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== Lee Harrison ==

[1]

Take a look at the last paragraph.

You reverted the subject's father who is understandably upset about our handling of this matter.

The Uninvited Co., Inc. 16:37, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Oops, though what I saw was a blanking. Please apologise on my behalf. MER-C 07:47, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Cardcaptor Sakura

Recently you were reverting an anon on Cardcaptor Sakura, but if you look that anon was actually trying to remove vandalism, and you were.. basically reverting back to the vandalism [2]. I doubt this was your intention, and you're probably not familiar with Cardcaptor Sakura, so I just thought I'd let you know :) -- Ned Scott 09:17, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

That is to say, some of the vandalism and some of the article text was mixed together. It's since been reverted back to a stable version. -- Ned Scott 09:18, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

RfA

Why have you not had one my man? - Glen 11:02, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

I've only been here for two and a half months and such a RFA would be premature. The start of December would be appropriate. Thanks for asking. MER-C 11:07, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

I was thinking the same thing, but I believe your decision is wise.--Andeh 14:19, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Please drop me a line to my talk page if/when you stand. --Dweller 14:23, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Please help!

Vandalism on the Kenshukai Karate article has got the better of it, it constantly gets changed and vandalised, can you revert the discussion and the article pages? cheers, stuart--S downing 16:16, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

How far back do you want me to go? As far as I can tell, the article has almost always been in a pretty sorry state. Note that you can do this yourself, see WP:REVERT. I just have some special (non-admin) tools that make it a one-click process. MER-C 08:15, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Wolfchild

Speedy deletion, eh? On what bases would you suggest that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimtuomi (talk • contribs)

As it says on the top of the deletion notice: "it is an article about a person, group of people, band or club that does not assert the importance or significance of the subject. (CSD A7)" which it didn't at the time I saw it. Not all bands are notable enough to have an article in Wikipedia, please see our guidelines on bands. I've nominated it for a formal deletion debate, click here to voice your opinion. I suggest you address the concerns raised in the deletion debate to increase the article's survivability. MER-C 09:07, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Within a minute you reverted vandalism in Belur Math. Incredible! Thanks! VMO 16:24, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for cleaning up my user page! Gamgee 12:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

You're both welcome. MER-C 12:49, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Can we get equestrianism page protected?

Hi, thanks for reverting the vandalism on the Equestrianism page. Is there any way to get that page at least semi-protected? It doesn't get a lot of traffic, but seems to attract more than its share of vandals (note edits by User:Maywither as an example). Montanabw 21:21, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Go to WP:RFP to request page (semi) protection. MER-C 08:33, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Samineni narsaiah AFD

You appear to have left the discussion page for this AFD blank, so it doesn't show up in the log transclusion. Didn't want to fix it in case you are busy writing a case for it or something. Yomangani^talk 09:49, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

It was blanked by a vandal IP. Reverted and strongly warned. Thanks for the notification. MER-C 09:51, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, sorry, I just thought about that after I left the message, but by the time I looked you'd reverted it (still early here...I haven't had enough coffee). Yomangani^talk 09:54, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

SibSoft

Hello, you indicated article SibSoft as copyrights violation. However, I'm the owner of [www.sibsoft.net] site and already sent email to info@wikimedia.org confirming my ownership. Any comments, advise? Thanks. SibSoft

If that is true, then the copyvio tag will be removed promptly. There are still numerous problems with the article, though, the most obvious one is this. MER-C 11:34, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Hyperthermia

Hi MER-C,

Hope you can help me with this. I'm not very familiar with dealing with copywrite issues on WP. Can I refer this article to you? I did a revert due to a possible copyvio. URL of site is: [3]. New user Rrwhite54 claims to be the author and has written it for his company. Not sure how to proceed from here.

Thanks in advance! zephyr2k 16:42, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Replied on user's talk page. MER-C 08:29, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again. Good idea on moving it to the userpage. It was pretty out of place as you had said so. zephyr2k 15:46, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Pirate Day

		Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
		Ahoy, me hearty! How 'bout a good ol' jug o' grog? Reg-Arrr-ds Húsönd 13:44, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Qadian

Re: Qadian, India ... removing an irrelevant image and a data box about a city in another country (Rabwah, Pakistan) hardly counts as vandalism. 61.246.59.83 10:35, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Oops. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I've given your talk page a courtesy blanking. MER-C 10:37, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I'll try to find a suitable Indian cities box to replace it. 61.246.59.83 10:44, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you kindly for your speedy revert to my user page, at least it wasn't one of those pictures shudders  :) --Alf ^melmac 13:18, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Speedy? No. But you're welcome anyway. MER-C 13:23, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks from me too for the same thing! ChrisTheDude 12:37, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. It's been a busy day. MER-C 12:38, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for error on talk page

Hi, thanks for reverting the discussion page. There seems to have been an error using the preview function. --66.111.51.110 13:39, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, you've got to watch those truncations. :) MER-C 13:41, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Images from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bridge Celtic

They are on the commons, and as I am not an admin there I can't delete them. Do you know how to deal with commons images? If so, could you please do so as I have no experience over there. If not I'll have to read up on my commons deletion process :) The images are:

• Image:Bridge Celtic Crest 05-06.jpg
• Image:BridgeCeltic05 06.jpg
• Image:Bridge Celtic Team Photo 00 01.jpg
• Image:BridgeCeltic1968Team.jpg

Thanks, Petros471 22:31, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

The commons equivalent to WP:AFD is COM:DEL. I don't have an account over there or any experience, but a look at their deletion guidelines there is a chance the images will be deleted. I suppose a mention of the AFD over here, the images are totally unused and they won't be used because they are the logos of a non-notable team would be sufficient. MER-C 08:29, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Possible Copyright Violation Sutton Cricket Club

Hi,

I need your help as this is the first time of creating something in Wikipedia. The article is indeed from our website and was created by myself and used it as the foundation for later expansion / editing. After reading through the various options I am thoughrougly confused as to the best way to go. Next year we celebrate our 150th anniversary and felt that our club should be included. BushmanB29 09:01, 22 September 2006 (UTC)BushmanB29

You are more than welcome to create a non-copyvio article or relicense the content on your website under Wikipedia's license, the GFDL. Be careful of the Wikipedia:Deletion policy, especially this. MER-C 09:06, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

Don't know if you noticed, but thought I'd apologise anyway, but I reported you to WP:AIV by mistake whilst revert vandalism at the same time as you to Richard Hammond by 195.195.24.252. Sorry no hard feelings I hope. Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 13:44, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Apology accepted. :) MER-C 13:47, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. It's really appreciated huntersquid 17:22, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. MER-C 01:51, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

RE: your warning

Hi. I realize that you are probably a RC patroller and/or vandalfighter, so I understand that this warning was most likely an automated mistake. I did not redirect the sandbox to Cyde's userpage, or commit any other vandalism towards his page, for that matter. I was trying to fix the state of vandalism created by an IP as I encountered it, by copy-pasting the sandbox header from Talk:Sandbox back onto the main sandbox page, and then clicking to refresh the sandbox. Regretfully, this may have appeared to be vandalism. Thank you for understanding. -Fsotrain₀₉ 05:00, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

This may be useful. It's just that Cyde's page is a vandal magnet, just like mine. MER-C 05:09, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

4 Steps Eye Makeup Application Technique For Beautiful And Attractive Eyes

I removed your prod because it's a copyviolation and falls under speedy delete. –– Lid^(Talk) 08:07, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Even better! (Thanks for the notification). MER-C 08:08, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Sammyho (talk · contribs)'s talk page seems to be relevant here as this isn't the first time apparently. –– Lid^(Talk) 08:12, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Finding afd candidates

Thanks for the kind words. I found most of them by browsing the website categories (how I got there, I'm not sure) and I did some searches on alexa ratings and found some just should not be listed here. I mean, if it has an alexa rating below 1,000,000, that's an afd candidate, for sure. I'm going to cool off them for awhile, but I'm sure by searching those categories a bit, you can find some. Giant onehead 18:43, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

I find mine through recent changes patrol or by searching for a particularly spammy term, e.g. "innovative solutions". And don't cool off, I've been responsible for the deletion of upwards of twenty pages per day, most of which aren't seen. And any website with alexa > 50,000 is a sure deletion. Personally, I don't know how much spam is out there, there are the uncategorized articles that are quickly forgotten if not nuked at the door. MER-C 02:59, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Yarr!!!

I've been closing AfDs from Sept 19. I just wanted to compliment you on celebrating International Talk Like a Pirate Day through your contribs. Keep up the good work you skirvy scallawag! alphaChimp^(talk) 00:06, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. Looks like that IP was not happy I was tagging his joke article for speedy delete. -- Gogo Dodo 07:14, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. MER-C 07:15, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

And one more thing, the same guy upped the figure from 42 to 43. Pfft. MER-C 07:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I noticed. I decided to revert it and not count it. Maybe the tpv2 will make him stop. Thanks again and see you around! -- Gogo Dodo 07:22, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for another revert. I seem to be attracting the live ones today. Oy, vey. -- Gogo Dodo 08:12, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I know how it feels. You're welcome. MER-C 08:16, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for removing the vandalism from my talk page. I really appreciated that. Thanks a lot. -- bulletproof ^3:16 07:19, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. MER-C 07:28, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the revert on my user page.--1568 08:13, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. MER-C 08:18, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

2nd Opinion?

Morning - know you are far hotter on deletes than me - care to look at TabletKiosk if you have a mo. Note originator & marketing director. Not sure what (if any) category? Hope life is good - cheers --Nigel ^(Talk) 08:28, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

That's vanispamcruftisement, a problem that results in certain deletion. The deletion debate is here as there is no other way to get the article deleted (since the prod was contested twice). MER-C 09:23, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Didn't even know the term existed - thanks and regards --Nigel ^(Talk) 10:51, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Hope you enjoy/enjoyed the break, catch you when you're back - regards --Nigel ^(Talk) 13:34, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Help!! with a vandal continuously tampering with various pages

Hi MER-C, I need help with user:Sikh-history tampering with these pages SGGS on meat, Sikh diet and other but lets just work on these two first. I have never before in my two and half year on Wikipedia come across someone with this attitude. I would appreciate you help and guidance.

He also appears to have initially operated as 82.35.226.198. He is putting copyright material in a cut and paste fashion from, for example Sikhs.org; violating Wiki style guidelines; WP:NPOV, Using his site [www.Sikh-history.com|www.Sikh-history.com] as reference to propogate his views. I would appreciate you help. Many thanks. -- Hari Singh 13:24, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

It may be a copyright violation (a.k.a copyvio) because I've found the rest of it in this forum post. It is a copy and paste of some paper, which I can't find. MER-C 08:56, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

It is an original paper at sikh-history.com and I have checked with Randip Singh the editor to use it. He says its OK.--Sikh-history 10:55, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi MER-C - this fellow Hari Singh is lying through his teeth. All the work put on is original, and not cut and paste. He has put his vegetarian Agenda across and we at www.sikh-history.com are detrmined to see that the this writer does not get to only put his version of the truth accross. He has deleted additions to these pages several times. I would say he is ineffect a vandal and not us. If there are specific things you require us to remove from the additional information then we will co-operate, but what we will not stand for is a one sided attempt to hijack Sikh history by Hari Singh. He is a well known internet troll with an agenda. There is an entire thread on our site dedicated to this man's shinannigan's. Thanks.--Sikh-history 13:33, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

"He is a well known internet troll with an agenda." - Ummm, please be civil or back up your allegations.

"There is an entire thread on our site dedicated to this man's shinannigan's." Huh? Where? Can't seem to find it. I've checked the forums. MER-C 08:56, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Here is the thread. Its quite amusing. Happy reading : http://www.sikh-history.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=002038;p=2 --Sikh-history 10:58, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi MER-C,

I am one of the contruibutors under sikh-history, and am concerned about biased opinions being expressed on Sikhism by memeber's of cult group's known as Jatha's amongst Sikh's. I have noticed a preponsity by people like the above Hari Singh and Rajj to post pro-vegetarian information or half truth's on the issue of vegetarianism and Sikhism. The Sikh Code of conduct does not forbid neat eating so I ask why are these people posting that Sikhism is a vegetarian faith when clearly this has nothing to do with Sikhism. My concern is to do with accurate information. Please visit our website www.sikh-history.com for more information. We arrange and carry out various lectures and talks on Sikhism through our partners UKPHA. Thank You. --Sikh-history 14:41, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Until you can prove that you are the author of the paper in question, he is entitled to revert it as a copyvio. MER-C 08:56, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Then again, you can fix the errors without dumping 75kB of text into the article. MER-C 09:01, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh yeah, we have one more thing: the three revert rule. MER-C 09:01, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi MER-C,

Exerpts of the additional material were taken from http://www.sikh-history.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000802. The article was repared by one Randip Singh, who has OK'd us to copy and pasted exerts and use evidence and material from that. We are only concerned with Hari Singh's deliberate attempt to produce a one sided version of what Sikhism is about, that is all. We did not mean any offence. Thanks

As I said, you can fix the mistruths without dumping 75kB of text into the article. As for the copyright concerns, I can't take your word for it, we need written permission that is publicly accessible or in the WP:OTRS. MER-C 10:48, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi MERC-C I will get Randip to post here, as he lives not to far aay, I will get him to contact you, and he uses the same server. Also we have not dumped the material, but edited the bits from the paper which are relevant to the topic at hand. Thanks --Sikh-history 10:55, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

PS MERC-C will you help us to edit it so that it is in an acceptable format for Wiki. Thanks. --Sikh-history 10:57, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Don't contact me but Wikimedia. But I'll leave it as it is. Wikification is something I don't do around here (I on the anti-vandal patrol and thus have little time for anything else) but I can prod you in the right direction. MER-C 11:02, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi MER-C, I am Randip Singh and have allowed the fellows at www.sikh-history.com to use my article. It uses quotations from various authors and does not breach any copyright. Will I have to join this site in my own right to OK the usage? If I can be of any use to you on matter regarding Sikhism then please do so. My e-mail is randipsingh@msn.com . Keep up the the great work, and my apoligies for the over zealous nature in which they have made comments. - Randip Singh on behalf of the sikh-history.com team

Thanks. But as I said, I can't take your word for it, because we're a little copyright paranoid. Feel free to email Wikimedia and it will be accepted.

By the way, are you sharing an account? That could be dodgy. MER-C 12:49, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

will create my own account and stop using this one. Thanks - Randip Singh

Re Spanish Thief Pouter article copyright.

Hello,

This article does not violate copyright. I wrote the article and it is published at my web-page. Please tell me how to fix this? Glassfeather 19:34, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

The easiest way to do that would be to license the original article under the GFDL. MER-C 10:09, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Revert of Sanctification

Please would you add your reasons for reverting to the discussion page of the article. In my opinion, these are good faith edits which should not just be summarily dismissed. Regards LittleOldMe 13:20, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

It was a mistake. Fixed. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. MER-C 13:24, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Why you are protecting what goes against interest of Bangladesh? (re: History of Bangladesh)

See, garment worker got into strike. Is that too important in our old history till now? Please stop reverting to that information. If you still doing that, this image could destroy 60million workers industry. Dont help to kill them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.122.123.3 (talk • contribs)

Fair enough, but you don't have to delete a whole paragraph of text to add that text. MER-C 13:23, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Help Please

I see you have just reverted MY TALK PAGE!! Please actually read my comments on the various pages and then i will be glad to DISCUSS this, it is getting quite frustrating trying to use wiki and having this person plastering my page with his spam.Tecmobowl 10:11, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Reverting vandal warnings is a bad idea and doesn't need discussion. As for accusations of sockpuppetry, I'll prod the tagger to take it to the appropriate places. MER-C 10:16, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

WP:AIV

Thanks for fixing that message at WP:AIV. Maybe VP doesn't like spaces in usernames? Mr Stephen 10:47, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't know, because I can't use VandalProof (my current setup is fine). It looks like a bug though. MER-C 10:49, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I can't see anything in the buglist, but maybe it's only a problem in the old (= my) version. Mr Stephen 11:03, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I'll guess you have to upgrade, that's a serious problem. MER-C 11:08, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Intel Core 2 Duo

Why did you revert back to the original article....there's a reason why I edited it.....it was wrong. Intel will not be releasing Allendale CPU's until 2007....this shows their current CPU's [4]

As an exercise, try searching for "allendale" on the Intel website....If you come up with any results, you may ban me for life, as well as charge me..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chuckybear (talk • contribs)

A paragraph of text was deleted without explanation: [5]. You could add what was reverted back, as long as you don't delete anything without specifying why. MER-C 05:45, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

But the paragraph that was deleted was not factual......Allendale processors will not be released until the first quarter of 2007. Everything in the paragraph was/is not true, that's why it was deleted —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chuckybear (talk • contribs)

Go ahead and delete it, but provide a reason in the edit summary. Don't forget to sign your edits with ~~~~. MER-C 06:03, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

OK, thanks, will do. Chuckybear 06:10, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Speed Demon Community

Thanks for the speedy delete request. I debated about doing that, but I'm a new enough editor that I didn't feel quite that bold. — Twisted86 - Talk - at 07:49, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. You don't need to be bold. It's a sure speedy deletion as it conforms exactly to the CSD. (And anyway, I'm a deletionist, so the faster its deleted, the better.) MER-C 07:56, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Ah, well. I'm still learning. — Twisted86 - Talk - at 08:51, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Australian Football League

Hi MER-C, if you are an administrator can you please semi-protection the Australian Football League page? It is getting too much vandalism for scripted rollback. Yamaguchi先生 08:35, 30 September 2006 08:35, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Nope, I'm not an admin (but plan on becoming one in late November). You'll have to go to WP:RFP instead. MER-C 08:36, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the revert to my user page. I didn't even notice the vandalism til I saw your update! :) Jfredrickson 09:22, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. MER-C 09:23, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Re removed Opportunity rover anaglyphs

I downloaded autostitch but the program had difficulty finding matches. I did manage to get two corresponding sets of three left images and three right images but the perspective information seems to have been lost. I could not get matches using separate anaglyphs. The 3D images that I posted were the best results that I could get. Perhaps we should wait for JPL to do an anaglyph. --Jbergquist 09:32, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Note: replied on user's talk page. MER-C 09:33, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

I have uploaded new versions of the Victoria (crater) anaglyphs correcting a mispelling in the image name. Please check out the high-resolution images and compare them with the NASA/JPL panoramic anaglyphs indicated on the image pages (go to "Image: Victoria_Crater_3D_01.png" through "Image: Victoria_Crater_3D_07.png") and post your impressions on my talk page if you think that the increased resolution is sufficiently newsworthy. There are three reasons why one might be interested in viewing the images: the increased resolution, the reduction in "ghost" images (cover one eye to see which one it is responsible for them) and greater ease in viewing areas near the rover. --Jbergquist 23:28, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Huzzuh

There will be many a box social to commemorate this. –– Lid^(Talk) 14:03, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

A7 Expansion

I noticed that you added an expansion to the A7 speedy deletion criteria and a new "db-web" template, however I was unable to find the proposal where this action was approved by consensus. Can you direct me to that proposal and the discussion approving the change to the policy? I appreciate your help! --NMChico24 21:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

It's here. Note that consensus has been achieved, despite one vocal opponent. MER-C 06:26, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

ProM

Regarding ProM: I wasn't aware of the strict criteria for notability. (And I feel they're rather stupid, to be honest. Why not document anything that people may want to look up?) I have read them and I doubt that ProM meets these criteria, although I suppose I could check with the people who made it or use it. So if I haven't done anything to the article within the set ultimatum, feel free to delete it, no hard feelings. Not to you personally, I mean.

(I think it's too hard to contribute to Wikipedia now. The ease of contribution used to be its strength. Nowaways you seem to need a part-time job as a politician and Wikipedia technical documentation specialist before you can even think of publishing something. This notability criterion is just one example of that tendency, and - unlike many other barriers, which are hard to avoid - I think it is an unnecessary one, and therefore harmful to Wikipedia.)

Rp 21:10, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

The criteria for notability are somewhat flexible. What the article was lacking, of course, was an assertion on why that particular piece of software is more notable then, let's say, something I wrote in my spare time to do a specialised task specific to my computer or any other random piece of software out there. It could be that the software has been reviewed by multiple external sources, used by a Fortune 100 company, or subject to a frivolous lawsuit. Same as to bands - anyone can make a band, but who cares? MER-C 06:50, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that!

That was me deleting last month's voting on the Zen Collaboration while my browser had logged me out :) . Rentwa 09:49, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. I'll blank the warnings on the IP's talk page. MER-C 09:51, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

So my last post was a bit uncivil. Anyway, I fixed your AIV report. It was incomplete becuase it didn't list my entire username. Have a good night. --Ryūlóng is the shit, and he'd be a better admin than MONGO 09:53, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I use a script, so don't complain to me. Thanks. MER-C 09:53, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Tagging articles on AfD as speedy

Re: [6]. May I ask you to think again about tagging articles that are on AfD as speedy? The closing admin of the AfD will consider the outcome anyway, so I would suggest not to create us admins additional work by marking them as speedy. Thanks. Otherwise: you're doing good work. --Ligulem 10:18, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

In fact, it brings the deletion debate to a quick close, reducing the backlog when it comes to closing deletion debates in five days time. And admins don't have to close such debates. I regularly close them myself. MER-C 10:41, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

You can voice for speedy delete on the AfD discussion. Just don't tag the article as speedy. An article should either have a speedy tag, prod, or Afd tag. Admins have to examine the reasons for speedying an article anyway, and they have to take the Afd discussion into account. Speedy deleting an article that has an ongoing Afd discussion is a specail case and must be treated carefully. But I agree that some AfD's can be speedily closed. But that doesn't need a speedy tag on the article. --Ligulem 11:12, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Putting the speedy tag on the article brings about the speedy deletion. Why vote speedy delete without the tag - the deletion is not speedy after all. I do consider each one carefully as to whether they meet the CSD or not (and I have about a 95% success rate, too). MER-C 11:26, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

CSD

It's preliminary and subject to rewording (feel free to). It should certainly include userspace; I've added a U3 criterion, but putting it under general may also be a good idea. >Radiant< 11:51, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Help Needed

I noticed you put a deletion on "wikipedia vultures", enough said. However, having read your talk page it does seem like you are a decent person. I need help with an article on Lords Reform. I set out a rough idea of the areas I thought needed to be covered to explain what has happened on Lords reform. Unfortunately, I think people have come in before I've really had a chance to show the intention of the pages and they've taken them as some political propoganda. My intention was to give people who were interested in the subject an overview of history, the issues and the various proposals. E.g. I wanted to list all the various methods of election and all the various indirect proposals and list somes of the pros and cons that have been raised - primarily based on the responses, speaches in Parliament & press articles. My concern is that I can't simply list proposals without giving some form of discription - but I've been torn to shreds with the "template" - any help or advice would be appreciated ImpeachMe 14:15, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

The way to do this would be to take what's said as constructive criticism. From WP:AFD: "Arguments commonly used to recommend deletion are: "unverifiable" (violates WP:V), "original research" (violates WP:OR), "unencyclopedic", and "non-notable", if example, for a person, does not meet WP:BIO (it is advisable out of courtesy to use the latter term, rather than the former). The accusation VANITY should be avoided [7], and is not in itself a reason for deletion." Each page linked here has advice on how to fix these problems. MER-C 03:43, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

"However, having read your talk page it does seem like you are a decent person." - Yeah, I have to bear the consequences of being a deletionist (especially the number of prods and speedy tags I hand out to new articles). MER-C 03:55, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Volume Logic Article

Hi! I'm the creator of the Volume Logic Article. I've tweaked it and I want to know what is your mind about it. If you think it's ok, please remove the "deletion" sign. If not, keep it. I will work ot the article.

Done, since you addressed the problems I raised. Thanks! MER-C 03:53, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Help With Vandal 24.86.88.12

He seems to be editing and deleting Sikhism pages at a whim. Please help.