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Curious why you deleted a user talk page of a sock

Earlier this year you deleted User talk:Zephram Stark. I'm wondering if you know something about this user that I don't or if you just made an error. As you probably know, we generally do not delete the talk pages of socks. Additionally you said you were doing it under CSD G6 and I don't believe either G6 or any other CSD criterion have ever been accepted as including the talk pages of indef blocked users. I know that non-sock indef blocked user pages are generally deleted under CAT:TEMP and sometimes the talk pages are too (even though CAT:TEMP makes no mention of applying to talk pages). But this is not part of CSD nor any other deletion policy provision and is actually quite controversial, especially as regards talk pages. It has been proposed as a new criterion at CSD several times and been shot down. Unless there is something special about this user talk page, I think it should be restored.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 01:34, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Matthewedwards/Archives/2009/04#User talk deletion Matthewedwards :  Chat  02:46, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the list. I think you've misinterpreted the rule: it's sockpuppets, not users tagged as such. You have to check for mistagging. And G6 was definitely not the criterion to use; but I'm guessing you're not doing this anymore. I'm going to go through them and undelete the socks if you don't object. As for the G6, macht nichts as they were going to get deleted under one provision or another, I just wanted to clarify.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 07:36, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I went through them all and found the following were socks that should not have been deleted, so I undeleted as indicated:

Generally for socks, the best practice is to replace the talk page with a redirect to the user page; thus all the history remains so anyone researching a particular sock/block evader/puppetmaster, can see it but there is no "wall of shame".--Doug.(talk • contribs) 19:48, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Which, BTW, I intend to go back and do for those of the above that aren't already so. :-)--Doug.z(talk • contribs) 19:53, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Some previous discussion on this topic: Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy/Archive 34#Deletion of indefinitely blocked user talk pages. Vassyana (talk) 02:07, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Templates for deletion nomination of Template:"

Template:" has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Hairy Dude (talk) 16:42, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Question from novice re reinstatement of contributed content

I am contacting you because I didn't know where else to start and you removed the Talk thread on an article I contributed earlier this year. In March of this year, I created a new article on a weaver called Mary E. Black. My inexperience resulted in a misunderstanding regarding the origin of the content. The content was originally from a brochure created by my weaving group and then subsequently included on a website that our group helped create <http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/black/biography.asp>. The editor who looked at my article discovered what they thought was plagiarism and removed the article. I was advised to obtain permission to use that content. It has taken some time but I believe we have resolved the situation. The original brochure is now available on our group's web site <http://www.parl.ns.ca/ash/pdf/MEBbrochure.pdf> with a note - "1999-2009 Atlantic Spinners and Handweavers; Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document". In addition, the Archives website has added a note "This text is used with permission from the Atlantic Spinners and Handweavers — http://www.parl.ns.ca/ash/".

So my question is, have I resolved the issue sufficiently to be able to resubmit the article? And if so, how do I proceed? Thank you. Weaverfran (talk) 15:25, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

FL Content

I have worked on an got List of US Open Men's Singles champions to FL status. I am now working on List of French Open Men's Singles champions if you would like to help.BLUEDOGTN 05:07, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wondering If You Could Help...

A couple of months ago, I created a page for the "Original" Clark Sisters, an American close-harmony singing group from the 1930s and '40s, that was fairly well-known at the time. As an announcer at a Jazz radio station, includng being the host of a "Trad Jazz" show, I have some pretty extensive knowledge of this genre of music. I properly referenced the article, and provided appropriate links to and from other related pages. All in all, I think I did a fairly good job, considering it was only my first real page construction.

So, along comes this editor from the U.K., ("Seddon"), and marks the thing for "speedy deletion". Before I can even find out about it, the page is gone. Then, when I try to ask him about it by posting on his talk page, he totally ignores me. In the first place, I can't understand how a U.K. editor is even ALLOWED to edit a piece on U.S. music; secondly, if he is allowed, why is he allowed to place his questionable judgment above mine? I am hoping that you can help me restore the page, so that I don't have to go to all the trouble of re-creating it, at a loss of several hours of my time.

I'm also wondering about the procedure for filing a complaint against an editor. It seems to me that his behavior in this matter has not been appropriate, and I wonder if there is any forum that I can take my complaints to?

Thanks for your time. JazzCarnival (talk) 23:47, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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