel the deletion of this article without discussion is an abuse of that function. I know others would have found this to be worthy of inclusion. I do not appreciate spending time on an article and having it deleted WITHOUT even any discussion. That is HIGHLY undemocratic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leftylib (talk • contribs) 22:20, 20 November 2008

Third opinion project

Your request for a third opinion has been edited to comply with Wikipedia:Third opinion#How to list a dispute. If your entry as originally worded contained information vital to an understanding of the dispute, please add those details to the article talk page where the dispute exists. Thanks. — Athaenara ✉ 16:16, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Re:Barack Hussein Obama II

I have cleared the page. Feel free to delete it at User:Barack Hussein Obama II. Thanks, ~electricRush (T C) 04:57, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Hello mr. "Orange" Mike if you like funny then please feel free to go to this website [6] tell your friends

--Hippieslayer (talk) 20:49, 22 November 2008 (UTC)Hippieslayer