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Help Me.

Here, You did not modify the help template. But the answer seems to address the complete question. So I've modified it. Was there something missing?
aGastya  ✉ Dicere Aliquid :) 09:44, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Okay. The summary tells it.
aGastya  ✉ Dicere Aliquid :) 11:32, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Yes, I wrote as part of my reply: "I will leave this open for other comments," as I thought others might have something to add. If there are no more comments in a day or so, I will close it. JohnCD (talk) 11:34, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Qishen Yiqi

Thank you for looking.

One last request: it may be under the rubrique "Tianjin Heart Dripping pills"

OntarioBoy 03:09, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

@Ontarioboy: no, sorry, nothing under that either. I have also tried a scan of user talk pages in the hope that if an article had been deleted its author might have been sent a notice, but no result. Something similar seems to be mentioned under "Uses" at Salvia miltiorrhiza, but that's the only trace I can find. Curiosity about what a "dripping pill" might be sent me here - you learn something new every day! JohnCD (talk) 13:38, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Inappropriate edits in good faith

Hi JohnCD, if you have time, could you take a quick look at Vgenapl (talk · contribs). This user's behavior look like before last month blocked user SPIKE SPIKE BAD (talk · contribs). Too many warnings have been given by Admins but he/she is not learning anything. here & here.

@Babitaarora:. Not sure. There do seem to be similarities. I will ping DoRD to see whether he thinks it would be worth adding this one to the SPIKE SPI, or whether he thinks a checkuser would be justified. JohnCD (talk) 21:34, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
Let me take a look... ​—DoRD (talk)​ 21:57, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
Both Vgenapl (talk · contribs) and Vvvaggot (talk · contribs) are  Confirmed socks. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 22:03, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
@DoRD: thanks. I have added them to the SPI. @Babitaarora: good report, thank you! JohnCD (talk) 22:11, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank You For The Info

Hi John,

thank you SO much for the speedy reply :-)

It appears I am caught in a vicious catch 22. As a yearly donator to Wiki, I have found Wiki to be a good source of free and open information. The multi-million dollar book distributors seem to have created a stranglehold on independent authors, and needing them to verify information seems counter-intuitive. One of the great things about the internet, and about Wiki especially is that it allows us, the people, to put information out there without needing the mass media to filter it.

The Poetry Trilogy IS the largest collection of poetry ever published by a single author. There is only ONE other poetry book that even comes close, it was written by a guy in Idaho but there is only ONE copy available. IT was never published or distributed.

Please Help John. I am a good Brother in need of real assistance and you obviously have more knowledge in this field than I do. Please Help.

Thank You. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AaronLA2012 (talk • contribs) 09:54, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Please Help

There seems to be something somewhat unjust and slightly off here... How can there be articles about just about everything on the planet, but a poetry compilation containing 300,000 words and 2400 pages, with subjects as diverse as God and Death can be blocked in a open source platform... Seriously brother. Does this seem morally right? Have you even looked at the content of the books?

Please Advise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AaronLA2012 (talk • contribs) 10:21, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

@AaronLA2012: Wikipedia doesn't have articles about everything on the planet, and it doesn't ask "Is this subject good or important?" It asks the more objective question: "Is there evidence that people not connected with this subject have thought it important or significant enough to write substantial content about?" An encyclopedia's job is not to help announce new things, but to summarize what other people have written about established things. JohnCD (talk) 10:27, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Ah ok... Still sounds a bit suppressive... But again, I'm not an expert here, I'm just a wiki donor and human being. You would know better than I would I suppose. It's just frustrating because an amazing literary work has been created, a beacon of light in a world of darkness, and it just gets shot down instantly here on Wikipedia... I understand the reasoning, and I am not mad or upset, I'm just sad and disheartened... I do thank you for taking the time to answer my question and clarifying it to the best of your ability... SO basically someone has to publish an article about The Poetry Trilogy, and someone else has to write about The Poetry Trilogy on Wiki... Well, I suppose ever great work of any sort always had it's nay-sayers in the beginning :-) Again, thanks for the info John, it honestly is appreciated. Take Car & God Bless <3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by AaronLA2012 (talk • contribs) 10:40, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, sorry, but Wikipedia simply is not for what you want to do. You may get some ideas at WP:Alternative outlets. JohnCD (talk) 19:59, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

University of Exeter workshop

Thanks for your comments about the University of Exeter workshop. You are absolutely right and I will add Wikipedia:Notability (academics) as an important issue.— Rod talk 08:02, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of hoaxes

Just curious why you are deleting hoax articles instead of archiving them, per the instructions at 'list of Wikipedia hoaxes." 198.161.2.212 (talk) 20:47, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

John, the same editor posted the same message to three user talk pages. If you think it's worth answering, I suggest doing so at User talk:MelanieN, to keep all the comments about the question together. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 18:30, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Replied there agreeing with you, thanks. JohnCD (talk) 10:19, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ankur Mazumder

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ankur Mazumder. Even after five weeks, Ankur Mazumder is still active. Thanks. Gparyani (talk) 04:51, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Never mind; the accounts have already been blocked and CU-confirmed. But this means that we need to keep checking the linked edit filter logs every now and then... Gparyani (talk) 17:21, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll continue to keep an eye on it. Nothing new this morning... JohnCD (talk) 10:21, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

John Thomas sign

Hi JohnCD,

On May 1 you deleted the page for John Thomas sign because it was suspected to be a hoax. I just wanted to let you know that while it is silly and humorous, it is not a hoax. I'm in the medical field and and it's something that medical professionals will often note as a humorous aside when looking at x-rays, which was noted in the article. It's more of a colloquial expression within medicine. I think a relatively common colloquial expression is fair game for a wikipedia article! If you agree, then you should undelete the page :-). Thanks!

Best, Z — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.181.141.201 (talk) 23:21, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Since this was deleted by the WP:Proposed deletion process, I have restored it at your request; but I shall notify user Jdcrutch (talk) who proposed it, and who may choose to nominate it at WP:Articles for deletion, which would start a debate lasting seven days, to which you would be welcome to contribute. If the article is to be kept, it needs much better references to show that this term is widely used - see WP:NEO. Only one of the references actually shows the term. I am not sure that one is a reliable source, and certainly it is not enough on its own. JohnCD (talk) 10:36, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Correction - one of the other references had a mistyped URL, but was not actually a deadlink. More references would still be useful to meet WP:NEO. JohnCD (talk) 10:46, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Léa Salamé

Hello. I see you deleted Léa Salamé. She is very well-known in France. Do you remember what the page looked like?Zigzig20s (talk) 02:34, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 10:59, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Missy Monroe

Why would you delete my page? This is missy Monroe. This makes absolutely no sense. My email is bookmissymonroe@yahoo.com so please reply. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.253.61.44 (talk) 10:18, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia is quite choosy about subjects for articles. I deleted the article as a result of this discussion. JohnCD (talk) 11:02, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks so much for your help

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Aleix Vidal

Hi, could you protect the above as it seems to be under attack. Thanks Denisarona (talk) 17:40, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

 Done - semi-protected for a week. If there's more trouble after that, apply at WP:RFPP. JohnCD (talk) 17:42, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Please help... made mistake and want to fix it... Please Help

Good Day...

I created an account and cofirmed the e-mail address : <email redacted>

I posted an article regarding the Senatorial campaign for Dr, Akinyemi Agbede wihich your monitors "JohnCD" said was spammish ... this was my mistake... I tried to communicate to this JohnCD to find out a way to solve this... He ended up blocking my e-mailaddress and my IP address as well...

I did get a communication before he blocked me asking for a remedy to this situation as follows... My mistake... I would like to fix this... possibly 2 options;

1) unblock my e-mail and IP and allow me to change the title of the article from "Dr. Akinyemi Agbede For Cal. Senator 2016" which covers his run for senator... to "Dr. Akinyemi Agbede, Bio" and change the contents to his bio info... (You can see below the article has been0 removed, the user,me, is blocked

2) unblock my e-mail and IP and allow me to create a new Bio article about Dr. Akinyemi Agbede which will not cover his political campaign... just his bio...

Please help and please advise... Thanks you, Most Sincerely... Chris Uhland <telephone and email redacted>

Your "User:Dr. Akinyemi Agbede For Cal. Senator 2016" account will not be unblocked, but you may set up a new account. The username may be based on your own name, or not, as you wish (see WP:REALNAME for some considerations), but it must not be the name of any group or organization or of Dr Agbede or any other living person.
Since you evidently work for Dr Agbede or his campaign, you have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and should carefully read that guideline and the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. In brief, you should not edit directly about him, but you may submit a draft biographical article for review. Its title should be Draft:Akinyemi Agbede.
First and foremost you must understand that if what you want to do is to help Dr Agbede get elected, you are in the wrong place. You cannot do that here. Wikipedia is absolutely not for election campaign statements or for promotion of any kind, political or otherwise: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view is a fundamental policy. The second page you wrote, supposed to be a bio of Dr Agbede, referred to him as "This Super Genius Man" and mostly consisted of an election address: "My legislative issues... " etc. Anything like that will be deleted at sight.
If you still want to proceed, and you set up a new account, send me a message from it and I will give you more advice.
I have removed your email addresses and telephone numbers - it is unwise to post them here because spambots crawl this site and you will get many unwanted messages. JohnCD (talk) 21:15, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

The sincerest form of flattery

... is imitation. [1] Your message is well-crafted so I hope you don't mind me using it. :-) --Drm310 (talk) 20:39, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

I just saw that when I zapped his user page and went to add it myself. You are very welcome, and I am indeed flattered. It needs some tweaking for particular cases (e.g. add reference to WP:YOUNG if the user is a child) but I see you are doing that. Cheers, JohnCD (talk) 20:52, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

How to know who is in the community ?

Hi ! Please guide me to know that, what is community definition ? and some how to be a community member ? and what is the core community ? what are the parameters for core community members ?

If you can explain please take example of sa.wikipedia.org because I want to know this things there. Thank you NehalDaveND (talk) 02:16, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

@NehalDaveND: see Wikipedia community and Wikipedia:Wikipedians. The community is all the contributors, so you are already a member of the community. The "core community" is more difficult to define - most people would use the term to mean contributors who are editing regularly and have been for some time, perhaps with an emphasis on those who also take part in the organization of the site, for instance by commenting at notice-boards and policy pages and deletion discussions; but there is no fixed definition. I'm afraid I can't comment on sa-wp because I know nothing about it. JohnCD (talk) 13:32, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Many thanks for your swift action - Enjoy!! Denisarona (talk) 17:54, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Thank you! If I didn't thank you at the time, one reason was that I actually had a glass of beer in my hand. JohnCD (talk) 13:34, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

MAMCM

Thanks for you help. DGB — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dgb536 (talk • contribs) 18:07, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

@Dgb536: my pleasure. I see that Kelapstick has not actually edited since, so he will not have had my ping, but I expect you will hear from him soon. JohnCD (talk) 13:37, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Deletion Review

Concerning the G7 deletion of "Victor Romfors", the Admin Djsasso has an agenda against me, and has somehow (secretly and successfully) lobbied the Arb Board for an editing Ban which prevents me from editing any article which he has edited within the past 30 days. My queries to the Arb Board asking why this restriction has been imposed have gone unanswered, other that to confirm that such a ban has been placed. Their is no suggestion that editing his talk page would be an exception to this editing ban. As a result, I am effectively prevented from opening a Deletion Review, because I am unable to leave a message on his talk page. Given the editing restrictions I must work under, please advise on how to challenge this faulty G7 deletion. Dolovis (talk) 13:42, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

You didn't link to the restriction, and I don't see it here, but I can't believe it would prevent asking Djsasso about a speedy, or mandatory notifications like notice of DRV. In any case, REFUND is not a useful work-around, because Djsasso is going to get notified anyway - no admin would reverse his speedy without consulting him. In this case, I see he has commented, so you are free to go to DRV. JohnCD (talk) 20:48, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Augustin Andriamananoro

Thanks for the speedy decline at WP:CSD for Augustin Andriamananoro (that is not sarcasm). Well if you think he is notable, I better get going and translate it then! should never have mentioned WP:POLITICIAN? grrrr... Genuinely, nice to have a line in the sand. Si Trew (talk) 13:53, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

I wasn't sure at first whether le ministre was the minister or the department, but my French dictionary (and Google) say that the department is le ministère, and the reference makes clear that he was actually The Man. JohnCD (talk) 14:03, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
Hard to translate into common law from civil law, and Madagascar is an odd mix of both having been both British and French in its past. Junior minister, possibly. But yes, very hard, that one. Si Trew (talk) 15:49, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
I have a similar problem with how to translate the legislative chamber of the parliament. In a common law system (US except Louisiana, UK, Canada, basically anywhere the British went) the Commons (House of Representatives) is the executive and the Lords (Senate?) is the revising chamber: but not sure quite how to translate that one. Not so much a revising chamber as I see it. Perhaps House of Lords (disambiguation) but really unsure on it. I'll need to check the main article on Madagascar I think and then revise. I am on me own cos we don't have a FR:WP one that I can refer to. (It should, if anything, have gone in FR:WP first, I think.) Si Trew (talk) 15:54, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
John, I've done the first rough translation and it is very rough, but I am aware at least according to the institute of which I made a mention that a lot of fibre optic was laid basically all down the west coast of africa, around cape horn, and up into madagascar to enable just this (and then the other end, from madagascar out again around india to japan and china etc). This was a huge project, and I should know cos at that time I worked for BICC in their cable division, and they were spinning the stuff - well before 2009 but it was on the cards then. Yet I can't find any good links for this enormous infrastructure project, but surely they should be some. We just went on codenames - not secrecy but you know, industrial jargon - so I have no idea how it was in "political" circles. I remember seeing the maps of the routes and all plumbed in to Madagascar. Their domestic backbone was, to be very blunt, just a little spin-off of that, kinda a concession to be granted wayleave. Si Trew (talk) 15:48, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Disagreement

I don't agree with your removal of ym article -— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbeach72 (talk • contribs) 20:07, 12 June 2015‎

@Jbeach72: then you should read the important policy WP:Biographies of living persons, which includes:

"Contentious material about living persons... that is unsourced or poorly sourced – whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable – should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion."

I moved this down because new entries go at the bottom of talk pages. JohnCD (talk) 20:33, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

why is this page being deleted

How can I get a wiki article for this artist I done everything I know to get his page up he's a public figured and needs to be on here I provided all ref to his page and where info comes from all real — Preceding unsigned comment added by Legitballin41 (talk • contribs) 21:06, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 21:33, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Colm Keane

Hi John,

Thank you so much for getting back to me regarding Colm Keane (author). The information you provided has been most worthwhile and explanatory. I will address the issue of the photograph tomorrow, but in the meantime I hope you don't mind my asking you one more query, which is this... Is it the case that, without the termination of the boxer's page, the Colm Keane (author) page will inevitably only come up as a reference within the boxer's page on any internet search. Or are you suggesting that perhaps in a few days it should come up on its own merits as a separate document in a Google search? I can understand how things would change if the boxer's page is deleted, but would like to know what the situation is otherwise as there is no doubt that virtually nobody would find it otherwise. Appreciate your update on this, as indeed I appreciate the time and effort you have taken so far. Take care and many thanks.

Anne O'Donnell (talk) 22:41, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

@Anne O'Donnell: Google moves in mysterious ways its wonders to perform, and one can't predict with any certainty. I would expect that within a few days a search on "Colm Keane" would return the page "Colm Keane (author)" as well as the boxer's page, but I cannot be sure. If it doesn't, anyone looking for the author who clicks on the link "Colm Keane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" and is taken to the boxer's article will find there the hatnote, so that one more click will take them on to the right page.
The author is not doing badly with Google: I searched just now and the first nine links are all about him, with the boxer's Wikipedia page only coming in at #10. JohnCD (talk) 15:07, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

COLM KEANE

Hello again. Thanks for replying to my query once again. I suppose I'll just wait and see what happens re Google. It also seems to be a question of waiting to see what will happen in relation to the boxer article. Anyway, thanks again and all the best. Talk soon perhaps.

Anne O'Donnell (talk) 21:26, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

It was a tough night for me

Optakeover has given you a brownie! Brownies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove blah blah blah. Far too many mistakes I've made tonight, but your words are encouraging, so thank you very much. Optakeover(Talk) 17:09, 14 June 2015 (UTC)†


The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar The Admin's Barnstar
The Multiple Barnstar
For your consoling words. It was highly appreciated. Optakeover(Talk) 17:09, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Message

বর্তমান তথ্য-প্রযুক্তির যুগে উইকিপেডিয়া অনেক বেশী গুরুত্বপূর্ণ অবদান রাখে আমাদের জ্ঞান ভাণ্ডার পরিপূর্ণ করতে।আমি একজন বাংলাদেশের লেখক তাই আমি আমার ব্যক্তিগত তথ্য সমূহ উইকিপেডিয়া পেজের মাধ্যমে আমার ব্যক্তিগত অ্যাকাউন্ট থেকে সংযুক্ত করেছি।কিন্তু উইকিপেডিয়া থেকে টা মুছে ফেলা হয়েছে।এই ব্যাপার টা সত্যি আমার জন্য অনেক বেশী হতাশাজনক।তাই আমি উইকিপেডিয়া অনুরোধ করবো আমার পেজ টা যাচাই-বাছাই করে মুছে ফেলা থেকে বিরত থাকলে সত্যি আমি কৃতজ্ঞ থাকবো। — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.16.154.50 (talk) 22:57, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

This is the English-language Wikipedia. If you are asking about the deletion of a page here, please give the title of the page. Otherwise, you may be able to get help at the Bengali Wikipedia. JohnCD (talk) 09:15, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Wrong Deletion

Dear JohnCD,

Thank you for straight away deleting my page,(I am not happy with this though)

If things need to be reviewed let me know I would go ahead and edit the article, how can we straight away delete a page?

Since I am new in wikipedia, I do not have much knowledge in it, so it not your best thing if you guide someone?

When you started editing in 2007 people has done the same thing? I am ready to learn the guidelines, and on the sanitou brand page, we have mentioned the products offered just like this following example( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products ) so what is wrong on the page, kindly let me know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saifsanitou (talk • contribs) 08:06, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 09:48, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Dear JohnCD,

Thank you for your detailed explanation, I would follow these guidelines from now on

Kindly let me know the procedure to restore the page, or restore it by yourself by removing ambiguous words in the article,

I have gone through your guidelines, I would remember these points going forward. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saifsanitou (talk • contribs) 16:35, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

@Saifsanitou: What you should do is:
JohnCD (talk) 09:28, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Disha Paul

Hello, the page i created previously of Disha Paul is a indian model and actress, she was also selected for Bigg Boss8 show. She is my favourite, it is sad that she don't have any identity in wikipedia, she has done couple of movies and album songs and tonnes of photoshoots. etc. I request to grant me permission to write about her here. thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dishapaul007 (talk • contribs) 13:20, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

@Dishapaul007:. I have given some advice on your talk page. If you are not Disha Paul, you should not have an account in her name: please go to Wikipedia:Changing username right away and apply to change name. JohnCD (talk) 13:26, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jessiex23/sandbox (2nd nomination)

Hi. There appears to be a cut and paste error in the closing statement for Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jessiex23/sandbox (2nd nomination). Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 18:49, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

I thought I had fixed that. Fixed now. Thank you! JohnCD (talk) 19:05, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Rob Kiernan

Hello John, could you please semi-protect Rob Kiernan. A lot of unsourced speculation about him moving clubs that needing reverting. Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 15:44, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

 Done - I've given it a month. JohnCD (talk) 15:46, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Zafar Malik

Hi JohnCD, I am new to Wikipedia. I updated some articles on Chakwal and created an article for Zafar Malik, who is a graphic designer in Chakwal, Pakistan. He has done a lot of work, which I was compiling in the article. Zafar Malik has designed so many books in Urdu language, posters, adverts, etc. I will give/update all information about Zafar Malik. Furthermore, I will update info on Chakwal, Chakwal district, etc. --Chakwalia (talk) 15:20, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 16:05, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

AV-101

Hi, thanks for your response to my question about what happened to my User:GC2013/AV-101 to Draft:AV-101.

I am confused because I wanted to see what other pages were written by Medgirl131, but when I search for "User:Medgirl131" I get nothing, not even the article "4-Chlorokynurenine". Am I doing something wrong? Has this contributor authored other pages? I believe that my page is much more complete. If Medgirl131 does not contact me, what are my options for getting my article posted? GC2013 (talk) 18:42, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 20:24, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

JohnCD, thanks very much for your recent response about the "problem". I will proceed slowly with the updates to this page and see what happens. GC2013 (talk) 18:10, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

@GC2013: I would suggest also an email on the lines of your message on the article talk page, to open communications, because if I understand her practice right, it is to possibly read but not to respond to messages on talk pages. JohnCD (talk) 22:24, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

List of people killed or wounded in the 20 July plot/archive2

Would appreciate your vote or suggestions for improvement! Best, Jonas Vinther • (speak to me!) 18:10, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

@Jonas Vinther: sorry, I am not the person to ask: I am not familiar with the standards for FLs. JohnCD (talk) 20:09, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you regarding your help

Hi, just a quick note to thank you for the help regarding the Colm Keane (author) piece I was in contact with you regarding last week. All has thankfully been resolved and I am grateful for your advice and contribution. Well done. Anne O'Donnell (talk) 11:58, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

@Anne O'Donnell: thank you! The way the boxer's article was deleted, (Proposed deletion), means that it will be automatically restored on request. I have left a note at Talk:Colm Keane to say how that should be handled, if it comes up. JohnCD (talk) 13:41, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for Commenting on my Use Page

Thank you commenting, frankly I only signed up for Wiki to help edit a page's grammar and when my browser redirected me to a "User:CharlotteLindley" page, I didn't know what to do with it, so I went ahead and plugged in a resume I had lying around just to fill up the page.

I figured someone would come along and tell me if I was wrong. So, thank you. What should I replace the resume with or how do I delete the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CharlotteLindley (talk • contribs) 21:07, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 21:41, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:What "Competence is required" really means

Hello. Can you tell me whether this ever contained anything substantial? You may consider this a WP:REFUND. — Keφr 11:44, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

@Kephir: it was a satirical page, tagged as "humour", with half a dozen bullet points like "It means we should ignore people and not try to help improve their competence" and "It means we should label people as incompetent". The author, Technical 13, evidently thought better of it because he requested its deletion, so I don't want to restore it, but you could ask him about it. JohnCD (talk) 20:07, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Okay, thanks. I was just being curious. I already found Google's cached version anyway. — Keφr 19:47, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Delete Tag

Please Iran Man (album) remove the label.--5.232.57.69 (talk) 19:02, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

No. I have deleted the article, because the references did not confirm that the album is notable; the article about the composer was deleted because it also did not show that he was notable, and made false claims about millions of views, though his Youtube page shows only a few hundred. JohnCD (talk) 19:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Another delete Tag

Please jam mosaffa (album) remove the label.--5.232.63.247 (talk) 09:37, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

There has never been an article Jam mosaffa (album). When you give a page title, it needs to be exact, including capitals - best to copy-paste it if possible.
If you disagree with a speedy-deletion tag, what you should do is: click on the blue button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion", and explain your reasons on the article talk page. An administrator will read it before deciding what to do. Read WP:NALBUMS to understand what an album article needs, if it is to be kept. JohnCD (talk)

Hi JohnCD

I need some deleted pages that I want to put on the "deleted nonsense" page. Can you bring me back the source for articles like Project Shrine Maiden (deleted by Xezbeth in 2012/2013), Pichi no Shiro de Rokkuman to Pati (deleted in 2014 by Fram), Sonic CD: The Movie (deleted in August 2011), Japanese Ritual Day (deleted by Fram in 2014), and Cheerleaders (the one Black Kite deleted in 2014, when it got moved to her userspace.) If you DON'T, it's OK. Have a nice day! 67.82.89.253 (talk) 01:39, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

If by "deleted nonsense" page you mean the pages preserved under WP:List of hoaxes, those are only for hoaxes which were interesting, or attracted outside comment, or survived for a long time. I don't think that's the case for any of the ones you list here, so I am not going to send you the source. You could ask the deleting admins, if you like. If you register an account and enable email, they might be willing to email you the text, but I don't think any of these should be put on Wikipedia again. JohnCD (talk) 13:39, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Randomness Wiki might like it. 67.82.89.253 (talk) 16:28, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Kundan Srivastava

JohnCD What I know bout Wikipedia is one of the largest organization in World So, Consider him for his contribution towards society. Kundan Srivastava (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Kundan_Srivastava) is honest and notable personality in India and Yes! He has no money to buy Indian media to write about him. He was achiever from his 14 years of age. He was achiever in college and working towards mission of crime against Women. Go through here: https://www.facebook.com/founderkundansrivastava He is also fighting case for America rape case and Sri Lanka rape case. Thanks !

Bihngo (talk) 16:28, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 16:47, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Username

Hi John C. When I first registered with Wikipedia I was confused by the criteria regarding usernames. I would have used my own name as I am not writing about myself etc. I guess it was a case of too much information and impatience to register. Is there a way to change my user name or should I delete my user name and start over again. Thanking you for your advices. Regards Stephen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kara Moana Healey (talk • contribs) 23:45, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

@Kara Moana Healey: yes, it's easy to change username. See WP:CHU, or explanation on your talk page under "Apology". JohnCD (talk) 09:00, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Image request

Could you be so kind to tweak "1939" to "1933" in the title of this image? Cheers in advance, Jonas Vinther • (Click here to collect your price!) 18:42, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

@Jonas Vinther:  Done. JohnCD (talk) 19:14, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Rick570/St Peter's College list

Hey JohnCD, please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rick570 in case you want to reconsider the result of your closure.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:36, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Hmmm. That certainly invalidates the MfD, though I thought when I read it that a list used as an aide-memoire for planning future articles was OK, and if I had !voted it would have been keep. I'll think about it overnight, but I am inclined to relist it with an explanation of what happened, so as to get more views. JohnCD (talk) 21:44, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
@Bbb23: I will relist it, but I will wait a couple of days to give the user time to comment after his block expires. JohnCD (talk) 08:19, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
God, I hate administrators who actually think before they act. What's wrong with you? :-) Thanks much.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:03, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
@Bbb23: I should make a witty response, but I can't think of one. FYI: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Rick570/St Peter's College list (2nd nomination). JohnCD (talk) 14:16, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
I'll keep it witless (oops). Thanks for the heads up about the reopening of the discussion.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:02, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Scott Disick

Yup, it was kept, but now that closure is up for deletion review. I've commented there. Nate • (chatter) 09:24, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

JohnCD protected Scott Disick

Thanks! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 09:21, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

I was going to tell you I had done that - it's tricky how protection is lost if you over-ride salting by creating something. JohnCD (talk) 09:50, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
I remember a pump post about that. I might have even posted somewhere at meta or somewhere about getting that fixed. I am not sure, but I think it was exactly that issue. Or maybe it was about admins editing protected pages with no notification that it is protected because they're admins. I can't remember. Anyhow, thanks for the protect fix. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:37, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Ashton Syndrome

Yesterday a page was deleted that was created based on a web site we created and manage. The reason was copyright infringement. A lot of the content was indeed copy and pasted but we were the origin author. Is there a citation we missed to avoid this confusion? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by MelissaJBingham (talk • contribs) 16:05, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

@MelissaJBingham: it is possible for the copyright owner to make a formal release, but I am afraid that this material would not in any case be acceptable for Wikipedia, for reasons explained at User talk:AshtonSyndrome#Wikipedia is not for what you want to do. JohnCD (talk) 18:50, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Deleting account

Hi I see you are experienced Wikipedia user. Do you know how could I delete my Wikipedia account? Or just change my user name? I read some wiki help, but it is confusing. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cikic.dragan (talk • contribs) 09:20, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Accounts can't be deleted, but changing username is easy - see WP:Changing username. JohnCD (talk) 11:22, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much. :-) --Cikic.dragan (talk) 12:37, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Need to make some minor corrections.

Hey John

I need to make some minor corrections on the page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football_positions

There seems to be some grammatical mistake in it.

However, I would like a second opinion or discuss it with someone beforehand.

TIA Vickyji (talk) 16:17, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

@Vickyji: read WP:BOLD and go for it! Also read WP:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle for what to do if someone reverts your change - that wouldn't be the end of the world, it would start a discussion about which version would be best. If you are really doubtful, place a message on the article talk page proposing the change, and wait a few days to see if anyone comments.
Tip: to link within Wikipedia, you don't need to give the full URL. Typing the page name within double square brackets makes a WP:Wikilink, so typing [[Association football positions]] gives Association football positions. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 12:32, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Stagecoach West Scotland Bus Route X50 article deletion

I believe that you have misinterpreted the discussion. I would like to say that, though many people wanted the article deleted, I had made subsequent modifications to it that should be considered. Pablothepenguin (talk) 16:22, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

@Pablothepenguin: no, I don't think I misinterpreted WP:Articles for deletion/Stagecoach West Scotland Route X50. I saw that you added a reference after the other four contributors !voted delete, but the discussion remained open for a further five days, none of them changed their !vote, and I did not consider it significant enough to warrant relisting the debate. You are welcome to take it to WP:Deletion review. JohnCD (talk) 20:59, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

User:Enfinityitsolutions

You left the block notice for User:Enfinityitsolutions, but didn't set the block so I set the block for you. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 17:10, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! I need more coffee... JohnCD (talk) 21:00, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Deletion review for Stagecoach West Scotland Route X50

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Stagecoach West Scotland Route X50. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Pablothepenguin (talk) 13:16, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the notification: I have temp-undeleted the article for the purpose of this review, and commented there. JohnCD (talk) 20:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Blast from the past returned...

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Avinashkrishnadasa -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:28, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

@Gogo Dodo: I really thought we had seen the last of him; I had better start scanning for him again. I see he has now promoted himself to royalty - talk about delusions of grandeur!
That is brilliant patrolling on your part, to zap him within half an hour of his reappearance after a two year absence! JohnCD (talk) 20:48, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
It was pure dumb luck that I saw him. The edit summary with the Privy Council mention that caught my eye. The royalty and honours thing cracked me up when I read it. It wasn't until I did some searching and I saw my own name in the ban discussion that I realized it was a sock. I had completely forgotten about him.
Speaking of other people with delusions of grandeur, Abhay Gupta is still active. I caught two of his accounts just a couple of weeks ago: Plmnbvcxzaq1478523690 and Abhaygupta12082002. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 21:14, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

TeamWork Online Deletion

Hey JohnCD. The page I created "TeamWork Online" was recently deleted by you. It appears that the page may be seen as an advertisement page. That was not our intention. Is there a way we can bring the page back?

Would love to find time to chat and see how we can find a remedy to this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:645:8200:A100:6CAA:48E:D979:FB14 (talk) 17:13, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TeamWork Online. I presume you are user Wilsonlee92. I will reply on your talk page within a day; meanwhile, read the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. JohnCD (talk) 10:57, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Alessandro Esseno new page

Hi JohnCD,

I need your help. Alessandro Esseno page must be rewritten. Another user tried but were told not to work. How can you be done? Thank you very much. --Brainstorm76 (talk) 21:11, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

@Brainstorm76: the actual article title has been protected against creation, because unsatisfactory versions were created too many times. It will need permission from an administrator to make an article there. Meanwhile there is a version in your sandbox at User:Brainstorm76/sandbox, and another user, Arizzium55, has re-created the original version at Draft:Alessandro Esseno and, for some reason, another copy at Draft:Alessandro Esseno (2).
There should be only one copy being worked on. You should agree with Arizzium55 which one you will develop, and then both co-operate on that one. Read WP:Your first article for advice. When it is ready, submit it for review, and if it is accepted an administrator can un-protect the title. JohnCD (talk) 21:54, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Ryan Lollis

Can you restore the history of Ryan Lollis like you did with Jake Brigham? I usually don't care about these kind of things but the article was only deleted just a few months ago and it seems like the previous history might be useful.--Yankees10 23:03, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

 Done. I wish people wouldn't jump the gun like this (I know it wasn't you, I'm just having a generalised mutter). An awful lot of waste motion goes into the cycle of create - PROD - PROD removed - deletion discussion - delete as not notable yet - re-create - G4 - but he'll play tomorrow - he has played - can we have the history back, please? I know you can say "why delete in the first place?" but unless there is some threshold standard we end up with articles about every "up-and-coming" hopeful. Grrr. JohnCD (talk) 08:01, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Alessandro Esseno new page

Ok. Thank you very much. --Brainstorm76 (talk) 14:48, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for this thoughtful explanation, which elaborates on the concerns I've noted at the user's talk page and elsewhere in terser fashion [2]. Much appreciated, 2601:188:0:ABE6:99FD:4E02:9E12:4A31 (talk) 15:41, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Most of that is boiler-plate, because I have conversations like that so often. I wish we could explain to new users before they sign up what Wikipedia is for, and more importantly what it is not for. JohnCD (talk) 21:57, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

deletion of my page

Dear John,

Please recover my deleted page: Aarif-Mohammad-Khan. It has fresh & unique content with correct info. I shall be very grateful to you for this.

Thanks & regards Aarif — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.59.145.70 (talk) 10:26, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, no. I explained on your talk page that Wikipedia is not a place for people to write about themselves. Try Facebook or LinkedIn or other social-networking sites. JohnCD (talk) 10:37, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:SGpedians' notice board/underconstruction/leftpanel

Hi. "Wikipedia:SGpedians' notice board/underconstruction/leftpanel" seems to have been overlooked and should also be deleted following the recent deletion discussion. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 16:58, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

 Done, thanks. JohnCD (talk) 17:38, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

i want to create an article about a person

can i create an article about a person ? about a media producer >? — Preceding unsigned comment added by EditorRazu (talk • contribs) 07:31, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

@EditorRazu: Yes, you can, but it will get deleted unless the person is "notable" in Wikipedia's sense. That means they have been the subject of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Youtube, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people not connected with the person thought them significant enough to write substantial comment about? Read WP:MUSICBIO and Wikipedia:Notability (summary) to understand this more.
If you want to go ahead, first read WP:Your first article. Consider using WP:Articles for creation, which will let you make a draft for someone else to review. JohnCD (talk) 09:12, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Help request

Hello John

<anonymous request for renewed help redacted>

Sorry, I can't locate it, but you can find the "Email this user" link under "Tools" in the left-hand sidebar. JohnCD (talk) 09:14, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Javad Ramezani, the goose vandal

Hi! You've been valiantly reverting, protecting, blocking the antics of User:جواد رمضانی شوراب, Javad Ramezani the goose vandal. In view of the continued pinpricks, may I suggest that it might be time to consider a range-block? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:31, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately he uses two /17 ranges, that is 32K addresses each; that is too many to block for an extended period, and after a short block he would just carry on. I'm afraid there's nothing for it but play whack-a-mole and wait for him to grow up or get bored. It's an unusual case (see SPI) - he started off as the usual wannabe pop star, not many of those switch to being wannabe ethologists. JohnCD (talk) 17:37, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
OK, thanks. Yes, bizarre indeed. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:06, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Query

Hi

We Are Trying To create A Wikipedia Page For Our Co. TravelPotato.com But The Same Has Been Disabled By You Stating That Username Has To Be An Individual.

Please Confirm How Can We Put Our company Information On Wikipedia.

Regards

Sanjeev Saraf

I have replied at User talk:Travel Potato. JohnCD (talk) 13:24, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

New SPI for User:Callump90

(Sorry, it seems that the ping didn't work.) I think that this edit history is quite revealing. As the last SPI filer, what do you think? SuperMarioMan ( talk ) 20:23, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Deletion review?

Hi, John,
I hope you can help me better understand CSD and deletion discussions. I gave a CSD G13 to Draft:Jem Jem Italia because it hadn't been edited since December 2014. And I think, reading that the Page History, that the page was deleted and restored by you. But I went to the creator's page and they haven't been active since December. So, are you rescuing this draft or did someone else ask you to restore the page?
I hope you can fill me in on what happened. I have no vested interest in this draft, whether it is deleted or kept, I'm just trying to understand the CSD process better. Thanks for any enlightenment you can provide! Liz Read! Talk! 22:14, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

You tagged it on 8 July, then on 9 July Kudpung deleted it and the same day undeletion was requested at WP:REFUND#Draft:Jem Jem Italia and I restored it. The request was made by an IP, i.e. the creator didn't log in, that's why no activity shows on his account. So the six-month clock is reset and ticking again. It amazes me how people who have done nothing to their page for six months leap into action the moment it is deleted, but that's what often happens. JohnCD (talk) 22:27, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
I appreciate you taking the time to explain the situation, John. I also don't know how an editor who is inactive for over six months knows immediately that a draft they wrote in 2014 was just deleted! I guess they prefer to edit as an IP editor (which I, myself, did for years) but check their registered account talk page for messages. Thanks, again. Liz Read! Talk! 21:14, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
There is an option in Preferences: "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed". Maybe they have that set, though it seems an abstruse option for a newbie to have found. I wonder whether perhaps part of the G13 warning procedure includes sending an email? As to why they request undeletion but then don't do anything more, I suspect that some of them are happy to be "in Wikipedia" with a draft, and some may even not understand that a draft is not an article. People are odd. JohnCD (talk) 21:29, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

SD of blank pages

Thanks for the tip, definitely will do so in future. HÆDOreply 20:22, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


Rahul Gunderjaharagand

A hoax that lasted 7 years and 10 months - quite an achievement for a vandal! Well done for spotting it at last. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 17:35, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

I can't claim the credit: an IP blanked the page with edit summary "Removed what was obviously a hoax", someone else tagged it speedy A3, I declined that and then took a second look. JohnCD (talk) 17:42, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
OK, I didn't check all that, I just saw that it was you who had tagged it for hoax-deletion. However, you still deserve some of the credit, for having put in the work of checking, and finding evidence that it was a hoax, which many admins might not have done. In any case, I do find it very disconcerting when from time to time one of these really long-standing examples of vandalism is found. It makes me wonder how many more there are, that just don't get detected. It is also distinctly alarming how many web pages there are that mirror the same nonsense - once something has been on Wikipedia for some time, it becomes widely recognised as fact, no matter if it's total rubbish. Since many of them flagrantly violate the terms of the CC by attribution license, by not saying they got the stuff from Wikipedia, even when the original Wikipedia article has been deleted, the nonsense is still around, with no way of telling that it started in a hoax article. I wonder if the vandal who posted it has long since forgotten it, or has ever after creating it amused herself/himself by pointing it out to everyone they know. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 18:51, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
Yes, it's alarming how misinformation spreads. Since a good many of the mirror sites do actually credit WP, I have in some cases gone to the trouble of an AfD to lay the evidence out, even where the evidence was overwhelming, so that anyone tracking back to WP from a mirror would see not only that the page was gone but what was wrong with it.
It's also depressing, when one of these turns up. how many people have gnomed away at it fixing categories and persondata and even adding "unreferenced" tags, without ever bothering to wonder for a moment about the actual content.
A bot to look for articles posted in one or two edits by users who never contribute again might help to turn up hoaxes. JohnCD (talk) 21:10, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
I agree a bit would be nice. BTW, would you mind moving the deleted article to Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia? I would've added it myself but I don't know the exact inception date. A visual for Catherine Higgins (which I nom'd) wiuld be nice too. SwisterTwister talk 22:53, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

RevDelete request

You indicated yourself as one who's willing to handle RevDelete requests. Could you redact the edit summary of this edit? The edit summary appears to be an attack summary. Gparyani (talk) 18:16, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Gparyani How is that a blatant "attack"? The subject is likely a friend or significant other. SwisterTwister talk 16:08, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
@SwisterTwister: Most pages which contain content similar to that edit summary go on to be deleted as attack pages, so... Gparyani (talk) 16:44, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
your hard work is appreciated :) Admiral Alvin (talk) 04:40, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Accessing Content from Removed Page

John, I'm writing regarding this page which was removed sometime last year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JohnCD/Archive_28#Please_reinstate_Adilson_Lima.27s_wikipedia_page). I'm trying to update the content but would be helpful if I could access the details which were removed by your admin. Is it possible for me to access the old page, or can you please help? iambrodybjjIambrodybjj (talk) 21:07, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

@Iambrodybjj: sorry for delay replying, I have been away. In the conversation you linked above, I explained that the page had been moved into you user-space for you to work on, and it is still there at User:Iambrodybjj/Adilson Lima. See WP:Your first article for general advice, and WP:Notability and WP:MMANOT. When it is ready, click the blue "Submit" button, which will send it for review. JohnCD (talk) 16:55, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

John, I should've been more clear. Although I am able to access some content from your link, the bulk of the important content has been removed. More specifically, I'm trying to recreate a list of about 100+ names of black belts promoted by Adilson Bitta Lima. They were on the original page before it was removed. Is it possible that old content is archived somewhere? iambrodybjjIambrodybjj (talk) 17:01, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

The whole history of the page, including all previous versions, is still available. Click on "View history" at the top to see them all listed; then clicking on the time/date entry towards the left of any line will show you that version of the page. I'm not sure, though, that a list of 100+ names is appropriate for an encyclopedia article; better, in my opinion, to say something like "He has been responsible for over <however many> black belts, including... " and then list some of the more notable ones. JohnCD (talk) 17:17, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Your email

I got your email, despite the fact that for some reason it went to my spam folder. I am keeping an eye on it. So far, nothing to report. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:22, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

See your email for my update on this. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 13:16, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
@JamesBWatson: thanks. I didn't get your email, even in my spam folder, but I see from the SPI what has been going on, and I caught another one this morning. Sigh... JohnCD (talk) 21:31, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Well, I have no idea why you didn't get my email, but it was only information for interest, nothing vital. Apart from what you can see in the SPI, I have blocked some other accounts. I have also put blocks on two IP ranges for an extended period, and another range briefly. I haven't seen any recent IP editing from the person in question, so maybe the range blocks are having some effect. Even though the editor can still edit by creating new accounts, being put to the extra trouble of having to go to another computer and create an account is likely to slow him down a bit. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:18, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Albert Thain

Hi,

I was in the middle of creating a page for Albert Thain yesterday but it was promptly deleted in the time it took me to get home from the office. It says I should talk to the user who deleted it before creating the page again?

Is it possible to set it back up?

Regards,

Leemulreany. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leemulreany (talk • contribs) 08:27, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

@Leemulreany: - it hasn't been deleted. Because it was obviously incomplete, another user moved it to Draft:Albert Thain where you can work on it, and left a message on your talk page to tell you so and give some advice. All that I deleted was the "redirect" left over from the move. JohnCD (talk) 10:19, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Why?

Why?
Why u delete the Annastasia Vincoun page? She is a very good artist and I will wrote this every day if u again delete it! Mari19dianoi (talk) 09:54, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Deleted text

Hi. I want to know why u deleted the Annastasia Vincoun page. She is a very good designer and people should know about her! If you delete it every day....I will write it again and again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mari19dianoi (talk • contribs) 09:59, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

@Mari19dianoi: I deleted it because there was nothing in it that suggested she was a suitable subject for an encyclopedia. The test for inclusion is called Wikipedia:Notability, and looks for references to "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Also, what you wrote was gossipy material suitable for a social-networking site, not for a serious encyclopedia. I suggest that you write about her somewhere like Facebook.
If you write it again and again, it will be deleted again and again, and eventually you will be blocked. Read the links in the Welcome message at the top of your talk page to learn more about Wikipedia. JohnCD (talk) 21:12, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

User Page: RAYOLIVERESQ

I received your mssg. that you have deleted and moved my Wiki User page. I have already discussed this issue a few years ago. My user page sets out my biography/academic training for purposes of establishing authority in the areas that I choose to contribute or of editing Wiki Articles. I am thoroughly familiar with the policy relating to User pages. User page content is liberally permitted. My page is not self promoting. It contains the extensive work and professional background over the course of 37 years. If there is anyone who challenges my editing/contributions on a talk page, they have the benefit of reviewing my academic and professional background. Too often, editorial compositions and decisions are made by those who do not have a scintilla of professional education or experience on the topic. My User page avoids that problem. Lastly, my page is only as promotional as the quality of the content that it provides for those who wish to review my qualifications for any editorial position that I take.

Again, this issue was earlier resolved.

Kindly leave my User page free from further disruption or changes.

If you have any objection to the content of my user page, then submit it first on the talk page for discussion. You are engaging in a User Page editorial war. Submit your opinion to the talk page.

.... I have just noticed that you "Blacklisted" my User Page title, which is my name. My User Page based on my real name is not within the purview of blacklisted titles. Although, Wiki policy is to avoid taking personal offense to editorial actions by others, I find it nearly impossible not to be offended by your blacklisting my User Page with my name. I note that you use a pseudonym for your User Page. Kindly revert my page to its original status, prior to your deletion and blacklisting. Since I have not encountered this situation on WP for the past 5 years approximately, I will need to search the remedies that are available to me from your imprudent blacklisting of my "name." Ray Oliver RAYOLIVERESQ rayoliveresq@mail.com Ray Oliver, Esq. 00:48, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

I am restoring my page. It is "especially" critical that my professional background be available for an anticipated vigorous objection to my proposal to edit the page on Anti Semitism, based on academic research of Semitism. I do NOT want to repeat my professional qualification each time on a talk page for every person who challenges my editorial decisions, despite the speciousness of their reasoning.

I will restore my User Page for these reasons.

R'gds, Ray Oliver rayoliveresq@mail.com 973.653.1928 Ray Oliver, Esq. 00:30, 28 August 2015 (UTC) Ray Oliver, Esq. 00:48, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) As I understand it, JohnCD didn't "blacklist" anything. He redirected your userpage to User:RAYOLIVERESQ/Raymond A. Oliver per WP:NOTWEBHOST and deleted the redirect. I believe he thought it was an article you were creating about yourself. You're lucky. If someone had tagged the article per WP:CSD#U5, many administrators, including me, would have simply deleted it.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:05, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
As Bbb23 says, I have not "blacklisted" anything, and I do not know what gives you that impression. I moved the page to a draft article location because it said at the bottom "This page will be moved to ARTICLES and DISCUSSION on completion", and because it was obviously unsuitable as a main user page.
You say that its purpose is to establish your professional qualifications. Wikipedia does not work on that basis: contributions are assessed on the basis of reliable, published sources rather than the contributor's credentials. Expert contributors certainly have value, but that lies in their ability to locate and assess published sources, rather than their personal opinions. This may seem odd, but it is fundamental; a similar project with more emphasis on credentials and expert contributors was set up at Citizendium, but has failed to take off.
In any case, it is hard to see what your early life, your family history, the exploits of your grandchildren or lists of Lebanese Americans have to do with the encyclopedia. This looks more like a Facebook-style social-media page than anything appropriate for Wikipedia.
However, since you explicitly ask for it to be returned to your user page, I have done that, and also nominated it at WP:Miscellany for deletion/User:RAYOLIVERESQ to get a community view. You are welcome to comment there, but please read WP:UPNOT and WP:NOTWEBHOST first. These discussions normally last for seven days, after which an uninvolved administrator will decide what to do. JohnCD (talk) 22:14, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Airplane54

I see you closed this discussion as delete but did not actually delete the page. Can you please delete the page now? Everymorning (talk) 11:29, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

 Done - thanks for the reminder, I got distracted by something else. JohnCD (talk) 11:44, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello

Hello John, you deleted a page this year in June, ACS Bucovina Rădăuți, it was created by me, and know I have sources to improve it. Where can I find the draft to add more information. Thank you.Alexiulian25 (talk) 15:35, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

@Alexiulian25: It's at Draft:Bucovina Rădăuți. You may find useful advice at WP:WikiProject Football. JohnCD (talk) 16:59, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Do you want help me to improve some of Romanian football like Cupa Romaniei or Liga II ? the old seasons are missing. Here you have some sources :

Thank you ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexiulian25 (talk • contribs) 22:29, 29 August 2015‎

No, sorry, I do not have time (or much interest). You may be able to get help at the football WikiProject I linked to above. JohnCD (talk) 12:08, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of the user page

Hello, the page that I asked to be deleted used to be mine a long time ago and I would like it to be removed since it has my name on it and appears through searchers/google (which I made when I was quite young.. so a mistake if I might add). Is there anyway for me to remove the account? - I've already tried to get my password from the old account which said my username was invalid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hjkf (talk • contribs) 14:28, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

@Hjkf: it seems the Allstar account did not have email enabled, so if you have lost the password there is no way to recover it. But don't worry about search engines: the blanking template I used marks the page with "NOINDEX", so within a few days it will drop off Google's search results. JohnCD (talk) 14:39, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

AJ_Joshi

I, Clintric, request the undeletion of this Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD A7. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. This submission was declined based on lack of notability. I remain confident that an article on this topic belings in Wikipedia and am continuing to assemble support for its notability.

For the third time: this was deleted after WP:Articles for deletion/AJ Joshi, so you must ask the closing admin, Joe Decker, and if he does not agree go to WP:Deletion review. Please read the answers you are given, and don't just keep repeating the same requests. JohnCD (talk) 19:34, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Emma Swift

The article was denied at AFC here Draft:Emma Swift but SPA account "Clintric" was paid for creating the article along with the promo piece of AJ Joshi which was deleted several times. Ivetliviya9 (talk) 16:56, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

@Ivetliviya9: Interesting. How do you know that? JohnCD (talk) 19:21, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

What? Bengali Chut? You're paid too for all your articles and pages, Am i right? "Ivetliviya9" Clintric (talk) 19:25, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Clintric Chutia, I was not paid but I was hired and you are paid for Emma Swift and AJ Joshi page. Am I right Clintric chutia? Ivetliviya99 (talk) 07:02, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
@Clintric: @Ivetliviya9: both of you, read the WP:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide and note that you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use ("Paid contributions without disclosure" under section 4), and in some jurisdictions by laws against covert advertising, to disclose your interest in any edits where you have a COI. JohnCD (talk) 08:44, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Biographical articles

I've noticed that K. Nathaniel and G. Emmanuel have been deleted as per Wikipedia policy. Yes, indeed they have been violative of Wikipedia standards. However, would it be possible to reinstate them by removing the harmful content. As you may be aware, these two clergymen headed the largest Lutheran Church in India. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meher Mansion (talk • contribs) 05:19, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

@Meher Mansion: you may create articles about them, but read WP:Biographies of living persons very carefully. Even where the subject of the article is dead, that policy applies to any mention of living persons. Reliable sources are essential: anything based on rumour or gossip is not acceptable. Also, read WP:Your first article. I suggest you make draft articles by clicking on Help:Userspace draft and filling in the title. That way, you will be able to send the drafts for review before they go to the main encyclopedia. JohnCD (talk) 08:51, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you re: Tui Allen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antonymillen (talk • contribs) 09:34, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Request

Can you please restore Ramón Cabrera (baseball)? He was just called up to the major leagues today, making him notable.--Yankees10 19:04, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

@Yankees10: already re-created by someone else. I have restored the deleted versions to the history. In a case like this, where the article was deleted at AfD, you should really go first to the closing admin, in this case Northamerica1000, who I will ping to notify him of what has been done. JohnCD (talk) 19:44, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Fair enough. I only went to you because of the Ryan Lollis thing from a few months ago. Thanks. --Yankees10 19:54, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Restoration of page,Skandals kibao

I would like you to allow me to recreate a new page of Skandals kibao as I have gathered enough data to construct it.For instance I have all the cast members and crew, date of premiere and no. of episodes.Just allow me to redo the page again.Or at least give me guidelines on what to do.Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nyanchoka (talk • contribs) 20:49, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

@Nyanchoka: make a draft at Draft:Skandals kibao and let me look at it. The important thing is not whether you have all the details, but whether you can provide references that show "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." That's what we mean by WP:Notability - see also WP:Notability (summary). Press releases do not count as independent. JohnCD (talk) 21:03, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Iv already added the draft but its some how messy but if you reinstate the page I will polish it.Nyanchoka (talk)nyanchy 22:02, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

No, that is no better than the version that was deleted at AfD. The first two references are the same, and are obviously based on a press release in advance of the launch. The other two are about an actress and only mention the show in passing (and, incidentally, that actress's name does not appear in the article?) Read WP:Notability (summary) for the sort of coverage that is needed. I think you will probably have to wait until the show has been running for some time, so that independent reviews and coverage have appeared. JohnCD (talk) 22:21, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Judo do

Hey, just giving you a head's up: the article content for Judo do has been removed from Judo, so I didn't know if you wanted to delete the redirect or not. I've blocked the user for 48 hours for disruptive editing and I've made sure to let them know that right now their only way to get the article created is to go through AfC. To be honest, I think that this article would likely be ripped to shreds if it was taken to AfD, given how disruptive the editor has been and it'd likely end without any mention of the sport anywhere, whereas going through AfC would at least give it a fighting chance. I'm trying to figure out their native language (since they are an obvious ESL editor) so that we can have someone try to come in and help explain the guidelines and policies in their native language, which might help clear up some of the confusion. If they keep up with their current line of thought/action (ie, my way or the highway) then I have no problem extending the block for a longer period of time, although I'd prefer for them to quietly work on the article at AfC rather than try to disruptively add it to the mainspace. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:50, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

@Tokyogirl79: Thanks. I'll delete the redirect for the moment though I'll also talk to whoever removed the entry under "Other variants" from the Judo article because I think that would be a sensible way to cover what seems to be a real but non-notable variant.
Thanks also for coping with our friend; my patience was just about exhausted and I was thinking I should bring someone else in. I have been telling him to prepare a draft (he deletes most of my advice from his talk page) but he seems to take that as an insult - he took umbrage because his first version, which said it was an Olympic sport, was deleted as a hoax. When he comes off his block, let's tell him the only way he will get an article is by first making a draft, others have started it for him, let him improve it as best he can because it will then be posted to mainspace and sent to AfD. I will also leave a note at WikiProject Martial Arts in case anyone there can throw light on Judo-do.
I agree he's not an English speaker - many of his messages consist of bits copy-pasted from policy pages or other messages, which is just what I would do if I had to argue in a foreign language. If he will tell us his language, we could try to get someone to interpret; but I'm afraid I don't see much future for him here because (a) there's no indication that his pet subject is notable, and (b) he does not seem to have the collaborative temperament. JohnCD (talk) 21:45, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
  • I have to admit that I agree with you on him likely not lasting long. I keep asking him to tell us his native language so we can get a translator in, but they haven't answered. I was wondering if he was Polish, but then if he was then he likely wouldn't have seen the Polish source as proof that the sport was an Olympic sport. (The source just compared it to Judo, which is an Olympic sport, but never said that Judo do was an Olympic sport.) The language barrier was the only reason why the block wasn't longer or permanent, to be honest. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:42, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Mass killings

It looks very close on that appeal. I am not sure that it will be considered to be a consensus to allow it. But, my plan is to revive some of the content under the name Mass killings under liberal democracies, while doing a substantial reset. I would like to preserve the edit history. I would like to do this, without being seen as a trouble-maker or going against the spirit of the consensus. But the consensus currently being considered is concerning "capitalist regimes." So it is my hope to build a new article substantially from scratch, but in the end, it will likely contain many, it not most of the listed events. Any help would be appreciated. Youknowwhatimsayin (talk) 05:50, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

@Youknowwhatimsayin: if the DRV decision is "keep deleted" that is saying, in effect, that the article is so bad that WP:TNT applies - best to blow it up and start over. In that case, if you soon post a new article on the same lines, it will certainly be seen as disruptive. What you should do is prepare a new draft (start the page title with "Draft:") and present it again to DRV only after it is complete, tidied up and edited for consistency.
If a new article is accepted, you could then ask whether the history of the previous article could be restored behind it: but I think the new article would need to be so different that people would be reluctant to do that.
The scope would be need to be much better defined, and probably narrower. Your big obstacle is WP:SYNTH: "Do not combine material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources." That policy is there to limit Wikipedia's scope, because encyclopedias are not for publishing new ideas, only for summarising ideas already published.You need to show that your chosen subject, however it is defined, is a thing that, in total, has been discussed by other reliable published sources.
JohnCD (talk) 16:22, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Hunt Monitors - Zinfandelorganic

Dear JohnCD thank you for your reply to my message regarding Hunt Monitors and your explanation as to why it had been deleted. Unfortunately I have aleady resubmitted it without any further editing. (It had already been improved several times since the last draft in 2014). I guess I will now wait and see if it approved or not. Thank you again. Any further advise would be very welcome. Judy Gilbert (Zinfandelorganic) Zinfandelorganic (talk) 09:52, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

@Zinfandelorganic: I have withdrawn the draft from the queue for now, because re-submitting it unchanged would just waste time. I will answer your question below later - it will take a bit of work. JohnCD (talk) 13:52, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Dear JohnCD is there any way I can retrieve the latest version, that is the version that was deleted, of my article Hunt Monitors. The only version I can find is out of date. It had been improved by user David Crawford, which I thought was very constructive and improved my use of English. If you could find or you could tell me how I can find this deleted version I will then resubmit it as I believe this version should pass all the Wiki tests of suitability. Thank you for your patience John, I do not always find Wiki very easy to navigate. Zinfandelorganic (Judy Gilbert) Zinfandelorganic (talk) 12:41, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

User:NickAangWiki

Hi JohnCD. Per your edit here.
You may be interested in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nickaang/Archive. The user NickAangWiki account has now been blocked, but I have added them to the SPI page anyway. Just FYI. 220 of Borg 13:14, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I didn't know about that one. JohnCD (talk) 13:18, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Good! Hey, popups show you at exactly 119,000 edits! - 220 of Borg

About CoinHELP!

The CoinHelp! page is no different than what this page represents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectors_Universe

CoinHELP! also launched the first coin collecrtor's app with coin values. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daniel Malone (talk • contribs) 18:26, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 22:07, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

dtayl20

Hi John

I received a message for speedy deletion of a page. (dtayl20)

If I have breached any rules I'm happy to fix it. I'm OK with that part...

I created a page 7 or 8 years ago... I'm assuming this is the one. I have never updated it.

It was approved back then and now there is a problem with it. I can only assume its been hacked.

Are you able to point me to the page so that I am able to fix it please?

Thanks Damon Taylor (dtayl20) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.142.71.21 (talk) 22:58, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

The only deleted page from your account was your user talk page User talk:Dtayl20, which I deleted because it was an ad for a wedding brokerage. Wikipedia doesn't allow any kind of advertising or promotion, even in user or talk pages. I'm sure it wasn't "approved" back in 2008, it just wasn't noticed then, but it was flagged yesterday as part of a clean-up. JohnCD (talk) 09:18, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

RevDel

Hi John, Hope all's well, I was wondering if you could revdel these [5][6] please,
You'd think people would have better things to do than too!,
Anyway Thanks :), –Davey2010Talk 22:41, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

 Done JohnCD (talk) 09:08, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
Brilliant thanks :), –Davey2010Talk 14:53, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Atul_Srivastava

<content - an AfD entry - removed> David 16:49, 7 September 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ManishSrivastava1 (talk • contribs)

@ManishSrivastava1: what you posted here was an AfD page, but this is not the place for it. It has now been set up properly at WP:Articles for deletion/Atul Srivastava. If you need to do this again, the instructions are at WP:AFDHOWTO.
I think you must be signing your messages with five tilde characters ~~~~~, which only gives the time and date but not your username. You should use four tildes ~~~~, which produces a full "signature" like this, including a link to your talk page: JohnCD (talk) 17:11, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

User:TORQTECH

Hi, John. About User:TORQTECH that you blocked: they're kind of persistent. I had already warned, then blocked, the previous incarnation User:Torqtech Offshore Sercvices (note misspelling). I'll try to keep an eye out for further versions. Bishonen | talk 12:34, 8 September 2015 (UTC).

Riccardo Cocchi

Is this article about the dancer or random cruft? If it is the dancer can you userfy. Valoem talk contrib 20:19, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

@Valoem: it's the dancer, so  Done to User:Valoem/Riccardo Cocchi, though it won't be much help if you want to make a proper article. JohnCD (talk) 21:37, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Not fair!

I still do not understand why my article was deleted!

I do understand the advertising aspect that you do mention but i will list a few that have tons more advertising on their post!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HintHunt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Escape_Hunt_Experience

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindTrap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdventureRooms

There are many of the same industry that are 100% advertising a place and they are there!

I cannot find any difference to my article but i would say they seem really really advertising.

I would appreciate an explanation.

I can write the same article as them...in the same manner but i know it will not accepted which seems really weird!Piatefixer (talk) 08:53, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 11:35, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Paul Easter sock

Just a heads up that Nawlinwiki has stepped in and blocked User:Lot7000, so your advice for the user to edit User: Lot7000/sandbox (which actually has a typo'd space in it now that I copypaste it) is no longer applicable - you might want to tweak that. Limiting them to editing their own talk page is probably okay while this gets sorted out. Appreciate your time in patience in trying to. --McGeddon (talk) 15:23, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Actually, NW had blocked talk page access, but he has agreed to restore it, though he remains convinced that this is PE himself. JohnCD (talk) 21:24, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

LHSA District articles

In my absence, you speedied all the articles in dispute. Please restore them to my userspace so I can add the appropriate sources and repost when I have loaded them up with sources. Trackinfo (talk) 08:09, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

@Trackinfo:  Done to User:Trackinfo/District 3-5A (LHSAA) etc. Bear in mind that WP:Notability requires evidence of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". JohnCD (talk) 10:33, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Chaunty Spillane Page, Why Delete?

Dear Admin,

I was wondering why you deleted the page of Chaunty Spillane? We want her back.

Sincerely,

John — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:19B:4300:1A60:3C4F:FE73:2EFF:AAB (talk) 17:26, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

I didn't. If you click on the "red-link" Chaunty Spillane you can see who did. Before asking him, read WP:ENTERTAINER to see what an entertainer needs to have achieved before having a Wikipedia article. JohnCD (talk) 17:05, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Salting

I wanna know if this page is salted. Yesterday i nominated it, i hope someone has requested create protection. 12 hours have past after i logged out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeweedeedee --Action Hero Shoot! 06:04, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Click hereThe Quixotic Potato (talk) 07:01, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
So yes, it was salted yesterday. JohnCD (talk) 12:34, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Charles Manson

Hi! Do you know if Charles Manson is dead? I'm not sure, even after googling. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 16:56, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Hm, I think he is alive, Snopes is reliable. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 16:58, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
This says he is dead; but you need to be very sure of reliable sources before adding it to the article. JohnCD (talk) 17:02, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Charles Manson NOT Dead, Despite Internet Death Hoax Article has sensibly been semi-protected for a week till the hoax reports die down. JohnCD (talk) 12:42, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Wrestling article deletions

why did you eliminate arukas cup 6 man tag tornument — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martimc123 (talk • contribs) 12:43, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

and why that you eliminated novus professional wrestling it was my articles — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martimc123 (talk • contribs) 12:46, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

@Martimc123: the reasons are explained at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arukas Cup Six Man Tag Tournament and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Novus (professional wrestling). Wikipedia is quite choosy about subjects for articles, it doesn't expect or want to cover everything. Read WP:GNG and WP:NEVENT which are linked from those deletion discussions, and explain what sort of subjects are acceptable. That will save you wasting time writing articles which don't qualify and will get deleted. You can perhaps get advice at WP:WikiProject Martial arts - they have notability guidelines at WP:WikiProject Martial arts/Notability. JohnCD (talk) 16:50, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

and now are you that are gonna to my create my articles why my articles — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martimc123 (talk • contribs) 17:16, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Ummed Singh Mahra

Can you please add words to Ummed Singh Mahra when you have time? Thanks. 12.180.133.18 (talk) 07:40, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

In a day or two. JohnCD (talk) 17:41, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Question

Where is the draft of my work on article : SG Sibiu ?? I want to improve it now, I have the information. why did you delete it ?Alexiulian25 (talk) 20:16, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

@Alexiulian25: it's still at Draft:Societatea Gimnastică Sibiu, where you edited it yesterday. All that I deleted was the redirect left behind when it was moved to Draft space in June. JohnCD (talk) 20:25, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Can you help me to improve my drafts articles, I have many. Thanks.

@Alexiulian25: No, sorry, I am afraid I do not have time. You seem to be having some success getting drafts accepted. The important thing is to have references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" to establish WP:Notability. Depending on the subject, you may be able to get advice at WikiProjects like WP:WikiProject Football or others on this list. JohnCD (talk) 10:53, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Re

Hi I considered that but I figured to use the template I used instead, I will use the other one in the future. Saturn star (talk) 17:05, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Good. The thing about {{uw-attack}} is that it's a final warning, so another attack page will lead to an immediate block. Two strikes and you're out. JohnCD (talk) 17:08, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Ingoldsby

Yes, thank you, that's what I meant... Cheers, :>MinorProphet (talk) 20:01, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

I'd like your input

Some time ago I came across the page Oven glove and looked into the whole idea of Earl Mitt. I came to the conclusion it was nonsense -there was only one reference and it did not appear to cite any references itself. I removed it from the page after leaving a comment to see if anyone would object. But it was returned. I would like a new opinion- it's one of those silly things that annoys me but I don't want to remove it again having done so once -and of course I may be wrong (Sandwiches, cardigans and get their names from men after all). I rarely get to edit Wikipedia anymore though I hope that will change again in the future. But the result is I am slow to follow up on issues and can't remember the best way to resolve them..So I thought I would ask you.-- 🍺 Antiqueight confer 11:51, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

@Antiqueight: the way to handle this sort of content dispute is described at WP:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle. Deleting it again would continue a slow-motion edit war. The thing to do is, start a discussion on the talk page, saying perhaps that you think the one source is not reliable, and anyway does not back up the sentence about experimenting with different shapes, and see whether there is a consensus to remove it, or whether anyone can provide better sources. The problem will be finding anyone interested - you could try posting at the talk page of Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink whose banner is on the talk page, and if there is no response after a bit, put a {{helpme}} on the page. JohnCD (talk) 21:45, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Tara Gruenewald

I am intending to create a page for Dr. Tara Gruenewald, who is well renowned as well as being an assistant professor of gerontology at the University of Southern California. She has also had been published recently in an article at http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/02/25/geronb.gbv005.abstract. I am wondering if you remember why you deleted her a few years ago?

Raphael Margolin (talk) 19:40, 25 September 2015 (UTC)raphemarg

@Raphael Margolin: I deleted the article at its author's request, after s/he was advised that its subject probably did not then meet Wikipedia's quite demanding notability requirement for academics, explained at WP:Notability (academics). You can read the story at User talk:Jriggs2012: there is advice from me and from others which you may find useful.
If you think that Dr Gruenewald now meets the WP:PROF standard, I will be happy to undelete the article for you to work on. I would put it in the new "Draft namespace" where articles can be worked on and, if required, submitted for review by an experienced user, rather than posted directly in the encyclopedia. JohnCD (talk) 20:10, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

TWO RFDS AWAITING DELETION (SNOWBALL)

Hi. I just wondered if you could close out the first two RFDs here as they are clearly SNOW. I'd like to remove the page from my watchlist. Thanks. Quis separabit? 13:45, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

I'll do them as soon as they have "matured" - I'm a stickler for waiting the full 7 x 24 hr on closing discussions unless there is some really pressing reason to jump the gun. Cheers,JohnCD (talk) 14:54, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Omega Crosby (Rapper)

Can we have the page "Omega Crosby (Rapper)" created again. He is a notable rap artist and he's been cited by the news, he's on famousbirthdays.com and he's verified on facebook. He has a viral hit song on youtube called "Bugging". He is also associated with acts such as Wacka Flocka, Tech N9ne, Baeza, and Chingo Bling. He is an artist on MTV.com as well. He has releases on itunes also.

Reference Links: http://events.news10.net/Omega_Crosby_wacka_flocka_Tech_N9ne_Baeza/320031405.html http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/omega-crosby.html https://www.facebook.com/OmegaCrosby http://www.mtv.com/artists/omega-crosby/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZSv_8HlCus https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/get-it-single/id720863002 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikaveli777 (talk • contribs) 09:11, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

@Mikaveli777: I have restored it to Draft:Omega Crosby (rapper) where you can work on it. It will need better references than that to show WP:Notability - read that link and WP:MUSICBIO and WP:Notability (summary). Sites like Youtube, Facebook and MTV.com where people write about themselves don't count, nor do "associated acts". What's needed is substantial comment about him by someone independent of him. Read WP:Your first article for advice. JohnCD (talk) 10:40, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Question

Why you delet the biografi i post? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 181.134.47.53 (talk) 19:53, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

I can't tell what page it was unless you tell me its name, or log in so that I know what account you wrote it from. JohnCD (talk) 20:24, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Username violation

Hello. If you feel like blocking someone for username violation I suggest you block this account I just spotted: Heilsatan666 (it's also a VOA, BTW, judging by the contributions...). Thomas.W talk 21:12, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Already blocked by HJMitchell. WP:UAA is the place to report things like this. I don't think the username alone would have made me block, but it would make me look hard at the contributions. JohnCD (talk) 21:19, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
I know the username wasn't enough to block them (the vandalism was, though), but I couldn't resist posting here after seeing your accidental block of Amortias. Thomas.W talk 21:22, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Ah, I see. No, I am really not that trigger-happy. In five years as an admin, that is my second mistaken block and, to make it worse, both of them were eminently upright and virtuous citizens with clean block logs. There is a thread on Jimbo's talk page about how to make users retire when they get senile; maybe it's me they are talking about. JohnCD (talk) 21:33, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Shite happens. The only entry in my block log is an accidental one minute block by JamesBWatson a couple of years back, on a day when there were too many Thomases around, so you're not the only one who has clicked on the wrong name. Thomas.W talk 21:38, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

please undelete the G8 of Talk:Avrett Free Ginsberg

Details:

boilerplate helptext I'm seeing
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  • 08:24, 18 September 2015 JohnCD (talk | contribs) deleted page Talk:Avrett Free Ginsberg (G8: Page dependent on a deleted or nonexistent page)

Good reason(s):

  1. The article was PROD'd (G7 if memory serves) but has since been un-PROD'd, w/ agreement of deleting admin, so the G8-reason is no longer applicable.
  2. I don't want to just recreate the talkpage blank, since the deleted talkpage prolly had wikiproject-templates already (and maybe even "actual" talkpage discussions and stuff).
  3. I'm trying to place {{connected_contributor}} upon the talkpage, for the presumably-connected-contributor(s).

Asking very WP:NICEly per WhyDeleted instructions:

  • please
  • pretty please
  • with a 'pedia on top?  :-)

Thanks. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 11:23, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

 Done. No need even to ask so nicely, though I will ping the admin who restored the article, DGG, on the off-chance that he had a reason not to restore the talk page. If this should happen again, best first to ask the restoring admin, whose name you can find by clicking "View logs for this page" at top left of the history page. JohnCD (talk) 13:24, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
I did ask DGG first actually, but it was a ping from the WP:COIN thread rather than a direct-on-the-usertalk type of asking. (And technically he was the restoring-admin, DGG first got the restoration-okay from the actual-deleting-admin, who was in an airport somewhere travelling, but that prolly doesn't matter.) In any case, since when I checked back I saw that the pagenotice specifically says 'the deleting admin' I figured I would contact you second.  :-)     All is well that ends well methinks. Anyways, thanks for putting the thing back, appreciated. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 22:22, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
sorry I hadn't noticed. DGG ( talk ) 05:57, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not for writing about yourself

Rajsunder30 (talk) 09:41, 28 September 2015 (UTC)I have written about Martyr Major Asha Ram Tyagi(MVC Receipient) of 1965 Indo-Pak war ON WIKIPEDIA, that was deleted 3 days back.He is well known & respected person in India.

I have written about Mr. Raj Sunder ,he is a well known great speaker & conducts seminars in India.our organisation conducts soft skills programmes in rural India free of cost. we have a website www.rajsunder.in, rajsunder ia a brand name & WE are writing about the brand. I am admin Sachin Sharma (<email redacted>) in www.rajsunder.in in the organisation which is a part of Group Hyperworld Retail Pvt. Ltd.This is not about ourself ,this is about Brand of the company.He is a Social worker & emerging Farmer Leader.Please clarify your concern ..

I will reply on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 11:49, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Kevin Howard Inc

How do I go about setting up an informational page about this brand. It's a new brand that is launching and we'd like to provide information to the public with a wikipedia page

Clkloiber (talk) 21:01, 28 September 2015 (UTC) clkloiber

@Clkloiber: I am just in the middle of writing a reply to the "helpme" on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 21:04, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 September 29#Template:Spam-warn

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 September 29#Template:Spam-warn. I've relisted this discussion twice already; could you please take a look? Thanks. Gparyani (talk) 19:11, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

You edited the page for the original discussion. I, however, have relisted the discussion (twice) to yesterday's TfD log. I've moved your comment there. Gparyani (talk) 07:15, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
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Nishit Ashokkumar Mehta

I just came across this page which was tagged by you and @MarnetteD:. If both of you had actually checked the reference given, you would have found that the original title is "Toshi, Sharib and Swaroop Khan perform at Rajasthan Day celebrations in Jaipur" not "Toshi, Sharib, Nishit Ashokkumar Mehta And Swaroop Khan perform at Rajasthan Day celebrations in Jaipur".

He created this bogus page today, which i tagged for deletion

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nishit_Ashokkumar_Mehta_(disambiguation)&action=edit&redlink=1 --The Amazing Spiderman (talk) 15:36, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deleted as hoax - neither reference mentions him. Thanks. JohnCD (talk) 22:23, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

About flowers page

Dear Mr. John,

This letter is about the page you deleted about Flowers. The content was copied from their website itself, but was copied as it is an article about them . Sorry about that and it is deleted now.

Please find the content in my own language. I know the channel from the time it was conceived.

Flowers TV is a malayalam television channel which is beaming through the satellite Intelsat 7 . The chairman of the channel is Mr.Gokulam Gopalan. The channel is part of Insight Media City, which is headed by Mr.Sreekandan Nair, one of the prominent journalist in the state of Kerala .The channel is launched on April 12th of 2015. Mr.Anil Ayroor is the Vice President of the channel programs and Mr.Leen B.Jesmas is the head of News.

The programs of the channel are well accepted . They have introduced a new style of sets in malayalam.As per the current report of BARC , Flowers is one among the first three channels in malayalam .Smart Show is one of the most viewed in malayalam now.Comedy Super nite is an entertainment program by Suraaj VEnjaarumood, a cine artist. Serials like Moonnumani and Easwaran Saakshiyaayi are well accepted.

Website : flowerstv.in


Please add this to my sand box Thanks

Nikhil — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikhilrajn (talk • contribs) 17:54, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of the CCU Page

I read your advice carefully and understood the highlighted points. Please, put the page to the draft variant and I will work on it to make sure that it follows all regulations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arturvfrolov (talk • contribs) 10:51, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

CCU Process

Please, mention the requirements which have to be met to restore creation of deleted page in near future, if the article will be well written draft.

Reply to the message (CCU)

So, there are three main missing parts to be completed. Please, can you clarify about to declare the relationship. Is there a procedure for this which I can follow? And the second question: how can I make Authority Control from listed web-resources? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arturvfrolov (talk • contribs) 12:44, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

recently created "town" articles.

JohnnyHoffa has come alive today and decided to create "articles" for railroad stops. Article is one sentence with a ref to a Wikipedia article. Has also created "bigger" articles, but I've either deleted or tagged them as copyvio. Three years ago, you ran into them creating other "town articles". Any advice on what to do with the articles? Bgwhite (talk) 05:38, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

CCU Page

Hello Dear John,

1. Regarding the CCU article, currently I am collecting references and information that proves what's written there. I will remove information about accreditation until I get reliable sources to prove that. Can this article be submitted without accreditation information so there will be overall description about the university, and I will put official Shield as logo of the article. This, people will see this article. And as soon as I get sources, I will improve it with reliable references etc.

2. Sent link "https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/FAQ_on_paid_contributions_without_disclosure" by you recently has an empty page there. Can you please clarify about declaration, what and where should I write. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arturvfrolov (talk • contribs) 16:04, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Mark Miles (priest)

I see you deleted Talk:Mark Miles (priest) under WP:CSD#G8. I was actually in the middle of trying to clean up a copy-paste move and need to restore this talk page so I can move it to Talk:Mark Miles. I didn't notice it didn't go along when I moved Mark Miles (priest) to Mark Miles. –Grondemar 05:33, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

@Grondemar: sorry for any problem - what I thought I was doing was moving the talk page to catch up with the article, in response to a speedy request on the target talk page. The history is confused, and I cannot now make out what actually happened. The proper talk page is now at Talk:Mark Miles, so all is well now? JohnCD (talk) 22:05, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
All's good now, thanks. –Grondemar 22:11, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Help request

Hi John - About a year ago i had asked for name suppression as per the online harassment clause and you had very kindly deleted the post and extended this restriction through your moderation authority on wikipages. I hope you are able to do the same yet again as this has not died down and i would like that during a name search online this link doesnt show up with whatever happened then. I hope you understand my predicament and hope you're able to pull up details with the attached link and what this case related to last year when i contacted you online. Im afraid i cannot divulge anymore details than this - hoping you're able to help again . Many thanks Ana. 203.109.197.24 (talk) 20:59, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Has there been more activity on Wikipedia? The account previously concerned has not edited again.
On a Google search for your name, the only relevant thing that comes up (on the second page of results) is not from Wikipedia but from Wikivisually.com (a "mirror site" which copies from Wikipedia, as it is allowed to do by our license terms). That shows a reference to their copy of the page in my Wikipedia talk page archive where you first asked for assistance. I have now edited that talk page archive so as not to show the names concerned. I do not know whether Wikivisually.com will update to reflect that change, but I doubt it. We have no control over them, but you could ask them to remove the copy of my archived talk page from their database, or alternatively to update their copy to reflect its current state. Failing that, you could approach Google and claim the "Right to be forgotten", though that may not apply outside the European Union.
Please let me know if there is any more I can do. JohnCD (talk) 13:56, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi,

I have been informed I was blocked for changes which constitute vandalism, however, I made no changes whatsoever to any of the four entries. Can someone tell me what the hell is going on?

A — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.29.165.30 (talk) 12:15, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

You can't get away with that story, because every change made to Wikipedia is recorded. This was the change your IP made to Chearsley; it doesn't show now because an anti-vandalism patroller changed it back. It's the same story for the other three changes: 1, 2, 3. Please go and play somewhere else and stop wasting our time, or the next block will be longer.
If these changes were not made by you, but by someone else using your (static) IP, then don't worry about it, but consider registering an account, which is easy and free, so that there will be no confusion between your edits and anyone else's. JohnCD (talk) 14:36, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Request

Dear Sir/Madam, i am a senior journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. i am kindly requesting you to write my biography in wekipedia. hope to get your feedback. thanks, yours faithfully, Abdishakur, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abdishakur Shakra (talk • contribs) 18:55, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

@Abdishakur Shakra: no, sorry, I do not write articles for other people. Please understand that Wikipedia is not a social-networking site for people to post their CVs. You can do that at Facebook or LinkedIn, but Wikipedia is different. See WP:JOURNALIST for what a journalist needs to have achieved before having an article. Even your user page here should be used primarily to present information relevant to working on the encyclopedia, not as a personal web-page or CV. JohnCD (talk) 14:40, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Might want to pay Smeezycarter another visit, I don't think he's getting it.

He's now using his page to post the article on himself, since it keeps getting deleted. HalfShadow 17:22, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I have undone the tangle of moves he did, restored his user talk page to its proper place, and given him a final warning. JohnCD (talk) 18:03, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

paraphrase

hi dear friend. could you please paraphrase; "It provides the young child with an introduction to books and the Peter Rabbit universe." thanks more info [7] Alborzagros (talk) 10:15, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

@Alborzagros: "For young children, it provides a way in to reading and to the world of Peter Rabbit." JohnCD (talk) 18:10, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks you my friend. That is all I wished. Alborzagros (talk) 05:31, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Funny category

Hello John, could you please delete Category:Forage combine harvester multi function. I am not sure what criteria it falls under but it's definitely not a category. Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 13:15, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

G2 test edit took care of it. The text was copied from an article. I have given him some advice. JohnCD (talk) 13:41, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Why delete

John why did you deleted page Mavis Albertina. You had no right — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nos Pais Television (talk • contribs) 19:37, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

I have explained on her talk page: (a) Wikipedia is not a social-networking site for people to write about themselves, and (b) this is the English-language Wikipedia but the page was in Dutch. JohnCD (talk) 19:46, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Why have you deleted page for Mavis Albertina. I do not agree — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.112.228.137 (talk) 19:51, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

See above. JohnCD (talk) 19:53, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

DRV

Hi, just wondered if you received my ping at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2015 October 11 and whether you intend to comment there? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:06, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, missed the ping, commented there now. JohnCD (talk) 14:17, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Precious again

delete and undelete
Thank you for welcoming and warning, for dealing with deletions of articles due to vandalism, spam, promotion, nonsense, hoax, for assisting the precision bombing in Howard Roark style, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:43, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 1006th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:46, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, again! JohnCD (talk) 22:15, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Talia Denis Page

Hi! My page creation for Talia Denis was deleted last week due to copyright infringement. I had used a bio I wrote for it, but it was used on multiple sites apparently. I would like to create this page again, and will write a whole new entry for it that shouldn't mirror anything else on the web. How can I go about this?

Thank you!

-Ashley (ashleymhart) Ashleymhart (talk) 15:30, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

@Ashleymhart: you can just go ahead and write, using WP:Articles for creation to make a draft for review by an uninvolved user; but it should look nothing like the previous version which, apart from the copyright issue, was far too promotional in tone for an encyclopedia. Read carefully what I wrote on your talk page under the heading "Copyright, promotion, COI". JohnCD (talk) 15:39, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

page addition

Hi John, I am trying to create a wiki page for a band that have been around for nearly 10 years - i run a fan site about the band and notice that they havent got a wiki page. I have gone to create a page and it says that they had a page deleted in 2012 by yourself for copyright infringement from Reverbnation. I would like to set up a fresh page and add information my self. would this still be deleted ?

Thanks, Myah — Preceding unsigned comment added by Me-here-now1974 (talk • contribs) 07:18, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 10:09, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

sometimes I will request

Dear sir or madam, please I wanna keep shortly about for memory of life. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kajit paron (talk • contribs) 16:07, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

@Kajit paron: If you want to write down your life-story so that you can remember it, you can do that at home. If you want to publish it, you can do that on Facebook or other social-networking sites, but not on Wikipedia. JohnCD (talk) 14:53, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

CHS alliance

Why did you delete the pages "CHS Alliance" and "Core Humanitarian Standard?" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aidepikiw2003 (talk • contribs) 11:54, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

There was no copyright infringement. I work for the CHS Alliance and was involved in the development process of the Core Humanitarian Standard. The information in the Standard and on the CHS Alliance website can be used widely without any copyright infringement. Can you please rehabilitate the two pages? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aidepikiw2003 (talk • contribs) 12:02, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

@Aidepikiw2003: assertion of permission to use text is not enough, a formal copyright release is required, but in any case Wikipedia is not here for organizations to post copies of their manifestos. Detailed reply on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 12:08, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

This does not make any sense. We're not for profit. And the same goes for pages such as Humanitarian Accountability Partnership, People In Aid, and Sphere Project. If you delete our page, why not those other ones? You're not being consistent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aidepikiw2003 (talk • contribs) 12:10, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm having a rough introduction to Wikipedia because you choose not to be constructive, it's that simple. You could have warned me before deleting both articles. I'll have to do it again, it's not like I have a choice. I could have easily rewritten the text with external references, including people external to my NGO. Is there any way to access the information you deleted? Aidepikiw2003 (talk) 12:23, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

With copyright information there is no choice: it must be speedily deleted as soon as identified, and cannot be restored, even temporarily. I will email copies to you. If you want to use any substantial portions from it, WP:Donating copyrighted materials describes how to make a copyright release, but better to write in your own words, as if from outside. Because of your COI, use WP:Articles for creation rather than posting directly. You may find the WP:Article wizard helpful.
Non-profits are treated like other subjects, they do not get a free pass. For the others you mentioned, at a quick glance they are less obviously promotional and have independent references, but see WP:Other stuff exists. JohnCD (talk) 12:38, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

can you unlock my account?

I made a mistake by creating another account to edit the same page. Could you please unlock my account? I will try to re-edit the page by following the rule provided. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bloggersam (talk • contribs) 10:08, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

@Bloggersam: Your Bloggersam account is not blocked (or you would not have been able to make this edit). The account Sam.mang.gmail (talk) is blocked as a sockpuppet, but you don't need two accounts. JohnCD (talk) 11:47, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

G7 deletion

Thanks, JohnCD, for deleting the Commons image I duplicatively requested for deletion. I'll remember to use the {{db-g7}} tag in future. Cheers, West32 (talk) 21:18, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello JohnCD, Thank you for deleting my user page as I requested. It was a mess (of updates). I would like to create a new and simpler version, and so I am giving you the heads-up about that. Thanks again, ~Arminnius — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arminnius (talk • contribs) 22:57, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

@Arminnius: No worries! I suppose it will show on my watch-list when you do, but I won't be concerned. JohnCD (talk) 23:01, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Christ Church, Newton

Hi John, just letting you know I have opened a discussion on ANI regarding the SD of Christ Church, Newton here. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 21:26, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm not sure I need to comment, but I'll look at it. JohnCD (talk) 22:18, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Revdel needed

I think this may be a bit too much personal information being made public: <redacted>. Can you remove this, and should I ask for Oversight on it? --| Uncle Milty | talk | 22:30, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Deleted, suppression and account rename requested. Thanks. JohnCD (talk) 22:45, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 22:53, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
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