User talk:Calton

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It's clean-up duty, mopping up after the dishonest, incompetent, and fanatical. Can't imagine why you'd have a problem with that.

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1. I am not an admin. I did not delete your page or article, nor did I block you. I may have, at the very most, suggested or urged deletion of pages or articles but I have no power or ability to do so on my own. I'm just an editor.
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Thank you. -- The Management.

CSD

I noticed you tagged quite a few {{db-spam}} user and user talk pages, and many of them were quite old. I believe I deleted most of them. How were you able to find them so quickly? Thanks for the hard work! Plastikspork (talk) 05:34, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

User:Peeball

Help? What did I do wrong? I must admit I find Wikipedia very confusing (clearly as I don't even understand how to sign correctly) but, as a new user, I'm only trying to create good content about useful and positive topics. Obviously my style isn't right but please help me correct it? At the moment I'm feeling rather attacked which I'm sure wasn't your intention?

Thanks—Preceding unsigned comment added by Herculous (talk • contribs) 00:05, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

WooMe, speedy deletion

You commented on my talk page suggesting that it be speedily deleted. I had information on there requesting feedback, which I incorporated before posting my article. I would like to contest that as well as contest my talk page being deleted. I used the advice given to me on the WooMe article when writing the Mingle2 article, which was not deleted. http://wikipedia.org/wiki/mingle2 . The pages I created are not blatent advertising. I did use a twitter post as a reference, which is not a reliable source I understand. There are many sources on the article that I wrote, especially since WooMe is listed as the top 10 most popular dating sites according to TechCrunch which is a very reliable source for the industry. Appreciate your feedback as I'm interested in keeping my wiki account in good standing, thanks! Vlectronica (talk) 17:47, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

User:Actragroup

As always, thanks for your hard work. One request: add the {{notenglish|[language]}} tag when the G11 page is not in English, so that everyone is looking at the same thing. I can muddle through German, French and Spanish (at least, enough to make a G11 call, usually), but Dutch leaves me clueless. (Watching) - Dank (push to talk) 15:40, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Linking to a Tweet

Hey, saw your post on ANI about how to link to a specific Tweet. Here's what I found on a google search:

First, make sure you’re logged in and on the “Home” page of Twitter. On the right, click on “updates”. Locate the tweet you’d like to link to, and find where it shows how long ago the tweet was tweeted (ex: “about 2 hours ago”). Click that and you should be taken to a page that displays only that specific tweet. Copy the url in the address bar, and paste it where ever you want to link directly to that tweet.

Hope that helps! — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 13:03, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

User:WalktoEndMS

Hello, Thank you for taking the time to read my article. I am just learning to navigate my way through Wikipedia. My intention was to post the article under the Charity/finance/fundraising section like the other charity fundraisers. I thought I might be able to do that through the personal page. Would you happen to know how I can post my article in that section? Do you have any other advice for me so I don't get flagged like this in the future? Thank you for your help--WalktoendMS (talk) 16:10, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Brandishing the Speedy Delete on my user page

That just sucks. Sorry, someone had to say it. Obviously I hadn't edited the page in some time, and yes, it was about my company. But I'm trying to follow the guidelines to the best of my ability. Once I had completed the article (and I was a long way off - I tend to be a heavy editor/rewriter) I was going to submit the article to an editor and ask for neutral feedback on the piece. I had no intention of publishing the content as-was.

If you could assist me in creating a neutral article regarding my company (because we're noteworthy IMO) then I welcome your sharpest editorial red pen, so to speak. First, however, I'll need my goddamn user page content replaced.

Very truly yours, Motobasura (talk) 22:11, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Ahem. Calton didn't delete your user page, Dank did. So, why don't you go over to them and ask them. – B.hotep •talk• 22:15, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I read the needlessly flippant instructions - this was the only starting point I could find. How did you uncover who deleted my user page? I found nothing in the history. (You know, for the next time I have something deleted...) Motobasura (talk) 22:20, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

At the top of the history there is a link which says "view the logs for this page" that will tell you. Viridae^Talk 22:23, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Lovely, thanks for the assistance. Motobasura (talk) 22:32, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey. My post is somewhat similar to the previous one. I am not going to publish my article as it is. It is about my company but will modify it before actually posting it. Will also be asking for formal feedback once i am done. Instead of putting the speedy deletion tag, what will be be helpful is if you can give tips on how to improve it, and not make it sound like blatant advertising!

Cheers, Shruti