User talk:Gadfium

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Naming of schools

Hello Gadfium, you usually take an interest in all things schools, so could you please have a look at this move request and comment? So far, nobody has contributed, and I fear that it will just fizzle out due to a lack of interest. Schwede66 23:04, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers

The article New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable, possibly copyvio. cf. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/200 Greatest Israelis. List articles that simply reproduce lists published elsewhere are non-notable.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:42, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The AFD is interesting. It appears that there was considerable debate about whether such lists are copyright violations, and the suggestion that articles on TV programs which contain lists seems to have been rejected since TV programs are considered notable whereas websites are mostly not. I will consider whether to contest the prod. Rather than debating this article by article, it might be appropriate to hold a more centralised debate on all such TV programs.-gadfium 08:24, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The prod was contested by another editor while I was sleeping. I've since improved the referencing and added my opinion to the AfD.-gadfium 19:44, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:58, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete AfD

Thanks Part of the blame goes to WP:TWINKLE, but ultimately the buck stops with me. Isn't there a bot that comes by and adds these...? Either way, it was very considerate of you to finish this nomination for me and even more considerate for you to tell me. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:30, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Spurious "Human Rights Review Tribunal"

I've now removed it from the archive, but any idea how "Human Rights Review Tribunal" was added in this edit? Mark Hurd (talk) 12:19, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The text must have been in my edit buffer, and Firefox will automatically paste the edit buffer when you middle click (maybe I had to set that up, since I'm primarily a Linux user that's the behaviour I prefer). I must have hit the middle mouse button at the wrong time. My apologies.-gadfium 19:23, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In case you are still blocking JackJit

This is pretty similar to this. Therapy98 quacks like a duck and you brought him up at a previous SPI.

Nevermind, just saw your message above. Will file an old fashioned report. AIRcorn (talk) 06:40, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Help on issue of difference

Hello Gadfium. You have obviously been following the issue between me and BiggerAristotle on the Sonny Bill Williams page. I hope you can understand my position is based upon support and the examples set from other articles with the same issue. I cannot understand BiggerAristotle’s position. He has provided me no evidence to support his removal of my edit other than to carelessly throw around the issue of consensus. He seems to be against my edit simply because it does not agree with his own view. Your support would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.Suid-Afrikaanse (talk) 06:35, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you look to WP:MEDIATION. It seems to me that you are both good faith editors who have a content dispute. I am not particularly interested in the subject, but I would like the article to be stable and without frequent reverts or bitter edit summaries.-gadfium 07:50, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Next Top Model articles

0_0 Dear lord can you help? I have tried doing just that a thousand times — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.206.38.163 (talk • contribs)

I have added links to the appropriate manual of style pages at Talk:Top Model series.-gadfium 00:07, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Faculty of Education, University of Waikato

Hi Gadfium, I am David Blackwell -username foehelp - the web master of the Faculty of Education website from the University of Waikato. My home page: http://education.waikato.ac.nz/about/faculty-staff/?user=dblackw Yesterday we put some content up from our website. Faculty_of_Education,_University_of_Waikato - Can you let me know what we have to do to confirm the content. We own all the copyrights to the material I added and I have the permission to place content on the web representing our faculty. Thanks for your help.