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Moxy Früvous

I believe we are missing out on our one chance to make a Moxy Früvous joke on the main page. Cheers, --kelapstick(bainuu) 13:44, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for editing the page on "The Critics", I totally messed up on it... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthewethanchowtoy (talk • contribs) 00:47, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merge discussion for Coupe de Ville

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A barnstar for you!

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thanks for keeping George Hislop's memory alive! Wporquet (talk) 17:17, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Talk:Cory Doctorow#Cory Doctorow and Creative Commons

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Cory Doctorow#Cory Doctorow and Creative Commons. Thanks. Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 01:54, 17 June 2014 (UTC)Template:Z48[reply]

Tony Penikett_2

Will you be addressing the image concerns on Talk:Tony Penikett? 117Avenue (talk) 05:21, 17 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Had no real plans of getting involved in that, no. My interest in the article has been limited to fixing the referencing and preventing the WP:COI editor who's been trying to blank almost everything about his political career — when it comes to the photograph, however, I'm sorry to admit that I really don't care one way or the other. So I have absolutely nothing to contribute to the discussion, and I don't see anything in that discussion which implies that there's actually been a consensus established to actually do anything in particular. So, shrug. Bearcat (talk) 05:36, 17 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I don't want to sound mean, but protecting the page without giving an end date, editing the article without edit summaries, and not participating on the talk page appears to be article ownership. 117Avenue (talk) 06:20, 17 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Then kindly review the history of what was actually happening to the article — preventing an editor from blanking large sections of the article, including the almost complete obliteration of the fact that he had ever been Premier of the Yukon at all, is a standard "administrator enforcing Wikipedia's rules" issue, not an "ownership" one. And I really don't have anything at all to contribute to the photograph discussion either way, so exactly what am I supposed to "participate" in it by actually saying? Bearcat (talk) 06:23, 17 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Being the overseeing admin, you could review the discussion and make a decision on which image to use, "close" it as it were. 117Avenue (talk) 02:45, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Categories by nationality/place

Hi, Bearcat! With regards to the LGBT writers from Canada category on Henri Nouwen's page, I'm wondering if your explanation for putting it back on is related to the place and nationality guidelines outlined here? I read them over before removing the category and it wasn't clear (to me) that simply publishing while living in a country would suffice for inclusion. With that said, I can see how 'LGBT Canadian writers' implies something different than 'LGBT writers from Canada'. In an event, I'd like to try and avoid any confusion in the future. Thanks, Dnllnd (talk) 23:17, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Scott Lively

I wonder, if homophobia is the main reason a person is notable, if that category might actually not be unreasonable? (I'd agree in most circumstances with your edit). Black Kite kite (talk) 20:54, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hmph, yeah, that's a battle I'm not going to fight. Ditto the ridiculous situation where we can place a person into the category of advocating a pseudoscience, yet not into the Pseudoscience category itself. Black Kite kite (talk) 21:16, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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re: massacres of men

Hi Bearcat, I responded to your comment, I agree with you it should not be used for killings of soldiers by soldiers, but as far as I can tell the contents are all killings of civilians. I provided some links and other evidence there, I'd appreciate if you'd read what I wrote and reconsider your !vote. thanks,--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 02:46, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

please... Your vote means a lot to me. Out of hundreds of massacre articles I only found ~20 where male civilians were explicitly separated and slaughtered. This is called sex-selective murder or Androcide and is covered in the literature and Adam Jones has built a database of such instances so reliable sources care about this and group such massacres together. These were not battles nor killings of combatants. I'd really appreciate you taking another look. Thanks.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 02:08, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Hanna (professor).

You deleted this as entirely promotional, whereas i think it merely has one or two unnecessary promotional sentences, and is otherwise reasonably objective. Please restore it, and I will fix it., which is just a matter of removing the promotional sentences. I know i could undelete it myself, but I like to ask. , DGG ( talk ) 02:03, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is about the deletion of the "The Dollar Business" page created earlier this month by bearcat.

The Dollar Business is one of the new magazines and one of the few trade magazine and website in India. It is of public importance and carried very basic information. Please "keep" it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vidhubhushan (talk • contribs) 07:27, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Richard Lee (Canadian politician) for deletion

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Michael Hanna (professor).

Dear Bearcat, I'm new to Wikipedia, and created this page. Please can you let me know what I need to do to have it "undeleted" - and then can go about editing as needed. Many thanks N — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael Hanna12 (talk • contribs) 10:43, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please help

Please have a look at this and help if possible, I have no idea who to turn to with this so I'm trying to contact more experienced Wikipedians.

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Canadian poets / Canadian women poets

I was taking a look at some poetry stuff and I noticed that Category:Canadian poets are all men, with all of the women placed in Category:Canadian women poets. Then I noticed it was something you did in January. Is this something you're working on to ultimately make the category a container? Right now it looks like the opposite of what is supposed to be done. Am I missing something? __ E L A Q U E A T E 00:09, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Please consider also these deletions

first, with respect to promotionalism:

  1. Sumantra Chattarji is not at all promotional, but factual, and depended on citations, probably will meet WP:PROF.
  2. For Woody Carvalho, the article does not seem in the least promotional: it's a straightforward description. It's sketchy, but there is a sources, and, since it has an equivalent in the Portuguese WP, a decent article could be written. (It's since been re-entered here unimproved, and another admin, WilyD has declined an A7, on the same reasons I give here)
  3. For Uniiverse , again the article seems basically descriptive . I'm not sure its notable, but that's another question.
  4. Vladimir Stritesky is factual not promotional. It will never survive afd or even blpprod, but it's not G11.

second, with respect to A7:

  1. Ronald Beckett asserts the creation of large classical works that have been performed by recognized, though not famous, orchestras. I don;t know he's actually notable, but this is surely a claim to some degree of significance.
  2. f Christopher Blank - Bourque was a valid BLPPROD, and is almost certainly not notable, but it's not A7, since he played in the American Hockey League, which is a reasonable claim to significance.
  3. Vladimir Stritesky lists various awards. I doubt they;re enough to make him notable, but it would need discussion. (It was since reinserted, and another admin declined the A7 on the same grounds as myself)
  4. Cousin Matty is asseterd to be a significant performer. I doubt actual notability as such, butenough of a claim is made that there might be arguments if someone looked for sources, so it isn;t a speedy.
  5. The Dollar Business is probably not notable, but it could be said to make a claim of significance as being published by a major publisher, and is at any rate a product, not a company and not subject to A7.
  6. For Ps 235 lenox school, you deleted it as A7 although A7 does not apply to schools. It's easy enough to just redirect.

additionally, all of these were unilateral deletions on you part, without a prior nomination by another editor. There are rare times when this is needed, but it is certainly discouraged, primarily because of the possibility of making errors, or at least in doing deletions which really needed some discussion. I also notice you did not in any of these inform the contributor. This too is permitted, but discouraged. It seems to be extraordinarily unfair, especially to new users, and most particularly to new users acting in good faith whom it will almost always lose to WP. (especially because its trivial to do it with Huggle). If evidence were needed to prohibit unilateral deletions except for vandalism, or to require notification, this set of deletions (all in June 2014) would serve as good examples. . You have been an admin since 2005, two years longer than i. have. I know that back then deletion practices were much more free-form; I've had to rethink some of my practices a expectations have changed, and I think all of us who have been here that long will always need to periodically do so. Personally, It certainly would seem nice to be able to delete things by myself on he ground that i didn't think the community would find them notable, using my own view as the test of that. . But that's why we have the community discussions. The basis for speedy as for all other administrative actions is, rather, that no reasonable admin would disagree. Everything else needs community discussion. DGG ( talk ) 04:43, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hwy6map.png is wrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hwy6map.PNG)

Are you the person who uploaded hwy6map.png? Because Lake Ontario and Lake Erie are labelled the wrong way round on the map. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 17:21, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK TX. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 17:38, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Arnold Chan

Thanks for the note regarding election and by-election dates. I didn't really mind arguing about it, but it was getting rather tedious. Now I won't have to! Thanks again! Tholden28 (talk) 01:19, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's funny, I was thinking the same thing. -- 24.212.139.102 (talk) 17:26, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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