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Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis

As a contributor to this article, you may be interested to know I have nominated it for deletion. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis. Robofish (talk) 20:56, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

AFD video game music culture

I missed the discussion before it closed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Video_game_music_culture

the only reason i created this article was to give a home to all of the garbage that people kept putting in the regular Video Game Music article. The intent was to trim the fat off, which most of us regular editors thought it was in need of. But the edit history was too persistant about adding stuff like that into it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Video_game_music#trim_article

"I see what you're worried about, but i figure, just get it all seperated from the meat of the article first, then let the rest of wikipedia decide wether or not the leftovers & perceived self promoters merit anything. Even if they nix the other one, then we have a foundation for saying that it doesn't belong in this article either."

and that was back in 2006

I would actually rather the article be deleted and NOT merged back in, as it was all non-pertinent information that we stripped off of the Video Game Music article anyways; and looking at its edit history, it doesn't have much in the way of evolution since I made it anyways. Just wanted to chime in. RCHM (talk) 22:48, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Yes, well, as you say: you missed the AfD. Sorry.  Sandstein  17:41, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

The last rendition of an article prior to your deletion

Base-2 scientific notation has been deleted -- 05:08, 2 May 2012 -- by you. Is there any possible way to get a copy of that article, the very last rendition of it prior to your deletion?

In my gross naivete and based on some reference within all those notes about the page, I thought we had until May 22 before the final judgment. There were changes made on May 1 that we did not copy somewhere else. I still believe there are enough encyclopedic references within obscure academic journals to justify our simple approach -- five high school geometry classes were involved! Original research? I don't think so, and I am quite sure that it is all out there somewhere. The conceptual frameworks are all just too basic. Notwithstanding, is there a way to recover that last rendition of the article? Thank you.

BruceCamber (talk) 12:57, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

A copy is available at [1], but will expire in a day because of copyright/attribution issues.  Sandstein  20:43, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 April 27

We cleared one day, Sandstein. Let's pat ourselves on the back. I left one open--Big D. Thanks for taking care of it. Drmies (talk) 04:46, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome - have a nice weekend.  Sandstein  12:05, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

I passed the (music) Notability and you deleted my article

As per the Big D Kuwaiti Rapper article on wikipidea how can you delete it if it passed the(music) Notability rules? your deletion was a error! As per your rules in the notability I came across a sentence that said a musician may be notable if it meets at least "one of the following criteria": you claimed "ONE" the criteria's stated "published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles" and I had a newspaper article “Big D - Kuwaiti rapper promotes positive message (Article – Via Arab Times)", If you want it in PDF format, “Click Here" I also have another reference which is www.kuwait-music.com which the website owner was interviewed by BBC and his website was nominated the leading website of music in Kuwait VIA ARAB TIMES I’m honored to say they featured me in their website too “Click here to view my User profile on Kuwait-Music.com” which was "online versions of print media" "Kuwait-Music.com is legit according to BBC click here "BBC News- Musicians in Kuwait struggle with censorship, Kuwait Music" and watch the video. Also according to ARAB TIMES newspaper article, "Kuwait-Music.Com Helps Bridge Cultures - Via Arab Times" So I guess your deletion was a ERROR, because I had more the one notable reference! You just deleted me because everyone said delete and Nobody reads my sources! I request you re-open my page. Regards, Big D — Preceding unsigned comment added by Big D Kuwait (talk • contribs) 11:53, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

I suppose you refer to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Big D Kuwait. Sorry, but no. As you say, "everyone said delete". Wikipedia is based on consensus, and as the person who closes the discussion I have to follow that consensus, no matter whether you or I agree with it or not.  Sandstein  12:05, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Okay sounds reasonable but since you mentioned the consensus of the people, everybody noted that my article was to be userfied too, breaking a persons spirit like that is not cool, at least you could of used the consensus of the people to userfiy it like all the admins noted, So when I can gather reliable sources that meet more of the music notability rules we could re-post my article and get accepted in the future. I guess the best solution and the least you can do for my 1 month of hard work is to restore the data and userfy it and in the future when I gather more reliable sources to get accecpted then I could submit it to Wikepdia.

P.S they all said to delete it before the ARAB TIMES article I got the notable source only 3 days before you deleted the article and the article was available for a month that is why there are so many people that said delete.

I'll userfy the article, if at least one other editor is interested in retaining and improving it. I'll not restore it for you alone, as per WP:COI#Autobiography writing one's own article is very much frowned upon here. Also, please sign your talk page messages, per WP:SIGN.  Sandstein  12:57, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Could it be my wife? or does it have to be a admin? and do I edit it in my sandbox? or does she copy and paste my old article on a user page and improves it?  Big D  (talk • contribs) 1:02, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Some previously established Wikipedia editor who is interested in the topic and, naturally, is not related to you or acting on your behalf. They can request that the deleted article be restored to their userspace where they can improve the article and, if they think that the problems identified in the deletion discussion are fixed, request consensus to restore the article to mainspace at WP:DRV. You yourself, per WP:COI, should not normally edit the article about yourself.  Sandstein  13:56, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Caucasian Albania article level sanctions appeal

Dear Sandstein, please be aware of this request at WP:AE: [2] I believe in the light of consequent SPI results it is time to review the remedy imposed on this particular article. Further information is available in my appeal. Best regards, Grandmaster 10:03, 6 May 2012 (UTC)