User talk:Spartaz

Spartaz (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

What again?

I'm a long term user (first edit 2006) and have been an admin on or off since 2017. That makes me a bit stuck in my ways but I have the benefit of experience and working through many of the changes that have left us where we are. I am getting grumpy. Sorry but all the drama and grief has washed away a lot of my younger idealism...

A BLP is a serious matter and needs to be properly sourced.

I mostly work on deletion discussions. I am willing to userfy deleted articles for improvement as long as there is a reasonable likelihood that they can be saved. If you are challenging a deletion, do you have three good sources? Also, don’t waste your time asking me to review a close or you are going to DRV because I’m not going to review a close with a sword hanging over my head. Just raise the DRV or ask someone else.

Useful Links:

• Deletion Review
• Articles for Deletion
• Unblocks

Please don't leave talkback templates as I always watchlist pages when I edit and I'm perfectly capable of looking for a reply myself.

please stay in the top three tiers

You may want to increment {{Archive basics}} to |counter= 20 as User talk:Spartaz/Archive19 is larger than the recommended 150Kb.

Madison Ivy

Hey there, you deleted Madison Ivy a few weeks back and listed "Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion" as the reason. The last time the article was deleted was over a year ago, and in this time, a lot has happened, qualifying the article for Wikipedia. WP:PORNBIO lists

• Has won a well-known and significant industry award. Madison Ivy has von an XBIZ Award in 2014 and has been nominated for a number of XBIZ, AVN and other awards, which definitely qualify as "significant" Y
  
• Has made unique contributions to a specific pornographic genre, such as beginning a trend in pornography; starred in an iconic, groundbreaking or blockbuster feature; or is a member of an industry Hall of Fame such as the AVN Hall of Fame, XRCO Hall of Fame or equivalent. Ivy is the only female contract star for pornographic production company Brazzers, has starred in many groundbreaking productions (e.g. This Ain’t Beverly Hills 90210 XXX, Slutty and Sluttier, etc.) and has the most viewed video on the Brazzers site. Y
  
• Has been featured multiple times in notable mainstream media. A quick look at the articles sources shows, she has given many important interviews and has been featured in various magazines multiple times: XCRITIV [[1]], Fox Magazine [[2]], Hustler [[3]], 88 Miles West [[4]] and many more. Y
  

The article clearly qualifies all the points, so I would kindly ask you to restore it. Thanks in advance! --Rayukk (talk) 12:40, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

• I'm afraid you must have read an older version as PORNBIO as the current guideline makes it clear that scene related awards don't count and neither do nominations anymore. I don't recognise being a contract star or having lots of video views as meeting #2 and for your third point I don't see that any of these sources are reliable sources for notability by Wikipedia standards. My judgement was that Ivy still doesn't the GNG or PORNBIO and as such the previous deletion for lack of notability remains valid. You are welcome to try Deletion review if you like. Spartaz ^Humbug! 21:51, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Alright, well I guess there is no point in arguing then... could you provide me with the version of the article it was in, before it was deleted? I would like to keep it on my user space, in case she really does meet the conditions one day, it was quite a bit of work :D... If you could, please move it here: User:Rayukk/Madison Ivy. Thanks --Rayukk (talk) 10:43, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

DoneSpartaz ^Humbug! 16:33, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Science and technology

I suspect the people at AFD and DRV didn't really understand that "science and technology" is a general term of art not just the conjunction of two words. Anyway, the new Science and technology looks quite nice to me though I hope we don't do the same to Research and development or, indeed, Tom and Jerry. However, a bot has come along telling us we should disambiguate incoming links[5] and I expect it will have consequences for articles containing the incoming links and for people adding links in future. I doubt whether changing the links to "science and technology" makes sense. Maybe remove these links entirely since we now have nothing to say worth saying. Do you know how all this will affect what DPL bot does and do you have any remedial suggestions generally? Thincat (talk) 20:36, 6 March 2015 (UTC)