User talk:JohnCD

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Abrosoft Fantamorph

Dear JohnCD

Firstly, Abrosoft Fantamorph has been selected as Gold medal morphing software by TopTenReviews for 6 consecutive years. You can read the review TopTenReviews 2012 from web page: http://morphing-software-review.toptenreviews.com/. So this software is not non-notable. Searching “fantamorph” by Google, you can get a lot of search results to support this conclusion. And so many users share their work made by FantaMorph on Facebook, you can see from web page: http://www.facebook.com/FantaMorph ）, and YouTube.

Secondly, as mentioned in debate, you think this article is like advertising. I am willing to modify the content to meet the claim of Wikipedia.

I believe this software is excellent morphing software. Please give me some advice to improve this article.

Best Regards Jdp 420 (talk) 15:01, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Being excellent software is not enough - to have an article requires WP:Notability which has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." See also Wikipedia:Notability (software). JohnCD (talk) 21:42, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Dear JohnCD

My article modified is now located on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Abrosoft_FantaMorph. This article ‘Abrosoft FantaMorph’ is subordinated to the Chapter 4: ‘Software’ of the article 'Morphing' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphing). Please review my article and give me some advices. Thanks much!

Best Regards

Jdp 420 (talk) 13:46, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

User:Dkjhbrewfhyjegfuygf

He's back up to his previous editing. I've reverted again, but it's highly unlikely that he'll stop doing this. Flyer22 (talk) 16:42, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

I was just going to post the same thing. In general, what should I do when I see that someone is repetitively making malicious edits? What I have done in the past is to keep reverting the edits and wait for an admin to do a block. But I'm not always sure when an admin will notice. Any advice? Thanks. Safehaven86 (talk) 17:29, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Sorry to be slow to respond - I was away, and then busy. I have blocked for a month since a week made no impression. Safehaven86, what to do is explained at WP:Vandalism - in brief, when you revert, give appropriate warnings like {{uw-vandalism2}}, increasing the level each time, and if there is more vandalism after a level 4 warning, make a report at WP:AIV which is watched by many admins. Read the notes headed IMPORTANT at the top of that page. JohnCD (talk) 22:01, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks much! I didn't know about WP:AIV, good to know. Thanks again! Safehaven86 (talk) 22:48, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Forgot to do something

When you deleted the page for this crappy band, you forgot to delete the page for their album too » Nightlife (Skip the Foreplay album) • GunMetal Angel 08:31, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Done. If it happens again that a band is deleted but you see some albums left, all you need to do is put {{db-album}} at the top. JohnCD (talk) 21:56, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thank you for blocking all of the users whom I have reported to AIV today! Electriccatfish2 (talk) 22:34, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks! and thank you for making accurate reports! JohnCD (talk) 10:55, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Attack page created by User:Zebafella

Shouldn't this diff and this diff be deleted to hide attacked names. -- SLV100 (talk) 00:54, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

 Done. They are buried deep in the archive of that report page, but better safe than sorry. Thanks, JohnCD (talk) 11:00, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Page needs to be moved

This page » The Broken (album) needs to be moved to The Broken! but the task can't be completed by a general user because that page is protected from all editing. So if you could, could you maybe unprotect The Broken! and move that article to its title? • GunMetal Angel 09:26, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

No, sorry - The Broken! was about the same album, and is a redirect because two AfDs, the more recent one at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Broken! (2nd nomination) decided that the album was not notable enough per WP:NALBUMS to have a stand-alone article; and the redirect was protected because people kept re-creating the album article. So if you want an article about the album, you should first check out WP:NALBUMS and make sure you have enough references, and then see whether you can convince user Mandsford (talk), who closed the more recent AfD, that you have overcome the issues from the AfD. If Mandsford doesn't agree, you can go to WP:Deletion review. In the meantime, I have redirected and protected The Broken (album) in line with the result of the AfD; but if you like I will userfy it for you - move it into a user sub-page where you can work on it so as to have something to show Mandsford or a DRV. JohnCD (talk) 12:13, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

I'd rather not, they're a god-awful "band" that I care nothing for. I was just seeing if the article was being made that it could have its title moved to the correct spot. But not notable is not notable • GunMetal Angel 21:38, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for admin help

Hi JohnCD, Thanks a lot for giving a reply on User_talk:Geo_Swan . I was looking for a view from a more experienced editors and got it. I had placed the admin help template there for the sake of context but on giving second thoughts I thought it was not appropriate to ask for help on someone else's talk page. so removed the template. regards--DBigXray 10:39, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Page for the film Crulic

Hello JohnCD,

Thanks for your helpful message on my user page.

I do hope I was as objective as impartial as possible in doing my edits for the page.

I am indeed part of the team that did the animation, and of course one can say it was in our interest to be mentioned, but *not* mentioning the animation team for an independent, animated film of very special nature (our role and contribution was as big as the director's regarding the output of the film) would have been a very inaccurate way of portraying the way the film was done. And this was exactly the status of the page previously. I am quite confident that the info I introduced was both impartial, "non-promotional" in nature and useful.

I mentioned in my argumentation that I'm doing this with the approval of the producer/director and that I'm part of the team not to try to claim "ownership" of the article but simply to highlight the fact that when it comes to information about: budget, team, producers and financing institutions, I do have first hand, correct information. Which wasn't the case for the first iteration of the article, where info looked to me as being pulled from various interviews and articles from the web, which often mention those things incorrect or incomplete or in the wrong order.

As well, information mentioned in the infobox was simply not correct/complete.

A broader problem that I see is that a suitable infobox for some type of cinematographic projects simply does not exist. The closest I found would be the "Hollywood cartoon" one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Hollywood_cartoon), but that misses fields for country, for example.

I the case of such a film (I'm not talking about Hollywood animation blockbusters with a famous director and 200 animators but about independent films done in a very different manner), there are no "Starring" but Voice-acting, the animators / art directors are few and work very closely with the director and have a major contribution to the output (it's not them fulfilling the creative vision of the director but creating the film along him/her), different production houses/studio/distribution etc. In short, I find the typical infobox completely unsuited to describe this type of project, and I couldn't find a suitable one. Again, the fields in the Hollywood cartoon infobox are the closest to what should be (Director, Story, Voice, Animation, Layout, Studio, Distribution etc).

Thank you,

Digitallysane (talk) 22:45, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

No problem - Wikipedia is not very good at explaining that it is different from sites like Myspace where people have "home pages" for themselves and their projects. I wanted to be sure you understood that, while your input is welcome, this is Wikipedia's article about the film, not yours, and will not be written just to suit your requirements.

In regard to the infobox, there is a "WikiProject", a group of editors interested in film articles, at WP:WikiProject Film. If you like to make a suggestion on their talk page for a new type of film infobox, you might well find people willing to help devise one. JohnCD (talk) 10:39, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Deletion of Wooday P Krishna

Hi John, Even after giving correct references and information, i see that the article I created on Dr. Wooday P Krishna has been deleted. Can i know the reason. Also wanted to know how i could create an article about him as he is a renowned personality.

Regards, Dr. Savipriya — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr.savipriya (talk • contribs) 11:56, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 22:36, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Fullerton Transportation Center Infobox-Sandbox

I just tried to revert the speedy deletion tag in my sandbox for a new infobox for the Fullerton Transportation Center, but you deleted it a second after it was reverted. Would you mind restoring it temporarily? ----DanTD (talk) 20:11, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

 Done. Sorry about that - my finger must already have been descending towards the "delete" button when you removed the db tag! JohnCD (talk) 20:29, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. However, I found out some other editor who was helping me out with this fixed it already, so I'm going revive the tag again. ----DanTD (talk) 20:49, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

No problem - zapped again. JohnCD (talk) 20:51, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Hello,

Sorry, but it's not a promotion! A lot of Dj have the same page in your wikipedia :) ? What is the problem!? It is just a biography but not a promotion and the Dj have facebook and others websites for promotion.. ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by DjaneNadine (talk • contribs) 21:12, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

audit commission national fraud initiative

Dear John

You have deleted my page about the National Fraud Initiative.

I should have thought that a computer industry expert would have been interested in the way that data mining is being used to target people for investigations even though no inconsistency has been found and while the public discourse indicates that the algorithms used amount to 'data matching' defined as matching to discover anomalies and discrepancies.

My article tracked the NFI's public stance on this from the original 'identifies inconsistencies' position put to Parliament to the later and current 'identifies cases which might turn out to be inconsistent' and are 'potentially inconsistent'.

It does this in respect of a particular exercise which has resulted in widespread public disquiet and internal legal reviews within the Commission.

The objection to this article came from the NFI which said my edits overwhelmed the article. Given that my edits put into the public domain important internal issues and public issues one could argue it is likely that they simply want to close down the flow of information.

I could have been asked to shorten my section.

The original article includes 'references' to a newspaper article which itself commits exactly the 'sin' of providing misleading ideas about how the NFI works.

Encyclopoedias do often include technical material; I see no problem, with this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aithne Arnette (talk • contribs) 07:43, 20 June 2012 (UTC) Aithne Arnette (talk) 07:51, 20 June 2012 (UTC) Aithne

Your contribution has not been deleted - it has been moved to User:Aithne Arnette/National Fraud Initiative, a sub-page in your user space where you can work on it. What happened was that you added it to Audit Commission, but because it was over-detailed and was unbalancing the article (after your addition, two thirds of the article was about this one aspect of the Commission's work) another user, Rd232 (talk), moved it to your user space. In doing that, Rd232 first moved it to the wrong title "Aithne Arnette/National Fraud Initiative" and then on to the correct one "User:Aithne Arnette/National Fraud Initiative". All that I deleted was a "redirect" left behind by the second move.

I have not time now to read your contribution in detail - I will try to do so later today - but at a glance it does not look to me like an encyclopedia article. It seems to be polemic, you are building up a case, but that is not what an encyclopedia is for - see Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Please read the policy Wikipedia:No original research, which includes a prohibition of "synthesis": "Do not combine material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources."

For the way Wikipedia works, read WP:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle. If think the Audit Commission article needs amendment, to include something based on this material or to comment on the existing source you think misleading, make suggestions on the article talk page and try to reach a WP:Consensus with other editors. JohnCD (talk) 11:38, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi I have a question to ask

Is there any way that you can block my page entirely from myself and other users, so that it won't appear at all on Wikipedia? I would like this request if you can do it, because I don't think this site is for me. I am having a hard time and I am no longer interested in editing pages. KimCyanide (talk) 12:22, 20 June 2012 (UTC)KimCyanide

If you just want to leave, you can simply stop using your account - that way, you can always come back later. If you want more than that, and plan to leave permanently, see Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing for what to do. JohnCD (talk) 14:29, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Heads up

Just an FYI, User:Careymur is a student in a class I'm working with at Rutgers this semester for the Wikipedia US Education Program. Looks like they misunderstood one of their assignments. AndrewN ^talk 20:46, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I realised this was a student. Unfortunately, s/he doesn't seem to have read our advice, and has simply posted the CFORK mini-article again. I have deleted it as a test page, but perhaps you can do some more hand-holding. I hope this is not a "must post something by Friday, no matter what" situation like we sometimes see with student programs. JohnCD (talk) 21:04, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for the double post... Database inserts were apparently working, but not the apache servers. xD Oh well, seems fixed now. AndrewN ^talk 21:10, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

She's posted the same article again...I've nominated it for speedy deletion per G2, but is there a different action that should be taken with it? Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 17:50, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

(sigh) I wonder if s/he actually knows s/he has a talk page? (Don't know if it's he or she, "Carey" seems to be a unisex first name). I will explain there, again, and also tell AndrewN. Thanks for letting me know. JohnCD (talk) 18:02, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi I have an important question

I really want to vanish from Wikipedia by changing my username, but the bureaucrats are never online and one of them keeps ignoring my request- what should I do?KimCyanide (talk) 09:18, 21 June 2012 (UTC)KimCyanide

Sorry, only a bureaucrat can do that for you. See WP:VANISH#How to request a courtesy vanishing for how to send an email request to a list that all the bureaucrats see. It may take a day or two, they are all volunteers and there are not many of them, but it'll get done. JohnCD (talk) 09:47, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Heads up!

I have replied in my talk page! --Tito Dutta ✉ 10:23, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

I had only just begun

I had only just begun editing, and adding a exxtreamly important article.

To proceed as you have, seems like you are a very stupid, I am sorry to hear this. Maybe if you are more tactical you can get get some money and perhaps change your ways. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Starofnight2012 (talk • contribs) 13:43, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Hey email me

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Starofnight2012 (talk • contribs) 14:42, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

No, I prefer to conduct our conversation here on-wiki. Your talk page will be the most convenient place - I will watch that, so I will see any message you place there. Please add new messages to the bottom of talk pages, and sign them with four "tilde" characters ~~~~, which the system will turn into a signature with your username and the time and date, like this: JohnCD (talk) 14:50, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Deletion Of Zain-Ul-Abideen

why did you delete it.if u could do edit the page if i did something wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Turyalazamkhan (talk • contribs) 18:14, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Lauren Ward

Dear John, I did not create my page. I have no idea who did, but I noticed it was deleted 24 January 2010 because it was no longer relevant I think. Anyway, I have no idea how to do these things, but please feel free to look over www.laurenward.me.com which someone created for me last year to see if I might be again. I did take a bit of time off to have my children, but I am still very active in the theatre world. i come up pretty high on the google page, although there are some others by the same name these days. Best wishes, Lauren Ward (----). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.2.101.19 (talk) 22:03, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

The article I deleted was about a young lady born in 1990 who "will be graduating from University in 2013 and will be looking for a career in marketing." I don't think that's you, is it? Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:12, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

No it's not, thank you. best wishes, lauren(----) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.2.101.19 (talk) 20:58, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	thanks for your advice I am very Glad as you are working for betterment of Wikipedia. But I want to say that You have spelled my name anjurag which is actually Anurag Regards Anurag (talk) 14:46, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

• Sorry about that - I was typing too fast. Thank you for the barnstar! JohnCD (talk) 14:48, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi JohnCD,

Just wanted to thank you for taking the time some weeks ago to help me out with the Jose La Luz article. Your help was so greatly appreciated and timely. Let me know if you happen to see anything else that I need a heads up on that I should be doing.

Again, I appreciate your help, as you were very quick to respond....which BTW do you happen to know how long the editing process is before the article will go live? Weeks? Months?

Thank you!

Vesperms (talk) 21:05, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

The article has been created - did you not see the message on your talk page? Click on José La Luz. Well done. JohnCD (talk) 21:11, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Mary Alexandra Stiefvater page

Dear JohnCD I was directed to talk to you regarding the deletion of the page I created before trying again. When I looked at it last 2 pages (one in lowercase and one in uppercase/lowercase) had been created under that title and it appeared that the one "mary alexandra stiefvater" was scheduled for deletion and the other "Mary Alexandra Stiefvater" had been approved so I am unclear what I did wrong or how I can fix it so it is correct. I included everything it asked for, references, links to wiki articles, links to outside articles and a photo. What do I need to do to create the page so it doesn't get deleted? Thank you for your help, Thunderroad10 Thunderroad10 (talk) 22:29, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Apologies for delay in responding - answer on your talk page tomorrow. JohnCD (talk) 22:25, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Religious_affiliations_of_the_Chairmen_of_the_Federal_Reserve_of_the_United_States

JohnCD - I disagree with your decision to decline the CSD A10 on this page. I can see no other purpose of such a page than to support Anti-Jewish movements. There is no encyclopedic value gained and I can't think of another article that could be considered similar. The article creator's intent was antisemitic and I can't see any salvageable information. I think CSD A10 is appropriate. Would you consider it wheel warring if I were to delete it myself?--v/r - TP 20:03, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)Sorry to butt in, but there is a reasonably active discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Religious affiliations of the Chairmen of the Federal Reserve of the United States‎; while I (obviously as nom) think it should be deleted, perhaps it would be better to wait for the outcome of the discussion? Some people are !voting keep. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 20:06, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I left my opinion there.--v/r - TP 20:11, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

TP, I won't revert you if you do, but I urge you not to. The page may well be deletable on notability grounds but, as Writ Keeper points out, there are several keep opinions at the AfD, so it is not an open-and-shut case. The page as it stands is purely factual, and it seems to me that to read it as intended to "disparage, threaten, intimidate or harass their subject or some other entity, and serve no other purpose" requires making assumptions about the intention of the page author, which is not a good basis for deletion decisions. We should consider the content, not the contributor. JohnCD (talk) 20:28, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

I would have to disagree with you, but it's no matter anymore. I've gone ahead and left a comment with the others at AFD. We'll just let the consensus-driven process sort it out.--v/r - TP 22:08, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Morgan Katarn

Hi John, I just discovered that Morgan Katarn (talk · contribs) is a block-evasion sockpuppet. I have left details on his user talk if you are inclined to read them. I thought it might affect the standard offer you gave him, and also that we will now need to monitor him for future socks. Some guy (talk) 21:58, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

I've got there too - see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Furko Nellis which I have raised to ask for checkuser, so that we have evidence to give to :de. Cheers, JohnCD (talk) 22:04, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Dear John on 23 June 2012 16:03 you have deleted "Neocleous's Introduction to CYprus law" Page because an author of the book requested the deletion. Can i ask you how do you verify that the person requesting deletion is actually an author of the book? And since this is a free and open site is it possible to give me his/her name?