User talk:Geoffspear/Archive 2

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Hi! This is Icarus!, being non-Wiki (I'm not logged in...), saying thanx for the work on the Discordianism page! Keep it up!24.176.20.60 17:21, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Ozark_Games

Hi. I noticed earlier that you took the speedy deletion tag (added by another user) off Ozark_Games. Since the article is clearly a vanity page created by the owners of a "company" with no products and little more than a non-functioning website, I put a prod tag on it.

The original creator of the page removed my prod tag, but also removed the entire content of the article. The deletion guidelines are a bit unclear on a situation like this; I wouldn't call this action a dispute of the proposed deletion, but I'm not sure if the best course would be to renominate for speedy deletion, re-add the prod tag, or put it up for AfD. Geoffrey Spear 17:53, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

The correct action is to renominate for speedy deletion using {{db-blanked}}. Stifle (talk) 18:07, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Keep Sampa Corporation page

I'd like to request the non-deletion of Sampa Corporation page. This is a real business that exists for more than a year, it is currently Beta testing its product and has more than 500 current users on the system.

Let me know what other information would you like to receive to validate this business.

Speedy deletion

File:Eraser closeup.jpg

Hi! You just nominated Student universe for speedy deletion, giving the reason "spam". This isn't a recognised reason to speedy delete, so the tag has been removed. There are other methods of deletion available, so if you still believe Student universe shouldn't be on Wikipedia, you can consider WP:PROD or WP:AfD instead. Thanks.➨ ЯEDVERS 20:33, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Malcolm Martineau Redirect

Thanks for setting up the redirect to Malcolm Martineau. I was just about to undo my cock-up myself, but you beat me to it! Nunquam Dormio 14:33, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

hey

i already wrote my explanation and it said to remove those things

i deserve a page dude

Taylor Hewitt 20:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

FYI, User:Taylorhewitt, whose vanity page (Talk:Taylor Hewitt) was recently deleted, has once again removed the prod from Xtreme iTalk ... is there some way to protect the main page and still let him make comments for improvement on the discussion page? (I'm too new at this to understand how all of the magicks work.) --Dennette 19:08, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Bougainville national football team

Since the article was deleted and no information could be found on team, I took the liberty of deleting the article from the NF-Board template so it won't be created in the future. Thanks for the catch! Patken4 00:03, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

How are you fixing footnote doubling?

That is happening with all my articles, every time I edit them. Is there a way I could fix it myself? I haven't a clue how. Mattisse(talk) 15:33, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Adding a name attribute to the ref tag seems to have sort of fixed the one I did; however, the ref is still "double" if you look closely; it has two links next to it pointing to the references above. I have absolutely no idea what's causing it to double, and it looks just fine in preview and on diff pages. Something very odd is going on for sure. Geoffrey Spear 15:37, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I check the link you sent. Mattisse(talk) 15:42, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

No intent to tease

Sorry for writing non encyclopedically. :( Chivista 14:36, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Stop deleting my article!

All I wrote was fact. It is all verifiable. --Kevin Schmelzlen

User:Dr.wizard 13

Hey, users can have on their page anything they want. Speedying a user's page is not really appropriate. - CobaltBlueTony 16:11, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Understandable. I've created user pages and subpages and all sorts of errors. I once moved a page 6 times because I kept mistyping the proper title. - CobaltBlueTony 16:42, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Diego Galli

Can you help me with citing sources. I don't understand the message about wikipedia as a media source Diego Galli 18:37, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

WP:RCP

thanks for the link to WP:RCP (from Afd Lostcherry.com). User:Yy-bo 20:17, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Vicente Fox

Last time I checked, rollback is not allowed for content disputes. Has this changed? I'd appreciate it if you'd at least comment on the talkpage, instead of just rolling back without providing justification. Ya ya ya ya ya ya 18:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't think blanking sections of a page because their sources are in Spanish counts as a "content dispute". It borders on vandalism, frankly. Geoffrey Spear 19:04, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Your use of speedy deletion tags

Regarding your edit to Seocontest:

Speedy deletion criteria are strict for a reason. This policy is abused a lot, please take care to not use a {{db}} tag where the criteria clearly do not apply. There is nothing wrong with listing an article for AfD, if it is truely as worthless as you (and I) feel, its AfD discussion will be a landslide and will take very little time compared to some of the more controversial AfD discussions anyways. BigNate37_(T) 16:30, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh please. Read the fifth pillar already, and tell me what the point is of wasting everyone's time with process when the outcome is a foregone conclusion. The spammers win if they're fighting against a slow bureaucracy. Geoffrey Spear 16:34, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, spam isn't really benefitial to the spammer when it has a big deletion notice on it, and the cost to us is very little. I can see you are rather senstive about it, so I won't press the issue. Please be careful though: when you intentionally disregard policy, mistakes in judgement can exacerbate things. BigNate37_(T) 16:48, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

The intent of the article in question was clearly to increase the Google page rank of the linked page, which is valuable to a search engine optimizer. Anyone, I'm not "intentionally disregarding policy"; WP:IAR is official Wikipedia policy. Geoffrey Spear 16:51, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I understand your concerns about bureaucracy and the motives for having WP:IAR. My comment was more to say that if you skip over process and make a mistake, it can be bad whereas if a mistake is made while following policy, we are set up to catch and fix those mistakes. I just wanted to mention this so you could think about it, I think I understand your position on the matter and I know it's not an uncommon one. Anyways, I see what you mean about the spammer's winning this one—I know about Google bombing but I didn't know that's what this was part of. In that case, you're definately right about slow bureaucracy giving them what they want. I was actually looking for a source on seocontests, so that I could rewrite the article. Unfortunately, due to the nature of them, finding a reliable source with a search engine will be very difficult. BigNate37_(T) 17:03, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Peter the Cruel

I noticed you changed "Peter the Cruel" to "Peter" in the intro to the Castilian Civil War article. You called the original "blatantly POV". However, I must disagree. While "the Cruel" is POV, it is also his standard name. Calling the Emperor Charles I "Charlemagne" is equally POV, but is also standard. For this reason, avoiding the use of "the Cruel" is more POV than its use, because it implies that he was not cruel, when many would disagree. In English, he is called "Peter the Cruel" or "Pedro the Cruel" and that's just how it is. I won't change it back in the article, but I thought I should explain why I don't think it was necessary to change it in the first place. Srnec 20:44, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Michael Milenski

To the contrary, it's about a director of a seemingly non notable opera (we don't have an article on it, under 1000 ghits) that is full of weasel words that seem to imply notability, but don't directly assert it. It's borderline. --Rory096 14:55, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apple iTV

I'm just asking you to reconsider your thoughts at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apple iTV, as I've withdrew my nomination and if all deletes are removed it can be speedy kept. Computerjoe's talk 18:51, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

AfDs

Thanks for your message about AfDs. I'd always worked on the basis that AfDs were votes rather than discussions and that is why I'd posted a few "delete"s. It seems I was wrong, though, so thanks for letting me know. Lincolnite 18:58, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Redirect of Big Blue Nation

I'm not sure why my article on the Big Blue Nation was deleted in favor of a redirect. How is it any different from the article on Duke's fan base, the Cameron Crazies or the Oakland Raiders' Raider Nation? Acdixon 16:30, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I just read your policy about responding on your own talk page unless otherwise requested. Though I currently see no response either on my talk page or yours, please be so kind as to respond to my inquiry on my talk page. Thank you. Acdixon 15:15, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the revert. I'm willing to concede your point on the external links; I have removed two of them. I think, however, the debate on whether this merits its own article is one worth having. I've added it to WP:KENTUCKY, so maybe I can solicit some feedback there.Acdixon 20:22, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

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Malkin

On Malkins talk page, you had commented on Alesky Morozov winning the MVP for the Russian Super League, disputing the claim that Malkin is the best player outside the NHL.

Aleksey Morozov was drafted in the first round, 24th overall, by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. This means he was already in the NHL as a draft. When people claim a status as such, i.e "Best player outside the NHL" they (publications) always mean un drafted.

There are numerous reports as such.

Sod Aries 01:42, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Johnson Keland Management

I appreciate your diligence in monitoring wikipolicy on new pages. Keep up the good work. I have added a template to the Johnson Keland Management page you contested. It shows that this is a part of a larger family enterprise. Including it in wikipedia rounds out the description of the larger company. Furthermore, I am not sure how notability is defined with reference to the richest family in the state of Wisconsin. I would assume almost all interesting business and financial activities of such a family are notable. Let me know if the template is a sufficient improvement to remove the tag. Failing that please point me to a specific policy to learn or at least let me know that I need to do more work or take down the page. TonyTheTiger 18:45, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't believe Johnson Keland Management meets the guidelines found in WP:CORP. The last 2 criteria are definitely not met (they amount to a company being either a member of the Fortune 500 or used to calculate a major stock market index), and a search in LexisNexis with no hits makes me doubt the first criteria is met. At the very least I'd want to see some verifiable outside sources added to the article. Geoffrey Spear 18:58, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

User talk:Undo

The other day you asked for this to be deleted based on a javascript error. Did you write the javascript, or did you get it from somewhere else? The reason I ask is because I was going through the logs, and saw it had been recreated with three more warnings (the user doesn't even exist, of course). So I fear someone's still got the bad javascript out there, and would like to notify the creator... -- nae'blis 22:02, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I believe this was caused by the "Revert tools by Lorian" section of my monobook.js. I found it on one of the scripting examples pages somewhere. Geoffrey Spear 14:56, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Kyle Samson

Hi. Could you please leave the Kyle Samson page for a few days before deleting it? It's a birhday joke for him, and he wants to show his family later today. Thanks, --rockapoc.

Wikipedia is an encylopedia, not a place for birthday jokes. Consider getting him a MySpace page to show his family instead. Geoffrey Spear 14:20, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry Geoff... the point is that he is in an encyclopedia, though. Having a MySpace is trivial and trendy... what's a few days of his article remaining on Wikipedia? It's using very little server space and will not use any significant ammount of bandwidth. Just until Friday, please?

9/11: The Big Lie

I have now totally revamped/stubified this article in order to deal with the POV issues. Please take a look at the new version if you like. Thanks, Bwithh 08:01, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Neen art

I've rewritten the deletion nomination of the article Neen art. Frigo 09:42, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Welcome Template

Hi, from now on I'll use the subst:welcome template, I didnt know it made a difference. Thanks for your friendly advice and have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Regards.....Tellyaddict^Talk 12:25, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Pens pics

Hi Geoffspear and happy new year
I see that you've taken a photo of Evgeni Malkin and uploaded it on Flickr with http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/. Do you think you can put this photo [1] with the same license ? I would like to use it into the french wikipedia and I don't have a lot of picture to illustrate the french articles about the Pens (I'm trying to make the french article a featured article).
thanks a lot
TaraO 08:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Sure. I've added CC licenses to that whole set. I wish I'd put more effort into getting better pictures of the players and arena at that event, but I'd been expecting to attend the regular training camp the next week until my daughter was born a week early. Geoffrey Spear 13:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

that's wonderful ! thanks a lot ! TaraO 14:16, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

here they are [2]! If you have others pics like MT's pics or others players don't hesitate to tell me !!! TaraO 21:06, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

hi. Just a word to say you that the french article about the Pens is now a featured article. Thanks again for your pics ! TaraO 09:40, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Writing of latin alphabet names

You have reverted the page Pittsburgh Penguins after correcting the spelling of names in Czech, Slovak and Swedish languages. Such action towards verifiable information does not qualify according to the general policies of Wikipedia. If you however do have a valid reason (which I fail to see), I am naturally willing to discuss it. As long as the names are not transliterated (as for example the Russian language is), the original spelling is followed when technically possible. -80.186.222.44 22:04, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

A discussion over the subject also created at the talk page of the mentioned article. -Mz55 23:07, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

user comment

Keep your hands off my Saltsburg page. There's a "Real" version of the page already. The one I edit deals with the local folklore. So don't you ever again think that you know best, and if I see that you touched it again, there will be hell to pay. Got it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chunkysoup85 (talk • contribs) 12:19, January 31, 2007

Spelling Mistakes

I apologies for correcting the spelling mistakes. I corrected ones that i believed where mistakes in both versions of spelling, sorry for my incorrect assumptions Shotmenot 18:49, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

robert A wilson

sumbanall is found in several of his books, I cannot find it online, but it does exist. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jiohdi (talk • contribs) 19:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC).

That's nice. Unfortunately, WP:RS is a non-negotiable guideline. Provide a source, or don't add the statement. Geoffrey Spear 19:49, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I did not intentionally make this a tug of war, it did not tell me why the first edit did not work, only that someone else was revising the same section at the same time... but there are lots of citation needed thoughout the article, why not remove them all?Jiohdi 19:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC) there you go, all nice and cited (^_^) I was spelling it wrong.Jiohdi 20:23, 2 February 2007 (UTC) Sombunall

Ice Hockey Project discussion of hockey player notability and project scope

Please come join the WikiProject Ice Hockey Notability standards for hockey players discussion. I'd like to see input from all our project members who have an opinion. Thanks! ColtsScore 23:35, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Ice Hockey August 2007 Newsletter

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