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Hello Jeff G.. Thanks for the newpages patrol! Regarding Smallville IMDb Message Board which you tagged for speedy deletion as a repost, I just wanted to drop by to tell you that CSD G4 only applies to pages previously deleted after discussion, at an XfD forum such as at AfD. It does not apply to pages that were only previously speedy deleted, as this article was. Note also that even when an article was previously deleted on the merits, G4 is only applicable where the reposted article is substantially identical to the deleted version and any changes in the recreated page do not address the reasons for which the material was deleted. Cheers. Terrillja (talk) 05:18, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that info.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 18:53, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your reversion to California Proposition 8 (2008)

Hello, Jeff G.. You have new messages at EmeryvilleEric's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Thanks for the notice, I replied there.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 19:26, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Eli Mattson reverts

I wanted to thank you for reverting edits by Elimattsonfan on the Eli Mattson page. A reliable person seems to have started this page and Elimattsonfan has been messing with it on and off since then. I and several others have posted legitimate edits and I notice others have reverted her posts also. She has changed mine several times. I run a fansite for Eli which is endorsed by him and his family. Anything I post is accurate unless I simply make a mistake. Her fansite is awful and innacurate and she has even started a website using Eli's name which she should not be doing - she was not given that right. I was reading up on blocking users but this is all so confusing as I am new to Wikipedia. Btw my fansite is myspace.com/fansofelimattson Wikiexpander (talk) 06:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, the level 4 warning I put on Elimattsonfan's user talk page seems to have sufficed for now.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 18:58, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can you stop telling me not to edit this page? I'm not violating NPOV when the public and media consensus of the company is that it is a scam company, merely correcting a page that is so generous in its wording that I have to believe it was started by OESC or some other subsidiary internally. By the way, in deleting my edits, you also reverted a paragraph in the 'Info' section that was cited to the Toronto Star. So back off. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.224.201.151 (talk) 20:34, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"leading me to label the company's buying opportunities as as scam" in this edit is blatantly your point of view. Please document your allegations on the talk page before putting them on the article page.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 20:45, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That was a typo, I reverted the edit to "leading many to believe" before it was subsequently reversed. Can I continue now? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.224.201.151 (talk) 20:48, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Who are these "many"? Also, if you are in fact The Thought-Fox, as you claimed in this edit, please login.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 20:53, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Many are the citations I was going to provide, though I admittedly should've been using the sandbox. Can I get on that now? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.224.201.151 (talk) 20:55, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Are you in fact The Thought-Fox? Please sign your posts and use Edit Summaries.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 21:00, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Jeff, thanks for being quick to revert edits, particularly ones that are blatant vandalism, but the one you reverted of mine shouldn't have been changed. ~Jonathan (talk) 22:55, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:MOS.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 22:57, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hai!

Awesome job workin' at WP:AIV! Keep up the great work! :) Master of Puppets Call me MoP! :) 00:38, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, MoP!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 00:39, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No problem! :) Master of Puppets Call me MoP! :) 00:42, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is not vandalism - it is a valid entry properly cited.

On December 21, 1997, Barack Obama wrote a short review [1][2][3] of William Ayers’ book A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court[4], which had recently been published by Beacon Press.

Perhaps if you actually cited the Chicago Tribune review and the Zomblog documenting it, your contribution would be more acceptable.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 00:50, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

jon balcourt

i undid wrong information. the composer on this page is not dead, someone vandalized his page... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.165.95.70 (talk) 01:15, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 01:23, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

for reverting the vandalism to my user talk. DoubleBlue (Talk) 01:58, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 02:00, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Long Beach Motor Inn Removal

You placed my wiki page on the Long Beach Motor Inn on the deletion list before I was able to finish it. Please give us writers a small amount of time, especially us new people, so we may cite our references before proposing deletion. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomblights00 (talkcontribs) 02:32, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pleave give us new page patrollers well-formed, referenced articles on notable topics. Also, please sign your posts and Edit Summaries. Thanks!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 02:57, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Jeff G.. You have new messages at 75.161.233.85's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Thanks for the notice.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 04:02, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I fixed your error on Joan Collins as well. The mudlark person looks to be a newer user that was trying to wikilink a movie title appropriately, and took several tries to do it. You used "rollback + huggle" to remove their good faith non-vandalistic edits (it took mudlark several attempts to wikilink correctly). Perhaps instead of an impersonal (and incorrect) vandal warning, you could've helped the user find a resource for wikilinking properly, which he/she did successfully (eventually?). Thanks for removing the warning from my IP talkpage. 75.161.233.85 (talk) 04:05, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Blair

Don't be too quick to bandy about the term "vandalism". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deal_(2003_film)#Cast

Tony Blair was born in Scotland and spent his early years there. That is a matter of fact and public record. 202.130.159.184 (talk) 04:51, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My edit had nothing to do with where Tony Blair was born. Looking at it more closely I find your spelling more correct for this purpose. Sorry.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 04:59, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thanks MatthewYeager 05:15, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It would be nice if I knew why you were thanking me. :)   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 05:18, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
revert on my talk page. MatthewYeager 06:35, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In that case, you're welcome!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 21:53, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism on Metroid

Simply put, I put in my reason for doing it the 2nd time around, which was considered vandalism. Which makes no sense, thank you. Bother to read the summary, that'd be nice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.215.179.232 (talk) 05:50, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the second warning, I didn't read your edit summary closely enough.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 21:49, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Citation

Hi Jeff G. -

I didn't mean to remove content; I used a template incorrectly. Where do I read how to typeset an offset quotation? Feketekave (talk) 05:54, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed it - see this edit.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 21:42, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

T-Pain edit

Hi Jeff. -

What did i do? It was at the grammys so i put wrote that it was in the Grammys, what's the problem?? (talk) 22:55, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, people usually change captions at the same exact time as they change images.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 21:31, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here you reported a user to AIV despite the fact that his edits were not vandalism. Please take greater care when reverting, warning and reporting others. لennavecia 22:03, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, please see above.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 22:06, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism? J'ACCUSE!!!

Hi there JEFF, this is VASCO from PORTUGAL,

I have been an editor for almost 2 years (on the 22nd i will have my "WIKI-birthday") and, after having my share of reverted vandalism (a gigantic one i might add) and other issues, i decided to revert to my anonymous user account (217.129.67.28), also deciding to act like an anonymous philantropist, letting my deeds speak for itself, that being why i almost never write an edit summary anymore. Is it WRONG? I do not think so...

Speaking of which: You reverted two of my edits, this(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Guayre) and this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Canella), saying that the latter had been VANDALIZED by me? I urge you, my fellow user, to check this article's edit summary and also my story of editing (i repeat, user nº 217.129.67.28) to see how much i have tried, edit summaries or not, to improve the site.

Could your message be a misunderstading due to the fact i am anonymous (i had to log in to leave you this message, but work almost entirely logged out)? I hope so...

From Portugal, regards and a nice week,

VASCO AMARAL - --NothingButAGoodNothing (talk) 01:05, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Vasco, and thank you for posting here. Regarding the first edit, Template:Football player infobox AKA Template:Infobox Football biography says in plaintext:
"Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of {{{pcupdate}}}."
You wrote "pcupdate = 31 October 2008", which was in the future when it was still "20 October 2008 (UTC)". I disputed that as factually impossible, and therefore a type of vandalism. Regarding the second edit, you did the same thing but with wikilinks, in that you wrote "pcupdate = [[October 31]], [[2008]]" (I added the nowiki tags). Such dates should be when the editor last verified the information (that date or a date in the recent past), not some date in the future. I would have done the same for a logged-in user. I stand by my warnings - you should not be misrepresenting current information as correct for 11 days into the future, or for any positive number of days into the future for that matter. And if I can't trust your dates, how can I trust the rest of the information in those edits?   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 10:50, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]


He did the same to me a second ago just because I removed an unnessacary citiaion needed tag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.249.95.247 (talk) 11:16, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why was that "citiaion(sic) needed tag" "unnessacary(sic)"? Why did you remove it without explanation? Please check your spelling, sign your posts, use Edit Summaries, and create an account. Thanks!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 16:42, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Revert

You reverted me on Talk:Breast cancer here, I hope you saw the previous jibberish by this anon contributor. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 16:43, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was only looking at that anon's edit and your wholesale revert of it. There were some germs of opinion and advice in it, and out of respect I thought it best to keep the paragraph and trash the fumbling, especially on a talk page. I think that anon's actions to date have been more fumbling than vandalism, so I don't think WP:RBI applies to that anon.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 22:00, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PCupdates - Response

Hi there JEFF, VASCO here again,

Thanks for your reply/technical info, i can perfectly understand that point of view, now i will "defend" myself:

I tend to update regularly on footballer infoboxes and storylines. Since the spanish league has only 1 more round to go in this month, i opted to insert the final date of the month. Anyways, rest assured, stats will be TOTALLY updated by the end of each season.

Regarding the statement "...if I can't trust your dates, how can I trust the rest of the information in those edits?" i fail to see the relation, because i did not present any storyline bit further than the day i, the person in the article and pretty much the rest of the planet were in (the 20th October 2008) and, i stress it again (never enough), all of my storyline info is always well-intended and 100% reliable (even when not referenced, which occurs when i can not find anything online to back my edits up).

Keep up the good work, sorry for any misunderstandings,

From PORTUGAL, VASCO AMARAL - --NothingButAGoodNothing (talk) 17:38, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PLEASE don't use any date past the current date for pcupdate and ntupdate. Thanks!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 21:36, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not "reverting"

I'm just taking out Tennisexpert and Hjensen sponsoring on Rafa Nadal's article. Korlzor (talk) 17:20, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please discuss that on Talk:Rafael Nadal, not here. Thanks!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 17:46, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You've no idea what are you talking about. Check this long discussion already, 99% of the people wanted the non-sponsored style, got consensus and they're ignoring it at their own. Check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Tennis#Tournament_names . Korlzor (talk) 19:37, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry. If you had mentioned Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tennis#Tournament_names as the reason for your "taking out" in your Edit Summary, I would have understood.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 19:06, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

I think is a very plausible redirection. In my country, when people speak English they often refer to Him as "The Impostor". Do you live in an Arab country? --Againme (talk) 17:42, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, sorry, on further review I have withdrawn my addition to The Impostor.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 17:52, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a lot, man.--Againme (talk) 21:49, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 19:01, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this image Vandalism? Mjroots (talk) 18:05, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The image itself (on Commons) isn't vandalism. I considered whatever Lizard1996 (talk · contribs) added to its image description page on English Wikipedia at or just before 17:34, 23 October 2008 (UTC) to be vandalism, and so did the deleting admin PhilKnight (talk · contribs) 30 minutes later. Please see this log for details. Thanks!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 18:53, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the {{prod}} tag from Music from Salem, which you proposed for deletion, because the article has now been referenced. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. Thanks! Unusual? Quite TalkQu 20:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the notification. The references and external links are welcome.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 18:44, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the revert

Thanks for the revert on the Teine-ku, Sapporo article. It is appreciated. Chris (talk) 20:45, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 18:42, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nmwelsh

I think that the Nmwelsh article may be about a notable company after all. Please see http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-17344732_ITM -- Eastmain (talk) 21:10, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You should mention that to the deleting admin Akradecki (talk · contribs), if you haven't already.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 18:42, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy removal

Just to let you know, I removed your speedy because it is not about a real person. I am reinstating the merge, have a nice day. neuro(talk) 19:58, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I didn't realize that db-bio doesn't apply to fictional people. Thanks for reinstating the merge.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 20:01, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Attack"

The other "contributor" did not add anything to the page, merely vandalized it. I removed the offending statement. Jim Steele (talk) 20:33, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You reverted the statement after I deleted it. Do you want it to remain? Jim Steele (talk) 20:38, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, I guess not.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 20:41, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Scaruffi's music reviews

Hi Jeff, consensus at WP:ALBUM has developed to the point where Scaruffi now seems to be deprecated as a source in the infobox, although he seems OK in the body of articles. Hasn't had wide publicity yet, and edit summaries would help! Just a heads up. --Rodhullandemu 21:07, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 21:09, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Problem is that it isn't actual policy and still open to consensus on individual articles; however, that the parent project regards him as no longer usable is highly persuasive. Another minefield.... --Rodhullandemu 21:13, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Jeff. I noted that you tagged this article for speedy deletion almost a week ago. The author apparently removed the tag very quickly and I just saw the article. I re-tagged it and left a note on the author's talk page. As a "newbie", feel free to let me know if anything was done incorrectly. Thanks! Jim JimVC3 (talk) 22:11, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It appears to have been done correctly enough to get the article deleted, thanks!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 22:58, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why my page is being deleted and why is the incorrect page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_MacDonald still up? Nagendrapsingh (talk) 22:08, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what you're writing about. The article should be moved from Hamish MacDonald to Hamish McDonald, with all of its edit history intact, as soon as Hamish McDonald is deleted.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 22:34, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'll do that now. --Rodhullandemu 22:37, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
&  Done --Rodhullandemu 22:40, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, but would you please finish the job and move Talk:Hamish MacDonald to Talk:Hamish McDonald? Thanks again!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 22:55, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No problem, it should have moved at the same time as the article, but done now. --Rodhullandemu 23:04, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Great!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 23:14, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reverting my edits. I am deeply ashamed for what I have done and have now seen the light. 76.234.141.85 (talk) 23:31, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid your actions speak louder than your words.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 00:05, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the edit to the Jimmy Hill section

Hi.

Why did you change my edit?

I understand the wiki policy regarding questionable links, but with all due respect, the link I added was entirely relevant to the wiki page (that being, I added a link to Jimmy Hill's official Sonichu website).

I apologise for the earlier edit to your talk page, I wasn't entirely sure of the correct procedure. I think I've worked it out now though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.99.56.250 (talk) 01:28, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has a rule against new and IP-based editors adding URLs containing "'\b110mb\.com\b'". See User:XLinkBot for details.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 01:36, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]


I can see that, and thanks for also pointing it out. But given Mr. Hill is the creator of this cartoon character, and that he has decided to host his webspace with a free domain, should it not be accepted that the link to his latest venture's Official website is relevant to the information? I myself am a massive fan of Sonichu, and it only seems right that given the prospective take-off of his burgeoning character, that he is fully accredited for it on the most popular reference point on the web, Wikipedia.

Thanks for the speedy reply.