User talk:Fastily

To Make A Dragon Move?

Dear Fastily, I am a professor at a small liberal-arts college, and I had students design wiki pages concerning illness narratives, the topic of our class. Two students worked on a poem, "To Make a Dragon Move"; it was deleted under the auspices of being "promotional material." Could you please explain this to me?? I made sure that their stuff was encyclopedic, but we could have edited it if given ample time? It would mean a lot to my students, for whom this is their very first time publishing, if they could have more explanation. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Beresrogers (talk • contribs) 20:33, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Exact title was To Make a Dragon Move. -- Mentifisto 16:09, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

222jpg=

Why did you delete my picture 222jpg from Dulnain Bridge? It's been up for years and no-one's had a problem with it. You have nothing to do with this page, and I don't want to be rude, but you seem to me to be a pretty sad person, just randomly deleting users' image for no reason.

Wikipedia:CSD#Files. Also, psychoanalyzing admins generally isn't the best way to get them to acquiesce to your requests. --King Öomie 19:39, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

CeBIT

Hi. You've speedy-deleted the article about CeBIT, world's largest information technology trade fair, for "unambiguous advertising or promotion". It should have existed since at least early 2004 (that's when its interlanguage link was added to the german article) and should have had about 21 interlanguage links (again according to the german article). Just recently it has been rated "Mid-Class" for Wikipedia 1.0. I've just quickread a userspace page that I believe to be a copy of it, and yes, there are some parts that could be removed or rewritten, but are you sure it wasn't a mistake to speedy-delete the whole article about such an important topic? --YMS (talk) 19:31, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

I find it absolutely hilarious that a request to undelete a G11 actually begins with brochure-worthy praise and testimony. --King Öomie 19:37, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

I was aware of that. Two things: 1. Of course, in an article, such kind of statement would have to be cited. In this short discussion page notice it was just meant as a quick hint for the importance of the topic. (Anyway, half a million attendees each year - can you offer more?) 2. This was not a request to undelete, I was asking if the deletion was a mistake. --YMS (talk) 19:45, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

I'd assume it wasn't a mistake. He'd have to have opened the delete page, entered a category, and hit "submit", all accidentally. --King Öomie 19:47, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

It is hard to accidently a whole page.--SKATER ^Speak. 19:50, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Really, the hard part is figuring out what to do in that circumstance. And looking at the userspace draft you linked, the article was absolutely a BLATANT advertisement- it looks like a brochure. It doesn't matter how notable the subject is- if the article is crap, out it goes. And that article was an ad to its core. More than two thirds of it would have to be completely removed, and the rest rewritten. --King Öomie 19:52, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

User:Moin.nabi

Hi. I see why you blocked Moin.nabi (talk · contribs) but I am concerned maybe he was just terribly confused on how to do something. The article he kept moving was one he initiated. Maybe he was trying to make copies? Anyway, please keep a lookout on his talk page. Or maybe even unblock to try to engage him a little. Weird situation. Thanks. Wknight94 ^talk 22:48, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Ffd nominations

Hi Fastily....."Low quality, unencyclopedic, orphaned, use not stated" ? Often you are correct but you are using this on images where the use is stated (there is descriptive material on the image page), on images that are used on user pages (sometimes of semi-active users) and where the image is of high quality. I appreciate the work you're doing here but more care with your reasoning would be much better. Happy nominating - Peripitus (Talk) 02:15, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Got your message

about user 190.10.0.121. I didn't want to blank the ANI myself... Anyway, I thought the user's talk page full of warnings was sufficient evidence that they understood Wiki policy on the matter, and I remember reading somewhere that a warning is not a prerequisite for a block, but I'll remember to include a warning next time. AzureFury (talk | contribs) 05:10, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

For this aesthetic tweak. Looks much better. See ya 'round Tiderolls 05:23, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

File:Soyuz Poisk Launch.jpg

Please see User talk:myself488#Soyuz Poisk Launch Image. --myself488 (talk) 09:05, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Ah. Deleted. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 22:33, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Re: RFA (again)

Ok im ready for my initiation. Whats my first task, drink a gallon of milk? :). Thanks for the nomination too, Salavat (talk) 16:44, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

I answered the questions, probly not as long as your responses but then im not great at that kind of stuff. Salavat (talk) 04:10, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Nom is great. Ill rework the questions soonish, just got to do some over stuff first. Salavat (talk) 04:43, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Updated the answers, hope they are ok now. Salavat (talk) 06:56, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Kool thanks alot for your support. Salavat (talk) 08:36, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Fastily, by the way, you misspelled Salavat at one point in the nom. -- Mentifisto 16:09, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Shoot....twice actually. Fixed. Thanks Mentifisto. :) -FASTILY ^(TALK) 17:40, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Figured I'd throw my bit in here too :) " CSD/deletion taggings (without any use of any use of automated tools)". Just thought I'd let you know you said it twice. Regards, MacMed^talk_stalk 01:53, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Augh!!! Not again :( Fixed. Thanks for catching that MacMed. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 04:12, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Did I act appropriately

Hi. I've been doing simple copy edits on Wikipedia for years and only recently have registered and begun other edits. Should I have done anything differently on my report of vandalism on Wikipedia:Witchcraft that you so speedily took care of? Thanks for your attention. Poncirus (talk) 03:38, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

71.192.98.65

I noticed that you warned and noted the warning on 71.192.98.65 (talk · contribs). That IP has already been warned twice [1][2] by the reporting editor. The AIV report was also stale because the edits had occurred hours before the AIV report. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:25, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Peter LaBarbera

The article on Mr. LaBarbera was clearly not unambiguous advertising. Since the article had already gone through a long dispute on its notability you should have at least submitted it to arbitration instead of deleting it so quickly. Please restore the article.

If you have an issue with specific words or phrases that can be ironed out, but to delete the whole article without even opening it for discussion is unacceptable.Johnpacklambert (talk) 15:21, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Just an fyi, I've made a comment on this situation at Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion/Current_requests#Peter_LaBarbera.--Fabrictramp | talk to me 16:59, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

G11 is a high standard and there is no way this article came even close to "unambiguous" advertising.Johnpacklambert (talk) 17:24, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

CeBIT

I noticed you speedily deleted CeBIT, an article that has existed since 2001 and is one of the largest technology expositions in the world. Regardless of the shape the article was currently in, I can't imagine how it could fulfill any of the speedy deletion criteria and I'll eat my hat if it would ever be deleted at an AfD (It's been mentioned hundreds of times by the New York Times alone). I hope you'll promptly reverse your action, as I can only imagine it was a mistake. Cheers, henrik•talk 17:46, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

I fully agree that it was in a sorry state, but that's still not grounds for deletion. Check out this revision (admin only link) - it is a reasonable article. It seems that early 2009, User:Moenni01 created a bloated monster without anyone putting a stop to it, but before then it was a decent article. Please check if articles have a reasonable history and consider restoring previous versions instead of deleting when you encounter cases like this. Cheers, henrik•talk 18:03, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

(I guess I should qualify that 'reasonable' a bit. Even that old revision is not a particularly good article, but it's not the type of material that are grounds for deletion) henrik•talk 18:05, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Excellent, thank you for restoring it. I have undeleted it so that the entire history is available to all users (See Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia - we must attribute original authors, this is usually done with the page history). Just copying text from an old deleted revision is akin to a copy & paste move, which of course should be avoided. Anyway, glad this is resolved - have a good day! :) henrik•talk 18:17, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Image license

Hi Fastily, I've moved the File:Tepoztopilli.jpg to commons, and now it is marked "to be deleted" due to its license. You've deleted your image that I tagged as "NowCommons". Could you check the license into the deleted image? Could it be restored on en.wiki? Jalo 20:31, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Edits

Okay, so what would be a constructive edit? Is it unconstructive because I'm not logged in? I don't really get it. Should I include a source link or something? I would like to know what I'm doing wrong and fix it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.65.151.47 (talk) 23:53, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Why?

Why undo an edit that was obviously correcting a defaced article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.34.72.249 (talk) 00:01, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi.

All I am trying to do is add a link to a perfectly informative web page which conforms to the wikipedia guidelines for external links.

In my view, I was the victim of vandalism from the guy that removed the link I added.

Please just at least take a look at the content of the site I am trying to add. It features helpful instructions to skaters accompanied by informative video clips. None of this is available in the wikipedia articles themselves.

I have plenty of hits without a wikipedia link. It just seems silly to me that somebody should look up these things on wikipedia and not be presented with the information which is available on my site.

Please get back to me and let me know what you think. If there's some good reason why my site should not appear as an external link then I'd be glad to hear it.

Regards

- Dave Curtis  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davenomiddlenamecurtis (talk • contribs) 00:15, 15 November 2009 (UTC) 

Editing

I recently tried to edit the page: "The Redemption of Althalus" as there was a small mistake regarding one of the countries. I tried three times to change this, only for it to be reversed. I gave an in depth reason for why the piece of information was incorrect, and I was then accused of vandalising. I was only trying to make the article more factually correct. I don't want to try it edit any future mistakes I might find as I may now be blocked for trying. 78.147.94.15 (talk) 00:31, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Admin's Barnstar
		I see that on two AIV reports you responded to, you warned both users. Although they'll likely only get one more chance, here's a barnstar for giving them that chance. I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 00:35, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! :) -FASTILY ^(TALK) 00:44, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Deleted Images

Hi Fastily,

Thank you for the welcome message. I'm sorry to say that I had uploaded 2 images in my name in error thinking they were the ones I had created. I will resubmitt the similar images I have taken myself, and I apologize for the mistake.

Thanks again, Sully Art Sully art (talk) 04:20, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

No worries - just be sure to watch out for that in the future! -FASTILY ^(TALK) 19:50, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Uncontrollable

Sorry if it wasn't you but why did you delete Uncontrollable oout of the Iron Man Armored Adventures episode guide? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.238.160.242 (talk) 10:02, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

I think you might have me confused with someone else. I haven't edited the page (see the article's history). -FASTILY ^(TALK) 19:53, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

RFA

Thanks, I guess I was getting a little ambitious there. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 15:01, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

About the Pig edit

I just noticed that the word was a link to its use relating to police but it wasn't illustrated as such. Just made it more clear... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.5.130.14 (talk) 15:56, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Rusyns page

Fastly, why are you helping the vandal blanket revert? As a registered user I assume good faith, but did you read the situation? A lot of good edits by multiple users are being reverted here.--Львівське (talk) 19:53, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

I've protected the page for a week. Regards, FASTILY ^(TALK) 20:01, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the intervention --Львівське (talk) 20:02, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

I wonder why do you paste your warning only to my page, but not Lvivske's page. He has vandalized the stable version that had been there for half a year (see last edits of Rusyns before 5 November 2009 Cydebot (talk | contribs)). Everything was fine with the page till IP 84.226.172.251 came in 12 November 2009 and vandalized it by deleting sourced statements and pasting wrong definitions. I had reverted 84.226.172.251 edits but Lvivske has reverted mine, accusing my in vandalism and starting edit war. Hope you are honest to paste warning label to his page too...--59.141.18.155 (talk) 02:27, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of " Astrel Tima "

Hi! My name is Fabrice Rouzier. After someone wrote a page about me on Wikipedia, I thought that It was a great idea to write about this a well known Haitian/American Producer, Piano player, Musician and Mix Engineering Astrel Tima. I was extremely desapointed to see that the page was deleted because like I've explained in my "talk" when I wrote "HOLDON" it's true that there aren't many Haitian super stars that are not known to the world because it's such a small country. However, when someone has contributed so much to they country being such an entity a legend, I believe that they should be remembered not just when they no longer alive. There's a reason why there are several pages on Wikipedia on Beyonce Knowles, Micheal Jackson, Wiclef Jean, Fabrice Rouzier, and more. They are people who have contributed big in the history of music, Why not Astrel Tima? Why not Nickenson Prud'homme? Why not Tines Salvant? There are several names on wikipedia such as: Jackie O,Misty Jean and more. What have they contributed to give them the right to have a page on here? As a Haitian, a music producer and a musician if you ask me, I'll say " nothing ". On the contrary, Astrel Tima is an entity and a legend and has contributed great music to not just the Haitian Music industry but the American music for the past years and he is the first Haitian/American music Producer to have crossed over both nations and still made it! I wanted to be the first to write about him. I may have not used the right format or whatever the reason may have been but I still didn't think that there was a reason for this page to be deleted. Deleting this page is more then just deleting an advertisement or publicity, like you thought it was,It's deleting history of the Haitian Society. I respect your decisions but I'm just hopping that you could see beyond that and give this a chance to be seeing by the world. I thank you for your time and may God bless you! My email is Astreltima_2000@yaahoo.com. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Astreltima (talk • contribs) 21:21, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

IM000004.JPG

Delete this one as well, it's another I failed to tag as delete-duplicate. If you come across any more photographs of mine with a basic camera filename (the IM and six digits), feel free to delete them without notifying me. Bms4880 (talk) 21:26, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

 Done Alright then, I'll shall keep that in mind. Regards, FASTILY ^(TALK) 00:21, 16 November 2009 (UTC)