User talk:Sandstein

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Internet

Actually the internet has been around for more than 20 years - in a more rudimentary way than now and not the WWW - but your sentiments were correct anyway. By the way, it appears the user used to edit from an IP, if that is of interest to the case. Tvoz |talk 21:29, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I stand corrected. If he continues as an IP or under another account, WP:AIV is the place to go. Sandstein 22:27, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, will keep an eye out. Thanks Tvoz |talk 22:29, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ehy you.. !!

Ehy.. if you bring back Vitra Germany to the disambiguation page I created, how can people know about the existance of another Vitra company, with the same name?

No way man.. you gotta put in a disambiguation page, jusst like I did, where people know about the two different companies. I wanna open a discussion and debate if necessary. --J mcandrews--

eat my chocolate, you bloody swiss Gugliel Motel.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by J mcandrews (talk • contribs)

Replied on your talk page. Sandstein 05:46, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of Irving Schwartz, Order of Canada receipent

Could you please revert your deletion. He is notable for being a member of the Order of Canada. I'll fix the rest of the article in terms of the Junior achievement stuff, but he does not deserve speedy deletion.--Abebenjoe 05:42, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'll not restore copyvio text; see also your talk page. Sandstein 05:46, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I did not write the Geoff Sheerin and Chirinjeev Kathuria articles, I merely took them out of the wikipedia article about PlanetSpace, since one of the founders of the company posted it on wikipedia, which means they have the copyright, and are discharging it to wikipedia. As for Schwartz, you were way too quick to delete it before I fixed it up. I have many articles on wikipedia, that started like Schwartz, and then were properly wikified, but you deleted the page before I could perfect it.--Abebenjoe 06:14, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, you mean this? It was posted by one guy who calls himself "Co-founder of Canadian Arrow Dan McKibbon". Even if that is true, we don't know if he has copyright on that content (which is WP:CSD#G11-eligible anyway). We lack an OTRS copyright release, for instance, and you have violated the copyright further by failing to provide attribution, as required by the GFDL: you only wrote "Started article" when copying the text to the Geoff Sheerin and Chirinjeev Kathuria articles. — As to Schwartz, there is never any excuse for posting copyrighted text. You must clean up content before posting it. Sandstein 06:32, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Petition for the unblocking of User:KillerPlasmodium.

I believe that the user has been blocked for personal reasons by a band of extreme leftists who find his political beliefs to be intolerable despite his having references. He is an example of a common American with beliefs engendered by the majority of Americans, and thus he will bring a semblance of neutrality to many of the most biased liberalist articles. Gold Nitrate 03:30, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Declined. The user was not blocked for his political views but for his inability to work constructively with others. Incidentally, this is an international project and I am Swiss, so the "beliefs engendered by the majority of Americans" are not relevant either to me or to the project. What is relevant are our policies of WP:NOR, WP:V and WP:NPOV. Sandstein 06:25, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I second this petition. The admin who blocked him did so without discussion, the user had no previous blocks or banns, and the blocking admin has been involved with improper blocks before where he banned users on his own authority based in personal feelings rather than Wikipedia regulations. -38.119.112.189 07:15, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]