User talk:JohnCD

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Restored article 17 March

Thanks for the alert and message to my talk page regarding your restoration of PRODed Gary Carswell stub. As previously, I am unable to find reliable sources to satisfy Notability requirements prior to the death of the individual, only the same type of posthumous news reports used to create the article. In the interests of GF I have messaged (the requesting) new user Ballure's talk page confirming these aspects with further guidance, and confirming that another editor had initially mooted restoration of the article in November 2015 but failed to proceed. rgds, --Rocknrollmancer (talk) 20:55, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

@Rocknrollmancer: once dePRODded, it can't be PRODded again, but you can always nominate it at WP:AFD. Without looking for sources, I think he probably falls short of notability, but it's not easy to predict how an AfD will go. JohnCD (talk) 19:57, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder - I have been involved in a similar AfD that I PRODed and was initially challenged by an editor removing the notice and replacing the deceased's deadlinked WP:SPS personal blog with a 1-year posthumous online article featuring the surviving family; The AfD closed without consensus, probably due to commenting editors' unfamiliarity with the motorcycle racing scene. I have not re-nominated it, but I did add a FUR image to make it look better. It could not be expanded unless hard-copy sources are found, which would likely be from Australia or New Zealand, and I don't anticipate anyone would be looking, nearly six years after death. Best,--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 00:13, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Apologies for bothering you again, but I've had a couple of interactions with the editor who requested restoration, declared as connected at WP:REFUND, being the widow of the deceased motorcycle racer who is the subject of the article. She has now stated that the restored article was not the one she had in mind, and that there was another containing racing results that was deleted before the currect version was created. Is it feasible there was a previous version, and would it be possible for you to search further? I've mentioned basic COI, and as she has no other editor to assist I have suggested I would look towards improving the stub as I've done it on a couple of other articles that were marginal or less. If you find anything could you please userfy the content to me? If not that's fine, as I have already roughed-out Wikitables for the race results, but I am intrigued to know if there was any other content. Many thanks, Steve.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 01:23, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

@Rocknrollmancer: no, there was no previously-deleted version, the whole history is in the restored one. Sometimes an earlier version had a variant title, and one can find a reference by searching talk pages, but this general search doesn't show any sign of an earlier article, though it does show several references in other article. JohnCD (talk) 08:52, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

That's as I anticipated - thanks for the help.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 20:12, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

reporting link

Hi John

I dont know if you remember our last dialogue exchange - i have been scanning pages online and still find this link showing with details - is there a way you're able to get all the discussion/personal info on this site removed from being read, especially names and story details? Many thanks 203.109.197.24 (talk) 23:59, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

<link redacted>

By the way the issue is very much still being looked into by local law enforcement authorities as it has not ceased since we reported! But thank you for whatever you've done as help from your end. Much appreciated.

Regards 203.109.197.24 (talk) 23:59, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I remember, and I am sorry that you are still having trouble. What you found was one of the mirror sites that copy Wikipedia (as they are allowed to do by our free license). All that it shows is the archive of our previous conversation, but that does not give your name or any means of connecting to you. It does give your attacker's Wikipedia username, but anyone looking at his account would find no reference to you, because at the time I "revision-deleted" those parts of its history. Fortunately, the original attack page was deleted within a few hours and does not seem to have been picked up by any of the mirror sites. I just did a Google search on your name and found nothing relevant, so I do not think you need to worry about any traces left over from the attack here. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:20, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

John, Thank you so very much. You have no idea how much even your prompt responses are reassurance and a security backup, wish there was a way we could get advice from you on tackling the same with other areas of www - can you email me directly through this IP?? Not sure how to get it to be a 1-1.203.109.197.24 (talk) 23:45, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

No, I can't, but if you choose to register an account, which is easy and free, need not be in your real name, and would not commit you to anything, and if you then enabled email in its user profile, you would when logged-in find an "Email this user" link in the left-hand side bar when looking at this talk page. But I am afraid I am not likely to be of any assistance about other areas of the Internet, as I have no knowledge or experience there. I can only advise going direct to the administration of any site where you are having trouble. JohnCD (talk) 17:20, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Cecil Jay Roberts

I represent Mr Cecil Jay Roberts and recently took over all his internet profile. When I put a google search in there was an article that was created and deleted. I believe the article was deleted by you. I have gone over some of the information and while some are referenced correctly and most of the information are clearly true, there are some that aren't. This has caused my client a great deal of distress and is asking for such information to be removed from the public domain. I have done my research and if an article is deleted properly, it should no longer appear in a google search. I will be very happy if you could clarify this for me.

Kind regards

--KatieMarlow (talk) 19:47, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Hello John I have left a message on your talk page. I'm only on Wikipedia to try and get to the bottom of an article that was written about my client. Please advise as to the best way to go about this.KatieMarlow (talk) 20:18, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

@KatieMarlow: welcome to Wikipedia. I deleted the article as a result of a deletion discussion. I have now covered that discussion with a "courtesy blank", but in any case it was NOINDEXed so that it did not appear in search engine results, and a Google search on Mr Roberts' name does not return any link to Wikipedia.

The search result you found at http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Cecil_Jay_Roberts is on a "mirror" site which copies Wikipedia articles (as it is allowed to do by the terms of our free license) but does not necessarily delete them when we do - in fact that particular site specialises in keeping copies of deleted articles. I'm afraid we have no influence over them, and you will have to approach them directly. There is a contact name on their main page at http://speedydeletion.wikia.com. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:51, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much John. I shall be contacting them.

Kind regards

KatieMarlow (talk) 19:20, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

I do Not know what you are talking about and My question to answer that I don't get.

Hi John

John Please could you be more specific to my question, I am autistic and also I do not know also what you are talking about Okay.

Thank You

Bye

Kind Regards

From

James Duggins — Preceding unsigned comment added by James Duggins (talk • contribs) 19:57, 13 April 2016‎

@James Duggins: I will reply on your talk page some time today. JohnCD (talk) 11:42, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Joker venom

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A tag has been placed on Joker venom, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as at articles for deletion. Under the specified criteria, where a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Joseph2302 (talk) 21:19, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

@Joseph2302: Twinkle only sent this to me because I created a redirect after deleting a previous version. You should really send it to user D3323 who turned it back into an article. I had been thinking of G4-ing it myself, or restoring the redirect, but have not got round to checking whether it is sufficiently close to the previous version. JohnCD (talk) 21:26, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, love it when Twinkle sends notification to the wrong people. And I've mentioned at the article talkpage that I think it should just go back to the redirect, although I don't know anything about the original article. Joseph2302 (talk) 21:29, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

If nobody else gets to it first, I will check it out tomorrow and probably revert to redirect and protect, unless there is enough new material to warrant another AfD. JohnCD (talk) 22:06, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Followup questions and advice regarding Imerir

Hi John;

First of all, thank you for the time you've taken responding to my questions regarding the deletion of the Imerir page.

Then, let me assure you that, as faculty and as a long time Wikipedia user, I perfectly understand and appreciate your safeguarding the raised issue of notability and conflict of interest. Despite my previous understanding, I read the links you shared. Obviously I was too liberal.

I have a question, asking for advice, but let me first give some context. Please, bear with me, I'll try to keep it short.

Someone created a page about our school on the French wikipedia (see fr:Institut_méditerranéen_d'étude_et_recherche_en_informatique_et_robotique). We are an officially accredited government backed education institution similar to a graduate school; which means non-profit and definitely not a business. I noticed we interacted a bit with the French page to correct a few errors (like the name of the current director). I did not do those changes, but the history for that page reveals someone at my school did (I'll share our conversation with them).

Since the page exists in French, we figured that it would be a service to our foreign exchange students (ERASMUS program) and English speakers of the world (how humble!) if we provided something of a page in English. This is probably why before its deletion, the page was more of a "stub" than an actual page. Good riddance, if you ask me (it is poorly written and informative form).

Despite the conflict of interest, but considering we are a non-profit educational government backed institution, I seems legitimate that we appear in the Encyclopoedia. Not for self serving visibility and hubris, but as an information & knowledge source. This is why wonder whether it would be ok if I started a draft (which I did, as a draft is non-commital, - see here) to write a much more encyclopaedic article with original content (meaning no copy-pasting of our website) regarding our institution and its community (alumni, faculty, students) with all the content sourced (and if possible at all times quoting or referring to content other that our own website). Then, have this draft reviewed and edited (if necessary, probably) by people unrelated to Imerir (I am thinking of you, if you have time for such things, as well as a few extra people).

Hence my question: Does this sound reasonable or am I so far gone into my will to provide meaningful information that I try to justify the unjustifiable? Can I work on that draft and get back to you for review?

• Fun fact #1 (regarding Imerir): each class has a famous godfather. Just to cite three of them: Richard Stallman (he gave a nice graduation speech), Bruno Maisonnier (father of the Nao (robot)) and Serge Humpich (famous French hacker who broke the credit card system).
• Fun fact #2 (regarding editing a page about us): Also, I just checked my alma mater page (see Western Carolina University) and they edited the content too... I bet this is true for any school & university. (And yes, it is not because the neighbour steals that I should too...)

Thank you again for your time, I look forward to your reply, Best Regards, Pierre — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pierre.imerir (talk • contribs) 09:02, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Request for undeletion of a 'Articles for creation' draft.

Hi,

Kindly restore 'Draft:Udiya Baba'. I am afraid I could not devote time to edit it during last 6 months due to some unavoidable personal reasons. I earnestly intend to work on this article and resubmit it as soon as possible. Therefore, I would like to humbly request you to give me one last opportunity to work on it. I assure you I would resubmit it within 3 weeks, or at the most, a month. In case I don't, you may delete it permanently.

Thanks & regards, Rasucha (talk) 05:24, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

@Rasucha: OK,  Done. JohnCD (talk) 09:22, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Dimitar Mitovski

Hello,

You have deleted a recent article written by me for Dimitar Mitovski. Yes the same text is on his vimeo page but it is in a neutral tone and I have permission to use the text. Mr. Mitovski is one of the most vivid film directors in Bulgaria and a creator of vast projects. The text in the article does not promote anything as it is a short biography of his career. Here are links from IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1190360/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1190360/bio

Can you please tell me what is the difference between the tone of my article and say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg?

Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frostwor (talk • contribs) 11:26, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 14:35, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Request to restore the article

Dear JhonCD,

How are you? Back in 25 January 2015 a request to restore article on Zarmina Siraj Ul Haq was made to whom you refused on basis of certain issues as states below;

@Blackswan786: X mark.svg Not done - this article has not been restored because it does not appear to meet our guidelines for inclusion of articles about people. In general, Wikipedia considers a topic to be notable if there exist multiple reliable sources of information on the topic, external to the subject itself. Articles concerning people will be deleted on sight if they are considered to be unambiguous advertising or promotion, or if they do not contain a credible assertion of the significance of the subject. Wikipedia does not cover "emerging" people, only those who have already arrived, see WP:Notability (people). JohnCD (talk) 18:16, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

I am providing the relevant links related to article on Zarmina Siraj Ul Haq and submitting the request to restore the same again.

Links; http://courtingthelaw.com/author/zarmina-siraj-ul-haq/ http://independent.academia.edu/Zarmina https://www.linkedin.com/in/zarmina https://twitter.com/zarminasiraj http://gujjarspost.blogspot.com/2014/12/history-of-gujjars-famous-gujjar.html https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=918633951586747&id=738866779563466 https://about.me/advzarmina https://plus.google.com/+ZarminaChaudhry http://www.yatedo.com/p/Zarmina+Siraj+Ul+Haq+Gujjar/normal/1b85261e7f476161e4f2d9fb23554488

Few of Her Published work; http://courtingthelaw.com/2016/04/11/commentary/panama-leaks-a-storm-yet-to-come/ http://courtingthelaw.com/2016/04/18/commentary/cyber-crime-bill-or-cyber-crime-bell/ http://xarminachaudhry.blogspot.com/2015/03/third-gender-red-tag-why.html http://xarminachaudhry.blogspot.com/2016/02/third-gender-in-pakistan.html http://xarminachaudhry.blogspot.com/2016/03/do-women-need-4-witnesses-to-prove-rape.html http://www.academia.edu/5054726/A_Good_Manager http://www.academia.edu/9808540/Political_anarchy_vs._Democratic_Dictatorship-from_the_field_of_Pakistan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.152.53.130 (talk) 16:37, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

No, sorry, all that those links show is that she is very active on social media and writes a lot of blogs and stuff. None of that helps to show Wikipedia:Notability, which needs references about her, written independently, showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." The only one that looks independent is gujjarspost.blogspot.com; I do not know how reliable a source that is, but anyway she is only one in a list of over 100 names. See WP:Notability (summary) for more explanation of what is needed. JohnCD (talk) 21:21, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Stevens Worldwide Van Lines

Hello John, I submitted an article for Stevens Worldwide Van Lines, which you deleted due to issues with it sounded like an advertisement and an undisclosed conflict of interest. Because I was unaware on how to disclose a conflict of interest, I was told to re-submit the article as a paid editor. I was also told to create the article under a new username, as the username Ottaway was a violation of Wikipedia's username policy. I have gone ahead and made some necessary changes, including removing information that sounded like an advertisement, and have figured out what steps I need to take in order to disclose myself as a paid editor, which I will do for this article. Please tell me if there are any other necessary steps I need to take prior to submitting the article for review, any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Higer1215 (talk) 19:13, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

@Higer1215: That was actually deleted by another user, JzG, after the discussion at WP:Articles for deletion/Stevens Worldwide Van Lines. I will give some advice on your talk page tomorrow; meanwhile read Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide and Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure and consider this statement, which if I had my way would be written in letters of fire on the sign-on page: Wikipedia is not a place for companies to tell the world about themselves. If your article reads like that it will not be accepted.

Consider also the excellent advice of a very experienced Wikipedian at User:Uncle G/On notability#Writing about subjects close to you:

"When writing about subjects that are close to you, don't use your own personal knowledge of the subject, and don't cite yourself, your web site, or the subject's web site. Instead, use what is written about the subject by other people, independently, as your sources. Cite those sources in your very first edit. If you don't have such sources, don't write."

JohnCD (talk) 21:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Artical Removed

Respected Sir, It is stated that my artical has been deleted. Kindly tell me how to do it in so that it did't deleted? THANKS

Deleted Page Link — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cmh.mohsin (talk • contribs) 10:23, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

@Cmh.mohsin: I'm sorry but,as I explained on your talk page, Wikipedia is not a place for people to write about themselves. For that, you want a social-networking site like Facebook, or see List of social networking websites. JohnCD (talk) 11:17, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

I'm looking for creating an article but...

I was creating an article but that seems to be blocked by you for some advertorial reasons in deletion logs. So what should I do? As I want to write a clean article. Vinay089 (talk) 15:08, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

@Vinay089: What is the title that is blocked? JohnCD (talk) 15:13, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

@JohnCD: That's article title would be Ayaan Chawla. Vinay089 (talk) 15:35, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

I strongly advise you to give up the idea. Reasons on your talk page soon. JohnCD (talk) 17:01, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

@JohnCD: OK. It's interesting, actually today I've seen an article about Chawla in newspaper and then I searched about him and found much reliable sources. I think I should drop the idea or I'll create an article as draft for approval first will also inform you. What you suggest? Vinay089 (talk) 18:09, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

I suggest: don't waste your time. If you want to try, you have to make a draft. JohnCD (talk) 20:07, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Oclassica

Hi! We would like to add a page for classical music label Oclassica. This is one of the European labels for classical music. I think it is important to list this label in a category . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bryukhno (talk • contribs) 10:22, 22 April 2016‎

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 12:01, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

MISPL Page

Dear JohnCD,

I read the entire article, I don't think they (MISPL Company) want to advertise. They are just giving history of their company and giving article about running services on their project.

Thank You