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Jonathan Gleich

Greetings, You deleted Jonathan Gleich
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2009_September_13)
But said you would consider publishing if I followed Proper Wiki protocol. I have re-done the article, and would like your opinion before I republish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lscappel/Jonathan_Gleich

I also left this message with IronGargoyle(talk)

Thank you,
Linda Cappel
Lscappel (talk) 01:54, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of CyanogenMod

I think a software package that's covered on both Gizmodo and Slashdot (and whose YouTube channel became the 33rd most subscribed even before its official launch) is certainly notable enough to merit inclusion on Wikipedia. I realize notability is subjective to some degree, and the perspective of an outsider (i.e. someone who's not in the Android-modding community) may be very different from that of someone who has an active interest in this particular software niche. But if the issue of notability arises for a page like compressor stall, then I would naturally expect the opinions of pilots and aerospace engineers to be given greater weight than others. I don't know what the page looked like when you chose to delete it, but I hope that you'll have the decency to leave the new page alone this time around--or simply use a refimprove template or something similar to give suggestions for improvement. That would at least be constructive, rather than destroying a useful page out of spite for its authors.--71.105.214.189 (talk) 18:24, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Who said it was "destroyed out of spite for its authors"? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:40, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

I'd like to point out that after seeing the cease and desist served via Google, I immediately came to wikipedia first in order to look up what Cyanogen was. I won't be the only one doing this, there will be plenty of people looking to access this information now that this story has broke. Any chance we can have a re-vote to restore this article? --Pvvni (talk) 20:30, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

That event is little more than a news story, and is thus unsuitable for inclusion within Wikipedia. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:41, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

We've seen this issue with experts dictating what was notable enough for inclusion and what wasn't. It didn't end well. The notability guidelines are the notability guidelines, no matter how important something is to Android owners, or Rush fans, or people with dog allergies. --King Öomie 20:46, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

deletion of page List of watermills in France

Now you have deleted "List of watermills in France" cos it was ""Too Long"" can you tell me where I can find another?? That was not very helpfull was it? 21:04, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a directory. --King Öomie 20:48, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

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Please restore the article about the National Research Center for Women & Families

Dear Julian,

The National Research Center for Women & Families was described in a short wikipedia article, because it is frequently quoted in the media around the world (and in wikipedia). I'm not sure why you deleted it, but apparently you thought it was too much like advertising. However, the article seems no different than articles for many other think tanks and nonprofit organizations. If there is a problem, let's revise it rather than delete the entire article.

I hope that we can discuss this. The Center is a think tank that does not accept money from companies whose medical products it reviews or evaluates. It does not sell anything -- all the Center's work is provided for free. Center staff have testified before the Canadian Parliament, the U.S. Congress, and many scientific organizations and agencies. They are often quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and major media in many other countries as well. If you google it, you'll see what I mean.

DoctorDM (talk) 04:54, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done in accordance with the proposed deletion policy. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:01, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunatly, DoctorDM (talk · contribs) is a newly created sock puppet of Scmd. May want to reconsider the Undeletion. This is a banned users, utilizing sock puppets to circumvent a block in order to game the system. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2009_Archive_Sep_2#National_Research_Center_for_Women_.26_Families_citation_spamming.--Hu12 (talk) 23:31, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Julian, Thanks for restoring the article. I don't know why Hu12 thinks I am a sockpuppet OR a banned user. I am not either and I don't appreciate those kind of unfounded insults. I am a former ivy league faculty member who used to be a frequent wikipedia contributor but have been busy with work, then forgot my user name/password so had to create a new one. That was an unfounded accusation and I would have thought against the rules of civil discourse on wikipedia. Who are you, Hu12, and on what basis did you make that accusation? DoctorDM (talk) 02:29, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

{{User:Juliancolton/Status}}

Wats a "he computer"? :P Jason Rees (talk) 19:54, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

He-Computer, Master of the Universe. @harej 14:11, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Deletion review for Discworld_stamps

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Discworld_stamps. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. DarrenHill (talk) 17:03, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JCbot 3

Hey JC, just letting you know that I've marked Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JCbot 3 as approved. Best - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 21:24, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

And with this...

...I hit 100,000 edits, if anybody cares. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:54, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Jesus, we need to find you a girlfriend. → ROUX ₪ 03:55, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Hehehehe. — Jake Wartenberg 03:59, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

\o/ –blurpeace ^(talk) 04:06, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

According to my navigation pop-ups, you have fewer than 97,000 edits. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:39, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

And this. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:41, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

He does have over 100k. Please look at the second link again. Majorly talk 18:42, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

If you include deleted edits, yes. So I suppose he does have 100K in a matter of speaking. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:44, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Still not near J delanoy's heh, he's amassed around 1/4 of a million edits. That is crazy! AtheWeatherman 21:10, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

MHL/Admins

Hi!

You may wish to add your name here :)  Roger Davies ^talk 04:08, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Heh, was just  Doing... after seeing that on Ed's talk page. :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:09, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Good! The more the merrier :) If you notice any others missing, could you ask them if they're interested please?  Roger Davies ^talk 04:25, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Will keep an eye out. Cheers, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:25, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I see it's borne fruit already :) I've just done a couple more. Actually ...

it would be great if and when you have the time/inclination to do a cross-check of admins against the membership list, and invite all the active missing ones to participate.

More generally, the Logistics dept overall could do with a load of recruiting/refreshing. For instance, we're really short of copy-editors, and have a permanent backlog of requests.  Roger Davies ^talk 15:04, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Since you're around

Could you undelete Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/ZooPro please? S/he has just started another RfA, and it would probably be good to have that one available to us proles. → ROUX ₪ 04:28, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

I agree; done. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:29, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Ta, luv. → ROUX ₪ 04:32, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Hanuman (2010 film)

I am seeing result of AFD as 'Keep'. But the tag of AFD is still there on article page.

Can I nominate this article for AFD again? Not only because it is future film, not only because even actor playing role of Hanuman is unknown, and not only because production is not started.

I want to nominate because basic source, official announcement by Disney, is absconding on net. I am not finding news in US or western media. Indian media is infamous for carrying hoax news. Few years back "alien" monkey in Delhi and around was reported by media 24/7.

I want basic reliable source, official announcement by Disney.

Can I nominate this article for AFD?

Thanks!

Raama (talk) 12:08, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

I removed the residual AfD tag, which was left in place accidentally after the closure of the discussion. I'd advise against renominating so soon, actually; you're likely to get the same result, and typically AfD voters discourage speedy-renominations. Still, you're welcome to take it to WP:DRV to review the closure. Hope this helps, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:00, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Emergency

Get your but on IRC ASAP please. :PJason Rees (talk) 14:00, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

MILHIST admins

Thanks for informing me; I've inserted my name. :-) AdjustShift (talk) 14:08, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks. :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:34, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

RfA close of 9th... something or other

Are you meant to subst the tally? Just curious mind, I did it anyway...  GARDEN  18:29, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Not really sure to be honest; seems to change by the day, so I just leave it to the gnomes to fix! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:35, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

There should be a notice, "THIS TEMPLATE MUST BE REPLACED WITH THE CLOSING TALLY WHEN CLOSING THIS RFA", next to the tally on every RfA. But sometimes that notice gets deleted. -- Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 23:36, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Did you forget to delete Luc Castaignos?

I noticed that you had closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Luc Castaignos as a delete over a month ago, but the article is still there. Best, Ray^Talk 18:48, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

<TPS>It was restored by User:Spartaz - see here. I just removed the AfD tag. </TPS> Tim Song (talk) 18:55, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Military History Project

Julian; thank you. I have added my name to the list as you suggested. I have to admit, in fairness, that after I completed the addition of the articles on pre-dreadnought ironclads some two years ago (all articles have since been improved) I have done little editing in the subject apart from a few biographies. But I am always happy to help; I have a certain knowledge and database relating to warships 1860 to 1945. --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 22:33, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Cool! As long as you're willing to help, we're fine with having you. :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:36, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Disruptive editing/removal of referenced material

This individual[1], continues to remove referenced information over multiple articles[2][3][4][5][6]. I left a warning[7] on his/her talk page, which was summarily deleted[8]. This user is also using an ANON IP to continue with his/her reverts[9]. --Kansas Bear (talk) 23:43, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Blocked for disruptive editing. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:48, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Juliancolton a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Dylan620 (contribs, logs)help us! 23:53, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

OK, so I'm seven minutes early, but you get the idea. :)

Yay, thanks! On the one hand it seems like just last week I was appointed... but on the other it seems like I've been working forever... :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:01, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Ahh...I'm one minute late. Anyway, happy adminship anniversary!Abce2|This isnot a test 00:02, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Congrats!

Coordinator of the
Military history WikiProject,
October 2009 - March 2010

Congrats on your election as Coordinator for the Military history Project. In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:20, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Wait, what? Is there suposed to an "a" after as? Abce2|This isnot a test 00:21, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Well, yes; I'm one of several co-coordinators. Thanks Tom! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:26, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Yep, that'd be Tom's spelling flaws showing up :))) —Ed (talk • contribs) 00:28, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Hate to put you on the spot...

...but as I'm sure you've noticed, I've protected 2009 Pacific typhoon season because of a dispute. Because of the constantly changing nature of the subject (and because I know you to be interested in severe weather in general), I would appreciate it if you could perhaps keep an eye out for {{editprotected}} requests and new typhoons, etc. Of course you're not obligated to do so, but I felt I should at least let you know what was "going down" :). Happy editing, Malinaccier (talk) 00:53, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Yep, I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks for taking care of everything. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:56, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! :) Malinaccier (talk) 01:09, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter XXXII

Cyanogenmod

Hi, Julian. Your AfD closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CyanogenMod (2nd nomination) has been circumvented by Ohjkaolwnb (talk · contribs), who created Cyanogenmod. Do you think some salt should be added to both Cyanogenmod and CyanogenMod? Best, Cunard (talk) 01:57, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Deleted. I think that while the DRV is open, it's best to keep the pages un-salted. Assuming the deletion is endorsed by DRV, then it'll be appropriate to apply create-protection. Thanks for the note, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:00, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't see the DRV. Anyway, thanks for deleting the recreation. Cunard (talk) 02:04, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Afd: High Culture

The discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/High culture was closed with "keep", but the article High culture still carries the Afd template. I'm not very familiar with procedural matters, so I don't just want to remove the template. Could you take the necessary steps? Thank you. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 04:12, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Once the AfD is closed, the admin who closes usually takes the AfD tag off of the article, but I don't think it matters who takes it off once it is done. I think Julian just forgot. I took it off right now. :-)

Thanks for taking care of that, unsigned person! :) Sometimes the AfD closing script fails to complete each step properly. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:20, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Your RfA response

Fashionably, someone had responded to my oppose comment on another RfA page, with the same comment that appeared on my RfA. "Super-Absolutely Strong Oppose" is appropiate enough to be an oppose comment, but I'm not sure if this is acceptable by Jimbo. Thanks for reminding me on the RfA about WP:SNOW, though. P.S:Tell StephenBuxton though, that I'm on a Wikibreak due to Wikistress.--BoeingRuleOfThe9th-700 (talk) 08:44, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Well, it is a fairly rude and dismissive way to oppose. You should provide your rationale for opposing, and let the readers decide for themselves whether or not it's a super-absolutely strong argument. Frankly, receiving a "Super-Absolutely Strong Oppose" oppose would seem rather discouraging and redundant. That said, not everything has to be accepted by Jimbo. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:22, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

IRC

Im having great difficulties getting on freenode at the minute, is there something else i can use? - Also please could you change the 10-min winds under Ketsana to 55kts and add 1min winds=25kts to TD 26 please Thanks Jason Rees (talk) 14:31, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Juliancolton (probably) isnt here at the moment but I have his talkpage on watchlist so I can try to help. Have you tried using the webchat client? It's not the same as the one that they used to use but it should work. If that doesnt work then there isnt much else you can do. Im on Freenode right now so I can attest that the network itself is still up. -- Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 14:33, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Yep thats the one i ussually use. Its just coming up with a blank page evrey time i use it today.Jason Rees (talk) 14:38, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Get Chatzilla! And  Done with the updates, I think. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:40, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

I would agree with Julian there. Though there is still this other client if you'd rather not download anything new. (it is working, unlike the webchat.) -- Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 14:42, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia administrator

Hello Julian: As you know I'm writing a draft article about Wikipedia administrators. Would you be able to tell me if Larry Sanger was ever an administrator of Wikipedia? and is Jimmy Wales an administrator or does he have all the admin privileges by default since he's the founder? Were the co-founders both admins by default or has the definition of administrator evolved over time to make the question of Larry Sanger having been an administrator, moot? Varks Spira (talk) 15:02, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure how likely an article on Wikipedia administrators would be kept around, but as far as I know, neither Jimmy Wales nor Larry Sanger were elected to be administrators in the conventional sense. Basically, the two of them were administrators before there ever were administrators. But my word isn't good enough. If you're writing an article, you have to base it on reliable, published sources. @harej 15:08, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Well, that's interesting. Yes, of course, they wouldn't be administrators and therefore they haven't gone through the Request for Adminship process, but they have the tools to get caught in a Wheel War, right? Varks Spira (talk) 15:12, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

See Larry Sanger and Jimbo Wales. This indicates that Larry Sanger is not an administrator now, and that Jimbo Wales is. This log listing indicates that any changes to Larry Sanger's status occurred prior to the keeping of logs about such things, so difficult to ascertain what user rights he had at some point in the past (at least with my limited knowledge of the system). ^Bongo_matic 15:22, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Editorial control changes

In Time magazine I read, "Under the new plan, people can freely alter Wikipedia articles on, say, their local officials or company head — but those changes will become live only once they've been vetted by a Wikipedia administrator."(http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1924492,00.html) This would greatly expand the powers of the Wikipedia administrator. Is this true?

No, because that statement is not true. As it currently stands anybody with the "reviewer" flag would be able to approve changes, not just administrators. Admins have very little "power" in reality. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:16, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Did I misread it or did Time magazine get it wrong? Varks Spira (talk) 15:18, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, many sources are misinterpreting the upcoming changes regarding flagged revisions. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:31, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

It looks like that article is confused between the Flagged Revisions and "WikiTrust" proposals; however neither of these involve Wikipedia administrators directly as Juliancolton has said. -- Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 15:22, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

TFAR

Your I-355 support seems to be misworded because it reads as if you support I-355 and I-355.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:09, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Whoops, thanks for the note. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:18, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

2009 PTS

Could you update Ketsana's JMA winds 60 kts from the latest advisory?

Thanks --Anhamirak 19:59, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

1-min or 10-min? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:04, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Another Barn Julian!

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		For your pirate themed comments at RFA, they have given me a chuckle everytime! AtheWeatherman 20:16, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Hehe, glad you liked it. :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:27, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Heh, I did, you should of seen my try at pirate talk at Old English's RFA, it was very poor indeed! AtheWeatherman 21:07, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Lists

Featured lists are a waste of time. Gathering references to substantiate inclusion of entries is inane, since includability is usually obvious and WP:VER clearly states that only entries that are challenged or likely to be challenged should be referenced. And since lists generally present links, the nature of the topics that are linked is explained in each those linked pages -- and those explanations are subject to referencing which provides referencing to the lists by "passing through" the links. Copying the references to the lists that already lead to them is pointless busywork.

I am strongly opposed to wasting man hours on such a task. The greatest improvement in useability and usefulness to the OOK can be achieved by tackling these priorities:

1. Fixing errors, especially those in the government branches sections of the country outlines!
2. Writing the outline article: User talk:The Transhumanist/Outline (this should alleviate confusion about what an outline is and what it is for)
3. Recruiting editors to work on the outlines
4. Renaming the outlines that are still named "List of" (there are hundreds and hundreds of these), starting with those listed at Lists of mathematics topics
5. Reformatting the newly renamed outlines
6. Further integration (links to outlines, notices about outlines, and links between outlines)

Confusion will subside over time. Improving outline instruction pages would also help.

The Transhumanist    21:09, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Marumikan

Did you forget to delete the article instead of just the talk page? —Farix (t | c) 01:03, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

My mistake, fixed. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 01:04, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Edit Conflict

Hello. I am asking your opinion on User talk:71.112.77.101 and Private prison. In summary, I noticed that the ip has removed three references from the above article. The ip cites WP:SYNTH as the reason, but I believe that does not apply if valid references are removed. I would like to ask a second opinion before I proceed with the comments. Thanks.--LAAFan^sign _review 02:57, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Rankers Point Coaching Institute Indore

Respected, need your help. Article Rankers Point Coaching Institute Indore; I had nominated it for deletion. because this article is of one private coaching class in Indore ,apart from this it disobeys many policies of wikipedia, & also discussed the matter in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rankers Point Coaching Institute Indore .Now this User:Wikindia24x7 has undone my nomination for deletion telling that he has wikified the Article, but when i reviewed it, i cant find any good addition. so i reverted his edits & nominated the article again for deletion. While in background this user used up different IP address to add new edit in main article Rankers Point Coaching Institute Indore saying it has added up reference. but not an matter of concern. In Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rankers Point Coaching Institute Indore last edit "Do Not Delete-I have provided proper citations and tags.and this is top result of Search Engine.please i beg you.thanks. - User:Wikindia24x7" Done by http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikindia24x7&action=edit&redlink=1 possibly User:Wikindia24x7 I have no issue with this user but just look at his user talk page. Kindly guide us & help on all matters discussed above ...Thanks. (  Abu Torsam  08:57, 28 September 2009 (UTC))

Jeremy Dunning-Davies

Julian: you closed the AfD discussion Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jeremy_Dunning-Davies as delete back in June, yet the article was not deleted. Please could you now delete the article? Failing to do so was not helpful. Thanks. Mathsci (talk) 10:01, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

See here. The article was deleted, but it was expanded and improved by Headbomb (talk · contribs) and recreated. PeterSymonds (talk) 10:04, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

You're right about the deletion - my apologies, Julian. There is no improvement in the article. The problems of notability mentioned in the AfD have not been addressed. This kind of editing - the recreation of recently deleted BLPs with minimal changes - is disruptive and time-wasting. Headbomb (talk · contribs) has essentially ignored the AfD discussion - he should have made his additions then. Being a spokesperson for CERN is no sign of notability, I'm afraid. Certainly the promotions committee in the University of Hull did not consider it grounds for promoting Dunning-Davies to either reader or professor. Headbomb did participate in the AfD: he claimed quite incorrectly that Dunning-Davies was a Fellow of the Royal Society. The grounds for deleting the article remain unchanged. Storing it privately when an AfD discussion has gone against you and then putting it back wth minor modifications would seem to be a blockable offense. Why is the history of the page still intact if it has been recreated from scratch? The reinstatement of the deleted article from the userspace of Headbomb seems to have been done by admin NuclearWarfare (talk · contribs). Adding one sentence to the lede after a prolonged AfD discussion and then restoring the article without discussion makes a mockery of the deletion process. The content of the article has hardly changed as this diff shows [10]. There are several new redlinks and a copy-vio image. Mathsci (talk) 10:38, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

I don't understand this diff [11] at all. Apparently Headbomb recreated the article and NuclearWarfare moved it back into his userspace. I'll have to look more closely at what Headbomb did, since he went against an AfD decision and an administrator. Mathsci (talk) 11:00, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Julian, everyone, here's our earlier discussion [12]. I'll have to say I don't see much difference. Dougweller (talk) 12:02, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

I discovered that the so-called "expansion"/"improvement" by Headbomb resulted from an extremely careless misidentification of John David Davies, a spokesperson for CERN (see [13] and [14]). It was not at all helpful to have added that to the lede. I've prodded the article once more as it is unchanged from the time of the AfD (apart from a few better sources that I've added). It has now been speedily deleted once the false "significant expansion" had been corrected. Mathsci (talk) 00:16, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Sock report of blocked user.

Hi Julian, I saw you were active and I was wondering if you could have a quick look and see if I have reported this [15] in the correct place and in a correct way? Off2riorob (talk) 18:17, 28 September 2009 (UTC) Perhaps it is ok Julian as MuZemike is having a look, regards. Off2riorob (talk) 18:22, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

It all should be good; see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JohnRedwood. NW (Talk) 18:25, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

RfA - Abecedare

Hi - you moved the IP oppose to the discussion area on this RfA. The IP is that of a blocked user - User:Hobojaks - most recently on as User:GHALOOGHAARAA. Don't know how the concept of blocked editors coming back as IPs to comment on RfAs works, so I thought I'd alert you. The block log and SP category reference the checkuser report. cheers. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 19:16, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm, I'll look into that - thanks for the heads-up. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:17, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Mary Summer Rain

Julian

Could you please inform why Mary Summer Rain was deleted???

Thank you for your reply. C Long 9/28/09 24.185.161.123 (talk) 22:03, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Please see this AfD discussion. Thanks, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 22:16, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Pohnpei Liberation Day Games Soccer 2009

Hi Julian,

I was very disappointed to see that the article on the Pohnpei Liberation Day Games Soccer tournament 2009 had been deleted. I was just wondering how it infringed on Wikipedia's policy. At the moment we are trying very hard to raise the profile of the game in Micronesia and documenting the first major club tournament on island for several years seemed like an important step forward, obviously then I was saddened to see the article had been removed. Do you think you could explain what exactly was wrong with it because I would love to make the necessary corrections myself?

Best wishes Paul Watson 206.49.89.133 (talk) 23:02, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi. It was deleted in accordance with the PROD policy, which allows for an article to be summarily removed if no-one contests its proposal for deletion goes uncontested for seven days. In this case, the editor who nominated it for deletion cited concerns related to the lack of notability. If you believe you can overcome these concerns by bringing the article in line with verification policies, I'd be happy to restore it. Regards, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:50, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi Julian, Thanks for the reply. I will happily have a go at bringing the article up to standards. I have read the guidelines for notability and would try and add a few sources etc if the article were restored. Thanks Paul

editor review

Hey Julian and talk page stalkers. Julian, since you nominated my RfA, you might want to comment here? No priorities, please, I'm not in any hurry whatsoever. ceranthor 23:49, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Van Jones

I believe the controversy over Van Jones has died down now, and that protection thru 16 December is no longer necessary. -- 209.6.238.201 (talk) 06:02, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Given the persistent vandalism following two previous protections, I think a lengthy duration is necessary. Still, you're welcome to start a discussion at WP:RFUP to see what other administrators think. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 13:04, 29 September 2009 (UTC)