User talk:Bradv

Jason Bulmahn

Hi! I saw that you added a {{notability}} tag to Jason Bulmahn. I think that I've now added enough references for the tag to be removed, but I thought that you should probably check (I'm still relatively new here and I don't know all of the notability guidelines). Thanks! -Drilnoth (talk) 13:06, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

I've removed the tag. Cheers. BradV 22:20, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Excellent. Thanks! -Drilnoth (talk) 22:34, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Dwight Lauderdale edit

BradV,

I saw that you came by and edited my article. The lead looks better than the one I had. Thank you. One comment - you reverted (click here)information that was actually sourced. The bit about him being from a "working class suburb" came directly from the source I quoted, verbatim.

The second part "He took this lesson to heart and started on a path that would include entering and winning many oratorical (speech) contests that

- eventually led to him being publicly recognized in local newspaper articles. One such article would lead to a phone call that would set him on the path to become South Florida's first black anchor. "

The first sentance is a paraphrase and is sourced ( source is actually both above and below -- it's the same source). The second sentance is also sourced to the same source.

I won't war on it, and in fact, I 'll leave it out. The article doesn't have to have that to be good. Just check the source again and you'll see what I mean. It's not OR and it is in fact sourced. Just a heads up !

Thanks KoshVorlon > rm -r WP:F.U.R 21:30, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

You are free to discuss my edits on the talk page of the article, and even to revert them as necessary. Be bold, revert, discuss BradV 21:32, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

		The RfA Barnstar
		Bradv, I would like to thank you for your participation in my recent Request for Adminship, which passed with 112 supports, 4 opposes and 5 neutrals. A special mention goes out to Stwalkerster and Pedro for nominating me, thanks a lot for having trust in me! In response to the neutrals, I will try to double check articles that have been tagged for speedy deletion before I CSD them and will start off slowly with the drama boards of ANI and AN to ensure that I get used to them. In response to the oppose !votes on my RfA, I will check that any images I use meet the non-free content criteria and will attempt to handle any disputes or queries as well as I can. If you need my help at all, feel free to simply ask at my talk page and I'll see if I can help. Once again, thank you for your participation, and have a great day! :) The Helpful One 22:24, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

design by neurolysis | to add this barnstar to your awards page, simply copy and paste {{subst:User:Neurolysis/THOBS}} and remove this bottom text | if you don't like thankspam, please accept my sincere apologies

You're most welcome, and congratulations. BradV 22:27, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Dwight Lauderdale

Do you still plan to help us with this article? Your input is much needed. --Damiens.rf 19:44, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Sure. I'll weigh in where necessary and help to resolve content and style disputes. BradV 19:49, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I've commented supporting your idea of restarting from a non-article all the way up with only sourced stuff. Are you still considering this idea? --Damiens.rf 20:02, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

No, that would be rather insulting to the editor who started the article and has obviously worked very hard on it. The article needs to be cleaned up and its tone fixed, but it does not need to be reduced to a stub in order for that to be accomplished. BradV 20:06, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I understand. So, do you plan to clean up the unsourced and ill-sourced statements yourself, or do you trust the original author to do that? One problem I had with him was that he seem to believe that if something is said in a source, it could be taken as a fact and copied to wikipedia, ignoring possible POV or tone issues. --Damiens.rf 20:25, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

We can improve the article without slashing or needlessly critiquing others' work. To be frank, the only edits you have made to the article have been to slash content and to repeatedly add a bunch of unhelpful tags to the article. It's no wonder you got the reaction you did. I will gladly help you and the other editors fix the article, if you are interested in doing that, but I am not interested in fueling personal disputes which have no reason to exist, and certainly don't benefit the encyclopedia. BradV 20:35, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

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Is this Brad Vogel (of, for one, Letters in Bottles)? 68.249.6.117 (talk) 04:38, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

No, it is not. Sorry. —BradV 05:55, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Jclemens RfA

Jclemens' RfA Thankspam

		JClemens' RfA Thanks
		Thank you for participating in my Request for Adminship, which passed with 77 supporting and 2 opposing. Regardless of your position, I thank you for the time you took to examine my record and formulate your response. Jclemens (talk) 02:26, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

WP:3 for Template:Television in Italy and List of SKY Italia channels

I added my viewpoint in both articles' talkpages. Thank you for your time, Piccolo Modificatore Laborioso (talk) 05:55, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

I see that. I'll respond to both once the other side has expressed their opinion. —BradV 05:57, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in my RfA

I just wanted to take a moment to say "thank you" for taking the time and effort to participate in my recent RfA. As you may know, the discussion closed 66/0/1 and I'm now a holder of the mop. I will keep working to improve the encyclopedia and appreciate the trust which you have placed in me. - Dravecky (talk) 00:21, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

DCEETA

The medcab request is predominantly about user conduct, whereas the 3O request was to address concerns I have with the article. Whilst I respect your decision not to provide an opinion, I would tend to disagree that removing the opportunity for anyone else was all that useful.

ALR (talk) 19:26, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

I understand that concern. I would suggest that you post a further request on the MEDCAB case, and/or speak to the mediator. I will also monitor the talk page and the MEDCAB case and help out where I can. —BradV 19:28, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

I wouldn't worry. The medcab case is going nowhere with a very clear unwillingness to engage in the process. I'm contemplating just putting it up for deletion based on notability.

ALR (talk) 19:36, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority

Thank you for offering to give a third opinion. I feel overwhelmed. There is me and one other person in dispute with 3 other people. You might want to warn vegasgadet that was their 4th revert in the last 2 hours. I'm all out of reverts for the day so please keep a watch on the article.(Kdr81 (talk) 22:14, 5 December 2008 (UTC))

For future reference, third opinion is for disputes between exactly two editors, so this doesn't qualify. Regardless, I will continue to monitor and help out resolving disputes where I can. —BradV 22:16, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Karl Shuker article

Hi there, I noticed earlier today your tag concerning the Karl Shuker article, describing it as resembling an autobiography with extensive input by its subject. As that subject is me, i.e. I am Dr Karl Shuker, I would like to mention that in fact virtually all of the info in this article is contained within the books by Michael Newton and Loren Coleman/Jerome Clark listed in this article's references. My major input has been in the reference list, in response to requests for citations by other editors, including TheRedPenOfDoom. So if it would be possible for you to remove the tag, I would be grateful, as the article's content is derived from third-party, neutral sources. As it happens, my greatest concern regarding the article about me is that during the past month it has been vandalised on three separate occasions by a person using a computer with the IP 41.208.14.66, who has been inserting libellous comments regarding me, and on one occasion even replacing the article's text with the word Gay eleven times. I have expressed by concern regarding this matter to another editor, one of three who, thankfully, have spotted these vandalisms and have reverted the article to its previous version on each occasion. Is there any way that my article can be protected from further vandalism by this person? As you can imagine, I am very distressed and angered by this activity, and would greatly appreciate any advice or action that you or other Wikipedia editors could take on my behalf. Many thanks indeed, Czbiker (talk) 23:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC) Dr Karl Shuker

I understand your concern about this article, and have added it to my watchlist. I cannot remove the autobiography tag as it is designed specifically for cases such as these. The essay WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY provides some helpful advice for this case. In particular, I would recommend you refrain from editing the article yourself and post any concerns you have on the article's talk page. Feel free to ask me for help at any time as well. Thanks. —BradV 23:11, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Inter-Services Intelligence

I apologize I didn't comment during the 3O for Inter-Services Intelligence but I chose to remove the Officer sections myself after having reviewed it. As I explain at Talk:Inter-Services_Intelligence#Officers_section, those sections were added at least a year ago by User:Mercenary2k himself so I found it highly inappropriate that he demand others find sources and then question what source they use. Since he is the one advocating their inclusion, I think at some point we have to acknowledge that he should be the one to have to provide the sources, not just demand everyone else prove they isn't a reliable source for them. His responses in the archive that "he build this page" and they are sourced is getting to be a bit much. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:02, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your careful consideration at my successful RfA. Please let me know on my talk page if you have any suggestions for me. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 00:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

P.S. This frilly font is a stroke of genius. I can just see some vandalizer coming here to yell at you, seeing how it looks in this font, and self-reverting :) - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 00:42, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Geography of South-central Siberia

What would suggest? The format is odd, but I don't see any obvious way to fix it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjamin Trovato (talk • contribs) 01:17, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Not vandalism

Hi! I'm an it.wikipedia (and commons and it.wiktionary and so on) administrator who has recently read a news in one of the italian PSP dedicated website, about some problems with this article. The problem is that an IP (under what there's a famous italian coder, really appreciated for his hard work, whose work is totally free and legal) has added a line about his project in the article OpenCV (that I think doesn't harm at all) linking to that project. Here there's then the rollback by Femmina, with no reason at all. Here you can instead see the rollback of Femmina's edit, indeed we have an entire article about the project of that Coder, instead of only one line about it. I know that I can revert Femmina without asking, but I don't want to start an edit war also because it's as useless as all the edit wars. I know that you're aren't an administrator, but you have followed that article and maybe you can deal the thing without asking an admin. Sorry, but I'm not so deep in en.wikipedia mechanisms, I hope you can help me :-) Sorry for my english, bye, --Filnik ^dimmi! 15:55, 8 December 2008 (UTC) P.S. The personal attacks (that aren't made by me) were done because that coder doesn't know the wikipedian rules and he was simply surprised by the answers got by Femmina. Hit em up.