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A band member wrote an article... How it should be?

Deleted?

Dear Mike! We are very very disappointed. I had to collect information about the activity of a talented artist from the last 14(!) years. The leader of the present art project(Trinity's Breakfast) is a multitalented guy from the Eastern European area. The influences of his works, films(!), articles on the Eastern European popmusic scene got stronger and stronger in the years.

His Name is Zoltan Marton, but for him would be respectful if we recognized him through his present project, the Trinity's Breakfast. Zoltan Marton was the leader and producer of dozens of projects, bands as songwriter, studio engineer, singer, musician, teacher and video director as well.

He was even developing some new recording technologies...

His life wasn't really a fairy tale. He had to leave his country many times, because of the unbearable cultural air ...we could say political reasons. You know we are Hungarians, but thank God we can tell our story once... maybe for that part of the world which was't betrayed.

The people in Hungary are looking for him and looking for his music which was actually banned, because of jealousy. Now he is 33 years old, and he is hiding now from stages, but trying to collect all his works... this is a fight and this is a story that people are gonna read. So I want to ask you to be a partner of making a note about a living legend. http://www.myspace.com/trinitysbreakfast http://www.youtube.com/user/molekulaTV

The Article was not finished at all. I have deleted the under const. code because of estetical reasons.

At the talk page I said I am member of Trinity's Breakfast. And?

I am the wife of Zoltan Marton as well. And? Is this a problem sir?

Please use your imagination to accept that this case is not about a kid from the mama's house having the first myspace band with a guitar in the papa's garage.

We are in a misunderstanding with you I'm sure: It is a fact that the article is about a band for the first look, but we could recognize Trinity's Breakfast as a label or a symbol of a strong cultural line based on only one guy called Zoltan Marton.

The size of the finished article would be four times bigger and much more detailled...

So, please can you give me back the chance to make a note in the cyberspace about somebody who probably deserve it?

I would appreciate it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tamarapilot (talk • contribs) — Tamarapilot (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 02:24, 17 July 2008 (UTC).

Page move

Someone moved the page about me, inserting a period in the title where there shouldn't be one. I've asked him to move it back and inserted an explanation on the talk page, but do you think you might be able to move the page back to where it belongs? Shsilver (talk) 12:10, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

RE: ISM Advertising Agency/copyright infirngement?

Hi Mike, you deleted the article I wrote about ISM, saying it was a copyright infringement. What do you mean? There was no copyright infringement there that I could see. And they are very notable- the owner is ranked alongside Richard Branson and Michael Eisner in the industry as one of it's visionaries! Could you please un-delete the article? Travelfiend (talk) 13:29, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Malaysia

Hi Orange I'm currently sorting out the Malaysian towns and villages putting them in simplified categories as standard. Could you stand by and delete the categories and I fix them, thanks ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 13:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I'll be back later to finish recattting ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:43, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi can you continue deleting them again. Cheers ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:23, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi theres 8 more to rid of. I've finished restructuing Malaysia now,. It is neatly under Category:Cities, towns and villages in Malaysia by state. Thanks for your help ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

what the crap

deleting the article on RDA Systems. It's not spamming when the article is about how important the company was in the 80s and 90s ! Ixasilent (talk) 18:52, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

The article for TransferJet was also deleted

I also fail to see how the page for TransferJet was considered "advertising". It's a technology standard that shows potential for being put into a significant number of consumer electronics devices. I'd say it's hardly advertising and more of a creation of a page to allow reader to find information on it. If it were simply a product I'd understand; but, it's a standard. Zencyde (talk) 19:02, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Why was the article for the TransferJet Consortium deleted?

The deletion of this page seems like a bad idea. The TransferJet Consortium is a consortium of many large companies (as was noted on the page) that exists to create a new wireless standard. I fail to see how this doesn't meet the criteria for being a Wikipedia entry. You stated that it didn't indicate the importance of the group. I fail to see how the page didn't qualify. They existed to create a new standard for consumer electronics devices to communicate with one another. Zencyde (talk) 18:55, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

It seems that the article was deleted because the organization has yet to prove itself as "significant." What needs to happen before a new high-tech industry organization deserves an article on the Wikipedia? How many independent news articles do I need to site? Do they need to obtain formal recognition in their respective countries before the org. moves from "dreaming" to reality? If I read one more news article about the TransferJet Consortium, I will recreate the article. --137.201.242.130 (talk) 19:18, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Your IP address resolves to a corporate server at Micron; is your parent company either part of or opposed to the TransferJet concept? Either way, you could be argued to have a conflict of interest on this topic. If anybody feels the new proposal is genuinely notable (even though it's just a proposal so far), and is thinking about creating a new article, they should be using reliable sources, rather than the press releases so thick in the link above this entry. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:25, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

I assume you're referring to the previous poster when you're asking about IP address as my IP is from an AT&T residential DSL line. Also, when you refer to news posts, I assume you're referring to new articles rather than news posts from different websites, correct? Verification on this would be nice. Zencyde (talk) 14:40, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Jackopierce and Brandi Carlile

Could you take a look at what has happened on these two pages since the COI editor was blocked? An anon user is removing the templates you added to the top of the articles, and the publicity photos have been uploaded to Commons (now suddenly with GNU license instead of copywrite) and readded to both articles. I'm not quite sure how to proceed, other than reverting the COI and advert templates back on to the articles. Thanks much -- Foetusized (talk) 21:47, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again -- Foetusized (talk) 14:58, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Zephaniah Band

I was adding the copyright citation as the article was deleted in the process. is there a problem still? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Parkel01 (talk • contribs) 16:58, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

The band is on a list of the american power metal bands. Alot of those bands are unsigned and not on any national tour.. Maybe those should be thoroughly gone through also if there is a problem. This is not just an advertisement. The band is doing very well, though unsigned like some of the other power metal bands on the power metal list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Parkel01 (talk • contribs) 17:05, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

aeq.

Hi Orangemike.

First of all, you could have gave me at least some time to take notice of the message that was placed in my talk page about the tagging of the article in question (aeq.) and contest the speedy template if that was the case.

Secondly, Wikipedia:Soft redirect states that: "soft redirects (...) are not subject to A1 - A8 speedy deletion criteria" (you used criterion A3).

Third, you should have checked whether there were articles linking to it after you deleted the page. There was a redirect at aeq.

For these reasons, and because I believe it does improve the project (I did need to look it up myself before I created it), I'm going to restore the article.

Waldir ^talk 17:07, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Could You Have A Look

Not to sure if these contributions are classed as spam. Could you clarify for me thanks. BigDunc^Talk 19:08, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

ISM Advertising article

Hi Mike, apologies for the location of my last comment. As for copying- no I didn't copy anything. Can't- their site is all Flash. I'm a student at UMASS Amherst, studying marketing for the travel and tourism industry. This company is mentioned in one of my text books, and they have been guest speakers here, too- the professors cite them as the 'benchmark' in the industry. I thought that was very notable, and everyone here certainly agrees! Travelfiend (talk) 21:16, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Help?

Hello Mike
Could you have a look at an altercation I've been having with an editor at 217.140.254.122. (I'm asking because I know you have a robust attitude to things!) What he's producing is a vast number of inconsequential, or badly formed, or unreferenced, or plain wrong edits. And he's not really responding to any queries. I thought it might be something simple, like not using the preview, or having trouble with english, but I'm wondering now if it's something more deliberate.
What do you think?
Xyl 54 (talk) 16:29, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

PS: The same guy seems to be editing from 86.114.62.132 and 86.114.18.160 also. Xyl 54 (talk) 16:57, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Ben Alekzsander Williams

Hi. Not sure why this was salted. You noted in the protection log "recreated deleted material" though the article with that title was only created (and deleted) one time. Please act on the unprotection request. Thanks. - Rjd0060 (talk) 23:17, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

I figured I was missing something. Thanks for the note. - Rjd0060 (talk) 14:59, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes...

Hello Mike. Please can you take the words of Rjd0060 and please un-protect the 'Ben Alekzsander Williams' page. Thankyou :) CrackersTeam 15:00, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Slapped wrist

Sorry. New to this. Appreciate your comments (after my initial moment of crossness!). Cameduservices (talk) 15:25, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Portishead Town Band

Orangemike.

Please could you explain your decision to remove the portishead town band page? I was working hard to improve the level of content, based on feedback from you guys. I've provided details on notability as requested and without warning im back to square one.

The Band is a valid item for inclusion, but I am happy to comply with your rules. Going round in circles created a page and having it deleted in not in either of our interests.

PaulFamousfieldy (talk) 02:05, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Also, I note a page with lesser detail that seems to have been allowed. Lanner and District Silver Band

Hope this allows some comparison. PaulFamousfieldy (talk) 02:09, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

WP:BITE ! New wiki-user, two hours old page and you speedied it. How about _helping_ a newbie in need of guidance, not just killing the article? 8-( Andy Dingley (talk) 02:53, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

And now he has deleted Lanner and District Silver Band without discussion. Oh great. DuncanHill (talk) 11:10, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America

Could you please restore Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America? I found the following references which demonstrate notability.

I noticed the article in the speedy category, and would have added these references if I had seen the article earlier. --Eastmain (talk) 03:21, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Edward Ludbrook - Notability

I appreciate your Notability rules and include some third party reference materials. The challenge with your rules is that they do not fit with all environments. If notability is measured in that recognised by the government, media or retail stores then your system is flawed.

The Direct Sales industry is a massive US$100billion+ global industry in over 100 countries, 10,000 companies and over 67 million people worldwide. Its media imprint is limited as it sells without media advertising, not through retail stores. The notable people in this industry will not register on the normal channels.

The fact is that Ed Ludbrook is internationally notable in the Direct Sales world. He is Europe’s best-selling author on the subject of Direct Sales and one of the world’s best-selling authors. 2million copies in 20 languages. Books in this industry are not sold through retail stores, they are sold through independent agents, see www.knowledgeisking.co.uk, www.spectrummarketing.com.au

What is interesting is that Wikipedia is very happy to classify someone like NZ author/poet Albert Wendt to be notable yet Ed, who has sold 20 times as many books and is actually NZ’s best-selling business author ever, would not be considered. Should the fact he does not seek or need government, academic and media recognition matter?

We also assume that media and government profile is also not important for notability otherwise Wikipedia would never recognise people like Christian author/speaker such as John Bevere.

I also thought I would add a couple of extra links that you might like to peruse for Ed's Notability!

http://www.leadershipgurus.net/leadershipgurus30.php Ed is ranked number 23 in the world top leadership gurus. To see the criteria for this go to http://www.leadershipgurus.net/leadership_award.html Other people who feature in the Top 30 include Steven Covey, Anthony Robbins, Jim Collins, John Maxwell, Tom Peters to name just a few! All of whom appear on Wikipedia!

http://networkmagazyn.pl/article/nawidelcu/nawidelcu_16_p08.html Please see the article (although in Polish) is in Poland's top Network Marketing Magazine where Ed features on the front page alongside Donald Trump.

I would be grateful if you could please re-instate Ed Ludbrook's profile. Many thanks--MarciaThomas (talk) 03:37, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Gambit Publishing

Mike, Please note that the reason for my putting in this page was mainly so people can differentiate it from other companies with similar sounding names. This is a service for those searching to find the right company. I notice that Gambit Publications, the chess company I am trying to separate from my company, Gambit Publishing, has a Wikipedia page. Why don't you delete that one? I don't think they're notable.

Gail Glaser —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gailglaser (talk • contribs) 08:56, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Lanner and District Silver Band

Please can you userfy this article for me (although I did not create it I had edited) and also let me know the editor who created it so I can contact them to get their assistance? Thank you. DuncanHill (talk) 11:12, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

In fact, under criteria 9 of WP:MUSIC (has won or placed in a major music competition) the band is, I believe, notable - having achieved 3rd place in the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain, so the article does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion which you quoted. DuncanHill (talk) 12:04, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Please also read the differences between WP:NOTABLE and WP:CSD. Criteria to defend an article against speedy deletion are comparatively lax. There is little excuse for this indecent haste that is a repeated hallmark of Orangemike's "contributions" to Wikipedia. Of course once the article is deleted, it's difficult for non-admins to even see what the issue was, or what the state of the old article was. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:00, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for userfying, however without the history I believe there may be GFDL issues if I were to repost. I also still hold that it should not have been speedied, as it does contain an assertion of notability in line with the criteria in WP:MUSIC. I would also ask that in future you notify creators and editors of article that you speedily delete. DuncanHill (talk) 15:24, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Lanner and District Silver Band has been restored at your request; thanks for drawing my attention to the GFDL concerns involved. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:45, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks, I have started working on it, and have also listed it as an article needing improvement at the local Wikiproject, hopefully this will draw more editors to contribute to it. DuncanHill (talk) 16:28, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

RE: Boy, are you an optimist!

Ha, I guess I am.

I think you're right though; history may indeed repeat itself. Republicans in the 90s knew that Clinton's policies were bringing America unlimited prosperity, yet they still went after him because they were (and are) a bunch of sex-starved prudes. In truth, they bit the hand that fed them. In all honesty, I fear that once again Republicans will ignore all the prosperity that a Democratic presidency will bring America and they will go after Obama due to their deep-seeded racism and bigotry. They're a truly pathetic bunch. Ericster08 (talk) 14:42, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

ISM Advertising

Hi Mike,

I never had a reply from you on this article- like I said, there is no copyright violation and they are very notable in the industry, probably the most recognized agency there is for travel & leisure. I'd really like to be able to put the article back up- it was my first one! May I?

Thanks, Travelfiend (talk) 15:09, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

User:Hie-electronics

I removed ACB from the block since the user is in communication with me and I've explained the WP:COI issues.. If you have any questions, please let me know. - Penwhale | ^{Blast him / Follow his steps} 23:41, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Bernard Edlington

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Bernard Edlington. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Nexusb (talk) 02:08, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Wisdom Therapy - "protected"?

Hi Mike,

It appears that you "protected" the page for Wisdom Therapy for 'recreated spam' - I'm not sure, but I wonder if this is because the entry was being made by one of the founders of Wisdom Therapy? Would you consider "unprotecting" Wisdom Therapy so that I could make the entry? Wisdom Therapy is a legitimate, and researched, form of Psychotherapy, and I believe it is well worthy of an entry in the Wikipedia.

Thanks, Scott User:sinemac —Preceding undated comment was added at 10:15, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright violations

Hi. Recently you deleted some images(ex. 1950s Topps). I wasn't notified about this. The reason was copyright violation. I not sure I understand how those images are in violation any more than what is on the pages now. There are currently overused non-free images. I placed one image in order to clear that problem up. I would like to have been cosulted as to how to alleviate the problem with the image. In fact I still believe it is better to used the images that were deleted instead of the over use of the current images. Theye were deleted so quickly I have nothing as a reference. The reason given was 'I9: Blatant copyright violation' which says 'Images that are claimed by the uploader to be images with free licenses...'. I am fairly certain I did not or at least did not intend to make such a claim. It was supposed to be listed as non-free fair use. I would like to check the images history. Libro0 (talk) 17:47, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

There is no such thing as a valid non-free fair use when all you've done is combine a number of copyrighted images. Such a montage is still a derivative work and subject to copyright. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:16, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Ok. So no images can be on the page then, since people have stopped by on numerous occasions stating problems with having them there. I tried to consolidate it into one image since policy dictates using the very least possible. What is the solution? Libro0 (talk) 20:22, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Port Amoral

they are a band from canada that just signed to roadrunner records. check rr's website. Sources are also on both of their myspace pages. Zombified22 (talk) 21:36, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Vivek Kulkarni

You previously speedied a page at this name, I recently found content at Brickwork Ratings which was solely about him so moved it there. I can't tell if it is recreation of the previously speedied content or not. This article does seem to be asserting notability although it isn't referenced. -Hunting dog (talk) 08:28, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Wisdom Therapy - notable? I think so...

Hi Mike,
Thanks for your reply - here's some additional background on Wisdom Therapy.

The American Psychological Association is the primary authority in the U.S. that evaluates relevance and validity of Psychological therapies through peer review of the submissions to its annual confernce meetings. And they've recognized Wisdom Therapy's relevance and validity for over a decade on the therapeautic front.

The American Psychological Society is the primary authority in the U.S. regarding the scientific side of Psychology that evaluates the rigor and scientific validity of research through peer review of the submissions to its annual conference meetings. They've recognized the rigor of the outcome studies that have assessed the effectiveness of Wisdom Therapy for a decade.

EUROTAS is the European Transpersonal Association and is the primary organization in Europe in the psychological subfield in which Dr. Robins teaches. He's been invited to speak on Wisdom Therapy there for most of this decade.

One of the main 3 components of Wisdom Therapy is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, which is the PRIMARY form of mental health intervention for nearly 50 years! and has thousands of outcome studies - which is why Wikipedia already has it as an entry as well as it's founders Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis, both also listed in Wikipedia and should be linked to the Wisdom Therapy entry.

The second of the 3 components is Mindfulness Meditation, which is also already an entry in Wikipedia, as is the primary method for training mediation in Wisdom Therapy which is Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction - also already an entry in Wikipedia, as is it's founder, Jon Kabat-Zinn.

3 Integrations of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Meditation already exist on Wikipedia

Acceptence and Commitment Therapy is a Wikipedia entry. ACT is the explicit integrating of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Minfulness. It's founder is also an entry in Wikipedia, Steven Hayes.

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy is a second therapy that explicitly integrates Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and is an existing entry in Wikipedia. It's founders John D. Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and J._Mark_G._Williams are also entries in Wikipedia.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is the third therapy that integrates Cognitive-Behavioral therapy and Mindfulness. They have primarily applied it to borderline personality disorder. It's also an entry in Wikipedia, as is its founder, Marsha Linehan, is also an entry on Wikipedia.

In addition to the first two components of Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness, the third and last component of Wisdom Therapy is Humilty. This is the major contribution that has extended this field. The humility component in Wisdom Therapy has been rigorously operationally defined and tested with existing scales that have high validity and reliability measures.

Professor Shani Robins, Ph.D., the founder of Wisdom Therapy(TM) and the Wisdom Therapy Institute should also be entries in Wikipedia.

For half a decade he's been teaching Wisdom Therapy at Stanford University Medical School's Health Improvement Program, at U.C. Berkeley, and is a core faculty Assistant Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. In 1997-1999 he was a National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. His first Ph.D. In 1996 was in Experimental Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his second Ph.D. was in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology.

In 1989, his undergraduate honors thesis at UCLA on the seminal components of Wisdom Therapy won the school-wide and then the Santa Clara National Award for Undergraduate research it was a conceptualization and outcome study of the CBT and Humility factors of Wisdom Therapy(TM).

Professor Robins is also listed in Strathmore's Who's Who for his contributions of Wisdom Therapy to the field of Psychology.

In addition to teaching Wisdom Therapy at Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, at the Wisdom Therapy Institute, he currently trains, 8 predoctoral Ph.D. interns and 3 postdoctoral Ph.D. Psychological Assistants in the practice of Wisdom Therapy.

Sinemac (talk) 16:14, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Musta Surma

Could you restore Musta Surma? I was never notified that it was being tagged for deletion. Undeath (talk) 17:53, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Ome Henk

Take another look at Ome Henk. You'll see that some IP vandal adds the speedy delete tag without justification. I almost fell for it too. If you do decide to undelete, be sure to semi-protect. Regards, —EncMstr (talk) 18:13, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

No offense, but it sounds kind of weird to delete a supposed copyvio article right away without looking into it first to see if it actually is one. If you would have taken a look at the article's talk page, you would have seen that it has a long history of bogus copyvio claims. On a related note: it turned out that the annon was using a sneaky sock: see User talk:P.F.O.S.B. Ome Henk is currently semi-protected for a month. Cheers, Face 21:30, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

The issue is resolved. A three day block for IP range 217.233/16, a two week block for 217.233.200.24, and an indef block for P.F.O.S.B. (talk · contribs). Checkusage determined them to be related. —EncMstr (talk) 21:30, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Kelli Martin

Why the acrimony about this article? Why not just assume good faith and check on its progress later? Jumping the gun and slashing and burning new contributions is hardly conducive to growing the project. Please reconsider your tactics. DickClarkMises (talk) 18:20, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

See User:Accounting4Taste's excellent explanation on your talk page. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:20, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Mike, why are you repeatedly deleting an article on a notable individual? This article cites multiple independent reliable sources. What is the problem? This should go to AfD, if you are this insistent, but your speedy deletion is improper, unethical, and unfriendly. Please reconsider this action, and discuss it with me and other interested editors. The user you note agreed to wait for my sources. The sources I cited were pre-Project Runway. Her notability is not dependent on that show. She could have an article quite without the show's influence, although that is doubtlessly helpful in establishing notability. Look at any of the other alumnus articles for comparison, please. DickClarkMises (talk) 21:22, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

And look, we've both been working on this project for a while. I'm asking for civility, for some effort towards a consensus action on this based on community input, and for your careful use of your administrator powers. DickClarkMises (talk) 21:23, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Also, if you have followed the conversation between me and Accounting4Taste, you would see that he was perfectly happy to wait for my sources: User_talk:Accounting4Taste#Notability_of_Kelli_Martin. His opinion on the matter aside, there were at least three people interested in this process. Your unilateral action was inappropriate, and I ask you to please reconsider. DickClarkMises (talk) 21:26, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

I respectfully submit that you are incorrect, as I have shown. Some contestants on reality shows, including Project Runway, are independently notable. Wikipedia has guidelines about notability. One basic guideline is that notability may be shown by the existence of multiple, independent, reliable sources. Those clearly exist for this subject, as the now-deleted work I put towards the article clearly demonstrated. The "big deal" is that you are summarily deleting content without due process. My work here deserves to be afforded the respect of an AfD. I am not some fanboy that just came in and inserted cruft. The article was well-cited, was still in progress, and was not subject to speedy delete. Please follow the proper procedure by undeleting the article and submitting it for a proper AfD. Cheers, DickClarkMises (talk) 21:34, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

As a further clarification, I would note that your comment on my talk page makes it sound as if you believe it is proper to apply some third-party standard of notability to Wikipedia articles, with such standards being sufficient cause to delete the work of other Wikipedians. The Wikipedia standard for notability does not equal the Project Runway standard for notability. DickClarkMises (talk) 21:38, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Question

Hi. I got a request from User: Millennium Cowboy to look over an article he created in the Sandbox. I was about to respond to him, but just now saw your admonition about autobiographical articles. Just out of curiosity, which article did he create that's autobiographical or COF? Is it Project Fanboy? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 20:06, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Commando Krav Maga

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Commando Krav Maga. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. (A.k.a Commando krav maga.) Ian¹³ /t 21:21, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Your username

I like your username. It made me smile.:) Did you come up with that name because you like oranges? - --SwisterTwister (talk) 08:56, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Kelli Martin

I've asked for a deletion review of Kelli Martin. Since you prevented the deletion discussion for this article by speedy-deleting it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. DickClarkMises (talk) 21:47, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

So far, the consensus seems to be in favor of overturning your deletion. Would you please reconsider your action? The deletion review above is still ongoing, and I hope that you will participate since your earlier showed by your actions that you believe this article to be a dire threat to Wikipedia. This project is about consensus action and cooperation, not police action. Please come take part in the former. DickClarkMises (talk) 15:42, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for restoring the article. Cheers, DickClarkMises (talk) 19:53, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Mayfair & Jackson

Why did you delete my Mayfair & Jackson article? There are tons of product related articles on Wikipedia (i.e. Alclad, Bunn-o-matic, Breville, the list is extensive) so why did you single me out? —Preceding unsigned comment added by EvKy2008 (talk • contribs) 16:11, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

POV in Indian articles

Hi there is an IP address probably from India which is wreaking havoc with some of the Bollywood articles. See his contributions. He persistently keeps adding POV to an article or glorifying an actor or film further than they or it actually is. It is a major nuisance for the editors on here who work on Indian cinema articles to have to keep reverting him day in day out just to maintain some sense of article neutrality. He has been warned many times and his persistence has resulted in edit conflicts on more than just a few articles. Could you please warn and/or block him and try to make him aware of wikipedias neutrality and why his edits which are intent on putting POV or glorifying the subject of the article unnecesarily may be construed as against policy and therefore vandalism. Its doing my nut it keeping track of him. User:Shshshsh (Shahid) raised my awarenss of it initially and other editors such as totalfilmi99 have to keep reverting him e.g here. Should he be blocked do you think? This is an exmaple of the kind of crap he keeps putting in articles ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 11:22, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Could you please take the time to respond thanks ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:37, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Ore wa Mita

Hello Orangemike, I noticed you put my article up for deletion, I gave it reliable sources n' all. I just wanna know what's wrong with it? I respect your resoning. : ) – J U M P G U R U @^{Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia} 17:54, 30 July 2008 (UTC) P.S. I just got the manga yesterday (very rare!), and it's one of the first manga translated to English, so I though it needed a article. – J U M P G U R U @^{Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia} 17:55, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Miller Electric

Mike, please stop prodding articles as NN when they're clearly outside your own range of knowledge. There is no need for it. Ask for improvement if you must, ask for refs by all means. But the fact that you don't know that it's notable is no proof that it isn't. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:17, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

HangON!

Can you send me a copy of my test page?

I didnt know it wasnt ready to go....

I would like to redo it.

Thanks.

Eric Diello ediello —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ediello (talk • contribs) 22:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Aborted

I notice you recently deleted this page under A7. You might have missed it in the edit history, but I and another admin had declined the speedy deletion, before the extremely persistent XSG reapplied the speedy tag once again. I think that this page is not subject to an A7 speedy deletion as the band has released seven albums. I ask that you restore the page, or let me know that you are happy with your decision. In the latter case, or if I don't hear from you in the next day or so, I will list the article at deletion review. Stifle (talk) 18:08, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. Stifle (talk) 09:02, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Wisdom Therapy - please review previous post (16:14, 24 July 2008) and reconsider "protected" status

Hi OragneMike,

I haven't received any response regarding unprotecting Wisdom Therapy since my last post in response to your explanation for the protection. If there's additional information you need, or additional people needed to vouch for its legitimacy, please let me know.

Thanks, Scott --sinemac (talk) 10:29, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Category:High schools with crusader mascot

Hey Orangemike, I'm actually thinking of nominating Category:High schools with crusader mascot for deletion. I've been doing work on Portal:Schools and it's clear that the fewer categories under Category:High schools and secondary schools, the better. High schools by mascot just seemed slightly excessive. What do you think? I'm also thinking of removing Category:People by high school in Romania since that Cat is about people, not secondary schools. Best, --Jh12 (talk) 09:29, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey Mike, I guess you're busy. Just wanted to let you know that if I don't hear from you about the cat, I'll nominate it for deletion on Monday. --Jh12 (talk) 22:25, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Christian science fiction

...has been listed for deletion, if you are interested in contributing.Yobmod (talk) 15:27, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect deletion of Jumbling Towers page

"Doesn't indicate importance or significance of a group/company/etc." was the claim. This A7 standard is actually lower than the notability standard, which the page did qualify. Jumbling Towers debut album Jumbling Towers ranked #99 on the CMJ (College Music Journal) charts in Sept. 2007. At that time they were the highest ranked unsigned band in the nation. This qualifies notability along with playing several major indie music festivals. As an added note, their music can be purchased on iTunes...I'm not sure if that qualifies notability or not. If you consider this to be advertising, it should be known that this is a not-for-profit music group.

Thank you.

Wesselpj (talk) 11:48, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

You said: 1. The band is still unsigned. I say: This is irrelevant, because it achieved notability through ranking on the CMJ music chart.

You said: 2. There were no reliable sources provided as to any notability of the band. I say: Put the article back up and I will add the reliable sources.

You said: 3. Briefly "highest ranked unsigned artist on" a minor chart does not qualify under WP:MUSIC. I say: Actually, it does qualify. CMJ is not a minor chart, it's a major music chart. Secondly, I quote the wikipedia notability page, "Notability is not temporary" "If a subject has met the general notability guideline, there is no need to show continual coverage or interest in the topic, though subjects that do not meet the guideline at one point in time may do so as time passes and more sources come into existence." So being on the CMJ charts at one time does constitute notability. Your claim that just because it was a temporary stand on that chart means it doesn't have a place on Wikipedia is wrong.

You said: 4. "The band is gonna be big someday" is not an assertion of notability, but rather a prediction (and thus a violation of WP:CRYSTAL). I say: I never claimed 'the band is gonna be big someday.' I have no clue where you got that from my comments.

To conclude, put it back up and I'll add reliable sources.

Thank you.

Wesselpj (talk) 03:08, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Heritage Homes

It's back for the third time today. Time to SALT? Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 20:21, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Dang you're quick! Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 20:23, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Notability tags

Re article on Dan and Ada Rice. It's a good idea not to stick a notability tag on an article where the article's Talk page clearly specifies it is part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Thoroughbred racing. Common courtesy says that if you are concerned, having of course done a full analysis of the content and its relativity by examining the "links" to other Wikipedia articles, then leave a message at the Project's Talk page. That way, you can save everyone a lot of time. Thanx. Handicapper (talk) 13:49, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

David West (writer)

Hello Orangemike. The page I created last night under the above name was deleted, yet I was simply trying to provide the same coverage as a fellow writer and colleague on the site already has (his name is Gordon Pape, and we've worked together in the past).

Would it help if I cited coverage of myself in a major national newspaper, where the journalist describes what I write about?

Should I list the names of the major magazines and newsletters where I am either a regular columnist or editor?

I just think it would be interesting for people who have read one of my publications to know that there are many other publications where my work can also be found. It sure helped me when I looked up Gordon. Maybe the above steps would help me qualify on the 'notable' front.

Cheers. David West (writer).Dwest6456 (talk) 17:27, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Redirect of Matias de tezanos

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Matias de tezanos, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Matias de tezanos is a redirect to a non-existent page (CSD R1).

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Matias de tezanos, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot (talk) 19:52, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Memeo

--with seemingly no other response other than tagging my new page as "db-spam"-- was just done by User:Ron_Ritzman. And then you (accidentally?) approved it, and just 33 minutes later, before I could even figure out what happened and respond as directed. And I've asked Ron_Ritzman about this but haven't heard back. I'm quite upset by this. Can you correct it? --MBParker (talk) 03:36, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

A7 deletion of Jackson Analogue

I would like to request that you reverse the A7 speedy deletion of this article (and it's talk). The article lists multiple releases under Island Records, which is now a label under Universal Music Group. I would say that meets WP:MUSIC criteria #5, or is at least an assertion of meeting that criteria. The article had already been CSD nominated for a copyvio, but the author had deleted the violating history/bio section, so I declined that CSD request and I was starting to let the editor know how to potentially get their text officially under the GFDL so that some form of it could be readded. - TexasAndroid (talk) 14:59, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Masterpapers

I do not consider that a spam account, though he needs to change the name, and I have advised him accordingly. The company is in my opinion notable, for better or worse, and I have been working with him on the article--see its talk page--it was used as an attack page, and i worked quite hard to get the attack removed. if the present article is deleted, I shall myself try to write another from scratch. DGG (talk) 15:11, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

much appreciated. DGG (talk) 18:47, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Analyzing Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations

Thanks for the note. What is the difference between this article I started and the one that exists for Everything is Miscellaneous? - WilsonjrWikipedia (talk) 00:50, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Just for the record

I've reversed a speedy-delete of yours here, following a request from the creator, as {{db-bio}} didn't seem to apply. – iride scent 15:19, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

I write on my talk page that I work for MarketLeverage, so it's no secret. HOWEVER, I read on one of the pages on Wikipedia that if your business doesn't exist on MarketLeverage, and you want it to, you should: 1) Identify yourself on your talk page 2) Post a draft of the article 3) Put it on the project talk page to see if someone will move it.

I initially didn't know how to go about posting the MarketLeverage page properly. Since I've learned, however, I've followed all protocol, and have been very open about my affiliation with MarketLeverage. I am simply hoping someone will move my draft.

Is this OK?

Mlrebecca (talk) 17:17, 7 August 2008 (UTC)mlrebecca

RE: Instructions on submitting an article

I read that beforehand, and then I found the page about submitting business articles. That's what I tried to do.

I created a draft. I'm not sure about my next step now.

Mlrebecca (talk) 18:51, 7 August 2008 (UTC)mlrebecca

Deletion of Renaissance Las Vegas Page

Orangemike -

I recently created an account and wrote an article entitled Renaissance Las Vegas. It was deleted by you due to 'blatant advertising'. I don't believe this is a correct assessment and would like an explanation of why my article was deleted so I can resubmit or get it reinstated. Thanks.

Jordan Burnside

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Renvegas (talk • contribs) 20:28, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Notability of Fiitjee

FIITJEE is a very well know nation-wide organization and has alumni numbering in hundreds of thousands. FIITJEE also operates several schools and is an important growing corporate organization and employs thousands of staff and faculty. Thus, an article on wiki about FIITJEE is not such a bad thing! Jainrajat11 (talk) 20:46, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Glenn phillips CSD

Hi Orangemike,

I'm curious as to why you've deleted Glenn phillips under CSD A3 despite my 'hangon' tag and message on the talk page stating my reasons. The article does not fit into criteria A3 since it does contain substantial content underneath the references section. The page was simply jumbled up. Thanks. —Cyclonenim^T@lk? 16:30, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

I read your latest deletion log, thanks for checking. I haven't yet checked for duplicates ;) —Cyclonenim^T@lk? 16:41, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Well the story just keeps on unfolding, doesn't it! Didn't get a chance to look before it was deleted but I'm sure you made the right move. Thanks for sorting it out and sorry about the 'treacherous' metaphor ;) —Cyclonenim^T@lk? 17:04, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Deletionism isn't necessarily a bad thing, as long as it's well founded! —Cyclonenim^T@lk? 17:09, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Deleted (A7) Aspen Woods (band)

Hi, I don't think this page should have been deleted. This band share a member with the notable band Secret Shine, thus making this entry notable too.

Honeykissed (talk) 17:32, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

The Da Silvas

See the deletion log and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fábio Pereira da Silva. – Pee Jay 17:35, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

RE: Deleted (A7) Aspen Woods (band)

Is it possible to get the page undeleted so I can add assertions of notability and reliable sources? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Honeykissed (talk • contribs) 17:55, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Hey, you removed a Speedy Delete tag I placed on an article...

...and you were correct in your action -- I was at fault! The article was for P18 (band) and, I am glad to say, you did the right thing. I just wanted to give you a thumbs up on that good call. Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 11:11, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Lou Lancaster Deletion

The wikipedia article I was writing for Lou Lancaster was deleted while I was still creating it.

First, I am a beginner to wikipedia, and followed its in-place directions to the best of my ability, but the outcome did not match what I expected from said directions.

My article-in-process was marked for speedy deletion, Following wikipedia's directions, I contested this, following further directions, I started to write my reasons for this in the discussion section under the article

Lo-Alas! My article was DELETED about 2 minutes after I contested - before I was allowed to post the discussion! This is not what the wikipedia directions indicated. Please provide a reason for this that is understandable, as I am quite confused!

Thanks Lavath —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lavath (talk • contribs) — Lavath (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

I came by to ask you about something else, noticed this, checked it out, did some research, and concluded that it was a valid article. Misformed, but valid. I've restored the article and polished it up so as to better indicate notability. Just letting you know. DS (talk) 15:01, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Notability of the book aside, what about his multiple appearances at the Magic Castle and on IMS instructional videos? DS (talk) 20:17, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

blatant advertisements for prop company?

Can you take a look at

Heisler Beer - fictitious beer brand used in television and films
Morley - fictitious cigarette brand used in television and films

Thanks! -- The Red Pen of Doom 00:24, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Chautauqua Airlines destinations

Maybe it was just a mistake, but I thought I'd let you know, I restored Chautauqua Airlines destinations. A large number of airline destination lists exist (Category:Airline destinations) and this particular one had over 100 edits since September 2007. Articles such as this should have at least gone to AfD, as many have (and survived). - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 06:10, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

WJOX

Thanks! - Dravecky (talk) 17:21, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

The Iraq Page

Orangemike,

--hang on--

-Having examples of other databases are important such as Casualties of the Iraq War, Iraq War, Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties, ORB survey of Iraq War casualties and Iraqi Health Ministry casualty survey because it is a the other databases that are referenced do not go in detail of the U.S. and the Coaliton countries that are killed in combat or by accident.

Example below:

--"The Iraq Page" maintains the death toll of U.S.-led multinational coalition, by name (photograph of deceased), cause of death by combat or accident since the the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq.

External link

The Iraq page

Bnguyen (talk) 17:26, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

RE: Necktie (band)

You're right... the article wasn't interesting. I was just working on it. ^^

The point is that this article was useful for a disambiguation with an another band with the same name. The omonimy creates some problems to Necktie on sites such Last.fm... I will find an another solution, in the meanwhile. Thank you anyway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tongpu (talk • contribs) 20:19, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of The First Fifty-One

Hi, I have commented on your prod at Talk:The_First_Fifty-One#Proposed_deletion. --Slashme (talk) 06:20, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Importance of the R.O.C

Hey Mike,

I'm not angry or anything, but how can you just request deletions on things you obviously know nothing about? The R.O.C is considered by HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of people to be a legend in the HORRORCORE scene. He just released his first album in over 8 years. I think that's pretty signficant to many loyal fans. I was going to add more today, but.. it was DELETED! Good job. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smoketoomuch (talk • contribs) 14:56, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

RE: 1E

At least the guy who put the initial comment on the 1E page was willing to consider my comments! It's kind of harsh to just delete things, you know, especially when there are other blatent advertising pages on here, such as Faronics, who have got the comment at the top to do with being like an advertisement but haven't actually been deleted. I'd suggest that instead of deleting pages without second thought, that as you are quite obviously an expert in the area of what is good and what is bad you give people suggestions, such as 'Maybe take out these words' or 'maybe phrase this differently' or 'Maybe add in some of your competitors'. As a first timer on the site it's really put me off. The rule about now being able to edit your own page once you've received feedback is also fairly ridiculous; if I see that things can be amended, why shouldn't I fix them? Cheetham1E (talk) 15:24, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

RE: Fuel (band 2)

I was working on an article for the second time, and had the requisite "hangon" tag there along with discussion regarding the research I was doing, and you deleted both. What is the deal with Wikipedia these days? You can have articles about every new porn starlet that flashes a boob (seriously, are there actually 894 Female porn stars of note?), but the minute somebody starts trying to document a band that held nationwide influence on the underground punk scene in the early 1990's it's "whip-out-the-speedy-delete-button-time!" Ebullition sold 3,000 copies of the *re-release* of their album, Monuments to Excess, and that's *after* Allied Recordings and Broken Rekids both re-released it, and after Cargo records sold out of the original release - see http://www.ebullition.com/catalog42.html#3 Those sort of sales do not occur over a 10 year period if the band was not one of note. Finding information on Fuel can be a challenge, mainly because of the *other* Fuel and the fact that their career predates the web. The first speedy delete made a bit of sense, as I basically had something like "Fuel was a punk rock band from the earlye 1990's," but it should have been clear on my second attempt that I was having more success finding details, and more time should have been given before pulling out the executioner's knife. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Earlye (talk • contribs) 21:53, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

ProjectVisitor

Hey, my Wikipedia moderation protocol is super dated and I'm not sure how to protest the deletion of Project Visitor. You cite the deletion as being due to copyright violation with the official website. It is actually the other way around! I authored the original article which attracted official attention. See Internet Archive and the edit history for the deleted article. Is there any other resolution besides deletion? Thanks, I appreciate your help! Phil Harnish (Info | Talk) 00:48, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Recreation of deleted item?

At WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 March 8#Category:Angry Video Game Nerd. --Silver Edge (talk) 02:17, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Max Kliegle

Please restore this article to allow for a fair, and honest discussion. Nfanslim (talk) 03:11, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect use of hang-on tag

OK, school me, please, then. What was incorrect about it and how can it correctly be used? I pretty much followed the instructions that were given to me with the speedy deletion notice. Homoaffectional (talk) 03:49, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Please help me

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User:Eugenie_Patricia_Agus http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Special:Contributions/Nenetcurry

Keep recreating this MySpace nonsense over and over. --mboverload @ 04:31, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Risker has deleted it. It might also need oversight, as it contained both personal information, as well as photographs, of minor children. ^S._D.Jameson 15:29, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Yang Peiyi

Hi there. I see that you have speedily deleted the Yang Peiyi article. You may be interested to know that there is still an open AfD discussion for the article. Cheers. -- JediLofty ^User_Talk 15:38, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Offensiv – Young Revolutionaries

Hi. Could you undelete the above to here, please? Having made a start on it, I might one day look for the extra sources required (if they exist). Sardanaphalus (talk) 16:48, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! Sardanaphalus (talk) 16:53, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Easy speedy

Looking for something to speedy delete? Shmell is about a neologism and is dying to be deleted. DickClarkMises (talk) 18:08, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Actually, that turned out to be a G4 anyway! --Orange Mike | Talk 21:21, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't check the log. Good stuff. DickClarkMises (talk) 21:27, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Stan burdman

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Stan burdman. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. lifebaka++ 19:05, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

first time researching article to write

i see writing for wikipedia is slightly different than anything i've ever done before. how much time do i have to get everything together for an article before you opt to delete it for lack of content? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Urbanetryst (talk • contribs) 19:23, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Orangemike, a wiki page on a famous comedian and entertainer I made was deleted by you

I made an accurate wiki page on Stan Burdman, a comedy writer, shockjock, and video game reviewer. Anyway, it was deleted by a person at first but then I explained my case to undelete it and I guess it was brought back only to be deleted by you right afterwards. Is this some kind of joke? I talk to an admin, they bring it back, and then another admin deletes it a minute later? What is going on? I stated all the media and public things Stan Burdman has done, given external links to his work. He is a public figure and entertainer. I don't quiet understand what to do to keep the page from being deleted, especially since deletion is totally not warranted. Braddj1977 (talk) 21:48, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Comparison of P-51 variants and Comparison of Supermarine Spitfire variants

Thanks for your quick work on deleting these two articles; much appreciated. Cheers Minorhistorian (talk) 01:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Except they should not have been deleted. Copying an articles content to a new page then deleting the page (and thereby deleting its history) is not the way page moves (which this essentially was) is done. Tagging them with "speed-delete" was wrong, and an administrator should know this. I've restored the articles, moved them to the new locations and merged the edit histories. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 02:44, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

I would just say that I wouldn't go deleting articles just because they've been tagged. Just "assuming" doesn't help in ensuring you're doing the right thing. A little investigation would be, I think, required. Ask a few questions: "Is the tag applicable or acceptable?" Check the edit history to ensure the tagger isn't just a vandal. Check the talk page. There are, of course, exceptions; blatant nonsense, attack pages etc. But this case was obviously not that. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 20:32, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Yang Peiyi

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Yang Peiyi. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:42, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

zasz (band) and wakeup.feelsomething

these articles were deleted before i could add the media credentials! they have album reviews and an ondemand show! thats media coverage so the articles are legit, could you restore them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Onewiththefunk (talk • contribs) 18:20, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

ya! sign bot! well how do i unprotect it! im new to this thing —Preceding unsigned comment added by Onewiththefunk (talk • contribs) 18:25, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

hello? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Onewiththefunk (talk • contribs) 18:36, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

TAKING THIS TO HIS TALK PAGE TO AVOID DUPLICATION! --Orange Mike | Talk 21:13, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Bollywood

You may be interested to see this and the the discussion with the reverter here. An editor persists an saying that Bollywood referred to the whole industry which is inaccurate. Rather westerners ignorantly thought it referred to the whole industry chiefly because they wer enot aware of its other industries. It is not factual just a viewpoint. If you look at it from an Indian perspective it never was used to refer to the whole industry. Bollywood is Bombay cinema always been Hindi cinema, always will be not "Indian cinema" which includes all the other Tamil, Telugug, Malayalam, kannada, bengali etc industries. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:28, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

User:AgentKB1

You warned this user about creating hoaxes, referring to the article Eggleberry. According to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eggleberry the article was previously created by AgentKB (talk · contribs), who was blocked indefinitely for creating nonsense pages, so AgentKB1 (talk · contribs) looks like an obvious sock of AgentKB. --Snigbrook ^(talk) 19:56, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: User:Frencher

He's most probably hoaxing, I left you a list at my talk page. --Enric Naval (talk) 20:19, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes, the user is creating several hoax articles and edits other articles with hoaxes. I tried to warn him regarding his edits but he keeps on saying strange things. -Danngarcia (talk) 03:08, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Oleg Kolesnikov Article (speedy deletion)

Hello Mike, I noticed that the article on Oleg Kolesnikov had been deleted with an A7. I helped create the content for the original article and was surprised to find out that it was deleted. I believe the article needs to be restored because there are reasonable indications of notability. Specifically, Oleg has written a book in Computer Security called "Building Linux VPNs". The book has been translated into three languages. He's also well-known in the scientific community worldwide for the work he published with Prof.Wenke Lee on Intrusion Detection and Polymorphic Worms, including his publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, such as IEEE and ACSAC while at Berkeley Lab and Georgia Tech.

Please let me know if there are any further details you think might be required to restore the article. Cheers, Alex Omelchenko (talk) 05:15, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi

Don't take my message as offensive, but somehow it disturbs me that people can make 24000 edits to wikipedia to get nothing. I mean, you must be an editor of some magazine or something. In that case, I can understand your passion to edit. But 24000 seems quite a huge number of edits to me, considering that 1 single edit of correcting a typo takes close to 20 seconds, 24000 edits take 133.333333 hours. That is 5.55555554 days of nothing but editing typos on wikipedia. If you're creating articles or editing something huge, an edit might take 5 minutes. So you'll be spending 2.97619048 months on wikipedia. My question is not why, but rather: HOW? Thanks! Again, please don't take this as an offensive message. I mean no offence at all. Just asking for fun! Harradida (talk) 12:36, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of project visitor wikipedia page

Hi, I am the owner/administrator of Project Visitor (www.projectvisitor.com) referred to commonly as "themartian" (themartian at projectvisitor.com) The fans and supporters of my game have full permission to use the information from the games website from me.

This is a small indie game completely supported by a hard core group of supporters. Publishing information about the game on such sites as wikipedia helps maintain the history of the game and a lot of its intrigue.

I would like to politely request to have the Project Visitor page restored and I am willing to provide whatever information is necessary to aide you in verifying what I have stated in this letter.

Thank you very much and I hope we can work this out.

Christian "TheMartian" themartian[at]projectvisitor.com

ProjectVisitor (talk) 15:14, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

209.163.180.6 (talk) 15:12, 13 August 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.163.180.6 (talk) 15:05, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

If you kindly restore the page you will see that Project Visitor was originally developed by Sega for Heat.net and... I don't know, it was released in Japan? We all know the notoriety threshold is somewhat arbitrary... if the page was deleted for copyright reasons, shouldn't it be restored now? Thanks for your time :) Phil Harnish (Info | Talk) 17:13, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Would you like me to restore it to a sandbox in your userspace so we can attempt to deal with the notability issues? --Orange Mike | Talk 17:24, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Yeah sure, that sounds reasonable :) Phil Harnish (Info | Talk) 17:35, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi again. I see you restored the page to User:Ampre/Project Visitor. Do you believe it is still not notable enough? I could add a bunch of superficial factiods and make it look like a press release. Not to mention the need to hunt down a bunch of superfluous citations for each new claim. To be honest, I would prefer to keep the article light (if not lighter) and in proportion to the notability it deserves. I have no doubt that the way you view Wikipedia may be different than the way I do. (In this case, I think Wikipedia serves as a resource for anyone who sees "Project Visitor" or "10six" somewhere online and wants to know encyclopedic information about it.) I got a little long winded ;) Just looking for some direction. Thanks! Phil Harnish (Info | Talk) 23:48, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

er, what? a warning?

I have a warning on my talk page that says I tried to recreate misfile's article in may2008. But I haven't even read that comic since 2007, nevermind thought about trying to get webcomics taken seriously on here. Odd. Ohemgee (talk) 20:14, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Governor_Walker_With_Audrey_E_Smith.jpg

I got permission, which I clearly stated for this pic:

Governor_Walker_With_Audrey_E_Smith.jpg

Why don't you help instead of just delete?

--Eckre (talk) 21:00, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Marine Current Turbines

You've tagged this article as lacking sources and reading like an ad. Well I only had 4 references and they were all industry related. I've increased that to 7 including several independent papers. Is that enough for a short article?

But the one that puzzles me is reading like an ad. I've tried to give as straightforward account of a new technology company that is producing some really exciting developments. I've nothing to do with the company; I've pointed out some of the problems they've had; I haven't made any claims that aren't made several other places is Wikipedia. What is one supposed to do in describing a company? It may be not in your line but can you enlighten me with what you expect? Chris55 (talk) 22:54, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your response, Orangemike. I agree the language (in the Canada not Technology section) is similar to that used in promotions (tho not those of MTC), but the claim behind it actually comes from one of their collaborators, MTEC, not from MTC, as is referenced. That seems fair to me tho I will certainly make the language blander (I've cut out the "challenge"). (I could also quote a study from the University of Strathclyde, if I remember rightly, which makes the same point.) I think many people would accept they are the leader at this point in time, tho whether that will be true in a few years' time is anyone's guess. Chris55 (talk) 16:01, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Poke

Would you mind taking another look at this? I've added some more examples of malfeasance since you commented, but it's not going anywhere and I won't be around today. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 14:37, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

So I guess that's a "no", then? Thanks anyway. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 01:46, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Let's Play

Hey, I noticed that you marked my page for deletion. It was my first page and I'm still kinda new. If some things need to be referenced I would be pleased to do so but could you tell me what exactly needs to be referenced? Thank you. TheWanderer2995 (talk) 16:41, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your offer of help and guidance through the labyrinth of Wikipedia. I'll be in touch.--Cdestree (talk) 17:53, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Nirvanix

Hi Orangemike,

Thanks for taking a look at Nirvanix - I've added a references section and a bunch more references (there are 10 now) so assuming this is good enough I removed the templates you added. Feel free to put them back if you feel this was presumptuous and I'll take another look, but right now I'm trying to work out how to stop the vandalism and sock puppetry - if you can help there please do as I've never had to report something like this before. MediaMob (talk) 18:28, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

In particular, the suspected sock puppet's last edit was an incomplete nomination for deletion (there's no matching entry in the AfD page)... but the template says it must not be removed. MediaMob (talk) 18:32, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Ok they made a liar of me - the AfD nomination exists now.MediaMob (talk) 18:48, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Amanda Gore deletion

The page I created on well-known motivational speaker Amanda Gore was deleted before I could finish typing my response with the hangon. The directory for American Motivational speakers and the other pages about keynote speakers do not accurately and neutrally reflect the current keynote speakers who are out there on the circuit speaking on a regular basis. Gore was the first entry I chose to add as she is notable as both a female in a heavily male-dominated field and also as an Australian who has broken into the American market with great success. Any quick search for Amanda Gore reveals that she is one of the most highly recommended female motivational speakers by speakers bureaus who book the majority of corporate speaking engagements, and I believe she falls into the acceptable biography category as an entertainer and creative professional. Cited in Meetings West Magazine with a Best Speaker Award, http://www.amandagore.com/resources/BestSpeakerAward.pdf. Recent press release for a recent event with other industry notables, http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/7/prweb1158394.htm. Could I please have this article restored? Christineconcon (talk) 18:41, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Template:Wipipedia

Why have you deleted Template:Wipipedia? That wasn't spam, it was necessary for attribution under GFDL of the articles imported from them. – iride scent 21:06, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

On further thought, I'm going to undelete it now, as a user has now taken it on themself to remove it from every article and is creating a copyright nightmare. Feel free to MfD it if you see fit. – iride scent 21:10, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Your deletion of {{Spunk}}

Excuse me, but why on earth did you speedy delete this external link template to the Spunk Library? The library is a now-inactive non-profit archive of anarchist texts. The template is no different categorically from {{myspace}}, {{anarchive}}, {{imdb}} etc. It was used to provide links from articles to reliable versions of original texts of classic resources, not the promotion of original work or copyrighted material. It is completely unacceptable to delete it as advertising, and I am quite disappointed you would delete this without consulting those who use it or reaching community consensus. I hope you reverse your action and repair the damage it has wrought. Sincerely, Skomorokh 21:24, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much for restoring it. It might save time to check what kind of website is being linked to, and who is doing the linking. In this case, I simply converted regular ex-links to the Spunk Library added by others to template form. Spam is usually added by one individual or sockmaster, and usually commercial or self-promotional. Eternal vigilance and all that, Skomorokh 12:55, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Re:email, I'm glad it worked out too. {{Wipipedia}} is a GDFL attribution template however, while {{Spunk}} is a vanilla ex-link template, intended to meet WP:ELYES criteria 2, 3 or 4, or WP:ELMAYBE criterion 4. I'm not sure how to convey that in the documentation, but I'll see if I can whip something up. Regards, Skomorokh 13:10, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

The Band LOK

Hello!

I'm just wondering why you deleted the page of the band LOK. They have made a major impact on swedish heavy metal industries and are still condsidered bigger than their off-shot, Lillasyster, by many. However, since their lyrics are in swedish they are quite unknown outside Sweden. Hence I understand why you deleted it, but there are many pages of bands who are not singing in english and are still notable enough to have a wiki, for instance Asta Kask, Dia Psalma and also Lillasyster. I'm not any type of creator of the page so I have no personal issues with the deletion.

//Joke (talk) 09:54, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

If you hand me the page I'll fix the page with reliable sources and then upload it again. How does that sound?

//Joke (talk) 13:12, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Dickeymcc

Dickeymcc has repeatedly recreated the article Flatlander (band) without substantial changes, despite repeated requests to make sure the band is notable (e.g., User talk:Justinfr, User talk:Bewildebeast, User talk:Dickeymcc). It was deleted per deletion discussion and recreated. You then deleted it and protected the page. I've repeatedly explained to the author what is required, but rather than make improvements they are now trying to circumvent the protection by creating the same article at Flatlander (musical group) again. Personally, I've had enough of his disruptive behaviour and would suggest some sort of administrative action. I'm messaging you because you were the most recent admin to act on this matter. justinfr (talk) 15:31, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

He's now making sarcastic remarks about 'some editors' on the article and removing my csd tags. I've added him to WP:AIV. justinfr (talk) 15:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Bleiner

Dear Orangemike,

I have written an article regarding Mr. Thomas Bleiner, but you are uncorrectly accusing me of conflict of interests. I have no conflict of interests, as I am running a web publishing company that is related to automotive innovations. I have assisted to many innovations phases of hi-end technologies related to the increase of safety for automotive cars: due to my collaboration with cars industry I have been informed that the laser of Mr. Bleiner will be used in important OEM production. I have signed an NDA with the cars industries, but I have a letter from Mr. Bleiner that allows me to publish contents regarding his patents and his developments as I was collaborating with the patent office Maroscia Associati Italy. www.maroscia.it

Please reconsider the content of my article, and if you need further documentation please let me know.

Thank you Kind Regards Francesca Bonatta —Preceding unsigned comment added by Francescabonatta (talk • contribs) 21:08, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Garethrichards123

Hello, you might also want to delete the relevant talk page, if only to relieve the database. Regards, De728631 (talk) 13:28, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh, right. Good point. De728631 (talk) 13:39, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh for the love of God

[1]. Jesus. WLU (talk) 21:04, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I may deserve a 3RR warning too, I haven't checked. Feel free to template me. WLU (talk) 21:12, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

You have an IMDB entry? That's awesome, I don't suppose you're you-tubed somewhere? I loved WBSM.

Yeah, I'm pretty much done on that talk page. C1963 has shown no evidence of having read even a single policy, so I'm not going to bother engaging and plan on reverting on site (unless he actually improves the page for a change). One thing I would really love, but never got from anyone I asked, is a suggestion on how to deal with this. I've run into similar editors before, and I'm just coming up dry on what to do. Help? WLU (talk) 23:18, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Independent Women's Forum

I think your edit introduced a POV problem, as I've detailed on the talk page: [2]. I think readers are smart enough to draw their own conclusions on this. DickClarkMises (talk) 17:25, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Invitation

Hello Orangemike/Archive 6, thank you for your contributions on articles related to Feminism. I'd like to invite you to become a part of Feminism Task Force, a WikiProject aimed at improving the quality of articles dealing with gender studies related articles on Wikipedia.

If you would like to participate, please visit the Feminism Task Force page for more information. Feel free to sign your name under "Participants". Thanks!

--Grrrlriot (♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ †) 17:29, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

MULAB

Hi Orangemike,

I created an article called MuLab about a sequencer that I use. It was deleted as "blatant advertising". I don't know if this changes anything but I am not the creator of the software, the reason I put it on wikipedia is because I found Gimp through wikipedia, I found Artweaver thanks to wikipedia, Blender too, anyways, I think this is a highly advanced piece of software that is available for free and it figures on KVR audio's page as "...rich virtual music studio". KVR is cited as a reputable source in some articles. I just added a request for it because I think it is a very good piece of freeware software that deserves an article. I was hoping that if I added a brief stub somebody else would find it and elaborate a bit more on it as I did with the Dead or Alive Online game article.

I don't think it would have hurt to wait a couple of minutes to allow me to relearn how to post references either, I forgot how to do it and when I looked at the other articles all I saw was "reflist" which confused me a bit, but anyway.

I hope this clears this out. My intention was not to do blatant advertisement. Kind regards,

PD: By the way, I just noticed that if you look at the screenshot I added before deletion(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Mulabscreenshot.jpg) you will see I live in France, whereas Mu Tools's whois information returns as location New York - New York - Ntt America Inc.

PD2: I just looked at the admin information and it says belgium so my screenshot won't proof my point.... anyway I hope that someone will pick up my request soon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darfunkel (talk • contribs) 01:32, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Diego —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darfunkel (talk • contribs) 01:19, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

St. Francis Hospital, WV

Why did you delete this? I wasnt even finished with it and i got the message about speedy deletion. Can you please reverse it? I was going to talk about how it is a historic area in Charleston and its great doctors and the fields it leads in. I assure you it is not an advertisement. Please reverse it so i do not have to re-do the whole page. =) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Enrichyourmind (talk • contribs) 01:09, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of James C. Fields

I nominated James C. Fields for deletion and then noticed you'd recreated it and saw your note about "legislators".

I've no idea what an "Alabama legislator" is and why they'd be notable, but I trust your judgement that it's correct. The existing links in the article don't help. Can you enhance it? --Dweller (talk) 10:16, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, no worries, TRM wove his magic. --Dweller (talk) 10:33, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of "Teresa Sue Bratton"

Dear Orangemike,

Could you please explain to me why you do not feel that an article on Teresa Sue Bratton meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines, yet an article on Larry Kissell does? Both are candidates for US Congress from North Carolina, but are otherwise unnotable. Please either delete Kissell's page or reinstate Bratton's. Thank you.

Sincerely, Rootsdj (talk) 17:46, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for deleting Taylor Mccullough. I was 99% sure it was a hoax, but wanted someone else to look to be certain. Otherwise, I would have gone ahead and deleted it myself. Aleta ^Sing 17:28, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Modelogues Page

Hey, I wrote a page for a play I'm a fan of. The writer had tried to put it up but it was called advertising and not neutral. So I rewrote it and it got deleted again. I thought I would give it one more chance to see if you would okay it. I think it's very neutral and I have cited all the sources. It's on my user page:

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User:DaveRobert/Modelogues
user:DaveRobert/Modelogues
Will you re-consider? Thanks.

DaveRobert (talk) 17:47, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Teresa Sue Bratton

Would the frequency of citation of Dr. Bratton as an allergy expert in Google News help the case for her notability and the worthiness of a Wikipedia entry on her? Rootsdj (talk) 18:41, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Hunzicker

A big thank you! I was looking at the page, feeling guilty... Ning ning (talk) 20:27, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Friends of Coal update

Hello! Earlier today, you declined my Speedy Delete tag on Friends of Coal. I was dubious about the article's claim of a grassroots movement with 50,000 members and its lack of referenced support for the claim, hence my claim. Following your decline, I did additional research and confirmed that the article's initial claims were bogus -- it is not a grassroots movement. However, there was plenty of dirt (or coal dust, in this case) that was worth sharing. The article has been expanded somewhat and it could use more input. I also added Categories, WikiProject templates and proper referencing. It could grow into something interesting. Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 22:03, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Reversal of updates De Krant/De Hollandse Krant topics

The publication has recently been sold and its name changed. These were reflected by my changes and updates to its content. I have been aleretd to the fact that the way I made the move violated proper protocol and I have now corrected that. Is the text that you deleted still available somewhere since the original text that you re-posted is incorrect in several substantial ways. Your work and Collectonian's have essentially reversed the content of these pages to an incorrect state. Thonich (talk) 05:52, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Restore please

Can you restore Tomás O’Flatharta as this page would no qualify for speedy as he is a plays at the highest level of his chosen sport Gaelic football Gnevin (talk) 21:36, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry still a manager at the highest level and is in the press as of 3 days ago [3] as assertion of notability has been made and so A7 doesn't apply Gnevin (talk) 21:41, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Can you please reply too this?Gnevin (talk) 16:17, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

AN discussion

Note discussion. WLU (talk) 15:55, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

ConQuesT

I've thrown a few references and a tiny bit of expansion at this as a means of keeping the deletionists away for a while. After seeing the much-needed but inelegant revision of the List of science fiction conventions I've added several cons that had unlinked articles and a couple more that are certainly notable but for whatever reason don't yet have articles. (I'm surprised there's no LosCon article yet, for example.) - Dravecky (talk) 06:00, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

SPAM?? Barbara Billingsley Article - More Like a Personal Attack - Yes, You Have Insulted Me

In the Barbara Billingsly article, you accused me of posting SPAM. I consider that being tantamount to a personal attack (not tolerated on Wikipedia?). You see, I really really really HATE SPAM. I find the insinuation that I'd post SPAM extremely insulting. Please have more patience with others before jumping on people who only are making contributions to pages in the honest spirit of Wikipedia. This is pretty obviously not an instance of SPAM. If you had folowed the link you would have seen historical data on the webpage the link points to. I have nothing to do with the business that maintains the link that was posted there, and the link pointed to a page with photos and historical data on a Los Angeles landmark that just so happens to be an operating business. The official site of Billingsley's restaurant is what I'm talking about. How you see this link is SPAM isn't clear, since there is no evidence that I have anything to do with that restaurant (which I don't), other than the fact that I live in the general municipal area where the establishment exists, and that I'll readily admit to have watched episodes of 'Leave it to Beaver'. I have never advertised nor promoted Billingsley's Restaurant. I do not work for Billingsley's. I have never even so much as eaten at Billingsley's. Please clarify how you interpret this as SPAM, and why I am not justified in considering this an unprovoked personal attack in which you have accused a random Wikipedian of posting SPAM. I consider that an unprovoked insult. I haven't reported you, this could have been just a case of over-zealous editing, in fact it is more likely to be the case. But you ought to be more careful before you edit and consider what the effects of what you are doing could entail. You most likely didn't even bother to follow the link you so hastily ID'ed as SPAM. Don't you think you might apologize and tell me why I shouldn't report you? I have nothing to do with Billingsley's Restaurant, I do not advertise for them, and I have never even been to their restaurant. The idea that I would post SPAM on Wikipedia makes me want to throw up. I am really very offended. The insinuation that I advocate SPAM in any way insults me. You have really crossed a line here. --Victorcoutin (talk) 20:21, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

David Banks (American Actor) - My "Conflict of Interest???"

Well, after the previous rant, now here's another item found on my talk page. I think that stalking other Wikipedians is bad Wikipedia etiquette. Are you stalking me?? Just because I started the David Banks page isn't enough of a reason to post it for deletion, and I don't know you. You don't know me. Why are you doing this? The David Banks article is of a "non-notable performer?" Please clarify this. I'd like some arbitration here, unless there is a documented Wikipedia definition of what is delineated as "non-notable." I am not insulted, there is no reason for me to be insulted over this. I realize you are just probably trying to accomplish something. However, you appear to be paying an unreasonable amount of attention to my edits, which I can't help finding disconcerting. Look. I do not work for David Banks, I don't really know David Banks very well, and I have only met him and only spoken to him on several occasions in the recent past. Accusing me of a conflict of interest (without ANY basis for your accusation) is close to a personal attack. I'm pretty certain that you have no evidence here that I've EVER even met David Banks - outside of what I've posted on Wikipedia. What justification for posting that there's "Conflict of Interest" in this situation do you have??? You have no reason and no evidence of any conflict of interest here. If you do PLEASE I welcome you to post it. I repeat, I do not work for David Banks, I don't have any financial interest in David Banks, I am not in business with David Banks. It's just that I have met him a few times, which isn't enough to constitute any conflict of interest. You have again accused me of something I didn't do, without ANY evidence. Twice in a row. Please. --Victorcoutin (talk) 20:47, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

To intevene and point out that this user isn't the only one likely to think you have a conflict of interest in this matter I should point out that your comment at [4] saying David Banks was actually with me when I added the photo, and he helped to decide which photo to use. The photo and the entire page were posted with David's supervision... ...I spoke to David about this, but he's not a member of Wikipedia. I am representing him here. would indicate that in terms of wikipedia policy you seem to have a conflict of interest regarding this person. -Hunting dog (talk) 21:01, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Then the above entry hopefully should clarify things. Again, there is no evidence that I have any fiduciary interest in David Banks, and in reality I don't. I just represented him for the purpose of uploading his uncopyrighted photograph (since I had a Wikipedia ID, and he didn't). I uploaded his photo. Additionally ... The accusation of "Conflict of Interest" arose from the page itself, and what you're referring to are the remarks which pertain to only the photograph. --Victorcoutin (talk) 21:44, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Helen Darville, Carbone (PZ) and 155.144.40.31

Thanks for protecting Helen Darville, can you also take a look at Carbone (PZ), which seems to be being edited by the same person, mainly using the IP 155.144.40.31 (talk)? Although this person uses different IPs (the nature of the edits suggest they are all the same person), most of the activity comes from 155.144.40.31 (talk) which has a history of vandalism and several warnings on the talk page. Is it worth considering some sort of block on this IP as well? Cheers, Maccy69 (talk) 11:56, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Daughters of Bilitis

That edit about the Science Fiction magazine. I know it's from a source, but...I've read quite a few issues of The Ladder, and in the best history of the DOB, Different Daughters, none of this info was mentioned. And The Ladder really had no science fiction in it, and was not a fanzine. In that it was hand-published by volunteers, it did have a do-it-yourself look to it, but that may have been the only connection to a fanzine. The inclusion of this information is really far out of what should be included in the purpose and methods of the DOB. --Moni3 (talk) 17:21, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

I tend to keep conversations on one page. I responded to your response on my page. --Moni3 (talk) 17:38, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Jerome Corsi

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Jerome Corsi. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:17, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your note Mike. At the same time you posted this to me, I was posting the following on the Jerome Corsi talk page:

The controversy paragraph of the article is the more appropriate area to list controversial questions and criticisms. Replacing the lead sentence of this article with negative opinions of the individual, or criticisms, distorts the point of view of the whole article to one which is obviously not NPOV. Such criticism and a reference to the Irish Times criticism are significant, but let's work together to maintain NPOV and list controversies involving the individual where they are in similar biographical articles. Best regards. Rusty Dr. B. R. Lang (talk) 17:31, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Nile Ranger deleted for never making a senior appearance

Nile Ranger is curently on the bench tonight, (26/8/08) Coventy FC v Newcastle FC Carling Cup match kick off 7.45pm. Does this count as a senior appearance? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot/ball/league_cup/7576358.stm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.132.178.18 (talk) 19:53, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Come on...that was not a valid speedy deletion reason (Nile Ranger. Notability isn't a reason to speedy delete. I'm asking you to please restore this. --UsaSatsui (talk) 20:53, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
- ...but the delete summary doesn't say, "WP:CSD#A7"...it says, "Ranger has never played a senior game and hence does not meet the sports person requirements"...If that was the assertion of notability (might play with the big boys), then indeed it was a valid A7, but the delete summary is misleading. I withdraw my request, but if there's a way to change the summary there, it might be a good idea. --UsaSatsui (talk) 21:00, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Talk:List of allegedly haunted locations

You just deleted the talk page of this article, with the explanation of non-controversial clean up... unless you did something that is reporting itself weird so I can't see what you are really doing, it looks like you deleted the talk page that had the full history of edits in it and orphaned the article... and possibly preserved a talk page that was nothing but a copy and paste of the other... if so that's not general cleanup and definitely not uncontroversial. DreamGuy (talk) 20:38, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

On top of that, User:Colin4C is edit warring over the name of the article without gaining prior consensus, when he sees from talk that his preferred way of doing it does not have support. He moved it without gaining consensus to Haunted Places, which is definitely absolutely wrong for several reasons: 1) the inherent POV-pushing of saying that they are haunted, 2) Haunted Places is not a proper noun. If it were to be that name, it'd be Haunted places with a small P, and 3) This is not a normal article, it's a LIST, and as such it needs to have list in the article title. (That statement was what I was trying to add to the talk page when you up and deleted the page while I was typing it up.) DreamGuy (talk) 20:42, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry; Woody's cleaned it up, I think. Part of the problem is the maze of redirects incorrectly introduced, to and/or from talkpage space into article space! --Orange Mike | Talk 20:44, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

That was one serious mess! Redirects everywhere, I got lost in a loop! I have restored the history of the talkpage in line with the article. This needs to be sorted out with a move discussion, nothing else. Regards. Woody (talk) 20:53, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I have a headache just looking at the versions that popped up in my watchlist, let alone all the other fragments that existed. Knowing Colin4C's history of just up and doing things he knows are controversial, it may end up having to be locked or something (can it just be locked for moves? I don;t know how that works). I personally think the current version is a little awkward, but the Haunted Places was just wrong on so many different levels... and i don't know why he switched it to places from locations, unless he tried to move it back to Haunted locations and couldn't and tried to get around it by a rename. Based upon another discussion elsewhere I think "reportedly" instead of allegedly might work better... the pro-ghost people who think allegedly is somehow too much like saying it isn't real might find reportedly or reported to work better. DreamGuy (talk) 21:11, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

RE: Ocean is Theory

Hello Mike, i am simply trying to get a good friend of mine's band a wiki page, so, hopefully, they will get more publicity. there are already vary popular, or else i wouldn't be making them a wiki. can you please explain to me why the page keeps getting deleted, and how i can fix it?... thank you. Redviking09 (talk) 17:00, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

IRestorer AfD

Hi Mike. I started an AfD for the IRestorer article that you had reposted after a hasty speedy delete. The {{PROD}} was again removed without explanation and without asserting notability in the article, so I thought it needed discussion. Sorry about the somewhat belated notice. ~ Ningauble (talk) 22:22, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Y Combinator

Why did you erase my edit on Y Combinator? FinancialAnalyst (talk) 00:01, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Haim Moshe

I have added some sources and de-prodded. --Amble (talk) 01:43, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

RE:RE: Ocean Is Theory

ok Mike, thanks... although, i checked the Wikipedia:Notability (music) page, and the band meets criteria 4 (Has received non-trivial coverage in a reliable source of an international concert tour, or a national concert tour in at least one sovereign country.) They have been pn several national tours. and a huge festival called CornerStone Festival, which is VARY noticeable, and they reseved a great abount of coverage on it. They also meet criteria 7 (Has become the most prominent representative of a notable style or of the local scene of a city; note that the subject must still meet all ordinary Wikipedia standards, including verifiability.) they are vary well known among people in Georgia and world wide. They have almost 26,000 friends on there myspace alone. So, please, explain to me why they cannot have a wiki page... Thank you for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redviking09 (talk • contribs) 04:57, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Glenn Carter

Once more, all unflattering material about the subject has been deleted. This has been going on for seven months, and there is evidence that a single person is behind all such deletions. It seems time to take the dispute resolution to another level. Would that be a request for mediation? User Sassf has tried discussion, certainly has tried posting and RfC (that's how I came on board with this BLP). I'll admit, I myself haven't used the talk page; but I think the recalcitrant user(s) have shown themselves to be closed minded. Here's the evidence it's all just one person. All the edit summaries and the scant comments on the talk page have similarities in content and style. The person evades being identified (talk page comment unsigned, editing without logging in). Once I called them out that edits six months apart all came from Australia, they created an account, under Glecart. The arguments are all really lame. Thanks for your attention. Hurmata (talk) 07:07, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Substantial motion deletion?

hello. why did you delete Substantial motion article and labeled it under "no meaningful content"? I was going to extend it.It's a very basic concept of Mulla Sadra thoughts and has a section in his article.Please change it back. Bbadree (talk) 09:02, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

ok. I got it.Bbadree (talk) 13:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Materials Research Institute

Orangemike, sorry to be an editor's nightmare, but I'm still learning the system. I am the webmaster for the Pennsylvania State University's Materials Research Institute, and am trying to create a page for MRI which I can tie into other pages on Wikipedia. I did use text cobbled together from our website (but I don't believe this qualifies as copyright infringement as it our text about us), but it was intended to be just a starting point - our editor was to review and rewrite the copy. (...I have to give him something to change if we want it done quickly, if I ask him to write from scratch, he'll take months.) Our ultimate goal is to link to not only PSU, but the materials research, materials characterization, materials simulation, computational materials, nanofabrication, and nanotechnology categories.

Can my page please be reinstated? Thank you, Cyndi MRImaven (talk) 13:53, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Please help us with this article. :)

I was wondering what we could do to help the article Katherine "Kat" Slatery. I am a big fan of hers, in fact we just started building her fan site. We would like to propose that she is notable. Please see the interviews posted :

http://davidarchuletaindonesia.com/2008/08/25/exclusive-fans-of-david-interview-with-kat-slatery-actress-from-the-%E2%80%9Ccrush%E2%80%9D-video-also-houston-videos/

and at http://fansofdavid.com

She has a rather large fan base especially because of her recent work and is a very well known breakdancer and has appeared on television many many times. MTV's My Super Sweet Sixteen showcased her as a choreographer on Erica Price's episode with Bobby Valentino.

She appeared in a Jeff Foxworthy commercial as a principal as well for CMT. Kodak Commercials, AT&T, Comcast and various others. She was featured on the BET Hip-Hop Awards as a soloist breakdancer. Among many other things, she has performed on stage with the Black Eyed Peas and can be seen in various performances and videos with them and Sergio Mendez.

We think it could be proposed with the newest addition of playing a principal role in David Archuleta's new video CRUSH which is at the top of the charts and gaining significant notability.

Thanks. Hope we can help more to keep this article up. We very much appreciate your help and wisdom, this is our first time trying to edit and we are still learning the ropes but we definitely would like to try to save this article. Her fan base has increased tremendously since the news broke that she will appear in the Crush video.

Thank you so much Orangemike.

-Fans of Kat Slatery —Preceding unsigned comment added by Miltonmilton (talk • contribs) 14:23, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

Yes, we are a group but I am mainly in charge of organizing the proceedings of getting the fan site started. A bunch of the girls that have joined the fan base had the opportunity to meet Kat Slatery a while back when she guest appeared at a hip-hop dance conference to sign autographs and teach choreography from one of The Black Eyed Peas performances. Since then they have been following her closely and watching her when she appears on t.v. Now that she played such a big part in David Archuleta's new release, they are just head over heels crazy over her.

There was such a big response on forums and interview comments that we decided to try to get the fansite going and document all of the things she has done.

Again, this is very new to us, we are trying not to be one of those annoying posters, any help is appreciated. We will certainly continue to help research for the entry to keep it alive and do what we can. However your expertise is definitely appreciated. Especially from a fellow Tennessee Native as well. ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Miltonmilton (talk • contribs) 15:00, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Huac

hi, i just meant in the article. getting rid of extraneous matter e.g. abbreviations being set-up but not being used, put it back if you think it's necessary Tom (talk) 17:11, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Deleting The Daisy System

Orangemike, I am a little bitter about you deleting my article, it was not spam, but intended to be historical reference to a company which no longer exists, information which I have not been able to find anywhere, so I was trying to share the knowlage I have about this company based off of documents I have. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChrisAKAOscar (talk • contribs) 21:24, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

That is because I had not finished entering the information, and was merly saving it to avoid lossing my entry, which happend anyway, cause um YOU DELETED IT ChrisAKAOscar (talk) 21:29, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Ocean is Theory

Alright Mike, i think it's all good for now.. if you wanna' see it and maybe let some other editors know about it, make sure it's all good and up to code, please read it User:Redviking09/Ocean. Thank you for your help. —Preceding undated comment was added at 21:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

ANI discussion

Hello, Orangemike. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is about the topic Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:FinancialAnalyst. Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 22:53, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Newspaper article

Hi! Thanks for your reply. Yes, my article was speedily deleted due to lack of sources and the notability issue. Problem is, the online database for newspaper articles only lasts up to a year from publication. Hence, I could not retrieve the featured article but have it with me in hardcopy cut-outs. But thanks for the explanation. Appreciate. Cheers! --Lohmimmy (talk) 19:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Hey!

I'm (sort of) back. Thanks for looking out for me in my absence. --BenBurch (talk) 20:00, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

OCean is Theory

So.... is it ready? User:Redviking09/Ocean...? i think it's all up to code.... dont you? [23:10, 28 August 2008 (UTC)]

Deletion review for The Hunt For Ida Wave

An editor has asked for a deletion review of The Hunt For Ida Wave. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Winter.skin (talk) 09:28, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

comeon...

dude, have i believe that the page i created is just as good if not better the Kenotia's page for instance... i mean, seriously, what does the page have that Kenotia's page doesn't?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redviking09 (talk • contribs) 21:53, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

1) That article's been proposed for deletion, partly for lack of verifiability; 2) they have more claim to notability than Ocean does. 3) WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is not a valid argument. 4) Sign your posts. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:59, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

i will get on the sources as soon as possible. Thank you for the help. ill probably be bothering you again to check it out later (HAHA). (Redviking09 (talk) 02:14, 30 August 2008 (UTC))

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

Hello. Was there a reason why you deleted Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, rather than just removing the copyrighted section or reverting to an older version of the article? I've restored the article, and removed the offending section. Mike Peel (talk) 06:24, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Alright! go check 'er out!

it was kind of challenging to find the links, because the Top 10 and Top 100 are always changing. and the HM interview is in the magazine, not online. but, if you scroll down on the HM page under indie something you'll see there name mentioned. But, check it out. i was also just informed by the singer that they were formed in April of 2007. i was just judging off the "profile made" on there myspace. (Redviking09 (talk) 13:25, 30 August 2008 (UTC))

RE: Oleg Kolesnikov Article (speedy deletion)

The problem here is that almost any academic is going to have published articles in peer-reviewed journals, and a book or two; that does not qualify :them as notable enough for their own article. For further discussion of our standards of notability as applied to academics, see WP:PROF

The article was for a {{computer security}} professional, not an academic WP:PROF. The example of a similar article is [5].

The WP article is based on the practical work of the author and the reviews from the community, see Slashdot review [6].

I checked and WP:V, WP:NPOV, and WP:OR should be in order.

It's very disappointing that you chose to delete the article without consulting with the community. I hope you reverse your action. Alex Omelchenko (talk) 15:15, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

OM, I've looked a tthe article. I'm not sure this would hold up at AfD, so I'm reluctant to take it to deletion review, but the assertion that someone has written a non-self published book book in any subject is a clear assertion of importance and in my opinion unmistakable precludes speedy deletion. Please undelete it and send it to AfD. DGG (talk) 17:47, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

OM-It's been almost a week. Any update on the DGG feedback above?

Alex Omelchenko (talk) 07:46, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

I responded on DGG's talk page. --Orange Mike | Talk 12:48, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

OM-I have not been able to find the response you were referring to on the DGG site. Where is it? Alex Omelchenko (talk) 21:54, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Ucfmarketing

I checked out his contribs, and while the username is pretty objectionable, his contributions seem to be fairly neutral updates and corrections. Would you consider an unblock with a change of username? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 13:42, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

College classes

Mike,

Regarding the college classes, I think you may be overreacting here. If their goal is to teach people to use and add to Wikipedia how can it hurt us? They are obviously only going to contribute positively. If they don't, we can quickly deal with it. I have declined your speedy. I would encourage you to withdraw your comments directing them to leave Wikipedia. KnightLago (talk) 16:05, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

See also the thread here at AN where no objections have been raised. KnightLago (talk) 16:08, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Ok Mike, I understand where you are coming from. But, college classes have done this exact same thing in the past and been tremendous assets to the project. Since we obviously have a difference of opinion here let's take this to AN and discuss it there before taking any further action. KnightLago (talk) 16:16, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

I just linked to where the thread was originally created. Go ahead and cross-post a link at ANI. KnightLago (talk) 16:32, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

I can't right now, I am in the middle of a class. Sorry. KnightLago (talk) 16:34, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of ProMesh.NET article

Although I tried to defend the submission of this topic, I understand and agree that this article does not meet the Wikipedia criteria. I agree that a product has to build "notability" before it can be included in Wikipedia. On the other hand, it bothers me that many software projects that have far less "notability" than the topics that were deleted are still online at Wikipedia. I guess you don't mind me marking them as PROD, although that would also violate the Wikipedia rules (because some of these software packages are more or less competitors). Philippe Leybaert (talk) 17:09, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Up and coming

It came in useful in that discussion. :) Corvus cornix_talk 18:12, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd

Sorry, Mike, the title's mis-spelled, so I've moved it to Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd though someone else had already removed your prod notice, but it's certainly a notable work as far as I'm concerned - BBC Radio Cymru thought enough of it and its influences to do a week of special programmes on the 50th anniversary of its publication (a 10-day week, in fact, 16-25 May 2007!). http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/radiocymru/safle/wythnos/. I see an article has also been created on cy Wikipedia. -- Arwel (talk) 20:50, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

factualTV is notable!

Hi again Mike! (Sorry for the late reply, I've been off backpacking in Europe.)What's on my my mind however is that I can't accept the reason you gave for removing the factualTV page here on wiki. You said it's not notable. Well I have to beg the differ. Maybe you just didn't notice it. It's still in Beta but has apparantly grown bigger than Babelgum which has a wiki page. I think factualTV is just as notable, you should check it out, and I would still appreciate all pointers you could give in order for me to post the page.// All the best —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danderson65 (talk • contribs) 13:08, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Could you have a look please

Hi could you have a look at Attacks on the Ulster Defence Regiment article IMO this is in breach of WP:NOTMEMORIAL and if so should it be deleted or just the list of the dead removed thanks. I am asking you as an uninvolved admin regarding troubles articles. I have had a number of disputes with the creator of this article and I would like an outside opinion thanks for your time. BigDunc^Talk 14:08, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Whoo_hoo deletion

Hi. Hate to post this but I had just restored the Whoo hoo! article (see discussion at User_talk:Alexf#Whoo_hoo.21) and was about to put a hangon tag on behalf of the user (maybe I should've been faster but got a phone call in between). I am not in disagreement with your deletion as we both thought to it was G11, but maybe you should give deference to the user's request and let him fix it as he promises. Your choice. Cheers! -- Alexf⁴² 15:22, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Please see (in case you haven't yet) the latest reply for Brewster and his new request for restoration to his user space. Your call. -- Alexf⁴² 15:45, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, and I'm sorry about my bitey comments on that talkpage. It wasn't really called for. Best, --brew crewer (yada, yada) 15:56, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

No big; tempers flare and the "Enter" button is dangerously big. (I usually reserve the term "bitey" for violations of the "Don't bite the noobs" rule, though.) --Orange Mike | Talk 15:59, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Physical-layerswitch userpage

Hi Mike. I went on my user page and see it was deleted. I also noticed another user has been making edits to my user page. The page was previously deleted because it showed no notability. I complied with the moderator and he restored my page. If you could please restore my page to my last edits I would appreciate it. Any suggestion would be appreciated too. I think this potential article is going to be very beneficial. The physical layer is a great technology and I would like to elaborate more on it.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

Dawn aka Physical-layerswitch (talk) 15:32, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

The Punch as a reliable source

The Punch is the biggest selling newspaper in the Bahamas. It does not have a web site beyond http://thepunch-advertising.tripod.com/ - but I fail to see why it does not count is reliable according to Wikipedia guidelines. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.254.75.170 (talk) 13:21, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Question re: your comment on my page "Notability is not contagious"

Thanks for your comment on my discussion page.

I am new, and have been asking questions about this without a response from anyone and maybe you can help me understand the deletion of my four articles.

From your “history teacher” example, Palin's history teacher is clearly NOT notable. However, if Palin were a politician known for her denial of the Holocaust, her history teacher WOULD be notable. Isn’t it the case that a mere relation of B to notable A does NOT transfer notability from A to B, but a relationship of B with the CAUSE of A’s notability WOULD?

EricDiesel (talk) 22:09, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Notability

Thanks for trying to meaningfully respond. Most just say “NO” without any attempt at clarifying. I am totally new at Wikipedia, unfamiliar with its policies, and my backgrpound it in mathematics, with entirely different publication standards. Responding to “If I sold books to Russell Kirk and William Rehnquist; that did not make me notable as a bookseller” - If you sold a book to Rehnquist you would not be notable. If you were an unknown law professor of Rehnquist you would not be notable. But if your were an unknown law professor of Rehnquist AND made videotapes of controversial lecures you gave him, and he adopted controversial positions that mirorred Rehnquists Lower Federal Court legal decisions, then you would not only BE notable, but a team of legal scholars would have poured over your work and published on it, and the results would be the subject of his nomination hearings. This actually happened with Clarence Thoams. It aslo happened with the philosophy teacher of a less well known philosopher, Bertrand Russell’s philosphy teacher. I only used Socrates as he is more well known with an unknown philosophy teacher. EricDiesel (talk) 23:40, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Underblasst

Recently, I just saw a disrespectful note from User:Underblasst in User talk:Underblast#Malicious posting on DWRT-FM article. He even edited my homepage into a piece of crap here, but I put it back. Give me a reply as soon as possible. User:Underblasst will be blocked after discussion for violating Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines and making fun of my Homepage. Underblast (talk) 10:55, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Sullivan Productions-related articles

You seemed interested in this link-breaking and COI issue when it was at ANI. After failing to get any action at ANI, I eventually took it to WP:COIN as suggested. Take a look if you're still interested: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Sullivan Productions-related articles. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 13:45, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Rosangela1985/Whoo hoo!

Hi there. I have trimmed, footnoted, and generally cleaned up the article. Please take a look at it and let me know what you think. Best, --brew crewer (yada, yada) 16:04, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Why did you delete G Premjee

Orangemike,

Why did you delete article G Premjee?

This 140 years old international group is one of the largest commercial organizations in Thailand.

That was unjustified.

--Bharatshah (talk) 01:15, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Steinmetz Diamond Group

No comment. -- Matthead Discuß 03:27, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

For sanbox info EricDiesel (talk) 03:58, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Rv

Pleasure! Ty 04:32, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark

I noticed that you recently deleted a (non-commercial) browser benchmark article as "Blatant advertising." How was the article any different from articles on other browser tests? —Tokek (talk) 05:47, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

You have deleted SunSpider, marking it as advertisment, when in fact I added it, after reading about JavaScript benchmark comparisons in various articles, such as [7] and after not knowing what SunSpider is, I decided to investigate and add an article. How is this an advertisment? NetHunter (talk) 08:27, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Davewild (talk) 09:38, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Hey Pal,

I don't like the way you deleted my article, this was not an ads at all, it's a blatant violation of my rights and abusing of your right as well.

Who do you think you are?

Do you think I have any thing to do with this company or any company, or industry at all? I even don't know who makes them, got to be a lot of companies are doing these. I was advertizing for the whole humankind.

Oh, I got it, you are a RWR freak, and you don't like to save energy or save the world for that matter.

Whoa!!!! Assume good faith, and lay off the unjustified personal attacks on other editors! --Orange Mike | Talk 17:58, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

If you want to be respected in the board, you have to respect other hard working people.

Where can I find my article? I need the electronic bits and pieces for my souvenir!!!!

Dreamliner888 (talk) 06:36, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

The article as written had a grossly non-encyclopedic tone. It was a personal essay rewritten from Eartheasy (which was your only "source"). Wikipedia is not a venue for essays. It came across as an add for Eartheasy. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:58, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Image talk:Tvi logo.png

Hello, Orangemike. I think that talk page header is not to be used instead of deleting test talk pages. I mean this tag is usually used on popular articles' talk pages only. Is not it?--O sama K^{Reply? on my talk page, please} 11:31, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

--- I totally agree, why mike can get away of putting up with the orange jump suit (offensive) picture while he is deleting the whole world under the name of balant advertisement? How to stop his behavior? I am new on the board, I don't know how to file a complaint.

OrganicMichael (talk) 13:21, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

- I'm not sure who this is, but it seems to be a sockpuppet of somebody whose article I deleted (apparently one of the spammy ones, judging by his/her tone). --Orange Mike | Talk 17:46, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Informatist Deletion In Error

Dear Sir. With the utmost respect, I would ask you to review the reasons why you just deleted an article that fulfilled the Wiki requirements to a far higher degree than most than have been up for years. I included a link to information on the game to apple.com and many other extreme notables. I would appreciate your prompt reply. Regards, Chimichalupa (talk) 16:39, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

I assume you're talking about Informatist. I did not nominate this for deletion; but the "sources" for the article were mostly press releases (notoriously not reliable sources). There was neither evidence nor assertion of notability. Not every cool game gets an article in the encyclopedia. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:54, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Attacks on the Ulster Defence Regiment

Template removed and replaced with {underconstruction}. Note also left on the talk page. There's no way it is intended to be a memorial but it is a large work and will take several weekends to bring it into line with its descriptor. I was aware a bot had removed the {underconstruction} tag but hadn't replaced it until now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Thunderer (talk • contribs) 14:57, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Can you examine this page again and give your opinion now that changes have been made to the format for reporting the attacks please? The Thunderer (talk) 18:59, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

A further change has been made as a result of your most recent comments. Again, your opinion is sought. The Thunderer (talk) 08:20, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

A third opinion has been asked for here.The Thunderer (talk) 08:50, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Given that you have not commented on the alterations made to this page I can only assume by your silence that you now regard it as being within policy? Substantial additions have been made to the article today which now reflect the overall intent of a chronological record of attacks as part of the history of the Ulster Defence Regiment. If you have further concerns but as the article is no longer subject to WP:PROD I suggest you list it at WP:AfD after scrutinising the essay at WP:DPC. If you do decide to list the article for deletion I would appreciate the usual courtesy of a notification. If on the other hand you decide the article now fits in with policy I would appreciate your notification of same so that I may concentrate on expanding it and forgetting about intervention. The Thunderer (talk) 14:05, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm genuinely sorry that you feel my best efforts are not worth commenting on. With that in mind however, I will now consider your intervention in the matter ended. The Thunderer (talk) 21:10, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Wasillaag

Hey Orangemike. I had attempted to counsel this user, and was assuming good faith that they would heed my very specific advice to change their username before editing further; I didn't block because, from where I was sitting, they've already had a bit of a rough week. I think it unlikely that they'll edit again, but I was hoping to track the account by having them change the username, rather than blocking and having them register a new one. Had I received no response after a week or so, I would eventually have blocked, I think. Just FYI, UltraExactZZ ^Claims~ Evidence 12:48, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough, no problem. Thanks, UltraExactZZ ^Claims~ Evidence 12:12, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Fulcrum Gallery - Please revert

The article on Fvlrcvm Gallery cannot possibly be "blatant advertising" since the gallery has NOT EXISTED for over six (6) years. The article was an historical reference about what the gallery was, what made it notable & why it got so much media attention in its day.

It could NOT advertise anything. It does NOT exist in ANY form. All of its artists have moved on to other galleries & other venues.

BTW Wikipedia has DOZENS of articles about galleries, some of which DO USE their article to ADVERTISE who they CURRENTLY represent & what art they have for sale, most notably Gagosian, Mary Boone Gallery, Andrea Rosen Gallery, ("most important modern and contemporay artists"). I could go on all day. I do NOT advocate deleting ANY of these articles.

BUT neither should an article be deleted that has NOTHING to advertise!

Dear OrangeMike,

After reading your user page, I have a great deal more respect for you. I believe the problem here is that you saw the user designation: fvlcrvm, & the article title Fvlcrvm Gallery & jumped to the conclusion that the article was self-advertising.

But it was intended to be an article about a unique gallery that existed for about 10 years, from Jan. 1993 until the end of Jan. 2002. It achieved considerable notoriety, during that time: It's shows were covered on CBS News; NY1 did their entre Earthday show from the environmentally friendly gallery; Good Day NY did an entire show from there; CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox 5 & Channel 11 News all covered the artist who had a permit for explosives, on Chinese New Year the day Guilliani banned Chinatown from getting any permits for their 3000-year-old tradition of fireworks on Chinese New Year. Fvlcrvm Gallery held a huge, open-to-all party, complete with fireworks, dragon & exploding art, despite attempts from the Mayor's office to stop it.

This is just an idea of why I think people should know such a gallery existed. The effects of the 9/11 attacks forced the gallery to go out of business but it left a legacy that is at least worth mentioning.

P.S.

This has nothing to do with the above, but you mentioned "Creative Anachronisms". My little brother & his wife were major CA's & even had their wedding at a Creative Anachronism event. I have fond memories of the events & people involved. (My little brother was killed by a follower of Manson in the mid-seventies.)

Sincerely, Fvlcrvm (talk) 16:32, 6 September 2008 (UTC) (I did take my user name from that gallery.)

I read your message about reverting the article to a sandbox & put in the answer below. But I didn't know if I should answer on my user page or yours; so now I am doing both.

Thank you. I would appreciate that. Could you please tell me how I would get to the sandbox? I am new to this, (& only barely computer literate at 64). I will take your advice about the U's but the name with V's will have to be a redirect to it, since most of the artworld would look for it that way. I know another artist who used exhibit there. I will ask them to add to the article, too. Thanks again. Fvlcrvm (talk) 15:13, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

OrangeMike, I don't know if the Fvlcrvm article has been reverted to a sandbox yet, because I don't know how to find a sandbox or even to check if one exists. Please, help me find the sandbox you put it in (if you've had time to do that yet). Thanks, Fvlcrvm (talk) 15:00, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Untuckem

A penny for your thoughts on the article. I think it's a promotion and it doesn't belong, just like that Sconnie article. Is it speedy eligible? Royal broil 05:11, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

JBP44

Hello. I’ve read the reasons for your deletion of my page Cleanaer. I'd like to respond to those quires with the view to have Cleanaer reinstated. Unfortunately there seems to be a miss understanding and wrongful assumption of the references. Allergyuk.org is the The British Allergy Foundation and was formed as a registered charity in 1991 by a group of leading medical specialists determined to improve awareness, management and treatment of allergy. it endorses and certifies products following independent test which they carry out. It is a highly recognized award. What else do i need to do to get the page reinstated. This new concept is of high interest to people and Wikipedia is here to educate people on new technologies. Especially those which a credible. Regards James —Preceding unsigned comment added by JBP44 (talk • contribs) 09:48, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Guilląme Furrét

Hello, on checking the logs, I noticed that you deleted this article as a hoax on 4 September. While I have no idea whether he is or is not a hoax, the article is back. There are no google book or google scholar hits for his name though. Just a heads up really. – Toon ^(talk) 18:42, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Your lack of justification for this apalling action defies all logic and defeats the noble purpose of wikipedia, a trust in the individual to share his knowledge with the world. You lump Guilląme Furrét into a "hoax" category simply because he is not listed on other websites. Since what time, and under what specific code, do you possess the authority to complete this action? Why were the principal authors of the article never informed of this allegation? You, sir, have an inviolable trust---all those who utlilise wikipedia depend on the good judgement of those whom they trust with their rights. You have failed that trust. Simply because a narrow internet search returns no results does not mean that those results do not exist. Why don't you consult the 1909 Encyclopedia of Portuguese Drama, for example? There, you will find a small yet all-the-same real entry on Guilląme Furrét. This unacceptable action will not be tolerated by those who are experts in the field of Furrét. Because of your blind actions, the world has lost its primary online resource for Guilląme Furrét. Therefore, I demand that the original page be reinstated to wikipedia. While any unbiased observer will certainly admit that the article has been vandalised somewhat (especially that part about Richard Wagner), the article itself is not beyond clean-up. A clean-up tag would have been a far more appropriate and rational response, alerting those of us with expert knowledge on Furrét to the presence of errors and allowing us to correct them. The most disgusting aspect of this travesty is that it was done sub rosa, without any public input whatsoever. Such an action inherently violates the spirit of Wikipedia. If we are to pride ourselves on being a truly free encylcopedia, open to all who wish to share their knowledge, we must respect the intelligence of those who contribute. Such actions as deletion of a scholarly article bring shame, not only on those who commit them, but also on the entire Wikipedia community. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Economicssverige (talk • contribs) 02:31, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Really?

Of course there are no citations on the wiki pages when people like you go in and remove them. I now see that wikipedia is NOT an encyclopedia, but a site of information that a few neo-nazi-like admins find interesting or important.

Thank you for opening my eyes to this.

If its not important to those of you who sit in front of your computer all day, it will not be published. Thats good to know. Dont worry about whats going on in real life, just what you consider to be important. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1FanoftheArts (talk • contribs) 13:16, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Geebus!

Give me more than 10 minutes will ya? Some of us have to eat. Any why NOTE? Maury (talk) 18:14, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletions

I'm sorry, but that's absurd: '[TITLE] is a a film. It was released in the 1940s' contains no real identifying information, and falls squarely under guidelines regarding empty pages. --CalendarWatcher (talk) 20:51, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

New Page Patrolling

Hello. I noticed today that you were doing newpages patrolling but are not marking some of the pages you visit as patrolled. Though this is not mandatory in any way, and should not be done for all newpages, where appropriate it keeps your fellow patrollers from wasting time reviewing the same page multiple times. In any event, keep up the good work! Thanks. NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 00:37, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello, Orangemike. You have new messages at NuclearWarfare's talk page.
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yoo!

I said delete the talkpages of the articles that are reverts. Nergaal (talk) 00:52, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

How about speedy noms for talkpages of a redirect article? Nergaal (talk) 00:55, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Power Rangers: RPM

I have restored this article because it was improperly tagged by User:Negabandit86 for speedy deletion. I am inquiring as to why he felt the need to tag the article for deletion.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 01:16, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

It should have been deleted in the first place. That is why I restored it. There are plenty of reliable sources (the US Patent/Trademark office) and another statement has a third-party reference to it. The addition of the WP:PROD template is out of line, and I don't want to go through another chunk of AFD drama this month.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 01:26, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

I've improved the wording of the article such that it no longer contains any speculative information or unverified claims.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 01:39, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Big clunking fist

Hi, I just noticed you deleted Big clunking fist. I don't know what was on that page, but if it was Gordon Brown, then I know that it is a nickname of his (in the press). See here. Whether that means it should be a redirect or not I don't know. It's a notable enough nickname of his, but I don't know if the page abides by WP:BLP or not. What do you think? Deamon138 (talk) 02:14, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Aha, yeah I just noticed before I got your message. Thanks. Oh and thanks for deleting all the Tony Blair redirect pages that were vandalism! Cheers. Deamon138 (talk) 02:22, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Btw, I've created two other redirects for GB: Clunking fist and Great clunking fist, for the same reason as the "Big" version. I borrowed some of your message on the talk page of BCF and added it to the others (hope you don't mind!). Deamon138 (talk) 02:33, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Lol, good point! I'm afraid I haven't taken your comments and "edited them mercilessly" enough yet... Deamon138 (talk) 02:39, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Colorado Amendment 51 (2008)

I cut Colorado Amendment 51 (2008) down to a stub. Perhaps it should be merged with other proposed constitutional amendments for Colorado that will be voted on this year, but that might lead to an long and complicated merged article. --Eastmain (talk) 03:17, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Joecool1990

Hey there mike, I just wanted to note that I have removed the warning template you sent to this user for creating inappropriate pages as his page creations seem to be done with the best intentions.

I have replaced you post with a commend directing him to WP:N and WP:NOT, I hope you don't mind. Just trying to encourage what might become a constructive contributor. - Icewedge (talk) 04:10, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanh Tùng

This article asserted the importance of the subject. I'd like to have it restored as ineligible for speedy deletion. Chubbles (talk) 14:07, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

thanks

gotta get 'em where I can. Dloh cierekim 16:43, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Lee Lynd

As asserted in the article, Lee Lynd is the first ever recipient of the $100,000 Lemelsen-MIT Prize in Sustainability for work developing production of biofuels from nonedible cellulosic plants. Seems to me this is highly notable and highly important!!! Mcbgirl (talk) 16:51, 10 September 2008 (UTC)mcbgirl

Bethmanning

Just to say I have no problem with your prodding the Bushman Bio. You had a decent reason to doubt it, I unprodded, the system worked: high fives all around. I took a look at Bethmanning's other contributions to see if I could help clean things up, looks like it's pretty much all done. Cheers, Pete.Hurd (talk) 18:53, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

magic flute diaries

I'm so frustrated, i changed all the text in that article (Magic flute diaries) so it would not be a copyright infringment and you deleted it anyways? What do I have to do? Csheppard1 (talk) 20:18, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Denis Rancourt

Revert your deletion. You're meddling in things that are completely outside of America. I think by adding articles like this I am expanding Wikipedia's worldview. There was no reason for a speedy deletion. A quick google search shows how many articles there are on Denis Rancourt.MiltonP Ottawa (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 01:21, 11 September 2008 (UTC).

Despite the incivility and false accusations, responding at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 September 10#Denis Rancourt, since Milton didn't have the courtesy to wait for a response. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:24, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

despaming Broadway Dance Center

Thank you, but no thank you: though I used to take class at BDC I am presently engaged in documenting New York City Ballet's repertory, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins' ballets in particular. — Robert Greer (talk) 21:31, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

vagabonds wielding colons

Hi Orangemike,

I'm surprised I haven't met you... You seem to be into SF; have you seen Critters? Anyhow, see ya around. Ling.Nut ^{(talk—WP:3IAR)} 03:38, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Blocking of User:AshdenAwards

Even I think that was a little bit harsh, the user has applied for a change of username, as requested by a COI notification. I'll admit the user has a very blatant COI, but AA does appear to want to abide by the rules User A1 (talk) 14:53, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Street Gossip

Hello. I hope not to come across rude but it seems you deleted the above page without reading the comments on the talk page. I apologise if I have misread the history and logs, but there was definately more than one contributor, so the rationale of deletion was invalid. Booglamay (talk) - 17:00, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

I did my best to tidy it up a bit - after you deleted it someone recreated it with my contributions (infobox, categories etc) but chucked some copied text in there too. I agree on the notability front though - I just wanted to make sure that if it is deleted, it's deleted for the right reason (and that the original contributor knows why!). Booglamay (talk) - 17:09, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Tom Cottingham Edwards-Moss

I left this on User:UltraMagnus' s talk mpage but on reflection you seem to have done the deleting...

Ooop! I was just adding {{hangon}} to the page and adding a bunch of referenced information (20 or 30 minutes work) and the page was gone! I am not broadband enabled so it can take a minute or two to load a pagge. For the record he was Mp for Widnes 1885 - 1892 and there are three articles with redlinks... [8] He is also mentioned in Henley Royal Regatta which would link too... hopefully if I start again you might give a chance to finish :-) Lozleader (talk) 17:02, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Actually it looks like User:Orangemike did the deleting Lozleader (talk) 17:04, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

I expect the article to look something like Andrew McElwee or Reginald Essenhigh which nobody seems to have problems with.... Lozleader (talk) 17:08, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you Lozleader (talk) 17:16, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

I accept your criticism! I jumped the gun on starting the article... Lozleader (talk) 17:18, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Keith costigan

You deleted Keith costigan as A7. He is a former professional soccer player, and therefore automatically notable. I have recreated the article, but could you please restore the history? --Eastmain (talk) 18:20, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Superpower the Movie deleted again unjustly

Why are you editors so trigger happy with your deletions? This is a human edited site, right? So, show some humanity. When you people pull a site it then does much more harm than good. You'd think you'd do a little investigating prior to pulling a wikipage.

the SuperpowerTheMovie wikipage was created by the director of the movie. It deserves an entry on here as it is an important film historically and has won 4 awards already. Furthermore it is used at two schools as a teaching tool and is being entered into the academy's historical archives.

Any questions please check out the site: Superpower Home Page. This is not an advertisement in anyway...as the Academy has archived it, it should also be archived in WikiPedia.

In addition we have MANY notable stars in this film: Noam Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, Eric Haney, Sergei Khrushchev and many more.

Please put it back up.

thank you, mikeymic —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikeymic (talk • contribs) 20:49, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

I assume you're talking about SUPERPOWER the Movie. That was not an article, it was a shamelessly brazen advertisement. We don't allow advertisements here. Please read the instructions, like everybody else. Start with inappropriate usernames and Wikipedia:Your first article. Then look at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films), conflict of interest; go on to neutral point of view; then maybe look at spamming Wikipedia and how to avoid it. --Orange Mike | Talk 06:33, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Oxford MedSoc Deletion

Hi, can you tell me why you deleted the page and how I can get it back up? 87.194.42.88 (talk) 01:19, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

I have commented on the user's talk page to avoid confusion--not in my opinion a A7, but unlikely to get into WP, and I so advised him also. . DGG (talk) 16:30, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Flash memory disk cache

This article, which you prodded as essay-like, turns out to be even more unsuitable--it's a copyvio of one of the references, and I've so tagged it. DGG (talk) 15:24, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Sarah Palin birth issue.

Opinion please? Should I fight for this one, or am I way off base in thinking that it ought to be in the article? Thanks! http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:Sarah_Palin#Trig.27s_Birth --BenBurch (talk) 16:21, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

The woman's a liar, bigot and a creep, in the "proud" tradition of Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew; but it's a WP:UNDUE violation to make a big thing about this kind of personal medical decision. --Orange Mike | Talk 22:51, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Reassessment for Esperanto Wikipedia

Hi, I see that you are a member of the ETF for WikiProject Constructed languages. Could you please reassess the Esperanto Wikipedia article? I believe it is now above the "Stub" level. Thanks in advance! -- Yekrats (talk) 23:01, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Help Re-Writing Page: Zona Plus (you deleted)

Hello! Can you please tell me how the Zona Plus article you deleted could be improved so that it is not viewed as advertising? The "Zona Plus" is a patented, copwrtied, FDA cleared device. We got the impression from this page: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Resperate that ours would be okay. Would it be better if we wrote an article on "isometric handgrip therapy" which noted Zona Plus as the brand name, much like Fluoxetine and Prozac? Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated! Healthy4life (talk) 15:55, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for setting up the user talk page (http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User:Healthy4life/Zona) for me to work on the article. If you get the chance to come re-read it and leave your comments, I would greatly appreciate it! Healthy4life (talk) 17:22, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Santos F.C. (England)

I have no strong views on the deletion of this page from what I remember of it, but was suprised to find it gone so quickly and it looks like I was the only person who received any notice even though I was not the original author. Is there anyway I could review the page now to see if I would have wanted to 'hang on'. Bevo74 (talk) 17:01, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Good luck against McCain. Bevo74 (talk) 17:02, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Moved to INNewsCenter Wiki

I am currently in the process of moving what will be deleted from my user space onto my new INNewsCenter Wiki. However, I am wanting my wiki to be very similar to Wikipedia.

BTW, I have saved those articles on my hard drive and ready to be transferred to the INNewsCenter Wiki. If you have any other ideas before 9/22/08, I would like those suggestions.

I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Aeverine Frathleen Nieves 19:39, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Moved from User page

Well Mr. Mike: if you're so great at deleting pages why did you miss Glen Brook Farm. I mean how much more substantial or being "notable" as you all say is a little "single branch" resort in Greene County New York?? Did you miss this one? How is this place notable when the place down the road isn't? I've grown up here all my life and I do not understand why you have a small family operated/owned business on Wikipedia and not ours. Please explain and justify your reasoning for deleting mine and not this other page. see "Glen Brook Farm". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chr1st1na713 (talk • contribs) (Moved from User:Orangemike by This flag once was red 19:46, 16 September 2008 (UTC))

Holler House

I have just created Holler House and see you are interested in Milwaukee topics wonder if you may be able to find/upload any free images of Holler House. Any article improvement would be appreciated too. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:57, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I don't know if you take photographs or requests for photographs, but this is a request. The article is nominated for WP:DYK. I live way too far away. Royal broil 22:57, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Spencer Timothy Hall

That's fine; I didn't recognize it was from DNB and unwikified I couldn't recognize that any of the publications or achievements and such were noteable. TheMolecularMan (talk) 18:48, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Openfilm

Hi there,

I wanted to get more detail on why you felt the article about Openfilm was qualified for speedy deletion.

The site is well established among professional and semi-professional web content creators and I feel is significant because it:

Filters and presents only quality content
Has filmmaker friendly tools, such as HD playback and multilingual subtitles in the player
Processes user-submitted content by hand, rather than automatically
Works closely with well-known film schools and film festivals, such as Vancouver Film School (Openfilm is even listed on www.vfs.com in "See more VFS Channels" between Metacafe and Joost), Miami International University, New York City Horror Film Festival and others

The article cited reliable, independent sources and was written in neutral tone. I propose that you restore it. If you still disagree, I'd like to hear your suggestions on what would make an article about this website acceptable.

Thanks,

Freebird1111 (talk) 20:17, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Peter Wacks

I wanted to get more feedback on why you are deleting the Peter Wacks Page. I referenced the Game Designed (which is a wiki article with a non-working link to me)) as well as the isbn of the novel I just released. Why is this qualifying for speedy deletion?

Thanks PeterWacks (talk) 00:38, 18 September 2008 (UTC)PeterWacks PeterWacks

Reply to: Notability of Lira Luis

I can give you numerous references to the notability of architect Lira Luis. I created this article as a fan of architecture. I used this username as the name of the article because it is the most logical and easiest name to remember. If you do a search on "Lira Luis" from the Yahoo! search engine, you will see a lot of articles written about Ms Luis. I think the original article I wrote about her was unfairly reported and deleted. It appears as a blatant sabotage against a person by a group who appears to be very jealous of the success of Ms Luis. The persons in question are: Blakegripling ph, who conspired to taint the reputation of Ms Luis. Please read these articles that will justify the notability of the achievements of Ms Luis:

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1150 http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1023770461.html http://damnedinblue.blogspot.com/2006/04/architect-lira-luis-and-immortal.html http://www.aiany.org/firms/firm.php?id=1001563 http://archrecord.construction.com/archrecord2/live/OnTheSide/bowwowhaus.asp http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/602-2332920-3398253?asin=1424300479&afid=yahoosspplp_bmvd&lnm=1424300479%7CFRANKly_Speaking:_It%27s_the_WRIGHT_Way_:_Books&ref=tgt_adv_XSNG1060 http://archrecord.construction.com/archrecord2/work/0502/pod.asp http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1051 http://www.planetizen.com/node/14990 http://globalnation.inquirer.net/ofwspotlight/ofwspotlight/view_article.php?article_id=26967 http://goodnewspilipinas.com/wp/?p=865 http://aec.cadalyst.com/aec/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=429618 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/questex/cadalyst0607/index.php?startid=14 http://aec.cadalyst.com/aec/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=437990&ref=25 www.midglen.com/newsletter/volume9.pdf http://www.jurgita.com/models-id218134.html Liraluis (talk) 02:28, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Pittsburgh Style, Ken Chiacchia, Barton Paul Levenson

Dear Orange Mike. My intention was to create a project that discussed the influence of various contributions to the Arts and Entertainment in Pittsburgh and how it inspired a generation of Writers and filmmakers that seems to be very prolific in Pittsburgh. Some of what I get I rely on people back in the 'burgh to send me data and information. As far as the Pittsburgh Style there are volumes of books and articles written about it. Many film-makers since Romero have chosen Pittsburgh to make films of the macabre and horror genre-Silence of the Lambs, The Dark Half. I only get to a computer in spurts as I am in Iraq. I can accept anything you say as long as you don't say that you like Gustav Mahler.

By the way, I carefully read your website. Two of my favorite people are Mark Nordenberg, Pitt Chancellor and Nikki Nordenberg, business psychologist, who came out of Wisc-Mad. Also in case it sways your opinion, I was known as the 'nature boy' back in '78 for wearing tie-die sandals, faux-leather headband and hanging out in organic food stores. Also, I am the only liberal in my Brigade and why in the heck would someone who believes in 26 + 6 = 1 wear orange? Peace, the Botendaddy. Botendaddy (talk) 03:50, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Qualifications of some of your Wiki editors

I just want to bring to your attention that while it is okay for you to determine whether an article is worthy or not, please realize too that the editors need to be worthy of this position too. To quote a recent conversation by your so-called EDITORS: "The article is really an advertisement of an unnotable person, again, unnotable, promoted by IP user(s). PS The interwikis it shows are broken. Meaning it doesn't exist in other languages. This is a candidate for deletion. -- Felipe Aira 11:53, 15 September 2008 (UTC)" Please note the word they used: "UNNOTABLE". This word is not even in the dictionary! The editors need to have a good command of English first for them to be credible and justified in "editing" which is a true article and which ones are not.Liraluis (talk) 04:35, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for TARGIT

An editor has asked for a deletion review of TARGIT. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. -- Suntag ☼ 17:14, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

JadaSite deleted - please reconsider

Hi Mike,

I recently found out that my article, JadaSite, has been marked as (G11: Blatant advertising) and deleted.

There is already an article that does comparison of different content management systems, http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems. In the article, for every software, there is a link to a detail page that has detail description of the software. The intention of my page is to follow the existing format and thus creating a page for JadaSite. I do agree the page can be written in a better way to make it more information only. Please consider putting the page back and I will update the page again.

Many thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jss101 (talk • contribs) 13:12, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Thai President Foods Public Company Limited

Hello Orangemike,

I'm concerned about your deletion of the article named above. I have put major emphasis in the notability of that company (which was even existent before a user had set the speedy del template). After that, I stressed the article text about the market position among other topics which parished the content.

I mean a world top-ten share in a certain product range is notable, also a 50 % + market share within a national market — as far as I think. In addition, a PCL is also a shareholder corporation which I find notable enough.

I think you may not have read the article discussion carfully or even the audited version after the template has been implemented. I've put an hold-on template ontop of the article for referring the contested deletion placed there which you may have not noted, at least you may not have given attention to. I herewith would like to ask for undeletion or a basic statement. Thanks

Sincerely & with Wiki greetings, --Scriberius (talk) 18:09, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

>:(

Grrrrr! Just kidding, thanks for helpin' out at AFD! Cheers, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 00:09, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

AllTel Logo

Hi Mike, thanks for removing that incorrectly tagged AllTel logo. There is another image in a similar situation at Image:ICarly!.jpg if you have a moment to take care of it.

As part of WikiProject Userboxes I have been watching this user User:iCarly Tucson Arizona and despite repeated warnings they seem determined to use copyright images in userboxes. They uploaded these same images to Commons where I tagged them and then they followed it up by uploading them to en.wikipedia. I have tried to establish contact but they aren't responding. If you have time perhaps you could keep an eye on them. - Ahunt (talk) 01:55, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for all your work on this situation. - Ahunt (talk) 02:13, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

KOHM

Is it okay to recreate a redirect at KOHM that points to KOHM (FM)? As you can see, most of what links to KOHM are intended for KOHM (FM). I'm not sure exactly what went on and am a bit confused. →Wordbuilder (talk) 02:28, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Stuart pepper

This one's over at AfD. How do I correct the article name to more correct "Stuart M. Pepper", as I have been improving it, without messing up the works? Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 02:55, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Ouch. Thanks for the name correction anyways... Makes it easier for others to find sources if the name is correct. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 03:06, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Question

Could you get me a look at OTRS ticket #2008091610055854? I am trying to find out why all the television market templates are being deleted and it has something to do with that ticket. Thanks...NeutralHomer • Talk 04:23, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Québecguitare.com

Why didn't you let me explain why the page is important and put a "hangon" but just deleted it? Ydmn (talk) 04:34, 20 September 2008 (UTC)Ydmn

I believe this was meant for you...

Hey, while scanning new pages I came across this:

Listen, Orange Mike, I can't find how to email you and I'm sure this article being reposted will find its way back to you, so I'll be very, very, very clear right now.

I'll even number what I'm about to say to you and Wikipedia. If you have a lawyer, please forward this to him immediately. If your lawyer is involved, than it is unlawful for me to continue to contact you directly. So it is advised that you seek counsel immediately before going any further.

1. I am an attorney in a case against Wikipedia and "Orange Mike".

2. The case opened 25 minutes ago when I realized an article about a non-profit website was deleted as "blatant advertising" when an extremely for-profit site "YouTube" which is a piece of garbage in comparison, is allowed in its Wikipedia "article" to bullshit on its greatness, when it is inarguably the worst website in the world when you consider its resources. BetterStream was started to bring balance to media. If any media gets in the way of this truth mission, they will be sued and attacked in every legal way allowable for the next five hundred years straight. That's right, we will reincarnate and continue the lawsuit over and over again. I hope you don't think I'm being facetious at all. Now this is one-sided. I'm curious to hear your side.

3. I promise not to file a lawsuit, or add Wikipedia to an existing lawsuit against Google, until Wednesday, 9/24. I will give you at least that much time to contact me via phone or email.

4. I spent awhile trying to follow the links to learn what I could do to object or mediate, I have not been fruitful in this search. I always find it easier to file a lawsuit than to be dicked around by some corporate labyrinth disguised as a non-profit. Yeah, I'm not falling for the BS 501(c)(3) huh?

Please contact me at

Thank you for your time, excuse any unnecessary prose above,

Ben

Hilarious stuff.--Woland (talk) 21:32, 20 September 2008 (UTC) (relevant user already blocked by another admin for legal threats)DGG (talk) 02:32, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Village Candle

An article that you have been involved in editing, Village Candle, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Village Candle. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Corvus cornix_talk 04:42, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Prod on Steve Schaeffer

Hi - Steve Schaeffer is currently undergoing an improvement drive, I had the same notability concerns about it (have a look through the history) but I'm giving a fairly new editor who'd created it a chance to shine (and trying hard to not bite the newbie) - if it still falls through then I'll start up the relevant action to get it removed. --RedHillian (talk) 02:42, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Legal threats

Just a quick heads up FYI. _Gb^T/c 07:31, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Vic Firth Page

I see you have recently taken down the Vic Firth (company) page. Why you did that is beyond me, and makes no sense. You claim that the reason was that, and I quote, " Doesn't indicate importance or significance of a group/company/etc." You're on Pro-Mark's payroll aren't you? The two pages were nearly identical minus the famous people who use pro mark list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Username35241 (talk • contribs) 06:56, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Kent Walls

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Kent Walls. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. -- Suntag ☼ 14:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

no evidence of identity?

Hi Orange Mike,

I had attempted to put my "offical website" on the wikipedia page about me...Arlene Baxter. And then it was taken down...since then Dismas put it back up once figuring out it was me. My question is can you help me put more information about myself on the wikipedia page regarding my career? I had a very long career as a professional model before being asked to do playboy...I was also in my early 30's when I did the playmate thing...there wasn't even an internet then. I might have thought twice before doing it had there been. There is a lot more I have done than just the playmate pictorial.

For instance I was also in playboy two other times that was not in the capacity of "Playmate"....once for a fashion section June 1986 page 108-113 photographed by Stan Malinowski,Kathy Showers is on the cover and once for Elite Models calendar they highlighted called "charge of the Elite Brigade" September 1988 with Jessica Hahn on cover starting at page 72...I am a double page on 74-75 with name reference on page 73 photographed by Marco Glaviano.'

I have also done some great covers in my career...for instance..Conde nast "Travelers" magazine. French "ELLE" magazine, Italian Cosmopolitan, and Italian Bazaar magazines. Plus I have worked with some othe best clients and amazing photographers in the world. I have lived in Tokyo, all over Europe and 10 years in NYC during my career and have traveled the globe quite extensively while working as a professional model. I am also a photographer....you can go to www.arlenerayphotography.com and see some of my work as well as the covers mentioned above. Ray is my Married name...I will be changing my photography website back to Arlene Baxter photography soon.

I would like to have a more well rounded, factual page then something that is just about being a playmate....as a matter of fact I think the page looks more like a playboy advertisment than a factual page about a person. How many playmate links does one page need. The playmate gig was one job out of thousands and I understand that everything needs to be backed up with facts and I have all those.

If you can help me I would greatly appreciate it....please let me know if you can help or know of someone that can help me with adding more facts to the wikpedia page about me and insuring that is done by wikpedia standards so things won't get deleted or done wrong. I would also like to add a picture or two if possible.

Thanks for your time

Arlene Baxter —Preceding unsigned comment added by BAxRay (talk • contribs) 15:43, 23 September 2008 (UTC) --Arlene Baxter (talk) 18:58, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

I am starting to get a greater understanding of how wikipedia works. I wrote you that note before I read Dismas return response....I didn't think he wanted to work with me because I was not a nice as I could be....I felt bad about that.....but he did relpy back which was nice and I understand more now.

I sent some info that could easily be backed up...I have documentation of it all.....I just asked him what can I do to help the process. So I know you guys are here to help. I just want to make sure a broader picture of my career is documented. I will edited on talk:Arlene Baxter....that is good advice.

Thanks

AB —Preceding unsigned comment added by BAxRay (talk • contribs) 17:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

--Arlene Baxter (talk) 18:57, 23 September 2008 (UTC)== Not an autobiography ==

I am not looking to do anything autobiographical....just looking to include additoinal documented accomplishments. Is there some researchers out there or do I need to fax someone? Not sure how that process works. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BAxRay (talk • contribs) 17:11, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

I don't agree on A7 for WeLiveinBeijing

Hi, I was adding an article about [9]. And it took only seconds before it got dismissed as a A7 article. I believe you are wrong, how can I convince you? (Uflidd (talk) 19:31, 23 September 2008 (UTC)).

The line between promotion and information

First Orangemike, I want to thank you for giving me feedback on my very first posting. It was deleted for promotional tones. I kind of followed the page of other businesses and organizations' format. That line is still blurry for me right now. I will re-write it to be neutral and re-submit. This is my first post and hopefully many more to come. Thanks for the feedback. --Getriebe (talk) 22:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC)--

Why ask to delete Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.

Why should I have to delete the establishment of the article? How could one say that I was the advertising

Is really going too far! Please state can guide or Me How to put it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yashe (talk • contribs) 02:28, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

SocialVibe

I was a bit disgruntled you recently deleted my article on SocialVibe, especially just after it had been patrolled. I am a user of the site who was interested in its message and felt compelled to look further into it (seriously, my sources are the first couple things that popped up after a google search). I am a bit confused why a well written and documented article (my first) about an up and coming social networking website with well over 25,000 subscribers and almost 150,000 unique visitors each month (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/socialvibe) is any less relevant than say, Sandis Valters whose brilliantly written article reveals that he is a Latvian guard who plays for ASK Riga. Having seen such articles before, I did not feel the need to "justify" my article; however, I am new at editing/creating wikipedia articles, did I do something incorrectly? Please respond as I would like to know what I did wrong... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ferociouslettuce (talk • contribs) 03:16, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, I am not sure if the article meets WP:WEB but I think that a claim of 150,000 users a month is a decent claim of notability and there are a few mentions in RS in Google News so could you undelete this article and then send it to AfD where its notability can be better decided. - Icewedge (talk) 03:49, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

With regard to the article's lack of notability and a lack of citations, look at bluepulse. It has only one citation not linking to itself in its entire article (whereas 6 similar sources are used on socialvibe), and it has never logged more than 10,000 unique users/month in its short history (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/bluepulse). A google search for bluepulse yields 77,000 results, whereas a search for socialvibe gives 146,000. Bluepulse has big numbers of page views and mobile downloads, but it refuses to tell media outlets how many users acutally use their site. I like the ideas behind bluepulse's product, but until it is more widely used, it is not yet nearly as notable as socialvibe, nor does their wiki article use nearly as many citations. And, browsing very quickly through other social networking sites, I am sure that this is not the only one. Can I put the article back up and go through a standard process for articles for deletion that are not actually spam?

Ferociouslettuce (talk) 00:04, 25 September 2008 (UTC)