User talk:Courcelles

Portal redirect deletion

Just noticed a redlink on Portal:History to Wikipedia:Wikiportal/box-footer which you just deleted, and from 'what links here' it's included on between 500 and 1000 other pages, probably mostly high visibility ones like the above portal. Certainly doesn't match the rationale for deletion ("little to no incoming links") at the deletion discussion, I guess it wasn't meant to be in the list so probably needs undeleting.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 01:11, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Realised though I can't undelete I can recreate so have done so rather than leaving all those red links visible. --JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 01:38, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Good. There's no attribution needed, as the original redirect was created by a bot. I'll check the others again. Courcelles 02:22, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

I've brought Wikipedia:Wikiportal/box-header back for similar reasoning. Courcelles 02:28, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Rescaled fair use files

Hi Brad, just thought I'd drop a note of your recent activity dealing with rescaled fair use files. Please remember to removed the {{Non-free reduced}} template after deleting the old revisions of the files, as I did here. Thanks! — ξ^xplicit 06:36, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Whoops. Apparently the script works... but only sometimes. Okay, something to check for next time. Thanks. Courcelles 06:42, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

Hi Courcelles, sorry to bother you, but as you are one of the sysops who has recently declined CSDs by User talk:Wuhwuzdat, I would like your advice without anyone thinking I'm overreacting, and without unduly making a fuss over at ANI. Although he is an experienced editor and has written some good stuff, when on NPP he CSDs in under a minute, and has been asked to slow down many times. He appears not to appreciate comment from anyone, and blanks his tp after each message. The whole thing makes quite a lot of work for serious patrollers, particularly those who work on uBLP. Got any tips on what to do? Cheers, --Kudpung (talk) 09:54, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Likely not the best person to ask here, as it seems a good number of CSD's I decline end up as redlnks in short order. Basically, though, if talking to him won't work, yet another RFC/U or an ANI drama fest become the two main options. Seems like his first RFC/U was on similar—though not quite identical—grounds. It's a hard situation to handle well because so many of his CSD tags are entirely valid. Courcelles 16:34, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Put back Juan Solari article

Hi;

Could you please restore the article "Juan Solari" that you apparently deleted a few days/hours ago? IN Latin America and latin comunity in the UK, this is a well known Mexican artist and Media proffessional that has been referenced even in Wikipedia as a handfull of Mexican British People. He has awards in the Foreign Press Association of London and a couple of Inetrnational Film Festivals.

Thanks.

Giovanna Hernandez —Preceding unsigned comment added by Giovannaposada (talk • contribs) 17:12, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Done - as a contested proposed deletion, the article has been restored on request. Courcelles 17:16, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

AnomieBOT

Hahaha, sorry: I think that may have been my fault because I stole the bot's job and added the new section manually... Thanks for fixing. Nightw 18:37, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, I'm not a bot person... so anyone who wanders by here wanting to handle this some other way should feel free to do so. Courcelles 18:51, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Be careful; GruntXProductions might DDOS us!

Or shout at his monitor really loud. Something like that. HalfShadow 00:54, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Yeah... he might do anything. What we know, though, is that anyone who makes such threats with their first ever edit is ripe for the RBI treatment. Courcelles 00:57, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Hey, I'm trying to find out why this results in WP:RBI over at User_talk:Bigger_digger#GruntXProductions. Expert opinions welcome!

Thanks for the explanation Courcelles. Bigger digger (talk) 18:02, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Re: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Transmedia Activism (2nd nomination)

Hi, Courcelles. Orangemike moved this article to Transmedia activism while I was in the middle of Afd-ing it, which apparently has caused some confusion. You deleted the redirect Transmedia Activism but Transmedia activism is still kicking. Cheers. -- Rrburke (talk) 03:11, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

I hate when that happens! Our script has the ability to delete redirects, but won't tell you when you just deleted a redirect and nothing else besides. Sorted, thanks. Courcelles 03:13, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Help Deleting

Can you delete the redirect page Countess of Champagne so I can move Countess consort of Champagne there?--Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy (talk) 05:59, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

G6'ed. And don't bring Champagne things here... now I want to get into the Bolly. ;) Courcelles 06:01, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Juan Solari

Thanks, as I am the only one contesting notability, I had a first stab at improving the article instead. Superp (talk) 10:37, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. Courcelles 16:57, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

You may have missed my question to you

Hi Courcelles.

I was wandering if you had a chance to look/examine an area of concern which I asked about a month ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Courcelles&diff=prev&oldid=390081099

Thanks Zylog79 (talk) 10:45, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

I think I was rather busy then, sorry about that. But there's nothing I can do to help. What you need is a mediator... and maybe one who knows the subject. I'm sort of the second, but have absolutely no time for the first. Try medcab. Courcelles 17:01, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

MfD backlog

Courcelles, thank you for dealing with massive backlog at MfD (especially with the numerous history merges that no admin wanted to deal with). I read your note at the top of your talk page about how you "have a tendency to forget what made this place fun" and about the "pesky articles". Would you consider copyediting/reviewing the pesky article have a nice day before I nominate it at GAN or FAC? Cunard (talk) 09:04, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Hindawi Programming System page deletion

Hi, Would you mind helping with undeleting the Hindawi Programming System page? I feel the search was not thorough. Please consider the following links:

1. http://www.inclusion.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=332&Itemid=97

2. Dataquest http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/Innovator/2008/108051001.asp Scans available at [1]

3. FOSS India Awards : The Show Stealers Linux for you: Issue: April 2008 Page: 22-26 Author: Samartha Vashishtha Scan copy of original magazine article can be found at [2] Validate on the magazine's website [3]

4. Linux Magazine published from Germany [4]

5. Sarai FLOSS fellowship [5] (for 2008) [6] (for 2006)

6. http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24867/news.htm (Only this was mentioned to have been found, which is surprising.)

7. CDAC is a Government Department [7]

8. TDIL, Govt. of India site [8]

Most of these could be searched from the earlier page on Hindawi Programming System. I am sure these make the software notable.

Regards, Dr Sweta Choudhary for Project Hindawi (now a part of GramSheel) http://hindawi.gramsheel.com/ PS: GramSheel project is a finalist at Stockholm Challenge 2010 Sweta at GramSheel (talk) 10:00, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

It's a little unusual, but when I close 14-day AFD's with no commentary as delete, it's always with the idea that they will be restored if anyone contestes it, like a contested PROD. So, restored, though it will not prevent another deletion discussion. Courcelles 16:14, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Editnotice

Hi Courcelles, it occurred to me that I should seek feedback before implementing the editnotice, and I have placed a draft for review at WP:BLPN#Editnotice. Input welcome. I'll implement the editnotice if and when there is consensus and will let you know when I'm done. Cheers, JN466 12:15, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Sounds good. Courcelles 18:53, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Autopatrolling permission

Thanks so much - and especially for your kind comments which are really encouraging. Cheers and best wishes, John Hill (talk) 14:54, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

My pleasure- happy editing. Courcelles 18:54, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Gary Larson

The Gary Larson page has been featured on Reddit and the front page of Fark because someone added a joke picture to the article (a picture showing Gary Larson as a plastic mannequin), and the joke picture is being repeatedly put back in place. The picture is also a copywrite violation from one of Larson's books.

Could you delete the picture or lock the article down temporarily? --Xyzzyplugh (talk) 19:34, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Semi'ed the article for a week. Courcelles 20:21, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Black Friday

Hi Courcelle. I left a suggestion (for Tinss) on the Black Friday Talk Page. Just FYI. Regards, --Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 23:25, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

It's just semi'ed, so I don't see anything I need to get involved in there. Courcelles 23:53, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Islamic Prophets

FYI Daniel most certainly is a prophet in Islam. Da'oud Nkrumah (talk) 23:59, 26 November 2010 (UTC)