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Lycanthia deletion

Hey mate,

Band is still going strong, why the deletion?

s — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.77.8.67 (talk) 04:11, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Duffbeerforme proposed the article for deletion on the grounds that there was no real claim to notability, and that the band lacked coverage in independent reliable sources. That proposal was not challenged, so after a week the article was deleted. For what it is worth to you, it seems to me that the article could, in fact, have been speedily deleted without giving time for objections, as an article about a band that made no serious claim of importance or significance. JamesBWatson (talk) 07:40, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

PROD declined on Dragon beard noodles

Hello, this is just a quick note to say that I have declined your proposed deletion of Dragon beard noodles. Please take it to AfD if you disagree with my rationale. Thank you. wctaiwan (talk) 06:17, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

That's fine. The article has been drastically improved. JamesBWatson (talk) 07:41, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

IATAC

Why did you deleted the article I posted on IATAC? You said it was unambiguously promotion of a company, but in reality all this is was an overview of what IATAC is. IATAC does not do business with people, it just works with major government agencies. This was in no way trying to gain business, or a promotional article, this was an informative article trying to inform users about what it is that IATAC does. There is an article on DACs as well which is virtually the same thing. Please tell me exactly why you (and your bots) deleted this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JKopf (talk • contribs) 11:32, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

I have never understood why so many people think that "promotion" can only mean "promotion of a commercial business for the purposes of increasing trade". The article was written in heavily promotional terms, using such terms as "excellence", telling us that it "provides the specialized knowledge needed to develop network defenses rapidly and cost-effectively", telling us what its "mission" is (i.e. telling us in its own terms what it claims to do). Nothing about the article looked remotely like a dispassionate, objective account by an impartial observer. I have no idea why you think I used bots in the deletion process: I have, in fact, never operated a bot on Wikipedia. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:40, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

So if I take out those types of terms...you will accept this article? Please just let me know how to go about getting this article accepted. I want to play by Wiki rules and feel that IATAC definitely warrants an article. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JKopf (talk • contribs) 11:44, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

If, as seems likely, you are closely involved with the organisation, then you may find it difficult or impossible to write about it from an objective point of view. Even people who sincerely intend to write impartially sometimes find it difficult to stand back from a subject they are involved in far enough to see how their writing will look to an outsider. That is one of the main reasons why Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline discourages us from editing on subjects to which we have close connections. However, I suggest you should look at Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations, which gives some advice on writing this sort of article, and also contains links to other pages which may be helpful. (However, don't try to read all of every guideline and policy: there are far too many of them, and they will merely confuse you. Try to pick out what is most relevant to your case.) JamesBWatson (talk) 11:53, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

I re-created the IATAC article...it is pending review now correct? Thanks for your input I think and hope I played by the rules this time. JKopf (talk) 14:06, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

College students

I don't think the Indian college student you just blocked is abusing multiple accounts. If you look at Wikipedia:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Computer Organization and Advanced Microprocessing (and its talk page) you will see that multiple university students are working on projects which include contributing to WIkipedia articles. Unfortunately a number of them clearly don't understand the rules and are uploading both images and text with no apparent understand of the consequences to Wikipedia of copyright infringing content. In this specific case there are three students working on the same topic - printers. All three have violated copyright and all three seem to be trying to add info to Printer (computing) to beat a deadline today. If these were regular editors rather than students they would have been blocked a long time ago. I think the WIkipedia:India Education Program is out of control and needs a fundamental re-think to stop the multiple abuses by its poorly-instructed and badly disciplined students. What do you think? --Biker Biker (talk) 14:49, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

I agree with most of what you say. However, I am convinced that the user was abusing multiple accounts. In addition to the editing history, this edit indicates that a new account was created to replace one that had been blocked. I agree 100% that the WIkipedia:India Education Program is out of control. In fact I think all of these university/school outreach programmes, while created with the best of intentions, were a great mistake. At the best they result in a lot of students creating content because they have to do so for their course, rather than because they have something useful to create, which tends to result in a lot of bad content creation. At the worst they do much worse than that. One of the many problems is that a large proportion of the students in these programmes have no interest at all in communicating with other Wikipedians, and little if any tendency to take on board advice, warnings, etc. I think many of the problems are an unavoidable consequence of the fact that the position they are in leads them to see the goal of editing as satisfying the requirements for their course, rather than as improving the encyclopaedia. That different perspective is bound to result in a different approach, in many ways. If you were in the position of having to get a lot of editing done by a deadline for your course, an irritation like some Wikipedian telling you that what you are doing is against Wikipedia's policies, or that you can't copy material you find elsewhere, would very likely seem like an unnecessary impediment to the task, and one that you might well feel like ignoring. A lot of the problems we have on Wikipedia are due to people having a different view of what the purpose of editing is than "improve the encyclopaedia", such as "use Wikipedia to get more publicity for my business", "have fun by messing things up", "have my very own web page", "make sure that my view of THE TRUTH about a particular topic prevails", etc etc, and introducing a new set of editors with yet another aim other than "improve the encyclopaedia" has turned out to be unhelpful. As for what can be done about all this, I'm not sure. Perhaps raising the issue at some noticeboard, such as the village pump? Any ideas? JamesBWatson (talk) 15:16, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

• I have just found this, which confirms beyond all doubt that it was a sockpuppet account to evade a block. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:21, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Good stuff to digest. Thanks. I'll look into the village pump idea. --Biker Biker (talk) 15:31, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

• Just a note to say that the main and ongoing discussion about the issues arising specifically from the India Education Program has been taking place on Wikipedia talk:India Education Program. That program was initiated and funded by the Wikimedia Foundation. There is also a discussion at meta:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation - India Programs/Education Program where you can make your concerns known. It might be better not to diffuse the discussion to the Village Pump, unless the goal there is to discuss the general issue of using Wikipedia for assessed asignments. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 12:22, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Change for Balance

This is a team of young men who have been friends of my family for many years. They did the video work for the 2011 UCI Energy Invitational as well as other projects that you can see on my web page mechanical design101. Their documentary on horse slaughter was recently recognized with a top three place in the Classy Awards for non-profits. Johnmichal123456 asked me how to set up a Wikipedia page and I showed him. If their work is not appropriate for Wikipedia, then simply tell them. Prof McCarthy (talk) 15:19, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank You!

Hi James - Thanks for the input! I assume you were referring to my sandbox and the information on Doe v. Ciolli. The information that I copied was partly from Wikipedia and partly from a government document "Order Denying AK47's Motion to Dismiss". Correct me if I am wrong, but I think those are both OK to copy from. The reason I had them copied was just so I could look over them and write the article when I got around to it. Let me know if you still think this is an issue! Indigojin (talk) 23:48, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

IEP clean up

Hi. If you are working on IEP clean up, for easy checking and follow up of students and their articles, please see:

IEP student and article lists and how to use them

If you are not working on this clean up, please pass this message along to anyone you know who is. Thanks, --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:14, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

User:Speedfish

Good day,

I'm sorry to bother you with this again, but our old friend is at it again with less than 24 hours of freedom to his credit. See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Way_You_Love_Me_%28Keri_Hilson_song%29&action=historysubmit&diff=458523934&oldid=458491674

I didn't even bother with a formal warning this time, but did leave him a note. I'll leave it up to you, but perhaps we could wait and see if the note finally does it, though I'm kind of tired of following his edits.

Up to you, and by the way, thank you for the clarification re: removing warnings from one's page. I thought it was something like that, but thank you for clearing it up. --Williamsburgland (talk) 21:01, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks again James... it seems the user is either trying to make genuine contributions to wiki and compusively censors, or is an outright vandal willing to make a bunch of edits to hide his censoring edits. --Williamsburgland (talk) 21:46, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

99.70.66.43‎‎

Why did you block 99.70.66.43‎‎ (talk · contribs · WHOIS) immediately after my 3RR warning? There were no edits after the warning. causa sui (talk) 21:07, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Because the editor was evading a block, and because the editor has had more than enough warnings on various IP talk pages. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:41, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Where? I've been asking in various places for the history, and mostly what I see is an IP in a content dispute with a registered editor, where both are edit warring, but the IP is getting railroaded because he's a newbie. causa sui (talk) 21:47, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

You may be right. Unfortunately I have to go offline now, and don't have time to check. Feel free to undo my block if you think that's right. I'll look at it again tomorrow. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:52, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

• Eh. After seeing this, I'm inclined to call it a day as well. causa sui (talk) 22:00, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

I cannot get a valid user name, because RepublicanJacobite keeps getting people to block me. Due to my service provider, I get a new IP address every time I log in, so that is why my IP changes, and I am not socking. RJ continues to UNDO every change I make. He threatens to undo all my edits "til Doomsday." Although I add nothing but facts to the Ordinary People plot page, RJ calls my edits silly. Just above he calls it "crap." When he is chastised by other editors for engaging in an obvious edit war with me, he changes his tune to falsely naive: "oh, sorry. I shouldn't have done that." Of course he shouldn't. He has been warned to stop accusing well-intentioned editors of vandalism, but he still does so continuously. When Drmies (correctly) did not take barring action, he went to JamesBWatson instead to get me barred. It is not vandalism to state that Conrad (Ordinary People) cursed at his parents. It is a simple fact. It's among the most explosive scenes in the film. It is not crap. Just because RJ disagrees is not reason for him to disparrage me to his friends across Wikipedia. He cannot start (and continue) multiple edit wars and then say "aw, shucks, I know I shouldn't have, but go ban the other guy and not me." JamesBWatson has allowed RJ to get away with just that, and it is not fair. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.70.65.183 (talk) 01:15, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Again, I cannot get a valid user name, because RepublicanJacobite keeps getting people to block me. So I must use anon for now. Due to my service provider, I get a new IP address every time I log in, so that is why my IP changes, and I am not socking. RJ continues to UNDO every change I make. He threatens to undo all my edits "til Doomsday."

Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:99.70.66.43

He writes: "I do not care what that admin. says...every edit you make from here 'til doomsday will be reverted on sight." As you can see, several admins chastised RJ for his vandalising of my edits, and he simply said, in his own words, that he does not care what the admins say and he will continue to vandalize my work.

If you block me for too many reverts within 24 hours, then I accept that. But as other admins have discussed, you must also block RJ for warring, newbie biting, too many reverts, falsely acsusing someone of vandalism, etc. 64.183.42.60 (talk) 18:02, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Still awaiting a clarification from you please. RepublicanJacobite continues an edit war with me, including the above citations where he threatens to undo any and all edits I make forever, and where he blatently says he does not care what other admins tell him. He is blatently stating his willful intention to stalk all my edits forever, which we all know is a policy violation. So I would like to know why you blocked me and not him? Thank you for the clarification. 99.61.49.207 (talk) 21:35, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

We are again awaiting explanation. You block one party in an edit war (but not the other party). You were asked why you did this and what validation you have. Instead of offering proof, you say "I have to go offline now, and don't have time to check." 99.93.150.57 (talk) 14:56, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

• That was in response to "mostly what I see is an IP in a content dispute with a registered editor, where both are edit warring, but the IP is getting railroaded because he's a newbie", not to your insistent demands that I answer your questions. The editor who asked that question had decided to drop the matter by the time I came back the next day, so there was no need to answer. However, since you have raised the matter again, the most striking difference between the two was that one editor was stalking the other, following that editor to other articles, and reverting their edits, evidently as a kind of childish revenge attack. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:03, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Sir, no one demanded that you answer anyone's questions. I was, however, respectfully asking about when you arbitrate an edit war...why do you block one of the guilty parties and not the other? You seemed to have answered that by mentioning stalking and reverting, but you imply that I myself was the only one doing so. If RepublicanJacobite does not like my original edit to A Beautiful Mind, then he has the right to revert it. No problem. But how then did RepublicanJacobite even discover that I also made an edit to Ordinary People? Or Fight Club? The only way to discover that is to stalk all my posts, and you know this as well as I. He clearly followed me around Wikipedia and reverted every single thing I wrote. That is the very definition of stalking. You call this behavior childish, so why not block him instead of only me? In addition, he wrote on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:99.70.66.43 that he intends to further stalk/revert my work till doomsday. It's one thing to revert every single entry an editor makes, but it's even worse when you use a public forum to threaten to do so forever. 99.93.150.57 (talk) 15:44, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

RepublicanJacobite has been editing Ordinary People at least since April 2010. I can see no evidence that you did so before October 2011. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:53, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

I edited it in October, yes. He reverted my edit. He then went through my history and reverted all my other edits to numerous other articles. And he continues to do so to this day. I understand he's edited Ordinary People since 2010. If he wants to revert my edit, that is fine. The point is that he looks up ALL my edits, ALL the time, and instantly reverts anything I've edited. If you think I am making that up, then I again refer everyone to the comment he left me on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:99.70.66.43 He is admitting in his own words that he will stalk my edits til doomsday. If you do not value the case I make for myself, then please value the case that his own words make against himself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.93.150.57 (talk) 16:40, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

RepublicanJacobite has withdrawn from the dispute. I do not believe he will continue to revert your edits. You might wish to consider reading Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy to understand why he was reverting your additions in the first place. Best, Alpha_Quadrant ^(talk) 19:53, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Enphase Energy deleted

i have cut the text from another article because that text was about the company, this text has been there for a long time with no deletion, since there are thousands of articles about companies i dont see the case for deletion, one can discuss the wikipedia rules, but one thing is for sure whatever they maybe they should be applied to all pages with fairness, therefore based on thousands of precedents i would request that the page would be undeleted. thank you!Labbratt (talk) 03:13, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

I don't see the relevance of the fact that there are thousands of other articles about companies. If you mean that there are thousands of articles which are written as advertisements, then unfortunately you are right. They are deleted when they are brought to administrators' attention, but with well over three million articles on English Wikipedia alone it is not possible for anyone to check them all. You may like to look at WP:OTHERSTUFF. The existence of a lot of bad articles is not a reason for keeping other bad articles too. I am not at all sure what you mean by "i have cut the text from another article because that text was about the company, this text has been there for a long time with no deletion". If you mean that you copied the text from another Wikipedia article without attribution, then that would be an infringement of copyright of the author of the content, as Wikipedia's licensing terms require attribution for any reuse, and that would be another reason for deletion. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:14, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

I have now searched, and found that you did indeed copy the material from Solar micro-inverter. Apart from the attribution issue, having two copies of the same material in two different articles is usually unhelpful for a number of reasons, including the difficulty of keeping corrections, updates, etc, coordinated. An article which duplicates part of another article is liable to be deleted under speedy deletion criterion A10 (an article that duplicates an existing topic). JamesBWatson (talk) 13:22, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Than you for the reply, careful checking of the matter would have saved u some lines, i didnt duplicate any content, i have cut from one page where it was not appropriate and created a topic related page. since this page was deleted literally seconds after creation, a good guess can be that the question was not it was a bad page, but instead some auto-system that enables willing participants to act instantly (this page was deleted before), this overdrive is probably also the cause for no justification on what made this page invalid. if u are willing to clean up wikipedia we can go over thousands of company pages and compare with this one, but it would be quite a slash, so maybe its more reasonable to have another look to this page and give it a try, on my end i will try to improve it to better fit the rules instead of cutting it by the root i believe its more constructive.Labbratt (talk) 07:23, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

NicePeter

Hello Mr. JamesBWatson! I just noticed that you flagged Nice Peter's page for deletion, and I just want to ask you to Undo it.... I know the page it's not all tha complete yet, but it has like 10 days up and me and a bunch of friends are setting up a nicepeter fan page called www.welovenicepeter.com so we can gather all the nice peter fans. I've already asked some friends to help me improve the page so it's better, around these days they'll come and help me complete it... So please, unflag the page so we can fully complete and correct it... Again, I can't do it by myself because I'm not english speaker as you might notice... But my friends are coming to save the page... Thanks for taking your time with this message. Edit1: I'm sorry, I'm new on Wikipedia, so I didn't know that I was supposed to reply or give a reason for UNDO the PROD... I'm really sorry — Preceding unsigned comment added by JuakoHawk (talk • contribs) 06:18, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

JuakoHawk (talk) 05:43, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Bodhi Global Page

Hi James, This is third time, I observed that Wiki has deleted ‘Bodhi Global’ page, which was posted by our team. We are legal service provider (LPO) company based out of India and NY. Can I know the reason for the deletion and accordingly I will communicate to my internal team here. I don't think we have posted any objectionable material on Wiki. We are following all the copyright rules and regulations which is suggested by Wiki over the article publications.

Please advise.

Girish Mandlik General Manager - IT Bodhi Global Services (I) Pvt. Ltd. www.bodhiglobal.com | girish.mandlik@bodhiglobal.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Girishontop (talk • contribs) 05:50, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

You say that the page has been deleted three times. I see that Bodhi global was deleted on 21st October, and Bodhi Global on 1st November. If you can tell me the title of the other version I will look at that one, but here are some comments based on looking at those two, together with your remarks above.

Wikipedia articles are supposed to be written from a neutral, independent point of view. Any one working for a business will not be looking at it from an outside, independent point of view. Consequently Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline strongly discourages us from writing articles about subjects in which we have a close personal involvement, such as businesses we work for or own. Even people who genuinely intend to write objectively and neutrally often find it difficult or impossible to stand back far enough from a subject they are closely involved in, so as to see it from the perspective of an outsider.

Bodhi Global was deleted as being a copyright infringement. From what you say it seems that the article was created by someone working for the company, in which case of course the company presumably has copyright in the material and is free to distribute it. However, that does not invalidate the deletion on copyright grounds. Since anyone can create a Wikipedia account and claim to be anyone, we cannot take the unsupported word of a Wikipedia editor as evidence of copyright. If you like I can give you links to pages which give instructions on how to provide the Wikimedia foundation with copyright permission for your material. However, in my experience it is almost never worth while doing so, as what usually happens is that once the copyright issue has been resolved, the material is deleted again for other reasons, usually because it seems promotional. In this case, the article was by no means blatant spam, but it was certainly promotional in tone, to a significant extent being concerned with impressing us with how good the company is. That is almost always the case with material copied from a company's web site into a Wikipedia article. Wikipedia is not a free advertising service, and any content which seems to exist principally to promote or publicise anything is likely to be removed. One more point about giving copyright permission. Wikipedia licenses its content for free use by anyone under very broad licensing terms. If you were to give permission for your material to be published on Wikipedia you would have to give permission for it to be reused by anyone in the world for almost any purpose.

Before Bodhi Global was actually deleted, much of it had already been removed on the grounds that some of it was a copyright infringement, and the rest was promotional, unsourced, etc. It was subsequently tagged for speedy deletion on the grounds of being promotional. I actually deleted the remaining article because it lacked any real claim of significance, rather than as promotion, but it had only reached that state because the rest was unsuitable as an article, and its early versions were certainly promotional enough to justify deletion.

There is, unfortunately, a rather extensive set of Wikipedia guidelines and policies (too many, in my opinion). However, I suggest looking at Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations, which gives a reasonably straightforward account of most of the significant issues involved in writing articles of this sort. If you want to look further, there are the guideline on notability of organisations and companies, the general notability guideline, and the guideline on reliable sources may be useful. However, I remind you of the conflict of interest issue: you should probably not be writing an article on this subject at all. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:47, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Ra.One

Hey i saw u have protected Ra.One but only till 4 November, what does that mean? I had asked for indefinite period protection. You can see the amount of vandalism's within a (not even) single day. -- Karthik Nadar (talk) 10:27, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

When you posted this message, I was checking the editing history of the article to see whether it needed longer protection. I had quickly put a short term protection in place to stop the current vandalism while I checked it out. At that time I had not seen your request for page protection. I have now semiprotected it indefinitely. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:38, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot!. -- Karthik Nadar (talk) 10:37, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

U4Ria Page

Hi James, you have recently deleted the Wikipedia page on U4Riashop. I have spend hours in creating this page as it was my first time creating a page for a company which I think it deserves to be featured on Wikipedia. U4Ria has been around in the sex toy industries for more than 10 years. And I had seek permission of using the company's materials to support my writing here in Wikipedia. Please allow me to recover the work I have feature for U4Ria hours ago. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chengkingxiang (talk • contribs) 10:30, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

The article was blatant advertising. Wikipedia is not a medium for advertising or promotion of any sort. If that were the only problem I might be willing to restore a copy of the material, not as an article, but as a userspace page, for you to work on. However, that is not the only problem. There is also the copyright issue. I cannot restore material that appears to infringe copyright: to do so would be illegal. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:46, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Please advise which part of the article is violating as advertising sort. I am writing a biography about the company. The infringement on the copyright was an misunderstanding. The similar written article appearing from another site is originally from me too. An email was send to Wikipedia to verify on the copyright issue. Please let me know what else I need to do to recover the article? I'm lost as I'm totally new here. Chengkingxiang (talk) 15:49, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

"Which part of the article is violating as advertising sort"? is that a joke? The whole article from start to finish was an advertisement, full of such language as "trail blazing", "broke new ground in the retail scene", "There is no request too difficult or troublesome", etc etc. If you really honestly can write a whole page of that kind of stuff and not think it is advertising then you are so out of touch with what you are doing that it is unlikely you will ever be able to write an objective, detached, article, as required for Wikipedia. I am somewhat surprised at the difference in standard of English that you used in writing the article from that which you have used in writing here. Since you are writing on behalf of the company, you have a conflict of interest, and shouldn't be writing an article on the subject: Wikipedia articles need to be written from a detached, third party standpoint. I have searched, and found nothing at all to suggest that this business is notable enough to be the subject of an article in an encyclopaedia. Even if you were to rewrite the article so that it was not remotely promotional, it would probably be deleted for lack of notability. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:07, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Your comments are valuable to me, especially when writing an article for the first time on Wikipedia. I am also planning to write articles for other adult toy shops in Singapore. The reason I have chosen this topic because I cannot find a related topic on this from Wikipedia. Adult Toy shop in Singapore was extremely rare from the beginning and now more shops like these are opening in Singapore. And I think it will be a good chance to express my writing about these shops in Wikipedia. My apology that my context seems an advertisement to you. Perhaps I should support my writing with a more notable information. The reason I have chosen U4Riashop to start with my first writing because the company has been around for more than 10 years in Singapore as compare to some of the Adult Toy shops. I believe I can obtain more information from this company to support my writing. Most of the supporting information were scattered around online. I believe other writers from Wikipedia may be able to assist in getting the article done. I know that U4Riashop was featured in popular magazines in Singapore. I will be contacting the company again to obtain hard copy of supporting information. I also know that the company is a core distributor for Adult Toy in Singapore, the company may be able to obtain relevant information from these companies in supporting my writing for them. I will make sure that nothing is infringed in the copyrights when these materials are used. I hope you can see that hard work was involved in writing my first piece of article in Wikipedia. Here are some supporting information in hoping to recover my first piece of article:

MediaCorp TV - the company was featured by a popular TV channel in Singapore under the section of News And Current Affairs Series number 13: A healthy lifestyle shop in Orchard Road selling a comprehensive array of sex products has been pulling in the crowds. Sound bite of B K Chua, Business Development Manager of U4Ria. (00:16:58)

Eros Coaching - a sexologist recommending the company.

CozyCot - an online women's lifestyle featuring about the company.

I did not backup a copy of the article which was deleted on Wikipedia. Please allow me to recover the article so that I can make it right. Your great help is deeply appreciated! Chengkingxiang (talk) 03:39, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Re: Those darn squid photos

Got it. I see what I wasn't grasping previously now. Thanks for the information! - Vianello (Talk) 15:31, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Deleted page: List of Library Associations specific to American states

I have been adding links on the page List of Library Associations, which includes an internal link to List of Library Associations specific to American states which didn't exist. The page I created was a continuation of the first list. What should I do differently so that this list isn't deleted. SRHMGSLP (talk) 16:32, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Personally I don't think that articles which consist of nothing but lists are useful at all. However, lists which link to existing Wikipedia articles on notable subjects are widely accepted. Articles which contain nothing but external links are not acceptable, though. I have no idea whether the items on your list are notable enough to have Wikipedia articles. If they aren't then I suggest forgetting about it, or if they are you may like to turn it into a list of links to Wikipedia articles. However, that does not mean start creating articles on non-notable subjects just to justify having them on a list: doing that will just lead to a waste of time as the articles are all deleted. I have restored the deleted article for now, so that you can use it as a base to work from if you like. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:41, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, my next step will be to locate the Wikipedia articles that relate to these pages, many of which are notable organizations. Though I agree that a page of lists is not notable, I think that sometimes lists can bring together information to help lead users to the notable information. SRHMGSLP (talk) 17:10, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

ANI notice

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is ****ed up? No, fucked up!. Thank you. HurricaneFan25 | talk 18:49, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Although I argued for the lifting of this block I have to say that I thought the block itself was good based on what was known at the time. With hindsight the signs were there but I also didn't realise that parental filters could work in that way so I can't blame you for missing them. My main reason for commenting at ANI was that people were making assumptions that he should have known what the problem was when I thought that was far from clear from the notices he was given. Dpmuk (talk) 22:53, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind help in protecting BRAVE DESTINY

Thanks for your kind help in protecting BRAVE DESTINYImmunonuclear (talk) 19:28, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

RepublicanJacobite tried to hide the notability of Brave Destiny by his "heavy editing" and then putting it up for deletion. A very clever operation. Although he may be an excellent editor in some cases, I think I read a strong bias in his editing this by calling me "a sycophant of Terrance Lindall." Also, he says I may be "too close to the subject" to be a reliable editor. But if one knows nothing about the subject how can one write an accurate article? It defeats the point of wikipedia, which overall is a fine thing. Besides, It had a major article in Art & Antiques in 2006. A & A was at the time the world's largest magazine of it's kind with many famous writers. And Brave Destiny is mentioned in many excellent ways all over the internet. Also my google web-site [1]was attacked last night after I mentioned it's existence to surrealists on the talk page of surrealism, which mention was immediately deleted by RepublicanJacobite. This RJ editor is indeed a vandal. Again thanks!Immunonuclear (talk) 22:47, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

IBM product pages

Hi James, The page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Communication_Service_Enablers_(ICSE) - was deleted earlier. I have re-written the ICSE page in Sandbox - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wikiuser164/sandbox. Could you please check if this is fine for posting on Wikipedia? I based this on other similar pages like IBM WebSphere - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WebSphere. Do let me know if there are issues. Wikiuser164 (talk) 06:47, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

NOTE: the above was posted on my talk page. It's evidently meant for you, so I have copied it across, but I also gave him my answer - see User talk:JohnCD#IBM product pages. JohnCD (talk) 10:08, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

The thing that strikes me at once is doubt as to the notability of the product. I'm sure that to IBM it's important, but is it significant enough to the world at large to justify an article in an encyclopaedia just about that product? JamesBWatson (talk) 10:13, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I write a lot of tech things in r/l ... Websphere=notable, zOS=notable, ICSE=? (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 10:15, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Even the Websphere article reads like a product catalogue entry, just a list of features, no comment, no non-IBM references. JohnCD (talk) 10:27, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

No kidding. I'll put it on my "to-do-when-I-actually-have-a-free-hour-or-two" list. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 10:34, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Help

Um, James, I just wanted to know, where can you report users who are making attacks on other editors? Abhijay (talk) 11:49, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

You normally start at WP:WQA, or if it's really bad, WP:ANI (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:18, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

User:LegandofThor2

Hi - I see that you deleted 2011-12 Youth Premier League; the editor has now re-created it with much the same nonsense. Can you delete this again? Thanks. -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 12:12, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Mangoes

Hi, I've replaced the potentially copyvio text in Began Phali. Could you have another look over it?

Cheers,

Catfish Jim and the soapdish 16:32, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Brave Destiiny

Here is what RepublicanJacobite posted: (cur | prev) 01:33, 3 November 2011‎ RepublicanJacobite (talk | contribs)‎ (56,769 bytes) (→Thanks for your kind help in protecting BRAVE DESTINY: ---I'm done, let the bastard do what he likes.) (undo)

Are there are wiki policies against such blatant hostility and use of such language on the site?Immunonuclear (talk) 16:52, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

He also posted this: I'm done. I have removed the article and the AfD from my watchlist. I no longer care what happens with the article. Let Immunonuclear create all the self-promoting bullshit articles he chooses. If I have learned one thing in the past week, it is that there is no reward for effort. It is not worth it. ---RepublicanJacobiteTheFortyFive 01:32, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

My goodness! He uses words like "BULLSHIT"!!!???? And he edits on this site! He is not an objective cool head. Immunonuclear (talk) 16:56, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Proxy unblock requests

Hello James. I've just unblocked user:Caitsith2's IP address. No complaints, but I've seen you respond to a few unblock requests of this type, which are all appreciated, and I just wanted to share some experience as someone who's probably dealt with a few more. In my experience well over half of proxy unblock requests should be unblocked as the IP never was or is no longer open, half of the remainder are using an open proxy unwittingly and should receive our assistance to edit, while much less than a quarter, no less than that even, are knowingly using an open proxy. It is worth remembering when responding that the majority will have no idea what an open proxy is. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 20:44, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Deleted Article: ITMA (Internationale Textilmaschinen Ausstellung)

Hi JamesBWatson, my article was deleted by you sometime in October. I've edited the article and would need your help to review if there's any issue with it. Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MPIntl/ITMA_%28Internationale_Textilmaschinen_Ausstellung%29 Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you! MPIntl (talk) 05:16, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Copyright+Promotion

Dear JamesBWatson,

First of all, I would like to mention that I'm new to wikipedia as an editor and I would like to learn more and do it better. On the other hand, I've been a long time user, promoter and donor of Wikipedia.

I would like to learn more from your experience and perspective, since you have deleted a page that I've created.

If you could kindly answer my three questions, you'll be helping me a lot:

My two questions for Copyright (Your regarding note is also quoted below) - Does any simple statement regarding a living person is an issue of copyright? Should I simply change the order or the selection of words from any biography? - I know the owner of the CitizensofCulture page and made him remove his short resume from his page, so since it's not there and it's about someones professional life, can it be an issue for copyright?

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I have seen your post to Talk:Eray AKDAG, in which you said "This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because the mentioned parts were already deleted from the citizens of culture web page". However, copyright does not lapse because the material in which it subsists is no longer on public display. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:12, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

My question for Promotion (Your regarding note is also quoted below) - Which areas seem to be promotional to you, I would like to delete the related parts next time. On these information were gathered from a formal bio at an embassy and various formal pages.

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Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:14, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much in advance.

Best Regards,

Erkandagdelen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erkandagdelen (talk • contribs) 16:59, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Canned Yams

As i was editing my bio for my account i noticed that Wikipedia doesn't have Canned Yams. After the deletion of Alan McCurdy i have been looking for something to do with my life. Would Canned Yams be qualified for a proper Wikipedia page? For reference i cite Sliced Bread, Canned coffee, and the famous Canned Heat. Thank you,(EaglesX63 (talk) 19:16, 4 November 2011 (UTC))

Rick Yu

I am wondering why you chose to vandalize the Malvern Collegiate Institute page by deleting a properly sourced and cited point under the notable alumni section. You referred to repeated vandalism, yet how can you know that this is vandalism, simply if you have not heard of the person referenced. Rick Yu may not be known to you, but he is certainly well known in the neighbourhood Wonderbreadtown. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.30.85.66 (talk) 20:23, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

• (talk page stalker) If Rick Yu is not notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia, then he cannot be listed as "notable alumni" on the article - pretty basic concept here. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 20:38, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Extremely dubious edit

In hindsight, it's an easy call - and you're right, I should've indeffed immediately. At the time, I didn't know whether it was some sort of spam/advertising or what. That's part of why I nailed down the unambiguous final/immediate warning, so that he'd get the boot immediately after failing to get the hint. Mea Culpa. UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 20:39, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

teabulla

I believe that teabulla should not be deleted since it is a new word and gets its meaning from its component (tea and bulla )that make teabulla and both of them are protective .Bulla necklace in past that protect chilrden from diseases and as of now tea as a drink that help us to have healthy life and can protect our body.So introducing a new word teabulla as a protective tea or holy tea that make people healthy can be meaningful even though it is the name of a teashop ,coffee shop in manila ,phillipines.MANY people want to know the meaning of this new word and i think you should let the people to know the idea behind making that word so people can connect with that word and feel it . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.92.245.65 (talk) 17:40, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) This is not a dictionary, it's an encyclopedia. It's not a place for newly made-up words (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:47, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

user:Zupfk

Hi, I would like to request some help. You blocked this user [2] with the comment "Block evasion and persistent copyright infringements". Do you remember by any chance which block was he evading? Was he user:Iaaasi under yet another alias or a completely unrelated editor? Hobartimus (talk) 18:48, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Stubes99 aka 84.2?

Hi James, could you have a look at what's going on at Talk:Black Army of Hungary? I don't know if I'm handling this well at all... Cheers and TIA. - DVdm (talk) 10:34, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

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Iadrian yu (banned user: Iaaasi from an other internet connection)

user:Iadrian yu is very often participated in edit warrings and as you can see in the history of his contribs: When he tried to monopolise Wiki articles, he have never cared even about the basic three revert rule too. However, he didn't get any warnings and blocks (Is it Double standard?) --84.0.114.45 (talk) 11:50, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Why there is a big silence?