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Speedy deletion of John Ogilvie Green Party of Ontario Canada

A tag has been placed on John Ogilvie Green Party of Ontario Canada, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia per CSD a1.

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Dear Mr. Tang,

I am new to Wikipedia. I am confused as to who is in charge of this page. Originally I thought someone else from Wikipedia by the name of JodyB had speedily removed my article about John Ogilvie

In any event, the current article was approved by JodyB. I hope it also meets with your approval?

Ottawahitech 04:22, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Ottawahitech

A tag has been placed on User:Ottawahitech, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the article and leave a note on [[Talk:User:Ottawahitech|the article's talk page]] explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Calton | Talk 14:51, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Your message

I know your lengthy introduction is meant to be funny, but please also remember that not everyone who is forced to visit your talk page is a “criminal”.

"Forced"? How, exactly, does one "force" someone to visit a talk page? The "criminal" part is also mysterious, unless perhaps you have some rather draconian views about smoking (pace Rule #11).

And it's funny you should quote Wikipedia:Introduction, because I have been bold and I have found an article to improve, namely the one you put up. See, those words apply to ALL editors, not just yourself. And if three different editors, independently, have doubts about an article and specify their objections, you might want to take that as a sign that they may have a point. So, in general, Wikipedia has a notability threshold -- inconsistently applied and occasionally illogical, but they're there -- and Wikipedia has been used -- quite frequently -- as a vehicle for promoting causes and candidates in advance of elections, which is completely inappropriate and heavily resisted: your biography subject hasn't done anything, it appears, which passes the first threshold and your comments -- and original title for the article -- strongly implies the second. If you disagree, you need to prove it, using -- and this is absolutely required -- multiple, independent, reliable sources.

The tags are there to alert you to these issues and give you the chance to fix them, and are absolutely standard. I myself have not nominated the article for deletion -- yet. It's up to you -- or anyone else interested -- bring the article up to minimal standards if you don't want that to happen, either because I or some other editor does so. --Calton | Talk 12:04, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Ottawahitech! I'm glad you decided to join us and help out a little. I'm also glad you're trying to do the right thing by both being bold and trying to follow the rules. While I think your intentions with the article on John Ogilvie are you, the biggest problems that I think you're running into are notability (that is, Wikipedia doesn't really want articles on every single possible subject - just on relatively important ones) and on sources (that is, you need to have several reliable, independent sources to cite). Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles ought to be formatted to read that way as much as possible. Here's one that I wrote (admittedly, not very good), that might serve as a rough guide. You might also try to look at other articles more similar to the one you're seeking to write, such as Paul Martin or Peter MacKay. If I can help, please feel free to let me know. And if you have a comment or reply, feel free to leave it here (I'll watch your talk page), or you can visit my own pages. Cheers! --Folic Acid 17:32, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you Folic Acid!

I appreciate your kind words. Let me try and address your concern regarding notability.

But first I would like to explain (again) why I volunteered to write this article about John Ogilvie.

I have never met Mr. Ogilvie in person, however we both participate in the same online public forum. The topic of the Ontario general election, 2007 came up and I was surprised to find out that Mr. Ogilvie was unable to enter information about himself into Wikipedia. I felt that this would place him at a large disadvantage with candidates of the larger parties who have extensive articles written about them in Wikipedia. It seemed to me that David should be given a chance against Goliath and I merely intended to start an article for Mr. Ogilivie and hoped that someone else would step in to fill in more details, since I am not a writer, and since I know very litte about the man.

Back to notability:

I see that the following guidelines are spelt out in regards to "politicians" (I do not see guidelines for political candidates):

Politicians who have held international, national or statewide/provincewide office, and members and former members of a national, state or provincial legislatures.[5]
Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage.[6]
Just being an elected local official does not guarantee notability.

I concede that, under those strict guidelines, Mr. Ogilvie is not notable enough for this purpose. But neither are most other candidates who are not incumbent, but who have uncontested pages on Wikipedia. I am also surprised that, in spite of an existing wikipedia page that already acknowledged Mr. Ogilvie's candidacy I was questioned about "verifiablity" by User_talk:JodyB.

In closing I would be very disappointed if it turns out that these strict guidelines are applied to Mr. Ogilvie alone, and not to other candidates who represnt larger parties.

Thank you. Ottawahitech 00:39, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Well done - good for you for doing your homework, and keep it up! I really appreciate your enthusiasm for wanting to do good and for trying to stay within Wikipedia's guidelines. You make good points, and I'd suggest that you keep at it - keep editing his article (and other articles that might interest you). Specifically, I'd suggest rewriting his article to sound more like an encyclopedia entry, and less like a campaign advertisement. You can put a section in there about his political beliefs, perhaps, or maybe his history in politics. And, of course, as has been said - he's more than welcome to come edit his own article too, as long as he keeps it reasonable and encyclopedia-like. --Folic Acid 12:13, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Election

Could you clarify what's inappropriate about it? I'm not sure I see the problem. Bearcat 00:43, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

There is a picture with an orange election sign on the right hand side right over the dividing line. I hope this makes sense?

Ottawahitech 01:51, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Update: It says under the photo:

"Lawn signs for local candidates in Hamilton Mountain", and it certainly looks like an NDP sign Ottawahitech 01:55, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Alan Mercer

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User:Seedplanter

Deleted, thanks. NawlinWiki (talk) 00:40, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Algonquin Times

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student paper, fails WP:GNG

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Speedy deletion nomination of Reocities

Thank you.

A tag has been placed on Reocities requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, individual animal(s), an organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. 7 01:07, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Reply to speedy deletion of ReoCities

I understand that the reason my new page regarding reocities was removed from wikipedia is: "This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a ... web content, does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia."

However, Reocities already appears on wikipedia (see Geocities closure) - why is it notable enough there, but not on its own?Ottawahitech (talk) 02:21, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi - Please take a look at WP:WEB, for website notability requirements. Specifically the three criteria listed. Geocities meets multiple of these criteria, but ReoCities does not yet meet any. While there is some news coverage it is mostly from Blogs which are not considered reliable. Reocities may well become notable per these guidelines in the future, but we do not publish items in the anticipation that they may become notable at some date in the future. Regards. 7 02:38, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Also, as it stands now, Reocities redirects to Geocities which, as you mentioned, already contains reference to this new site. But each topic must be notable on it's own - so just because Reocities is mentioned in an article doesn't mean it's automatically ready for it's own article (see WP:NNC). 7 02:45, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

One of the things most people dislike on the web are dead links, links that lead to nowhere.

In this particular case a clickable "Reocities" link exists in the wikipedia article geocities (under the closure section) which leads to empty information.

If you believe that Reocities is not notable enough to be included in Wikipedia, why not make the word "Reocities" unclickable in the original article? Just curious.Ottawahitech (talk) 13:13, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Geocities criticism

How is still having a help form online a form of criticism? Please stick to actual criticisms that have been reported on by reliable sources. --Onorem ♠Dil 16:45, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

OK. It's fairly obvious that you don't like yahoo. Maybe I'm missing out on WP:AGF, but please read WP:RS, WP:OR, and WP:NPOV. Keep your additions to what's already been reported on by reliable sources. --Onorem ♠Dil 01:26, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

I have scanned through reliable sources several times. I still do not understand why the sources I provided are not considered reliable. I have re-reverted some of the content you deleted from criticism of Yahoo I hope you will keep this dialogue open, despite what you think I am trying to do a good job at Wikipedia (and I do like Yahoo)Ottawahitech (talk) 14:32, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

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The following was shamelessly lifted from User:Zappa.jake:

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03:19, Wednesday, December 25, 2024 (UTC) Ottawahitech (talk) 21:20, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

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Temporary deletion of your user talkpage

Forgive me for having to delete an edit from your talk page. I've removed the most recent comment, which was made by a user who was involved in an interview that didn't go as planned — I deleted it because the edit would help to identify the user's real identity. I'd explain in more detail here, but so doing would ruin the purpose of the deletion in the first place. If you have any questions, email me via Special:EmailUser and I'll reply by email. Nyttend (talk) 23:42, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

No idea what page has been deleted, or why. Anyway, looks like my page is just fine. Ottawahitech (talk) 21:38, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks 4 u

Thanks 4 u 4 ur kind words Melnakeeb (talk) 08:16, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of 2010 Hawaii tsunami warning

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If Wikipedia is not for news how come this article: 2010 Chile earthquake? Anyway, I am just trying to help, so I will stop interfering :-)

Right at the time I posted the comment above I was logged out of Wikipedia and was not allowed to log back in until a few minutes ago - curious Ottawahitech (talk) 22:37, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Repo 5

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Criticism of Nortel

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Nomination of Criticism of Nortel for deletion

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Nortel

Thanks for the heads up on Nortel's peculiar importance rating for Montreal. I've rerated it to mid, and restored Montreal's banner (as majority opinion at WPMontreal is to keep our banner as a banner, instead of being assimilated by WPCanada). You might want to rate the article for Ottawa importance. 76.66.203.138 (talk) 10:36, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi, You made a change on the page above ranking the Nortel article as "mid" for Montreal. Sorry to harp on this, but I am just curious to find out who decides what the ranking is - or is it just a matter of being bold and ranking things to see if anyone objects? (as you can see I am a newbie at this :-) Ottawahitech (talk) 16:50, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Importance ratings are generally used to rate how important an article is to the understanding of the topic of the Wikiproject, in this case, Montreal. Nortel was a major employer in Montreal, and contributed to the development of the Saint-Laurent and Nuns Island industrial parks, but it is not key to the understanding of the area, though important. 76.66.203.138 (talk) 05:33, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Generally, you should be active in the Wikiproject with which you are applying an importance rating to, and understand the topic enough to give a proper assessment, or follow the guidelines of the Wikiproject, if the wikiproject has concrete guidelines. This does cause problems, as WPCANADA has concrete guidelines, and some articles have anomalous importance ratings, being too low or too high. (like caretaker premiers who lasted a month being rated important because they're premiers, or the Lachine Canal, the industrial heartland of 19th Century Canada being rated not important because it's a canal) 76.66.203.138 (talk) 05:37, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

barnstar

Wow. Thank you! I have not received one before. --Born2cycle (talk) 21:59, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

User:Amiablecdn

The talk page history is still there. You posted to the user page. The user page seems not to have ever had much info, but typically an indef'd user will get his user page rubbed out anyway. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:04, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

WP:EAR

Your last post at WP:EAR seems to be misplaced? -- John of Reading (talk) 16:56, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, thank you. Someone else already took care of that. Apologies for the disruption. Ottawahitech (talk) 19:59, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Canada - Response

Hi Ottawahitech - the criteria for the importance assessment can be found here. Hope this helps! PK T(alk) 20:03, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the prompt reply - will check it out as soon as I can. (should I be posting this on your talk page?) Ottawahitech (talk) 20:14, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Either way - no problem! PK T(alk) 00:26, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Re:Best of Wikipedia

Yes, I believe that it was removed from the talk page before it even got archived, even though it had had at least one response, one which was agreeing with me, not scolding me for leaving an irrelevent opinion. I know it was manually removed because a day or two later I searched the archives, and looked for it by date through the archives, and could not find it. Yes, it is certainly true, but it wasn't a "discussion on how to improve the article." To find it, you would have to search old revisions of the talk page. Daniel Christensen (talk) 18:07, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Manually removed? I am not a regular at Wikpedia, but it is my understanding that comments on talk pages should never be removed by someone other than the author. In any event, there are other strange things happening at this article, for example this strange stats page: http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami which only a couple of days ago boasted hundreds of thousands of views and is now showing only a couple of dozen views since the 16 of March (it has been in existense since March 11, I believe). I don't want to comment about it on the talk page until things settle down. What do you think? Ottawahitech (talk) 00:46, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, honestly, nobody follows any real set rules here. It never quite went that way. But stuff can and always has gotten removed if it's completely irrelevent. That is the "best of wikipedia" but I'm not necessarily giving praise in that. That means that everything else is less than the best, and it is, but it's often the best thing online, as close to the accepted truth as possible. Daniel Christensen (talk) 18:32, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your editing to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud! Zachcnelson (talk) 21:46, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your feedback at Talk:Ontario general election, 2011. There is another similar discussion over at Talk:Yukon general election, 2011 which I could use some help with, please. Thank you. Me-123567-Me (talk) 21:02, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Recruiting professionals

Hi Ottawahitech,

We don't really have a centralized place dedicated exclusively to discussing these things, but the archives at WT:MED will have several conversations. Making more healthcare professionals familiar with the basics of Wikipedia is an ongoing project. Some of it's simple networking around the lunchroom or e-mail list: "Hey, I was fixing something on Wikipedia the other day, and I wanted your opinion on..." There have been some specific projects. User:Doc James was talking about a project with a Canadian medical school a little while ago. User:TimVickers did a workshop at the NIH about two years ago. A couple of people have published articles in medical journals. (See Wikipedia:Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia for one of my favorites. They published the article under a Wikipedia-compatible CC-AT license.) User:My Core Competency is Competency gave a talk to his medical society this summer. So it's a lot of different activities, not a coordinated single program. You might want to get in touch with those users directly, and ask them for advice.

For myself, if every healthcare professional knew that whenever a patient came in with a printout of an article, that article might have been changed by a crackpot two minutes before the patient found the page, then I'd consider it a great improvement. I'd like them all to be editors (well, all of them that are any good at explaining things in plain English, at least), but I'd be satisfied if they all knew that the "anyone" in our slogan "anyone can edit" includes crackpots.

(A funny aside: at least one physician has actually been confronted by a patient waving around an article that he'd written and demanding that he follow the evidence-based protocol outlined in it. He was nonplussed: How exactly do you say, "I would have done that anyway: That's what our medical guidelines demand, and I wrote the article!")

I agree with you that similar approaches would likely be effective with other professions. I've heard in the past that attorneys worry that posting on Wikipedia would make them legally liable for whatever information they post, so that might be a tougher group to interest than others. I suspect that they will be more interested if they see editing Wikipedia as a way to solve their problems, e.g., writing a decent article on something that clients usually misunderstand, so that fewer of them will come to your office with serious misconceptions. Information in Wikipedia has a way of (slowly) changing the world, even for people who don't directly read Wikipedia. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:48, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Ottawahitech, Just wanted to let you know that I saw that you created the new article Tim Morse--The layout of the article makes it very clear. It would be great if you could also Wikify the related article Morse.

Happy editing! Hope your day is going well and you are having fun.Jipinghe (talk) 21:36, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Randall Denley for deletion

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Randall Denley

The proper place for biographical information on a candidate who doesn't warrent their own page would be an article on candidates for each party, examples would be Ontario New Democratic Party candidates, 2011 Ontario provincial election, Green Party of Ontario candidates, 2011 Ontario provincial election. The only information that belongs on Ontario general election, 2011 (candidates) is the candidate's name and a redirect, if applicable.Mr. No Funny Nickname (talk) 17:24, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

MNFNN: I believe Randall Denley warrants his own page, however, both our opinions are irrelevant. I have explained further at User_talk:Mr._No_Funny_Nickname#Randall_Denley. Ottawahitech (talk) 02:43, 27 September 2011 (UTC

Ont general election "Target Seats"

Discussion is ongoing on the issue I have brought up and two editors have indicated they support my position that the section is unsourced and needs to be changed. There is no consensus to revert my edits, please discuss on the talk page, there's no need to start an edit war on this. Reverting the page will not make the issue disappear, it will just prolong the time it takes to fix it. Vietminh (talk) 23:25, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I have no wish whatsoever to engage in edit warring, and I hope you feel the same way. You are the one who started this reversion cycle less than a day before the polls open to the voters. In my opinion thids reversion is damaging to Wikipedia. Ottawahitech (talk) 00:29, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Your opinion doesn't matter in and of itself, Wikipedia operates on consensus and 2 editors have expressed an opinion that is in agreement with the edits I have made. You have also failed to engage in discussion at the talk page despite my request that you do so twice in edit summary and once here on your talk page. I also did not start this reversion cycle, I made an edit, others agree with it, and you have reverted it 3 times without contributing to the discussion. Please stop doing this and discuss it on the talk page (http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:Ontario_general_election,_2011#Target_Seat_Section). You have no basis to revert on grounds of a lack of consensus, consensus is achieved on the talk page on not on edit summaries: WP:CON. Vietminh (talk) 00:45, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

The issue has been resolved and consensus has been established between myself and two other editors. Next time you encounter a situation like this, I suggest you not engage in a senseless edit war, if you had reverted one more time you would have broken the 3RR rule and I would have reported your actions on the relevant noticeboard. This whole thing would have gotten solved sooner if you had just participated in the discussion. I suggest you read up on consensus, wikiquette, and dispute resolution procedures before you continue editing, you may not encounter someone as patient as myself in the future. Vietminh (talk) 02:22, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Gary Sawatzky

A tag has been placed on Gary Sawatzky requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, individual animal(s), an organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject of the article is important or significant: that is, why an article about it should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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See the guidelines for specific types of articles: biographies, websites, bands, or companies. Olaf the Shakinglord: Mailbox, ??? 17:08, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Ralph Richardson (Chancellor)

The article Ralph Richardson (Chancellor) has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all newly created biographies of living persons must have at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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Wikipedia articles are not considered reliable sources. Ironholds (talk) 01:01, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of David Kenny (CEO)

The article David Kenny (CEO) has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all newly created biographies of living persons must have at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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Suggestion

I think it might be a good idea for you to create articles in your userspace and then when they are ready for publication move them into the article space. Just looking at your talk page right now you have created two one sentence articles today about living people with no sources. This isn't a constructive way of adding to the encyclopedia. GB fan 14:01, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Morning!

Hi, I noticed what you wrote on your user page about being discouraged and wanted to say hi. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help. One thought I had is that you might want to participate in the user adoption program, as I think it may help address some of the issues that are causing you frustration. There are resources available! VQuakr (talk) 07:55, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Scott Bass

A tag has been placed on Scott Bass requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Mellanox

After this article was deleted, I created a new, different version, which got approval by experienced editors over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation. Since you seemed to oppose the original deletion, you might want to contribute to the new article , here: Mellanox. Jeff Song (talk) 23:27, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

The new article has just been nominated for speedy deletion. Your input would be helpful. Jeff Song (talk) 17:34, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Peter Ufford

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Proposed deletion of Fred Fountain

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Speedy deletion nomination of Carleton Student Engineering Society

A tag has been placed on Carleton Student Engineering Society requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Speedy deletion nomination of G. Raymond Chang

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Speedy deletion nomination of Matilde Artero

A tag has been placed on Matilde Artero requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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I also replied to your comment about a copyright violation earlier in the thread. Regards! VQuakr (talk) 20:09, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Carleton Student Engineering Society

If you click on the "redlink" above you will see the deletion log. The article was deleted in April 2006 after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carleton Student Engineering Society. That was appealed at Deletion review here but deletion was endorsed. The article was posted again in 2009 and deleted after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carleton Student Engineering Society (2nd nomination).

Your recent version was deleted as having essentially no content but a link to the society's website. If you want to take time building an article, see Help:Userspace draft for how to start one in your userspace, which you can work on until it is ready to post to the main encyclopedia.

Student societies are not generally able to meet the notability standard, which requires evidence of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". See Wikipedia:College and university article guidelines, particularly the section Student life.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 15:23, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of L. Jacques Ménard

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Nomination of Matilde Artero for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Marjorie Magner

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Proposed deletion of Libby Burnham

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Speedy deletion nomination of Resource Clips

A tag has been placed on Resource Clips requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Proposed deletion of Anna Toth

Hello, Ottawahitech, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia!

I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you worked on, Anna Toth, for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:

edit the page
remove the text that looks like this: {{proposed deletion/dated...}}
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Proposed deletion of S. Donna Geernaert

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Proposed deletion of Harvey Secter

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Proposed deletion of Joanne Cuthbertson

The article Joanne Cuthbertson has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all newly created biographies of living persons must have at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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I came across the article while stub-sorting: as you'd added the ref you could have removed the prod tag too, as it says above. But please, when you add a ref, format it properly rather than leaving a bare url. Thanks. PamD 08:45, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of William E. Andrew

The article William E. Andrew has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all newly created biographies of living persons must have at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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Chancellors etc

Hi, Could you please remember to put the {{stub}} tag after everything except inter-wiki links (see WP:FOOTERS) - it makes it easier for stub-sorters if we can find it in the right place and amend it there. Also, perhaps slow down a bit - in your mass creation of articles for chancellors you're leaving out little words like "of the". Please give geographical context (ie ", Canada"). Thanks. PamD 09:28, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

AFD Categories

Please don't add categories to closed deletion debates, as you appear to have done on at least a dozen debates dating back to 2006. This diff is one example. The categories are only used for open debates; once closed, the category is removed. Ignoring that, the category is added via a template in the nomination, so adding them using hotcat just makes it more difficult to track them down. If you see an uncategorized debate that's still open, feel free to pitch in and sort it - but please follow the process at CAT:AFD when you do. Thanks. UltraExactZZ ^Said~ Did 15:25, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of William E. Andrew

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Re: Missing Wikipedians

No worries, these mistakes happen to all of us. Graham87 14:20, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

2011 Vancouver Island earthquake

Has been nominated for deletion, I though you might be interested having worked on it. LoveUxoxo (talk) 22:19, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

DRV and Userfication

Purpleback pack 89≈≈≈≈ 16:06, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Arvinder Singh Bubber

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"Are newbies encouraged to participate here?"

Hello,

I saw your comments on the Articles for Deletion talk page and wanted to encourage you to participate in any discussion you want to, and also want to offer to help answer any questions you might have. You've actually been editing longer than I have, but I've been more active, with nearly 15,000 edits. So, I've become pretty familiar with Wikipedia jargon and subculture. I would be happy to discuss any concerns you may have. Visit my talk page at any time. Your contributions are valuable and appreciated. I wish you well. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 19:47, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Liliana Ramos

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Purplebackpack89's mass nominations

For the purposes of full disclosure I want you to know I have nominated the actions of User:Purplebackpack89 at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Abusive mass nominations for deletion and wikistalking of opponents to deletion Luciferwildcat (talk) 08:14, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

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My AFD explaination

Which part of it don't you get? And yes, it is unelected who decides who participates in AFDs; any individual editor can participate in as many or as few AFD discussions as she wishes. It's not some exclusive club (that's what a cabal is; they have those elsewhere but not here). The only people who can make unilateral actions are administrators, and they ARE elected; and their decisions can be reversed by other administrators. If you still don't understand, please ask someone else, because I'm not sure how to explain it anymore. Ask Cullen...maybe he can. Oh, and read the stuff he suggested Purpleback pack 89≈≈≈≈ 17:02, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Liliana Ramos

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I wanted to let you know that some editors are discussing at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liliana Ramos whether the article Liliana Ramos should be in Wikipedia. I encourage you to comment there if you think the article should be kept in the encyclopedia.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Bruce H. Mitchell

A tag has been placed on Bruce H. Mitchell, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia for multiple reasons. Please see the page to see the reasons. If the page has since been deleted, you can ask me the reasons by leaving a message on my user talk page.

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Status and Advice

You're going to have to add some more to that article to show its importance. Start by making one on the company. DGG ( talk ) 15:15, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

more important advice-=

Come back, please, you've let yourself bye chased away by people who are opposed on principle to articles on businesspeople. I do not know if you are writing them with some degree of COI or not, but the heads of major corporations are unusually found notable, if the company is major enough, and the chancellors of educational institutions always are. Since your short articles are attracting deletion nominations, it will help to make more extensive ones, including references to show notability at the very first edit. DGG ( talk ) 15:21, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Interesting that Wikipedia has no interest in heads of major corporations. After all these people control our lives so even if one hates money one must understand who controls the money and what makes money tick? Ottawahitech (talk) 14:03, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

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A cup of coffee for you!

Welcome back! I was sorry to see you take a leave of absence for a few weeks, and am glad you are back and active. Kind regards! VQuakr (talk) 23:50, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Barnstar

Many thanks for the barnstar - this was an unexpected and most pleasant surprise!Raellerby (talk) 14:41, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Edward DeMarco

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Username sounds like an organization

Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. However, I noticed that your username (Ottawahitech) may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because It sounds like a role account (specifically, the name of an online forum) which we don't allow. You should take the time to read WP:COI and WP:ADVERT. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account to use for editing. Thank you. as you seem to be here to constructively contribute and we'd hate for you to have an unpleasant experience like finding yourself blocked from editing. Best regards, Toddst1 (talk) 19:37, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't mean to be disrespectful, but who are you? - You use terminology such as "we"/"our" and finish by what sounds like a threat: "we'd hate for you to have an unpleasant experience like finding yourself blocked from editing". Ottawahitech (talk) 15:57, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm an editor who has a concern about your username. I don't believe we've interacted with each other before - at least not that I remember. Are you connected with the online forum Ottawahitech? Toddst1 (talk) 16:06, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

It is still not clear if you are here in an official Wikipedia capacity or merely as a Good Samaritan? Ottawahitech (talk) 20:25, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

It doesn't matter. Are you going to discuss your username or not? Toddst1 (talk) 20:32, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes, it matters. When someone wearing a uniform shows up at your home and demands you let them in to look for something illicit, they should provide a search warrant, let alone display a badge. Ottawahitech (talk) 12:43, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

We don't do warrants here. We discuss - with users, admins, buraucrats or IP editors alike, which you have unfortunately avoided. I am done attempting to discuss this matter with you. Given this association,

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Ottawahitech (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I have been accused of WP:COI and WP:ADVERT - I plead "not guilty" and see no evidence presnted by the nominator/prosecutor/judge/jury/executioner

Accept reason:

Per consensus below and at ANI, this is a somewhat messy issue, and would benefit from a discussion at WP:RFCN. If someone is concerned about the name, I suggest they start a thread there. Until it's settled, an immediate block is not preventing any significant disruption. Floquenbeam (talk) 20:09, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

More correctly, you have been notified that your username doesn't meet our username policy as it appears to be related to a group, organization or a role. Toddst1 (talk) 18:11, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

With respect, Ottawahitech has been registered since 2007. I don't remember when the organization naming part came into practice, but considering that they haven't been blocked until now I don't see them as being a disruptive user with intent to advertise their online forum. Syrthiss (talk) 18:25, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

I agree. i searched the name up on google. There is no organization or group with the name "Ottawa Hi Tech". Plus the user is a perfectly good contributor! Your accusations arent completly unfounded, but do alittle reasearch, man! This should be taken to Wiki Court! Hoyle Casino Man (talk) 18:29, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Given this user's history of positive contributions, I was prepared to unblock them promtly, but this unblock request ruined it all (and it is consistent with their earlier combative reply to Toddst1, I must add). One simple request saying "no, I don't promote this discussion group anymore, can I retain this username cause I've been using it since times forgotten?" would have been an instant hit. I'm still willing to unblock, but a constructive response would have given me much more confidence. Max Semenik (talk) 18:32, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Well, I'd have my back up if someone came to me and started asking questions about my name 5 years after the fact. I'm seriously not the softest person on conflicted usernames by a far cry, but I can't see this as a reasonable block (or at least a good excuse to IAR regarding names associated with some 'organization'). Syrthiss (talk) 18:37, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

+1 to Syrthiss here. Daniel Case (talk) 18:44, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Looking further, it looks like we discussed the organizational restriction in 2009 here and the wording of the discussion seems to say that we didn't have any language in the policy at that point in time. Syrthiss (talk) 18:47, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Good find Syrthiss. I have no doubt that the editor is generally constructive (combative interaction above notwithstanding) and this isn't a popularity contest. However, The editor has early edits (now deleted) non-admins can't see. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OttawaHiTech/ does indeed exist and that editor has promoted it. The disappointing and combative refusal to discuss made the matter rather simple. Toddst1 (talk) 18:51, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

I did see those edits. I don't consider anything not publicly viewable as objectionable, unless you are talking about something other than his userpage that was deleted back in 2007. I think that should Ottawahitech wish to change their name, they are welcome to...but should be under no burden to do so. Syrthiss (talk) 18:55, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Had the user been willing to discuss, I might have come to that conclusion. Given the flat refusal to discuss, I didn't and don't. Toddst1 (talk) 19:06, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

But when you threaten people - as you did - then that does rather tend to stifle the resulting discussion. You said: "and we'd hate for you to have an unpleasant experience like finding yourself blocked from editing". That kind of language might be suitable for the mafia, but hardly for a wikipedia editor!Telanian183 (talk) 19:21, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

I agree completely with Syrthiss. Ottawahitech has been contributing constructively since 2007. Even if his username is now deemed inappropriate, he is clearly acting in good faith, and the aggressive bullying that he received from Toddst1 was completely disproportionate to the perceived offence. Furthermore, Ottawahitech had every right to ask who Toddst1 was and in what capacity he was asking those questions. I find it sad that Toddst1 still doesn't seem to acknowledge that if he adopted a less aggressive and more constructive manner and treated Ottawahitech with some basic respect, then Ottawahitech might then have been more forthcoming.Telanian183 (talk) 18:55, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

How nice of you to join us, Telanian. Nothing suspicious there. First edit in a year? 18:58, 3 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toddst1 (talk • contribs) tho likely just a mistake in tildes, since it is properly timestamped

Well, for what it's worth, I would agree with his or hers main points. In what way does it improve the encyclopedia to block a productive user over a technicality? WP:U is one of our least well reasoned policies; we shouldn't let it get in the way of building the 'pedia. henrik•talk 01:11, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

I am not a group, yey

At least according to today's version of Wikipedia:Username policy Ottawahitech (talk) 14:49, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Admins blocking each other

Just by sheer coincindence I saw that one admin blocked another by error.

The blocked admin jokingly(?) complained:There goes my clean block record!
The blocking admin apologized profusely.
A third wikipedian was wondering if there was a way to expunge blocks from the record?

Ottawahitech (talk) 14:01, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

That happens more than you'd think: [1] Toddst1 (talk) 14:54, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for letting me know, Syrthiss . I finally has some time to track down the discussion at: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive738#Ottawahitech_block_review, and I must say I am still confused. It sounds like tmy block was overturned only because the participants thought my case was too complicated.

So, as it stands I still don't see what my "sin" is. I repeat: I am not an organization, a role or a group. So what was I being accused of? Ottawahitech (talk) 15:07, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

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see my comments here Ottawahitech (talk) 19:37, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

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I did not include an image AND I did use my own words, I think. However, you have removed my text so I cannot be sure, sigh... Ottawahitech (talk)

If they were your own words, they were very very very close to the original. Where it gets into a grey area is some of the stuff that was close to the original was things like "Dr. Kinneret Savitsky PhD has been the Chief Executive Officer of BioLineRx, Ltd., since January 2010." (theirs) and "Dr. Kinneret Savitsky PhD has been the Chief Executive Officer of BioLineRx, Ltd., since January 2010." (yours). While people cannot copyright facts, those two sentences are identical. Syrthiss (talk) 11:53, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your help, Syrthiss. I will make sure my next article submission changes those words. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:32, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

WP:CORPNAME section title

I've reverted this edit of yours since it changes a section title when that title is linked to from many places. I think the body of the section sufficiently addresses the detail. If you think this change should still be made, let's discuss it on the policy's talk page since it will take a bit of work to update all of the incoming section links. --Chris (talk) 05:08, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

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Hi Ottawahitech. I notice you added a reference to the Ray Siderius article, and that it's from a reiable source. Unfortunately, it doesn't go far enough towards establishing the notability of the subject. I urge to read the Wikipedia guidelines for notability at WP:GNG and WP:BIO, and find independent sources that cover the subject in-depth, so to establish that he is notable enough for an encyclopedia article. I'm willing to give you some time to do this, and I'm removing the WP:BLPPROD notice as you've added a source. However, if there are still question marks over notability in a few days, I'll be recommending deletion at Articles for Deletion. Cheers. Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 23:25, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. Ottawahitech (talk) 23:51, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Check the WP:BLP issues

You recently added a category to Margaret Thatcher that violates WP:BLP. Please don't confuse a dramatization which may contain fiction with a WP:RS. Either way, such claims must be solidly cited. Toddst1 (talk) 23:29, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi Toddst1, looks like we meet again :-)

Are you saying the wsj is not a reliable source? Ottawahitech (talk) 00:09, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

No, it just needs to be included in the article. It appears you've fixed it. When you added the category, it was only the reference to the movie that talked about alzheimers. FWIW, it wasn't me wo reverted your edit. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 00:29, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for notifying me of this proposed speedy deletion, and no, this is not my first article, not even the first article that has been proposed for deletion :-)

In any event the following is a copy of the text I posted contesting this deletion:

T"his article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because this company has been quoted extensively by pretty much every single media organization in the USA, if not the world over, in regards to foreclosures/ Subprime mortgage crisis ‎/ mortgage defaults/ Category:United States housing bubble/ what have you. Surely it is notable enough for Wikipedia? — Ottawahitech (talk) 21:58, 16 February 2012 (UTC)"

Hmm, interesting: this article simply disappeared. I believe it is wp:notable - shouldn't it be allowed go to wp:afd? Ottawahitech (talk) 15:21, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

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I realize your intentions are good, but I thought I explained clearly the reason for my reluctance to participate in your study. You are only compounding the problem by trying to get more Wikipedians involved in an endless discusion instead of spending their time building up Wikipedia. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:53, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Note to self: (Sorry for the late reply) was posted to my talk page on 14 March 2012‎ by Steven (WMF) Ottawahitech (talk) 15:29, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

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You have been (sorry to use this term) hounding me about this article since I created it on Feb 9. See:

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:Ottawahitech#Speedy_deletion_nomination_of_Ray_Siderius

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:Ottawahitech#Speedy_deletion_nomination_of_Ray_Siderius_2

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:Ottawahitech#Proposed_deletion_of_Ray_Siderius

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:Ottawahitech#Nomination_of_Ray_Siderius_for_deletion

I would love to be able to devote time to expanding this article, but with all the extra work I have to do to just keep it alive, I find less and less time to actually do productive work at Wikipedia.

Would you be kind enough to explain your rationale. Thanks in advance. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:32, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

The rationale for deletion is at the deletion discussion page. You are, of course, more than welcome to contribute to the discussion, which will last for 7 days from when I nominated the article. Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 15:59, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't believe there is any point in participating in the afd discussion - no one participating there is interested in trying to preserve, let alone improve the article. I spent well over an hour today looking for more references, but instead of working on the article I had to spend time in this fruitless discussion. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:45, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

What really wastes time is adding articles about unnotable people to an encyclopedia. If you spent well over an hour looking for sources and still didn't come up with anything that meets the requirements (and none of those references in the article prove notability), then you should consider that maybe he isn't notable. Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 16:02, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Why are you so convinced that Ray Siderius is not notable: in 2005 he was successful in having the state of Washington Estate law declared unconstitutional - is this just a minor accomplishment in your opinion? Now he is involved in a class action suit against a "non profit" health care insurer who is accused of overcharging policy holders. Is this also of no consequence as far as you are concerned? Ottawahitech (talk) 09:25, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Psst

Thought you might want to see RealtyTrac. Fences&Windows 22:50, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

I see now you also wrote an article on it and that it was speedily deleted. While I do dislike speedy deletions like this, Wikipedia:Beef up that first revision and Wikipedia:Put a little effort into it spring to mind. Fences&Windows 22:57, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

I was just going to check my talk page before signing off for today (after just leaving a thank u note on your talk page btw:-)...

As far as the Realtytrac article that I started, yes, it was minimum effort, as are many of the other articles I have attempted at Wikipedia. No sense of putting a lot of work and emotion into it when the chances for survival are pretty slim. Ottawahitech (talk) 05:00, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

You sure have a lot of deletion nomination messages on your talk. :) I dislike those templates; I wished we could/should/did write real messages instead of what the problem was, giving articles and authors a chance. Actually.. I think the WP:AFC procedure with reviews and a chance to explain and fix issues before the article "going live" more widely used would be a big improvement for those who doesn't create perfect pages from the get-go. henrik•talk 15:53, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment Henrik. I think I am starting to understand why I am having so much trouble with deletions, and unfortunately having an AFC process will not address my type of issues, which i am sure are shared with many others. I don't believe in memorizing rules that make no sense and are contrary to the spirit of Wikipedia. Saying that living lawyers can never be notable makes no sense to me.

I am sure this has to do with the phobia about spam, but I believe the remedy chosen by Wikipedians is worse than the disease itself, and will end up driving away editors, especially those who bring diversity to the project.

Just my $.02 Ottawahitech (talk) 21:07, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

"No sense of putting a lot of work and emotion into it when the chances for survival are pretty slim". That seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Despite articles on RealityTrac being speedily deleted six times, once I'd had a good search for sources I was sure that it is a notable company and that it was worthwhile writing a proper article about it. Any AfD on the article I wrote is bound to fail, the chances of survival are, I think, guaranteed. It is neutral, well sourced, provides evidence of notability, does not advertise the organisation. Searching for sources was not trivial, but if you want to write a proper encyclopedic article then you have to be willing to put that work in. Superficial efforts might have been sufficient in 2001, but not these days.

And if you think the article needs editing, please don't drive-by tag like you did. It is frankly an insult to my writing ability to say it needs copyediting. If you want to format it by adding section headings, just do it. Don't be part of the drive-by mentality problem that leads to your own work getting deleted. Fences&Windows 18:03, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

I sincerely apologize coming across as criticizing the article you wrote on Realtyrac. Nothing could be further from my mind - all I was trying to do was give it more visibility and give others a chance to improve it even more, but I did not mean for this to be taken as being critical of your work. Sorry for giving the wrong impression. Ottawahitech (talk) 00:11, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

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This article was speedily deleted even though I contested the deletion - is this a new policy at Wikipedia? Ottawahitech (talk) 02:51, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

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This article was speedily deleted even though I contested the deletion - is this a new policy at Wikipedia? Ottawahitech (talk) 02:50, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

I believe this has been normal practice for years. Per the deletion policy: The tag exists to give you some extra time; the page may still be deleted if it meets the speedy deletion criteria. Articles deleted under A7 can normally be restored to your user space for development into a more complete draft; I can assist with the process if you would like. VQuakr (talk) 08:38, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Ian A. Bourne: On top of being the Chairman of Ballard Power Systems and a member of the CPP Investment Board he has now also been appointed CEO of SNC-Lavalin the Canadian scandal-ridden company, but still no page available for him on Wikipedia, sigh… Ottawahitech (talk) 18:25, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

What a missed opportunity for Wikipedia to gain more Canadian wikipedians! The article SNC-Lavalin jumped tenfold in popularity yesterday, and the page on its chairman twenty fold, but the link to it's new interim Chief Executive Officer is still red. Ottawahitech (talk) 12:54, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi, you left me a talkback, but I think you've got the wrong admin. I deleted Ian A. Bourne, a redirect to Ian Bourne. The latter was deleted under A7 by Y (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), and you would have to take that deletion up with Y. I avoid A7 (and most speedy deletion), but if what you say above is correct (and those statements wee in the article), I can't see how A7 would be applicable. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:13, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

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A cup of coffee for you!

Sorry to hear you are feeling down; have a digital coffee on me! VQuakr (talk) 08:44, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Lol, looking through your talk page I see I have already given you coffee. Which, I think is tells much about myself since I am a bit of a caffeine junkie! In any case, let me know if there is anything I can do to assist. Regards! VQuakr (talk) 08:47, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Astley v. Verdun - references

I agree with the references problem for Astley v. Verdun. Personally, I hate even citing to the case law, because it is a bit of a primary source issue, but I can't find any secondary sources beyond the Law Times article that does any kind of comprehensive analysis. Most of the news reports I found were in relation to the launch of the lawsuit. Some do talk about the damages, but they don't go really into any depth. Unfortunately, because my background is criminal law, not tort law, I don't know if there are law books, etc. that talk about the case...

BTW, on a completely different topic, have you thought about joining WP:CANLAW? Singularity42 (talk) 21:22, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Tell me about it! finding any references in the media about this case is like looking for a needle in a haystack. I believe that major press outlets are simply too scared to touch this hot potato in case they end up being dragged into the fire. The only other topic I have had as much difficulty with finding info about was John Roth the ex-CEO of Nortel who had tons of coverage when Nortel was a high flyer, but now that Roth has filed a one billion $ creditor's claim against the nortel estate, everything about him suddenly disappeared.Ottawahitech (talk) 00:32, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

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I see what you mean; you can remove old notifications from your talk page if you want. I replied in more depth on my talk page. VQuakr (talk) 05:14, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your continued interest. Yes I know I can remove/archive stuff from my talk page. But why would I want to?

By the way, thanks for the elaborate comments on your talk page, they really help in understanding some of the backgound. I tried following some of the links you provided, and found out I was so fascinated, I spend my wiki-allotted-time reading there, instead of doing what I came here to do, which is adding material to the "article namespace" (I hope I am using the right terminology?)Ottawahitech (talk) 19:12, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

I thought you might want to for usability; as a practical matter it takes a while to scroll past the old notifications. The terminology sounds fine to me. VQuakr (talk) 18:15, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Just to continue our little talk about the deletion of Ahmed Adel El Mogy: when I first saw your suggestion that the contents should have been added to Virginity test it made sense to me. But the following two articles seem to follow a different set of rules:

Is it because:

They are Americans, not Egyptians?
Does the race of the subject play any role?
Does it have anything to do with systemic bias?

I would value your views. Ottawahitech (talk) 19:08, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

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Light Reading

I thought I'd give it a go. Not as easy as RealtyTrac to find sources for it, but see what you make of Light Reading. Fences&Windows 21:47, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Nice work - looks like both articles are getting a reasonable amount of traffic, considering they are both new. Hopefully they will soon start getting contributions from other wikipedians as well. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:36, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

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I have posted this at Talk:Tax uncertainty with the following comment: "article needs rescue, I don't have the time":

WikiProject Article Rescue Squadron This article will be deleted from Wikipedia soon, unless someone does something to rescue it.

but I will be surprised if this article survives, sigh... Ottawahitech (talk) 18:42, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

There should be a WP:ESSAY "WP:TORTOISE"... oops, there already is...

Hey Ottawahitech. Yep, I think this might have been an error of judgement on my part. Thank you for the very constructive feedback. --Shirt58 (talk) 10:43, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Removal of articles from categories and the category itself

It seem like categories are still the wild-west of Wikipedia. Apparently anyone can simply decide to remove articles from a category ( one of many examples) and categories can be removed without discussion . Ottawahitech (talk) 13:11, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Samira Ibrahim is not a virginity test. I didn't think any discussion on that point was necessary, since it is self-evident. The category is under discussion here; I think that overall it is problematic, for BLP and other reasons. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 20:38, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

another one

On 17 April 2012 I created Category:Retired chief executives (I believe - but it has been wiped off my contributions page) and added Jim Balsillie ‎ to it. On 23 April 2012 user:Good Olfactory deleted this category for (C1: Empty category). It is not clear to me how the category became empty and why it was deleted with no discussion. Ottawahitech (talk) 16:22, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

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Your re-cat

Can you please clarify why you did this? It is pretty clearly in line with the category.LeadSongDog come howl! 21:48, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

LeadSongDog, sorry for the delay in responding.

To answer your question: the reason I removed the article Alzheimer's Disease from the category Category:Aging-associated diseases is that it was already included in a subcategory (Category:Alzheimer's disease) of a subcategory (Category:Dementia) of Category:Aging-associated diseases

I was merely attempting to remove some of the clutter and redundancy. However, I am starting to wonder if it would be better to remove the subcategories and leave only the articles themselves in this category? - I would value your input. Ottawahitech (talk) 13:40, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Ah, that makes sense now. It would be helpful for similar cases in future to indicate in the edit comment, e.g. "already in subcat" or some such. Cheers, LeadSongDog come howl! 04:40, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

I agree a hundred percent - only wish there was a way to leave comments when using Hotcat. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:07, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, you might ask the maintainer or at Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories. I really don't understand how a lot of these gadgets work. I suppose I ought to study up. LeadSongDog come howl! 15:42, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

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Any time. :-) Nightscream (talk) 16:13, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

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Looks like Dab solver should be tested first before being released for general use :-) Ottawahitech (talk) 15:58, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Yahoo!

I have recently noticed that the suite of Yahoo! articles is neglected, as at least one of the major contributors has "retired" from wikipedia. I have been trying to get things a bit tidied up, and in the process introduced a few new categories. The names of those categories correspond to what is currently in the article and its infobox.

It would be nice the wikipedia category-police would put renaming proposals for the Yahoo! categories on hold, at least until the dust settles on the real-life reorg taking place at Yahoo!

Thanks in advance. Ottawahitech (talk) 17:46, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Looks like the category police pays no attention to requests from minor editors such as myself:

http://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Category:Yahoo!_Software&action=edit&redlink=1

http://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Category:Yahoo!_software&action=history

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:Good_Olfactory#talkback_-_Yahoo.21

Too bad. Ottawahitech (talk) 19:49, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Recent Re-Edits

[Thanks for adding info to Scott Thompson (businessman). (Just for your information I have noticed that some of the refernces you add to pages create a "bad" url) Ottawahitech (talk) 15:37, 13 April 2012 (UTC)]Original Message

Hey Ottawahitech, great catch there! I didn't realize the links were failing but I corrected the ones that led to a 404.

These are the links I fixed:

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Corbis#References

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Brad_Grey#References

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/John_Chambers_(CEO)#References

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Scott_Thompson_(businessman)

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Guerrino_De_Luca

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Ian_Read#References

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Barry_Meyer#References

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Howard_Stringer#References

HollywoodAllstars (talk) 00:31, 14 April 2012 (UTC) Thanks again for the catch — Preceding unsigned comment added by HollywoodAllstars (talk • contribs) 20:19, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Re: Thank you ...

I have not done much to it ... but I'm glad you liked it. Probably, the {{Find sources}}, {{Find sources 2}}, and {{Find sources 3}} templates/tools could help us on finding good sources and news about Yahoo! Travel, and on expanding it a little bit more:

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Happy editing! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 19:04, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Category:Yahoo! Groups

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"nominated for discussion" - Is this the politically correct way of saying deletion?

In any event I wonder why Facebook has a similar category (much smaller) which goes unchallenged?

BTW thanks for informing me. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:37, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

So, I should thank you for the nomination of Category:Facebook groups ; – FYI, I created that category, and just posted my response to the nomination there. This argument may be helpful for you, if you can find articles about organizations whose defining characteristic, as stated in the article lead, is that it is a Yahoo! group. -Wbm1058 (talk) 15:16, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

- Hi, just nominated that for deletion too. Thanks for letting me know about it. Also the message above was auto-generated by Twinkle; since you created the category, it informs you automatically. So while I appreciate your 'thanks', I can't really take credit, as the software notified you automatically. Further discussion about this is best held on the CfD page referenced above. cheers, --KarlB (talk) 15:42, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

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Hey!

How are you doing? Please tell me about yourself in my talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sean Brown dangeroustaco (talk • contribs)

Hi I wanna you guys to update Operation blue star topic.

This page has wrong information regarding dates 3–6 June 1984 instead of 2-6 june 1984.

83 soldiers killed and 248 injured (officially). Possibly more than 800 is also wron 15307 soldiers were killed and 17892 were wounded . For reference you can Check Gen K.S. Brar's book "Operation Blue star: A true story". I will be more than happy if you guys can correct information on this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GurpreetKaurBrar (talk • contribs) 03:33, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

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Hi, I note that you created Category:Read online by subscription as a sub-cat of Newspapers, but (i) it's not clear from the category name that it is for newspapers, and (ii) it is now becoming so common for newspapers to require an online subscription that this is probably not going to be considered a defining characteristic, in which case the category is likely to be deleted if it gets discussed. If you consent, I could just delete it anyway. What would you like to happen to it? – Fayenatic L (talk) 22:15, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Fayenatic london, thanks for asking. To answer your question, no I do not wish to have this category deleted.

By the way, congratulations on your L. Ottawahitech (talk) 02:19, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for that! Meaning no disrespect, I have started a discussion on the category at WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 May 2#Category:Read online by subscription, so please join in there. – Fayenatic L (talk) 08:51, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

I have recreated this category - hope you don't mind? Ottawahitech (talk) 20:43, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

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Discussion at Category_talk:Facebook_groups#criteria

You are invited to join the discussion at Category_talk:Facebook_groups#criteria. KarlB (talk) 22:16, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage prototype released

Hey Ottawahitech! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

I have no idea what this posting is all about - I suspect it is a result of signing up for a newsletter somewhere on Wikipedia - wish I cold remember where so I could remove my name from from the list. I am surprised this type of posting is not considered spam at Wikipedia. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:28, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage/New Pages Feed

Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:34, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Same comment as above - why am I receiving these (unsigned) messages that I have no interest in? Ottawahitech (talk) 15:40, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Category:Major shareholders of Yahoo!

Category:Major shareholders of Yahoo!, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 23:47, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of John D. Hayes (businessman)

The article John D. Hayes (businessman) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The only sources I can find are routine news stories about him being hired by Yahoo, and a couple that give his opinion on marketing matters. None of them give the significant coverage required by WP:BIO.

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It appears someone saw fit to take this article to AFD and it was deleted a week ago - all this without notifying me. The article was deleted with only three pariticipants with:

2 delete votes

1 weak delete vote

and no one corrected the the nominator saying that John D. Hayes (businessman) was a past member of the board of Yahoo!, a very significant company.

Is this how consensus works at AFD? Ottawahitech (talk) 13:55, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

User:De Administrando Imperio

Hi, I've reverted your addition of De Administrando Imperio (talk · contribs) to Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians. He or she didn't leave voluntarily: I blocked them for an indefinite period after it became apparent that they'd been posting huge numbers of copyright violations into articles (including many which ended up being linked from the main page). This required a major clean-up effort, which occupied a lot of my time, as well as that of several other editors. The inclusion criteria for Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians seems a bit unclear to me, but I don't think that it should serve as a memorial to people who caused a lot of damage. Nick-D (talk) 23:31, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know - I see that the the next edit I made to WP:MW was immediately removed by another Wiki-admin, this time with no edit summary to let readers know why it was removed/reverted. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:07, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

The next edit was not removed and an edit summary explaining why was used. They moved the name to the proper place alphabetically. --Onorem ♠Dil 14:24, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Spencer Stuart

The article Spencer Stuart has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No claim of notability, being hired by Yahoo! does not make a company notable

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Cats

I havent seen any sign in en space about change in policy or practice having parent and child cats (categories) gtogether - so for the one I have seen - Perth, I am reverting - trust you understand - Satu Suro 00:47, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

oops - my bad I have reverted self - I thought the australian part would be up the teree - looked at the structure - I was wrong - sorry about the intrusion in our good work - I had thought it would have country as the part of the tree and it hadnt. Satu Suro 00:52, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Category:Demographics of Canada by province

Category:Demographics of Canada by province, which you created, has been nominated for renaming to Category:Demographics of Canada by province or territory. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 04:27, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

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adding category that does not exist

Hi Ottawahitech, you added a not existing Category:Cisco people to Sandra Lerner and Leonard Bosack. This is not helping much other editors, so I have reverted these changes. Kind Regards, SchreyP ^(messages) 05:15, 23 July 2012 (UTC)