User talk:Andyjsmith

Shooting (association football)

please check help me as i think it is just like passing (association footbal)l, only that i need some more content, i think, i`m new btw.

Summerhill Loon

Thanks for your message about Summerhill Loon. I feel an idiot. What I thought I was doing was activating new user's Summerhill Loon Wiki page, because I had noticed that despite multiple edits, his username still appears as a red link on Page history pages. I now realise that instead I have inadvertently created a Summerhill Loon page on Wiki itself. Please feel free to delete it! My apologies!! Solaricon (talk) 12:57, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

• No problem. Happens all the time. andy (talk) 12:59, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Bug report

Hi Andy,

I just thought I'd let you know I mentioned you in a bug report at Wikipedia_talk:Twinkle/Bugs#TW-B-390.

Cheers, Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 14:25, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

• Ta. andy (talk) 14:26, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Command, Control and Interoperability Division

Clearly, this is a mess. But it is an agency of the US government, which is usually notable. So I removed your prod. Take it to AfD, if you must, where the community can debate its pros and cons. Bearian (talk) 21:46, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

• I'll think about that. Thanks. andy (talk) 08:02, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

That attack page

...was a change from the usual "Tommy is gay!", and I thought twice about it but decided you were right and zapped it. It was clearly unacceptable on all sorts of grounds. I saw it was presented as the first of a series, so I have explained to the author about WP:SOAP, WP:NPOV, WP:V etc; now I await the backlash. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:43, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

• Yes, it had me scratching my head for a while too, until I stood back and looked at it from a distance. Cheers. andy (talk) 17:09, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE (band)

Hi Andy, I can see that you put a number of pages that I've edited for Speedy Deletion. If you think that something is missing under section A7 please examplify what that could be - everybody can look at any wikipedia page and think that it lacks importance. Just giving it an A7 is a wildcard. So, please be more specific. (User talk:TheoEngell).

• I didn't use a general A7, I used db-band which is very specific. I can't see any evidence that the band satisfies wikipedia's criteria for notability. See WP:BAND andy (talk) 13:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Well, I was lead to the A7 through what you wrote, my bad, sorry about that. I've added a note about playing on national TV and some of the country's largest venues. This should meet at least one of the requirements on WP:BAND. (User talk:TheoEngell). —Preceding undated comment added 14:08, 5 August 2010 (UTC).

Ka Pat Number

I have declined your G3 speedy deletion nomination on this, as I don't think it is blatant enough to be speedied; but there is certainly a problem of confirmation. I have put on a {{hoax}} tag instead, and am asking questions on the talk page. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:30, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Being discussed off Wikipedia re:Press Play on Tape

I just thought you might be interested to know that we and the AfD are being discussed off Wikipedia at [1]. I am amused that my actions have branded me a troll. Aspects (talk) 18:18, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

• lol andy (talk) 21:47, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

The tragedy is that you just don't get it. You've just made hundreds of people very upset and disappointed, for no good reason at all. And you think that is okay. It's not. The fact that so many people care about this means, in itself, that you were wrong, and that this article should never have been deleted.

Thanks for your input indeed. :-( —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.166.35.176 (talk) 22:49, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

"Tragedy" is a word that applies to the victims of the floods in Pakistan, not a bunch of enthusiasts of a minor music genre. Lots of people care about lots of things that don't merit encyclopaedia articles. And guess what? It wasn't me who deleted it. Several experienced editors thought it should go and a neutral administrator (who was not me) agreed. Was being on wikipedia so terribly important to the C64 music community? How did you manage in the hollow days before wikipedia came along? Go on, get a life. andy (talk) 23:03, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello Andy. I have to say, as a neutral observer, it's really you that needs to get a life mate, you really are a poor excuse for a Wiki admin, who seems to take the importance of his own personal agendas over the requirements of, and importance of maintaining even-handed relations with Wikipedia's user base. Have a look at what people are saying about you and the Wiki admins regarding this fiasco across the web. Everything that has happened regarding this has just done further damage to the reputation of Wikipedia as a balanced, reasoned and diplomatically created reference source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.204.237 (talk) 17:01, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

• Fair enough, except I'm not a wikipedia admin. I also doubt it's the entire web, probably just the bit that's interested in elderly computers. But if you feel that way you really should complain about me, you know. Don't just roll over and let bastards like me mess up wikipedia for everyone. It's very easy to make a complaint - just click here. andy (talk) 17:57, 20 August 2010 (UTC)