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Status of NY Lieutenant Governorship

I've responded at my talkpage. GoodDay (talk) 16:29, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Break bread with me at my talkpage. GoodDay (talk) 20:27, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Lorence G. Collins

Hi Frank,
thanx very much for helping getting the article into shape. Greetings from Southwestern France.
Rudi--Rudolf Pohl (talk) 15:42, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

No problem, but don't thank me just yet. :-) I think the article is overly technical and overly personal. It has something to work with but in order to be encyclopedic, it really needs to be trimmed down as to text, and beefed up as to references. (A personal web site should really only be supportive of other references.) At some point I will delete a bunch of text in the article; if there are issues with that, we can definitely discuss them on the talk page of the article itself.  Frank  |  talk  15:51, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Question

Hi Frank,

How do you know what are the guidlines for Wiki? What is useful and what is not. What warrants an article and what does not? Cheers Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by GCALACL (talk • contribs)

The best place to start is WP:NOTABILITY.  Frank  |  talk  16:15, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Another question

Created an information page on a company Hey wondering why the page was deleted for Pelham Tile & Marble? I was not trying to advertise the business in any way, but rather provide information on what was available and the date it opened Rda526 (talk) 16:33, 16 September 2009 (UTC)rda526

Please see WP:CORP.  Frank  |  talk  16:35, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

ADHD

I noticed your comment at Literaturegeek's talk page.

The ADHD articles need an uninvolved admin to oversee them and bring some order to this dispute (which has already been before ArbCom). Perhaps you could start with this thread at my talk page... –xeno^talk 16:43, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps by making a comment I've moved toward inheriting a conflict. Alas, I do not have time to mediate at the moment. My comment was made in an attempt to ratchet things down a notch or two; I see there's a long-standing dispute, but making an accusation of a personal attack such as that was clearly inappropriate.  Frank  |  talk  17:05, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps not exactly a personal attack but neither do I see it as constructive to apply such wide brush strokes to fellow colleagues. –xeno^talk 17:29, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

SinSir The Rapper

Hi Frank this is SinSir, SinSir article was deleted by you. I would like to know how the article didn't meet Wikipedia guidelines? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sinsir31 (talk • contribs)

It was deleted twice. The first time it was clearly promotional, because all it did was list a twitter feed and a site to buy CDs. The second version was a few sentences that listed info about a rapper but did not explain why the rapper would be considered notable enough to be included in Wikipedia. That version was deleted because there was no assertion of notability. You might want to read WP:COI also.  Frank  |  talk  12:18, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

ANI

FYI, there's an ANI thread] about you, and you may want to comment. My free advice (worth every penny): I know you're trying to help, and what you're saying is reasonable, but when LG has said, fairly clearly, three times, that he doesn't want you to post to his talk page any more, it's unlikely that posting to his talk page is going to do anything good. Even if you're right, and s/he's wrong (which may or may not be the case here, I don't know). --Floquenbeam (talk) 14:59, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice!  Frank  |  talk  15:11, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

My edit to your talk page

Hi Frank, I've just fixed your talk page archives. On 17 and 18 September, MiszaBot III and Misza's other archiving bots had a bug where it would add sections to archives without removing them from the main talk page. Therefore it duplicated some text at User talk:Frank/Archive 5, and because it filled that archive with duplicate text, it created archive 6 of your talk page which just contained one section that was already in archive 5. I've deleted archive 6 and adjusted the archive counter in MiszaBot's configuration on your talk page. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 05:19, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Great, thanks!  Frank  |  talk  12:54, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Re: my RfA.

Hi Frank,

I'm a little distressed with the fact my Rfa nomination has been closed prematurely, without myself being given the opportunity to answer the questions put forward to me. The outline suggests that all RfA nominations are given a 7 day opportunity for debate. And this to me seems to have been over-looked. The case has been closed too early, with myself being denied the chance to answer the doubts that are on people's minds. Although I fully understand the comments people have made for opposing the request - I feel I have been penalised the opportunity to participate in a fair and open inquest. I would sincerely like to be given this opportunity to answer all the doubts people have on their minds about my lack of contributions, and hopefully allow them to see that in fact I am actually compatible and able to fulfil the role of administrator on a site as successful and important as wikipedia. Kindest regards in this matter - Pr3st0n (talk) 19:43, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

It is certainly your right to have your RfA re-opened, but I don't think it will give you the result you're looking for. I recommend you leave it as is and focus on building more content and learning more policies and come back at a later time. If you still wish for it to be re-opened, let me know and I can take care of it for you.  Frank  |  talk  19:46, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Got your message after already reopening. — neuro^(talk) 19:50, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Yep, I saw. It's out of our hands now.  Frank  |  talk  19:50, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

I clearly understand what you have pointed out Frank, and I have read Wikipedia:NOTNOW fully. There is a paragraph in there that discourages early closure - Wikipedia:NOTNOW#Reasons_for_early_closure. Those points discouraging the action don't seem to have been abided, and as a result as caused a premature closer for an open a fair debate to take place. Surely this is an infringement of my rights to participate in a fair discussion while the case was in open discussion? (Pr3st0n (talk) 19:55, 22 September 2009 (UTC))

I don't see how the paragraph you linked discourages early closure. Nevertheless, User:Neurolysis has already reopened it. I think you'll begin to see some of the effects referenced in WP:NOTNOW; don't be discouraged if that occurs. Best wishes, and thanks for all your contributions to Wikipedia.  Frank  |  talk  20:01, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi Frank, I would like to take this opportunity to inform you that I have added additional comments of my own for my RfA request, in the area set out for "questions". Feel free to take a look at these if you like. Regards, Pr3st0n (talk) 20:41, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

RE: Pounds and feet

Hello, Frank. You have new messages at Gu1dry's talk page.
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Whale Killer

Do you mind if I ask why you deleted this redirect? It's a popular "folk etymology" term, the claim being that "Whale Killer" was the original and "Killer Whale" a corruption of it. I have no idea whether this is actually correct, but I have heard this claim often enough that I was surprised to find this redirect missing. I'd appreciate if you would undelete it. — Gavia immer (talk) 03:52, 23 September 2009 (UTC)