User talk:Slakr

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Regarding slakr: Why did my page get deleted? Please see Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted? first. I have no idea what you're talking about. What's vandalism? If you received a warning from me and you're not logged in, you might have gotten an old warning I sent to someone who shares your IP address. On the other hand, if you've made recent edits and received a recent warning message from me and you genuinely believe that it's not vandalism, don't fret-- simply drop me a message below, because I could have simply made a silly mistake. :) Regarding SineBot: Why does SineBot keep signing stuff I've already signed? All comments should have a signature that includes both a link to your user page (slakr) and a datestamp (05:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)) (per signatures - internal links). This is most easily generated by placing four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your contributions, which makes something like "slakr 05:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)". If you have an interwiki-linked user page, consider either creating a user page on enwiki that redirects to your preferred home wiki or simply opting out of automatic signing. If you're still having problems after trying that, post a message below. Be sure to include diffs to make sure I can reference the problem. I don't want my comments signed by SineBot. How do I get it to ignore me or my talk page? Please use one of the opt-out methods listed on its user page. SineBot forgot to sign something it should have signed. Usually this happens because the bot isn't sure if it really should sign something, so it defaults to not signing it (e.g., in cases of complex edits). It does this to avoid being annoying. Other times, a comment might be made when the bot is down for maintenance, so the bot simply never sees it. SineBot signed something that it genuinely should not have signed. Please let me know-- especially if you think it's not a one-time thing. Be sure to include diffs to make sure I can reference the problem. Is SineBot's source code available? Not currently. I'm signing with four tildes (~~~~) but it's still saying I didn't! You likely enabled raw signatures. Open your preferences, click the "User profile" tab, make sure that "Treat the above as wiki markup" is NOT checked, and click Save; it should be fixed. If you have an interwiki-linked user page, consider either creating a user page on enwiki that redirects to your preferred home wiki or simply opting out of automatic signing.

AGB Investigative Services, Inc. Deletion

Slakr,

I'm confused as to why the page AGB Investigative Services, Inc. was deleted. As far as I could tell, there were no violations of Wikipedia's policies. Please give me a detailed explanation of the deletion.

Adverse effects of fluoroquinolones Merge

Hi,

I nominated Adverse Effects of Fluroquinolines for deletion, and the decision was made to merge. In my opinion, they are already merged, as I have taken some effort to make sure that all the salvagable material (properly sourced) was included in the Quinolones article. This was done before and during the deletion debate.

I don't know what I need to do next to close out the procedure. Please advise. Many thanks Formerly 98 (talk) 23:21, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

You can just turn it into a redirect. The idea there is that the page history will be preserved and any incoming links will forward to the right place. No worries if you think the content's already merged; you can still just turn the old page into a redirect, and if later someone thinks "wait, didn't we have that bit about (whatever)?" they can still retrieve it if needed. Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 23:30, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Brooklyn Weaver Page Deleted

Hi Slakr,

I believe the deletion for the page Brooklyn_Weaver was done in error. There seems to have been a deletion discussion regarding the page, but I made edits to the page that should have tamed that discussion. I was surprised, actually, to come across Brooklyn's page and notice it was under warning, which is why I decided to make the edits I did.

Is there a way to recreate the page or reopen the discussion, as the cause for debate was completely negated by the proper edits?

Cklr (talk) 21:12, 17 March 2014 (UTC)cklr

Due to the low turnout on the AfD, if you believe it can be improved to meet our policies and guidelines (most specifically, notability for people or the general notability guidelines), then I have no problem with it being userfied. --slakr^\ talk / 05:25, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carbone Smolan Agency)

Porterwritewiki writing you. I am working with DGG to address the concerns that led to the deletion of the article mentioned above (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carbone Smolan Agency). I looked in the deletion log but I could not go back to the Feb 23, the date it was delete. I am new to this process. I cannot find the original annotated version anywhere. Can please you tell me if I can retrieve that document and put it back in my Sandbox to work on? After getting advice from editor DGG I will repost in Article for Creation and see what happens. I have the text on my computer. It was the citation formatting I do not wish to recreate. Please, help if you can. Porterwritewiki (talk) 16:21, 21 March 2014 (UTC)PortewritewikiPorterwritewiki (talk) 16:21, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Based on the realistic comment from the editor on my talk p., I have moved the deleted article to User:Porterwritewiki/Carbone Smolan Agency for improvement. (I moved it there, not back to AfC, to avoid confusion.) I will give the editor some further advice. DGG ( talk ) 02:38, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Talk:John Lennon

[1] see this [2]. Dynamic IP, like we know now. OccultZone (Talk) 15:01, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

INVEA-TECH

Hi Slakr, could I ask you why have you deleted INVEA-TECH page when the discussion was clearly not finished and I was waiting for others to responde? Thank you. Idavac (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 08:02, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Request for undeletion /Natalia Babi

Dear Kurt,
I would like to send the request for undeletion of the article about Ukrainian-American artist Natalia Babi. I examined the reasoning for the deletion, but information that your representatives may not have been aware of how popular this artist is in several countries of former Soviet Union and US and how many people search for information about this artist. And it would be helpful to have information about her in Wikipedia. According to words of your representatives, yes, she maybe doesn’t have tons of publicity in the Internet like a superstar, but for several years she has had publicity in paper editions in three languages Russian, Ukrainian and English and she has had some Internet publicity in English as well and many in the Russian language, several videos which posted in YouTube, one of them (interview with artist) was shown on the Russian- American TV, and two others exist in two languages - Russian and English, and has shown on Ukrainian national TV - One is the biographical video and another is about well-known “Rosy Portrait” of queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty personally thanked the artist for that work. Recently her art piece "China Girl" was sold on eBay auction by Oz collectors for record price more then $100,000 and became the most expensive Item in the world sold on eBay by April 2013, is a clear proof of the artist's notability. Also, the National Museum of American History for the Oz exhibition of 2014 requested “China Girl” from the owner-collector. And there is more publicity about her major art project- “Wondrous Women of Fantasy and Reality”, portraits of legendary people and etc. Also your representatives accused the artist of self-publishing and self-promotion, which is not true. Being a big fan of this artist's talent, I posted this article a few years ago and yes, it is true that I used some excerpts from her personal site… Dear administrator, I am asking you for the possibility of returning the article about Natalia Babi and I will do my best to correct and rewrite it for a proper Wikipedia language. Thank you very much for the opportunity, and for your helpful site.

Sincerely Paul Fitz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Natalia_Babi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.162.182.110 (talk) 04:25, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Too quick!!

Editing WP is not always easy (lack of 'WYSIWYG'). Where I forget to sign, realise it and try to correct all too often SignBot is acting far too quickly and creating an 'edit conflict' and often signing only one of my edits. A short delay (seconds are enough) before SignBot operates would be very useful, it would nice if we could correct our own errors and do it better :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leopardtail (talk • contribs) 13:33, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

With your hard work running two bots and contributions to Wikipedia, you deserve to take a break and have a cup of tea TheQ Editor (talk) 20:52, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Did you notice.

Hi User:Slakr: While updating the wikipage for "Russia" for the Olympics results, I noticed that one of the supporting pages for "2014 Ladies Olympics figure skating" was page protected by you due to suspected socks and possible disruptive editing from User:Heri. On looking closer to send a disruptive editing message to that User:Heri, I then noticed that User:Basalisk had already put that user on notice/probation for being blocked and offered that user an unblock in good faith. After that, previously blocked User:Heri took one day off after the good faith unblock, to then return with another large block of disruptive edits, which caused another User:Kirin several lost hours of edit time to at least start to clean-up the disruptive edits at least half way. Other users have also asked for help against User:Heri. Since you have already started the block process, I was not sure what to do next and thought to check with you if you did notice that the disruptive editing started all over again after User:Heri taking one day off following the good faith unblock. Below is posted one of the sequences of diffs for disruptive edits from After the good faith unblock for that user for your review. Could you glance at this.

(cur | prev) 00:26, 25 March 2014‎ Heri... (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (34,150 bytes) (-1)‎ . . (space removed) (undo | thank)

(cur | prev) 00:24, 25 March 2014‎ Heri... (talk | contribs)‎ . . (34,151 bytes) (+5)‎ . . (→‎Controversies) (undo | thank)

(cur | prev) 22:27, 24 March 2014‎ Heri... (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (34,146 bytes) (+10)‎ . . (→‎Records) (undo | thank)

(cur | prev) 22:06, 24 March 2014‎ Heri... (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (34,136 bytes) (+1)‎ . . (→‎Records) (undo | thank)

(cur | prev) 22:05, 24 March 2014‎ Heri... (talk | contribs)‎ . . (34,135 bytes) (-10)‎ . . (→‎Records) (undo | thank)

(cur | prev) 22:02, 24 March 2014‎ Heri... (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (34,145 bytes) (+58)‎ . . (undo | thank)

(cur | prev) 21:56, 24 March 2014‎ Heri... (talk | contribs)‎ . . (34,087 bytes) (0)‎ . . (→‎Official responses) (undo | thank)

(cur | prev) 21:54, 24 March 2014‎ Heri... (talk | contribs)‎ . . (34,087 bytes) (+1,694)‎ . . (seperated into three sub sections) (undo | thank)

(cur | prev) 21:41, 24 March 2014‎ Heri... (talk | contribs)‎ . . (32,393 bytes) (+87)‎ . . (undo | thank)

(cur | prev) 21:36, 24 March 2014‎ Heri... (talk | contribs)‎ . . (32,306 bytes) (-1,103)‎ . . (NYTimes repeats the same result as the official ISU results) (undo | thank)

(cur | prev) 21:34, 24 March 2014‎ Heri... (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (33,409 bytes) (+12)‎ . . (→‎Criticism of the results) (undo | thank)

(cur | prev) 21:32, 24 March 2014‎ Heri... (talk | contribs)‎ . . (33,397 bytes) (+510)‎ . . (Please read talk page for the reason of this recovery) (undo | thank)

FelixRosch (talk) 14:59, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Question

Hallo Slakr,
I am writing about the Italians article: User Enok after his block started to revert again to his version: moreover, he went to the talk page, but there is still no consensus for his addition. The sources which he brought are, to say the least, not academic, or don't confirm what he says. His addition on this article has been reverted in the last months at least by 7 different users. There has been a discussion some months ago, and consensus was against him. What can be done to stop this mess? May I invoke again temporary full protection, altough now he is not breaching (yet) 3RR? Thanks, Alex2006 (talk) 07:24, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Him making one edit (that you reverted) is usually fine; it's part of the bold-revert-discuss cycle (i.e., he made the bold edit; you reverted; now it's time to discuss) and concordant with voluntarily adhering to a self-imposed "one-revert rule" (which is ideal if one's been blocked due to edit warring). Admittedly, it's probably not the best thing to push the change again directly after a block, but taking it to the talk page is the right thing for him to do after his edit was reverted. From there, if consensus ends up clearly against his change, further attempts to repeatedly push his version onto the page are when it becomes problematic again. --slakr^\ talk / 08:15, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

And this is exactly what happened. Now he has been blocked for a week. Let's prepare for the next round... :-( This story lasts since almost one year, and no one can see the end yet. Thanks! Alex2006 (talk) 06:30, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

SineBot down?

I noticed two unsigned comments on my user talk page today, and oh boy it IRRITATED ME TO THE POINT I WANTED TO SPIT OUT FIRE! Aside from a visit from the fire department, I assume you are aware that the bot is down and are working on the problem, seeing that you were on earlier today. K6ka (talk | contribs) 00:34, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

@K6ka: totally didn't see it, but back up now. It looks like it gave up trying to authenticate due to some temporary issue in MediaWiki (probably similar to the one that caused other bots to edit while signed out), as it was authenticating fine but the site wasn't actually reporting the bot as signed in when it went to make edits. Whatever was causing it seems to be fixed now. Thanks for the heads up =) --slakr^\ talk / 04:05, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Dear Sir, Are you able to please check the refs. for 2 pages 1)Lupton family 2) Mary, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood Thanks so much Mike