User talk:Seal Boxer

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Speedy deletion nomination of Box of Seals

Hello Anthony Seldon,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Box of Seals for deletion, because it doesn't seem to have any encyclopedic content.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks, Gbawden (talk) 13:57, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thank you, it is a Work in Progress. Anthony Seldon (talk) 13:58, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Any work in progress should be developed in your sandbox, or as a sub-page in your user space. I have moved the article to User:Anthony Seldon/Box of seals for you to work on at your leisure without worrying about some oaf coming along and deleting it. ~Amatulić (talk) 14:17, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Atmospheric Administration listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Atmospheric Administration. Since you had some involvement with the Atmospheric Administration redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Andy Dingley (talk) 15:14, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

National Oceanic listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect National Oceanic. Since you had some involvement with the National Oceanic redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Andy Dingley (talk) 15:14, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Seal Transportation

The article Seal Transportation has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Not a good faith article creation - see editor history

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:15, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have objected, and, I do not have a dubious history as you claim. Anthony Seldon (talk) 15:23, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No, your history is perfectly clean – because you wipe the vandalism warnings from it (as you're entirely entitled to do). However don't pretend to other editors that you're blameless. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:26, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Are you talking about me as a person? I do not like this sort of slur! Anthony Seldon (talk) 15:29, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Seal Transportation for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Seal Transportation is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seal Transportation until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:25, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Anthony Seldon, you are invited to the Teahouse

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Proposed deletion of Goat Transportation

The article Goat Transportation has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Wikipedia is not a how-to guide.

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Nomination of Goat Transportation for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Goat Transportation is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Goat Transportation until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 15:22, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Goat Transportation

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, introducing inappropriate pages, such as Goat Transportation, is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. The page has been nominated for deletion, in accordance with Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think that your page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:41, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please note

...that Wikipedia is not for things you made up one day (i.e. [1]) and Wikipedia content must be verifiable as being notable through reliable sources. Thank you. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 22:32, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of User:Anthony Seldon/Box of seals

User:Anthony Seldon/Box of seals, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Anthony Seldon/Box of seals and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Anthony Seldon/Box of seals during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:43, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Retaliatory edits

Hi,

I appreciate that it's unpleasant for your work to be nominated for deletion. However, it is never a good idea to take this personally. In particular, I've closed the retaliatory AfD you raised at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Warm glass and deleted User:Anthony Seldon/AD diffs, an attack page devoted to the editor who nominated your article for deletion. I've left a comment to the effect that User:Anthony Seldon/Box of seals is a valid work page on its own deletion discussion and advised the nominating editor to step back.

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding these actions or other areas of Wikipedia process. Thanks. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 15:40, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Anthony Seldon", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because the username and user page information match with a notable person. If you are Anthony Seldon, please verify your identity with Wikipedia; instructions are at Wikipedia:Username policy#Real names. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Peter James (talk) 22:55, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your remarks, I was unaware of this policy. I shall react accordingly. Anthony Seldon (talk) 10:32, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Seal Boxer. You have new messages at Talk:Sealskin.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 12:23, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Tobacco pouch

The article Tobacco pouch has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Dictionary definition, and a trivial one at that.

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Scotpina and CheckUser

As you might already have seen, Scotpina has been exposed as a sock/meat/random coincidence of Shanker Pur, and unrelated to your account.

In which case, mea culpa I apologise sincerely for implying that you might have been the sockmaster behind these three accounts.

Things haven't got off to a great start so far, but I note your tobacco pouch article with interest – I was actually about to remove the prod on it, but you beat me to it. This looks like a good topic for an article and I wish you luck with it. The idea of forged tobacco pouches as an aid to tobacco smuggling was particularly interesting. I hope that we can have more productive editing interactions in the future. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:06, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's interesting how some mundane items have an encyclopedic value. The tobacco pouch article reminded me of the wine list article I wrote some years back.

I added a picture. ~Amatulić (talk) 20:56, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Andy,

Thank you for letting me know. I agree we did get off to a bad start, but let us put that in the past - and I also look forward to a positive editing future on this encyclopedia. I am glad you like the tobacco pouch article - and thank you User:Amatulic for adding the image.

Seal Boxer (talk) 10:39, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of tea for you!

Tobacco pouch is looking alright. I also regret what I've said about you, and I look forward to working with you in the future. BDD (talk) 20:59, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

did you know?

Animal transportation

Animal transportation is potentially a great article, but some of the very specific "how to" information needs to go, and a bit more of a focus on general principles is necessary. I've take the liberty of restructuring a little to address concerns in the deletion discussion. -- 202.124.72.13 (talk) 09:42, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You should probably respond here and discuss what was raised above before simply adding information back in because you like it. I like it too, and the source is good, but the language used is totally inappropriate and almost textbook WP:NOTHOWTO stuff. You need to avoid words like "should", "must" "do" and "don't" and use words like "have", "will" and include examples of what people have done rather than your opinion about what people should do (even if cited to reliable sources). Wikipedia is not an instruction manual. President of the United States provides history and technical facts about the role, not an instruction manual for future presidents - "as President, you should take care not to...". Yeah? I'm going to undo your addition but feel free to give it another crack with better language. Stalwart111 10:02, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for your messages. I see what you mean - I consider that information about tapirs to be valid and well researched, but I will try and rephrase it without it sounding like an instruction manual. I was just a bit sad that so much useful information about transporting tapirs was to be removed. Thanks. Seal Boxer (talk) 10:19, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please refer to the first point of WP:NOTHOW for advice on how to rephrase the text, or for other venues which might be more appropriate to submit the text as originally written. —Psychonaut (talk) 10:27, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Psychonaut's advice is spot on. The information is valid and is well-researched, it's just written in a manner that's different to how we usually present information here. It was removed for that reason and was removed again on the same basis. Rephrase it and you should be fine. You can even propose a form of words on the article talk page if you're a bit unsure. Stalwart111 10:48, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, flagrant breaches of WP:NOTHOW are just going to get the article deleted, which I'm sure you don't want (although the AfD discussion is currently running 11:5 in favor of "keep"). The current article (with no active "problem" tags) is a good basis to build on. There are also concerns in the AfD discussion about the species-by-species approach. Speaking personally, transport of seals, orcas, and giraffes seems interesting, but I'm hazy on why the transport of tapirs is notable, and the deleted tapir material never quite explained why. On the other hand, we could use a lot more material on the history of animal transportation, and on animals like monkeys being shipped for research (this would also be an opportunity to mention transport of animals as a disease vector, as in Reston virus). -- 202.124.73.2 (talk) 12:00, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Try to keep the information about classification of tapirs in the tapir article, not in Animal transportation, okay? Thanks, Ansh666 19:14, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ansh is right. I've re-added the Tapir material but without some of the irrelevant stuff and have added more animals. Am working on some others. The problem at the moment is that the article includes a bizarrely short list of animals and some seem convinced it can't/won't be expanded. We need to demonstrate otherwise by expanding it and expanding it cleverly and in line with policy. Stalwart111 03:31, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Animal transportation

Hello! Your submission of Animal transportation at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 16:33, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yo, Seal Boxer! You don't gotta worry bout it now. The article has been passed and is due on the mainpage Thursday 8 August at six in the morn. -- Odobenus rosmarus

DYK for Transportation of animals

On 8 August 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Transportation of animals, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that a 400-pound (180 kg) tapir was transported by FedEx from Florida to Los Angeles? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Transportation of animals. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:32, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of User:Seal Boxer/Box of seals

User:Seal Boxer/Box of seals, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Seal Boxer/Box of seals and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Seal Boxer/Box of seals during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 16:50, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]