User talk:South Bay

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Why did you oppose my adminship for no apparent reason? "Obvious"??!! What is obvious is that you have no reason to oppose me!

October 2008

If you reference accurate articles and review former discussions, you will find that General Motors is the world's largest automaker by annual sales as of 2007. If you would like to add that Toyota Motor has surpassed them in the first three quarters of 2008, you may do this as this is true. This is not a "controversial subject". I only ask that when you make edits, be sure they are indeed correct. Thank You.

Your use of the administrators' noticeboard

Please stop asking questions which can only be answered properly boy getting personal information about the admins (like you did here and here).
Please use descriptive headers for your sections - headers which will help users decide if they want to read the sections.
When starting a new thread on the noticeboard, please use the link which says "Click here to start a new discussion thread", or this link which links to the same place, or the new section tab which exists on every discussion page).

עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:45, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Template:User Crap

I see that you recently created this userbox, but that no one is using it, not even you. I have to admit I am having a hard time understanding what the point of this userbox is and who would be likely to post it on their page, or perhaps it is a metaphorical comment of some kind? - Ahunt (talk) 13:17, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The very same reason people use this and this and this. Thanks South Bay (talk) 20:46, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Okay thanks - at least those boxes are used on people's pages. - Ahunt (talk) 21:43, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I guess an admin found it; "13:34, 12 February 2009 Orangemike (Talk | contribs) deleted "Template:User Crap" ‎ (G3: Vandalism)" - Ahunt (talk) 14:12, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Cost-U-Less Insurance

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Cost-U-Less Insurance, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

Claims of notability not supported by tertiary sources; article is essentially an advertisement.

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. §FreeRangeFrog 08:39, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Cost-U-Less Insurance

A tag has been placed on Cost-U-Less Insurance, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the article or have a copy emailed to you. ukexpat (talk) 15:47, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Admin

I'll tell you right away where my candidacy is likely to fall apart. I work on a ton of stuff at the same time to get them to WP:GA. I try to keep one thing in the WP:FAC pipeline at all times to help raise their quality above GA quality. The army of folks over there will probably contest my nomination as a person lacking the understanding of allocation of resources. If you were to say the purpose of an FAC is in part to take things already well polished to the next level and in part to get attention of a broad spectrum of people to clean up an article they would like to see the types of articles appearing at FAC as about 5-10% the latter and 90-95% the former. Since I work on a lot of stuff at one time my nominees tend to be more like 60-40%. They get annoyed that I am wasting their resources. Yes I do a lot of good work, but they will say I waste a lot of their time with premature candidates. My nomination will get crushed from the army of people who feel this way. You should talk with those folks before wasting your time on my nomination.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:40, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

Thanks! - Ahunt (talk) 02:05, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See

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Possibly unfree File:Adobe lightroom.png

An image that you uploaded or altered, File:Adobe lightroom.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. — neuro^{(talk)(review)} 09:01, 21 March 2009 (UTC) --— neuro^{(talk)(review)} 09:01, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

Thanks, although I would certainly love it if you could mention which articles/edits have attracted your interest. In any event, thank you! Cheers, ErikTheBikeMan (talk) 20:16, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice

I probably should have majored in english instead of chemical engineering so I could make highly useful grammatical edits here on wikipedia and make a more valuable contribution to society. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.65.229.151 (talk) 14:38, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]