User talk:Skier Dude/archive/archive Nov 08

Lyle123

Hello. Small request: can you let me know when you block Lyle123 socks? It's not that important but it would be helpful for me: I've been tracking his progress for a while and regularly bypass RFCU to directly request checkusers on new accounts (in the past through Dmcdevit, now through YellowMonkey (aka Blnguyen). By the same token, I'd be grateful if you can also identify the accompanying IPs (usually, you can use "what links here" before deleting one of the hoax articles). Thanks and cheers, Pascal.Tesson (talk) 17:32, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kriss Turner

I added two reliable sources and she passes WP:CREATIVE for producing and writing notable films as seen in this search. Schuym1 (talk) 17:58, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I also contested the prod because of that. Schuym1 (talk) 17:59, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you can help?

I'm working on the Artiocetus page for a college project - after the end of the month (when it's due) I don't care what you do to my page but for now I would really appreciate if you didn't modify it.

Do you know the correct way to post photos that are not copyrighted/able to be freely distributed? Everyone in my class is having the same problem and we haven't figured out a way around it....

Thanks a bunch,

Beth (OpossumOpete) —Preceding unsigned comment added by OpossumOpete (talk • contribs) 16:52, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not claiming ownership

I was bordering more on begging than claiming ownership. As far as I'm concerned you can delete the whole article after I recieve a grade.

I realize that Wikipedia is MEANT to be edited and that is why I was asking nicely for your help. I do not understand why I cannot upload images that are allowed to be freely distributed. I would appreciate you explaining this to me if you would instead of just attacking me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by OpossumOpete (talk • contribs) 14:40, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Non-free maps

Please check out: Image:GAFTA2map.GIF, Image:GAFTA map.GIF, and other maps by User:Arab League, as all his maps may be up for deletion, as Image:GAFTA3map.GIF, Image:AGADIR AGREEMENT2.gif, and Image:AGADIR AGREEMENT1.GIF were removed. Thanks. Wiz9999 (talk) 22:25, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

images

how come you removed the images of M1NT?

they are in the public domain?, what do i need to do to add them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sct9000 (talk • contribs) 09:28, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Photos on Children of Days of our Lives

Why were those images removed? They were up-to-date photos that I just added yesterday and I've noticed that there are other pictures that violate copyright so why weren't those removed? Do you seriously want that page to be the crap that it is or do you want it up-to-date and accurate? Dixiercat (talk) 02:07, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why was Image:Debbie Jordan.jpg deleted?

Since there where no usable public domain photos of Debbie Jordan, I personally created the image as a fair likeness (digital art). I also noted that on the Image page. There is no copy write infringement. I even released the image. How do I get it un-deleted

Mr e 1999 (talk) 17:39, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kasper Bech Holten

I have removed the {{prod}} tag from Kasper Bech Holten, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{prod}} template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! I added a ref which also asserts he's the youngest opera director in europe. MadScot (talk) 18:08, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A little help, please

Re: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Films#Film_Noir_of_the_Week_external_link

As you know I've edited many film noir pictures. A fellow Wikipedian, who I admire, has run into a bit of difficulty. This may stretch policy a bit...but he edits a fine web site named Film Noir of the Week. Many experts in the field write articles and film reviews on his web site. He has added a few external links to films of Film Noir of the Week. Now I realize that he has an interest in this but is there a way around this....or should he let me know about a new film noir his web site has covered and I can place the link on the appropriate article. What are you thoughts? What do you suggest Skier? I trust you are well. best -- Luigibob (talk) 16:23, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect of Come Up To My Room/Love-Hate To Be A Player (Princess Superstar single)

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Come Up To My Room/Love-Hate To Be A Player (Princess Superstar single), by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Come Up To My Room/Love-Hate To Be A Player (Princess Superstar single) is a redirect to a non-existent page (CSD R1).

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Come Up To My Room/Love-Hate To Be A Player (Princess Superstar single), 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) 10:10, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted image (MHOP_logo.jpg)

Dear Sir, While I'm sure you were acting in good faith and with the best interests of the Wikicommons in mind, I believe you incorrectly deleted the image MHOP_logo.jpg. The license description I provided was 90% accurate. Here's the 90%: The MHOP logo was created and is owned by Mali Health Organizing Project, an NGO for which I volunteer and am designing a Wikipedia page for. The other 10% is accounted for by the fact that I snatched the logo from Idealist.org, the only place on the Web I could find a .jpg image of the logo. As is totally conspicuous, Idealist.org does not own the rights or license to the MHOP logo. Therefore, it was within my rights to upload and use the MHOP logo. Please advise. Thank you. Benjamin —Preceding unsigned comment added by Royalaxation (talk • contribs) 18:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Shaun F/bla

Thank you for deleting that page. My browser almost crashed while trying to load it. Did yours? -- IRP ☎ 18:38, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

I came across this article in la Repubblica while looking through Google News for sources discussing developments concerning the white supremacist site Stormfront following the election of Barack Obama (death threats, etc etc). I've run it through a couple of machine translations but I think it could use looking over by someone fluent in the language. I spotted you in the translators category- would you mind taking a look? The article beginning "Gli chiedo allora se Stormfront..." was of particular interest. Thanks. -- Nevard 11:48, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that's great. Clears a lot of things up. Have a nice day. Nevard (talk) 05:42, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bethmann

Hi, I noticed you placed a WikiProject: Disambiguation tag on the Talk page of the dab page Bethmann. If there are any issues with it that need fixing, please tick them off briefly and I will do my best to make appropriate changes. Thanks.--Goodmorningworld (talk) 12:28, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Acne treatments category

Thank you for your help with the Category:Acne treatments category. I recently started the WP:DERM to improve the dermatologic content on wikipedia, and it has been difficult getting help organizing the treatment/pharmacology topics that pertain to derm. Recently, after a long discussion at WP:MED, a proposed categorization scheme for dermatology articles was created, which has been working fairly well for categorization of diseases and basic anatomy and physiology. However, and the main reason I am writing you now, the categorization scheme for dermatologic pharamcology/treatments/topicals is not well organized. There are several categories, scattered about, and I wanted to know if you had any thoughts on how they could be better re-organized? Here are the main five categories that I would like to re-organize under some new categorization scheme: Category:Dermatologic pharmacology, Category:Acne treatments, Category:Sunscreening agents, Category:Skin care, Category:Nail care. Also, another question I have been thinking about is should we be categorizing things like acne treatments, when they are already "categorized" here (specifically ATC_code_D10) by the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Pharmacology. Just looking for a fresh perspective. Thanks! kilbad (talk) 11:23, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the work you have put into you the User:Skier Dude/Pharmaceuticals categorization scheme. However, I do have a few questions: (1) is the categorization needed given that things are already listed on the Anatomical_Therapeutic_Chemical_Classification_System page? (2) how does your scheme deal with articles that involve more than "pharmacology", like PUVA for example, (3) is there any way to categorize items that are not pharmacology per say, like items considered skin care, like Burts_bees? kilbad (talk) 01:22, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Small Crew Productions

I have removed the {{prod}} tag from Small Crew Productions, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. I have nominated the article for deletion instead; the debate may be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Small Crew Productions, which overrides the need for a {{prod}} tag. I have explained my reasons for doing this in my nomination. Thanks! Horselover Frost (talk) 06:00, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:British police maps

I was about to deal with this, but since you hit delete first, you get the fun. The category above was not empty for the multiple days required by CSD C1, it was in fact only empty for a few minutes, having been stripped of it's contents by the CSD nominator just before the nomination, in an end-run around WP:CFD. Have fun. :) - TexasAndroid (talk) 20:55, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Every other time I've speedied a cat, it's been deleted ;) The cat is quite clearly redundant to Category:Maps of police forces of the United Kingdom, isn't there some better way of dealing with this than a laborious fD process? I'll try again in four days anyway! ninety:one 23:02, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I get the impression that some admins just misread the date on purpose... ;) Thanks for the link to the speedy section. ninety:one 23:12, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Baptist church redirects

Hi, surely it can't be good Wiki practice to have nearly 100 no content articles on individual churches all redirecting to a single actual article on an overall association of churches. From a reader point of view that is useless and extremely frustrating. A re-direct usually has a value in terms of redirecting to, say, an alternative name, but not like this. Someone must agree with me, as I assume an administrator is actually allowing deletion of these no content redirects. Ardfern (talk) 22:12, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Most of them were not deleted, but rather were restored to an earlier version as a bare-bones redirect, without the nav templates and other stuff that was dropping them in the categories.

A few were deleted, and there is an ongoing debate on the CSD page over that.

In general, for something like this, you want Redirects for Deletion. Speedy deletion is for very specific, non-controversial deletions only. And, for redirects, your arguments just do not fit the narrow speedy deletion reasons. Please, if you really want them gone, take them to RFD, and get a full and proper debate going on them there. - TexasAndroid (talk) 22:16, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See my comment/question at the CfD you started. Note that this proposal to delete right away deals only with the category, not the individual redirects, which have now been stripped of categories. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 00:39, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

November 2008

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Newtownbreda Baptist Church. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Cirt (talk) 22:21, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In the future, it would be best not to use the Rollback tool in situations/conflicts such as that one. Cirt (talk) 22:31, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SkiersBot and SIAs

Hi Skier Dude, A question for you: I've noticed that your SkiersBot not only adds the {{DisambigProject}} template to the talk pages of articles that contain the {{Disambig}} template, but also to ones that contain the {{SIA}} template. Is this according to plan? I see that other SIA pages like Talk:Bear_Mountain_(Colorado) do not contain a {{DisambigProject}} template, so I don't see why the ones on my watchlist should should. Or is it just that your bot has yet to process those pages? (PS -- Please answer here.) Thanks, --Jwinius (talk) 21:42, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The first run of the bot is covering all the pages that are included in Category:All disambiguation pages that do not yet have a talk page (it is set on this pass to 'ignore' all existing pages). Pass two hopefully will then re-scan the database and then do a more detailed search of the talk pages to determine if/if not the specific {{DisambigProject}} template exists, and will mark them at that point in time. It's taking much longer than I expected to get through these (running off & on for 5 days and only finished 1-9 & A-F - and it's my guess that about only 40% of the disambig pages were project-tagged at all! Skier Dude (talk) 23:28, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. Thanks. --Jwinius (talk) 00:09, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I'm also adding {{DisambigProject}} to disambig talk pages without it using AWB; I'm basically starting from Z and working backward, since I've noticed you starting with A. To compile my list I actually used AWB to go thru (and skip) every page using the {{disambig}} template, then I used the logs to isolate the talk pages of just those pages which were skipped because they didn't exist or didn't possess the banner. In any case, it came up with about 15,000 pages needing the banner; I came here to ask how you came up with your list, because I noticed that there were a lot of pages from A up that you seemed to have missed. In any case, I see above that you are aware of this, but I wanted to offer you a copy of my AWB settings or the raw list now or later if you wanted to use it to continue the job (you can start with A and I can keep going backward or whatever). Thanks. — TAnthony^Talk 07:28, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I've blown through like 1500 of these, this is a daunting task!! — TAnthony^Talk 07:32, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ECCT

I agree with your delete, I have fixed the lack of context, and recreated it. Widefox (talk) 19:22, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kymil Nimesin

Hello,

Could you please restore the edit history of Kymil Nimesin for me? If you like, you can redirect it to List of Forgotten Realms characters. Thanks! :) BOZ (talk) 20:21, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! BOZ (talk) 14:57, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

David Carle deletion

I'm new to this, so apologies if I make an error. You deleted a page entitled David Carle and as far as I can tell the edits I made to http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/List_of_family_relations_in_the_National_Hockey_League which listed David and Matt Carle (Matt Carle's page is still up).

The reasoning stated was: Article fails WP:N, WP:ATHLETE and Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Player pages format#Notability standards for ice hockey players|WP:HOCKEY/P..

David Carle is both a drafted NHL Player and has had numerous articles written by various news sources (Denver Post, HockeyBuzz, The Press Box, Rocky Mountain News, ESPN to name a few). I don't think either of these tags apply. As for the "How to design a hockey page" article. Other than the stats I did not have (those for his major-junior play) the page was identicle to Matt Carle's.

So, how do I go about getting the page back up? I know the first step is notify the person who deleted it - so I'm writing here.

Thanks;

Deirdrebeth (talk) 17:24, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clint Eastwood

Hi Skier. Can you please speak to Mr. IP. He keeps reverting the Clint Eastwood article so it shows deleted images in the text. See here for example where he has removed the free images i have uploaded and replaced them with red links which don't exist. Count Blofeld 19:26, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SkiersBot home page needs update?

Hi - I noticed that the SkiersBot homepage doesn't contain mention of its work on behalf of WikiProject Disambiguation. Since this is a fairly massive work item that many people will notice, perhaps it should be added? (I have severe doubts about the value of this type of tagging, but that's a separate issue.) --Alvestrand (talk) 05:45, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template:GA/Topic

Hi. Your recent edit to Template:GA/Topic accidentally caused an error - see, for example, Talk:Kurt Cobain. If, however, you change

}}<noinclude>This is a template for extracting the full name of the topic from a keyword. It accepts a number of variants for the topic name, and returns only whitespace if the name is not valid.</noinclude>
<noinclude>[[Category:Wikipedia GA templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>

to

}}<noinclude>This is a template for extracting the full name of the topic from a keyword. It accepts a number of variants for the topic name, and returns only whitespace if the name is not valid.

[[Category:Wikipedia GA templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>

(note the condensing of the noinclude tags moving the line break to inside of the noinclude tag) then I think it should remedy the problem. (I just tried it in my sandbox - see User:Iamunknown/sandbox and User:Iamunknown/sandbox/1.)

(Also, if you copy the text from the edit window, make sure to not copy the "nowiki" and "code" tags.) --Iamunknown 06:52, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think a similar edit is also needed for Template:GA-Class - i.e. condensing the nowiki tags and moving the line break inside of the single tag. --Iamunknown 06:53, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can tell, that fixed it. (I think it was due to the line break rather than due to the extra noinclude tags.) Thanks! :-) --Iamunknown 07:23, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

In the future, be more careful when tagging articles as non-notable. In particular, the Bill Gropp article you tagged as non-notable meets at least 4 of the 9 notability criteria listed at Wikipedia:Notability_(academics)#Criteria (#1, #2, #3, and #5), any one of which is sufficient to make the article notable. Raul654 (talk) 07:08, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it's a video game

Alternate Reality Games are real world games, and multiple users from unfiction report that they will soon receive real world packets related to the game. --TIB (talk) 23:32, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Damak

Hi Skier I have good reason to believe that the following deleted images of Damak Nepal were actually taken by the person who edited the article or some of them may be public domain not copy vios. He has a Nepali name and seems to be fmaililar with the place. Can I check out the images and make a decision? Obviously he didn't know how to tag his images resulting in them being deleted but I think it ought to be checked.

Count Blofeld 13:54, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nah delete them one is not encyclopedic the other is a clear copy vio. I just wanted to see what they were in case they were salvagable. Thanks. P.S not being able to start film articles any more sucks. The imdb search doesn't work anymore. It will load one page you try to find another film or actor and it freezes Count Blofeld 22:57, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dieter Dierks 1.jpg deletion

Hi you listed the Dieter Dierks images uploaded in October this year for deletion. I do not know how to reverse that or why you listed this for deletion. It does not come through in the talk page. Please, remove the listing for deletion. There is no reason to delete it. These are authentic photos, with permission from Dieter Dierks himself, who owns them. Thank you! (Conciacalis (talk) 19:29, 25 November 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Imdb latest

Good news I found a way to get around the imdb dead search by using google instead. Count Blofeld 18:11, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sahuaro HS Logo

Thanks for fixing the rights info for this logo. I uploaded it and meant to come back to it but I have been swamped. I like the verbiage you added to justify its use.

Thanks again... Eegorr (talk) 17:50, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, since you are obviously an expert, is there any way to use the same reference number in different parts of an article? For example, see the first three references in the article for Sahuaro High School.

Thanks... Eegorr (talk) 17:55, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]