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Just out of curiosity, what's the difference between a RevDel and Oversight? It's... MR BERTY! ^talk/_stalk 16:17, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Revision deletion is explained here. Oversight is explained here. The key difference is that oversight expunges information from any form of usual access even by administrators. WilliamH (talk) 17:04, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict)

To go back one step - before RevDel existed, admins could delete and undelete pages. Other admins could, of course, 'see' and undelete the pages. There are about 1700 admins.

Oversight, however, allowed a very restricted number of users (less than 50) to remove a page from history completely - so that even admins could not view it.

Moving forwards in time, 'oversight' was replaced with 'suppression' - although it's still mostly called oversight. This allowed people with the oversight permission to suppress just some information from an old revision of a page - the user name, the edit summary, the content, and the log entries created. This is a relatively minor changed; the 'suppressed' information was still only accessible to the very, very few people with oversight permission.

And then, along came 'revdel' - revision deletion - which allows administrators to be selective - to be able to 'delete' (ie remove from view) parts of a page - username, edit summary, etc. The deleted revisions are, however, still viewable by administrators.

So - it's mostly about the level of restriction.

Revdel is the remit of administrators (about 1700 of them), Oversight is the remit of oversighters (about 50 of them).

Thus, revdel is simpler, and can be quicker - because there are more people who can do it; oversight is for the more 'serious' cases where extreme caution is required.

I hope that gives enough of an answer; more details are, of course, in WP:REVDEL and WP:OVERSIGHT.

I must stress that, if you ever have a serious concern about an entry (legal concerns, serious threats, non-public info, and that kind of thing) then do not discuss it on wiki - instead, send an email to oversight-en-wp@wikipedia.org and they'll sort you out.

Cheers, Chzz ► 17:12, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I think I have over-eaten too much info! It's... MR BERTY! ^talk/_stalk 17:15, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Minos EMI

The edits you made are incorrect. The old LP logo that has been orphaned can be safely deleted since the page already has a faithful graphical representation of the old logo. Therefore, it is not a "new" logo as you indicated, in fact, it's very old as it's a scan off of a vinyl record. I hope the information in the article makes this clear and thanks for your interest in the article. Imperatore (talk) 19:49, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

So you didn't notice there was a better, high resolution label (it was in SVG format) of that there then? It's... MR BERTY! ^talk/_stalk 06:57, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pardon me, but I don't get the purpose behind your offensive tone. I decided to keep the SVG, making the vinyl label I had uploaded an orphan, so I must've "noticed" there was an issue there. Imperatore (talk) 19:28, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Two Phazed People

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A tag has been placed on Two Phazed People requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Your recent edits

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Incorrect revert

Hello Mr. Berty. The revert you made here wasn't quite appropriate. The anonymous editor had made perfectly legitimate corrections, which I have reinstated. Favonian (talk) 11:55, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A. B. Simpson Alliance School

Just a heads-up... schools are exempt from CSD-A7. Catfish Jim & the soapdish 11:53, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also, could you explain your rationale here: User talk:King Bowser It's not obvious how that username goes against policy. Catfish Jim & the soapdish 12:07, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well you can't have that as a username, because that is rather a conflict of interst. It's... MR BERTY! ^talk/_stalk 12:11, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Could you give an example of a situation in which naming yourself after a video game character would create a conflict of interest? Catfish Jim & the soapdish 12:24, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

............................................................................ It's... MR BERTY! ^talk/_stalk 12:26, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion declined: Denis ikkos

Hello Mr. Berty. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Denis ikkos, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: the article's claims of a memorial lecture in his name and a syndrome named for him are enough to pass A7, and Google confirms that they are real. Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 14:32, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion declined: Live Trax Vol. 19

Hello Mr. Berty. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Live Trax Vol. 19, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because: the artist's article does exist on Wikipedia. Thank you. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 14:47, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Recent anti-vandalism work

Hello Mr Berty. I noticed you've been doing some anti-vandalism work, which is good to see - you've spotted and removed quite a few problems, including some very serious ones. However, having reviewed some of your recent edits, I need to suggest that you take a bit more care, as there are some errors creeping into your work. In particular, you seem to be warning a number of users who are not engaged in vandalism (for example [1], [2], [3], [4]), as well as warning users without also removing the vandalism concerned ([5], [6]). You should also remember only to warn someone once - here you warned an IP three times, escalating the warning each time, when the IP wasn't continuing to edit, and you forgot to remove the vandalism as part of the process. As a result the IP was blocked by an admin who may well have assumed that the vandalism they had reverted was after the warnings.

At any rate, I see that you're doing some good work and reverting a lot of vandalism, which is great! However, you do need to be more careful and make sure that the edit constitutes vandalism before warning the user. - Bilby (talk) 16:15, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

article names for NRHP-listed places

I noticed and am planning to reverse several article name changes, which had moved articles about NRHP-listed places in the Oyster Bay, New York area from their NRHP listing name to some other name, in my view without justification. I commented about this at Talk:House at 103 Roslyn Avenue#article name. Could you possibly please discuss there? Thanks. Keep up the good work editing! --doncram (talk) 16:34, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Foolish revision of Tony Eveready

My edits are defamatory content? Excuse me? Everything I posted was 100% true and sourced. Perhaps you are the one who needs to be blocked from editing without further notice.