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Don 2 poster
This file had a consensus of 4:2 to keep it. So why was it deleted? X.One SOS 06:26, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- I don't count !votes, I weigh the strength of arguments against one another. As far as I could tell, the keep !votes failed to address the concerns raised by the delete !votes and the nominator. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:15, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but one user had asked us to cover the notability of the poster from a reliable source and I gave one listing out all the 3d posters of the film! What other argument was there? Could you please restore it so that I could take a better look? Thanks. X.One SOS 14:36, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- Specifically, the keep !votes based arguments solely on WP:ILIKEIT, instead of addressing/refuting the concerns made by the nominator, which was that the file failed to meet WP:NFCC#3a and WP:NFCC#8. You're welcome to try and convince me otherwise, but I will reconsider only if you are able to explain how the arguments to keep the file made in the debate refute the nominator's concerns. And no, I cannot return this file for you to view. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:08, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- I apologize if I seemed too impatient. Coming to the debate, the criterion "NFCC#3a" says that multiple images should not convey equivalent significant information. As this is a 3d poster, it can be significantly distinguished from the 2d poster. As usually happening in western countries, in India this film has not been shot directly in 3d, but actually converted using a special technology. A poster, by definition is a screenshot of a film modified to add text and other visual effects to promote it. Due to its indirect conversion, which is one of the first in India, the poster conveys the above statement, without neglecting the fact that this is not the usual style seen in 3d films. The 3d resolution requires special lenses to view it, but one can easily make out the difference even without a 3d glass. Per "NFCC#8", its omission would indeed be detrimental to the understanding, as the world is not very familiar with what exactly 3d conversion leads to, and this is the result of it. Hope I made it clear. Again, I apologize for impatience. And a happy 2012 to you! Thanks. X.One SOS 08:48, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- The poster does not show the process of making it 3D, it does not make any particular effort to illustrate the difference between 2D and 3D, it's not in 3D itself, it's just a screenshot of the film with the word 3D on it. If it is true that this is one of the first films to be shot in 3D, and this fact is covered in reliable, third party sources, it still would not justify the use of the second movie poster. It might justify a screenshot of the movie in theaters, showing what the projection looks like without 3D glasses, as that would illustrate the concept in a way that the movie poster did not do. I'm not saying that this isn't important, I'm saying that there are other, better ways to illustrate this, and that we have to be extra careful in selecting non-free media. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:31, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- The poster is clearly in 3d itself, look at it clearly. The source says that it is in 3D, you can differentiate it from the 2d poster. It illustrates the projection without glasses. Period. What is the doubt here? X.One SOS 08:36, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- The poster does not show the process of making it 3D, it does not make any particular effort to illustrate the difference between 2D and 3D, it's not in 3D itself, it's just a screenshot of the film with the word 3D on it. If it is true that this is one of the first films to be shot in 3D, and this fact is covered in reliable, third party sources, it still would not justify the use of the second movie poster. It might justify a screenshot of the movie in theaters, showing what the projection looks like without 3D glasses, as that would illustrate the concept in a way that the movie poster did not do. I'm not saying that this isn't important, I'm saying that there are other, better ways to illustrate this, and that we have to be extra careful in selecting non-free media. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:31, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- I apologize if I seemed too impatient. Coming to the debate, the criterion "NFCC#3a" says that multiple images should not convey equivalent significant information. As this is a 3d poster, it can be significantly distinguished from the 2d poster. As usually happening in western countries, in India this film has not been shot directly in 3d, but actually converted using a special technology. A poster, by definition is a screenshot of a film modified to add text and other visual effects to promote it. Due to its indirect conversion, which is one of the first in India, the poster conveys the above statement, without neglecting the fact that this is not the usual style seen in 3d films. The 3d resolution requires special lenses to view it, but one can easily make out the difference even without a 3d glass. Per "NFCC#8", its omission would indeed be detrimental to the understanding, as the world is not very familiar with what exactly 3d conversion leads to, and this is the result of it. Hope I made it clear. Again, I apologize for impatience. And a happy 2012 to you! Thanks. X.One SOS 08:48, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- Specifically, the keep !votes based arguments solely on WP:ILIKEIT, instead of addressing/refuting the concerns made by the nominator, which was that the file failed to meet WP:NFCC#3a and WP:NFCC#8. You're welcome to try and convince me otherwise, but I will reconsider only if you are able to explain how the arguments to keep the file made in the debate refute the nominator's concerns. And no, I cannot return this file for you to view. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:08, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but one user had asked us to cover the notability of the poster from a reliable source and I gave one listing out all the 3d posters of the film! What other argument was there? Could you please restore it so that I could take a better look? Thanks. X.One SOS 14:36, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
User:Ryulong
Hello, Fastily! I'm afraid that I have to report User:Ryulong to you.I don't know why, but he is removing images from articles like Tom and Jerry, Pantaloon Retail India, Rural area.Examples include this, or this.I'm not all all interested in edit-wars, so any advice.I would probably be getting out of the argument going on at Pantaloon Retail India.Bye.Dipankan In the woods? 12:28, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- The photo on Tom and Jerry is a derivative work and is going to be deleted from the commons. I may be mistaken, but I do not think the photo of that store front is allowed on the Commons either, but I will let that discussion follow through. And finally, that photo of a "Rural area" is a poor quality photo. The other photos on rural area are fine. It does not need a blurry photo of a grassy field in India.—Ryulong (竜龙) 21:24, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- Dipankan, I think that you may be seeking adminship; the first thing you should understand is copyright, as your file mover permission was removed for a lack of understanding of the subject. HurricaneFan25 — 22:36, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Parivartann
Dear sir,
I am working for this NGO "Parivartann- Change for better". I just wanted to put one page on wiki just for information. Anybody who know this organization can edit them. Please allow me to create one simple page.
You have deleted that page under G8. As I am a new guy in wiki, I am clueless even after going through the details. Please help me to rectify my errors.
Thank you, Gurupad Hegde, Hyderabad, INDIA — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gshguru (talk • contribs) 14:51, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- The article was moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Parivartann. The admin you're looking for is User:Qwyrxian -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 20:52, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Speedy Deletion of American International School of Vienna
Hi,
You deleted American International School of Vienna, due to: (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://newkai.com/reviews/ais/)
I am the owner and author of the said text on newkai.com and the author of the original text on Wikipedia. Does this still make it copyright infringement? Can I infringe on my own copyright? What do I need to do to get this article restored? -newkai t-c 15:35, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G12 -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 20:52, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Speedy Deletion of 21st Missouri Volunteer Infantry
The alleged "copyrighted material" at http://www.wellsclan.us/History/generatn/21regmnt.htm was not material created by that website, but was an extract from Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. "Dyer's" is a text in the public domain, and is commonly used as a (or the) source document for most of the Wikipedia entries for Union regiments from the American Civil War. My article in Wikipedia used an extract from "Dyer's" (and stated as much), as did the author of the page at the wellsclan.us website (working separately). The wellsclan.us website in question states that the information on that page is an extract from "Dyer's", as was the deleted page on the 21st Missouri Volunteer Infantry. There were NO plagiarism, and NO copyright infringement. The two documents were created separately extracting the same document which is now in the public domain. Please reinstate the deleted Wiki page for the 21st Missouri Volunteer Infantry.
I stand ready to provide any addition information you might require.--WSS Regt Historian (talk) 19:07, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- Very well then, go ahead and recreate the article. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 20:53, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Following up to your last statement "Very well then, go ahead and recreate the article"...Does this mean that my work was irrecoverably destroyed without discussion? And, what is to prevent the individual who initiated this process from having the restored articles, or other articles which use "Dyers" from being similary destroyed? The process is not transpartent on this end. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.205.7.60 (talk) 21:14, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- @Fastily: Are you standing by your WP:CSD#G12 deletion? If you are disputing User:WSS Regt Historian's claim, please say so. If not, please restore the article. Thincat (talk) 21:35, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. I hope the categorisation as unambiguous copyright infringement was a momentary aberration. Thincat (talk) 21:41, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I've restored this, as its deletion isn't non-controversial. The redirect is in active use; I discovered it had been deleted when I tried to tag an image with Twinkle, and found it dead. It is still linked from WP:CSD. I myself believe it is probably a useful redirect, as an easy shortcut to remember, and would prefer to see it go through deletion debate if you think it needs to go away. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:29, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- The problem with using
{{Db-unfree}}in twinkle is that it doesn't fill in the date parameters required by{{Di-orphaned fair use}}(the redirect target of Template:Db-unfree). I'll file a bug report to get this fixed. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 20:55, 1 January 2012 (UTC)- Thanks. I hate to lose easy-to-remember redirects, but if for some reason it can't be fixed, maybe Twinkle can be reconfigured and the pages that suggest the template be changed to the template to work. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:02, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
File:Melatonin-pronunciation.ogg, etc, etc
It looks to me that the Melatonin article is using the pronunciation sound file you have nominated at Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2011_December_29#File:Melatonin-pronunciation.ogg for being orphaned and of no forseeable use. Am I missing something? Are you missing something? It was not orphaned when a bot tagged it as being so. I cannot find the file on Commons. I do not understand the corresponding Fbot activity[1]. This also applies at least to the next few nominations you have made. I do not have the ability to do mass checking. Can you double-check and let be know what is going wrong? Thincat (talk) 21:27, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- As a matter of fact, I was. Thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 21:45, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Please undo your deletion of Template:CtC
Fastily, please undo your deletion of CtC. It's a shorthand that I use personally (which is why I created it), and which I use as a personal shortlist (since no one else uses CtC, the 'what links here' function takes me to a list of files I personally vetted for transfer). Obviously with the drive starting now the timing on this couldn't be worse. I realize that this is a strange request, but I don't see the harm in it. Sven Manguard Wha? 21:46, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- You mean, you actually use that?? Freak. ;) -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 21:47, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- Apparently you got rid of more than just my shorthand, I see FSII knocked out a few others as well. Just so you know, I am rather miffed that you didn't even leave me a deletion notice. Aside from the fact that you really can't do what you just did, I'd have defended it at the deletion forum, and had it looked like it was going sour, I'd have copied over the list to a sandbox page before you had FSII scatter things to the far winds. Grrrr... Sven Manguard Wha? 21:52, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- >.< It was meant to assist Fbot Task 14, but I'll see if I can create an exemption for CtC. Again, I had no idea that you were using that to track your contributions... -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 22:09, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- It's okay, you don't need to make an exception. There might be a problem, however, when all of the other people who use the shorthand templates go to use them and find they don't work. My suggestion is that you re-create the shorthand templates, and program a bot that catches instances of the shorthands being added and converts them to the proper template. A BRFA should be pretty easy for that, I think. Sven Manguard Wha? 01:18, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- >.< It was meant to assist Fbot Task 14, but I'll see if I can create an exemption for CtC. Again, I had no idea that you were using that to track your contributions... -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 22:09, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- Apparently you got rid of more than just my shorthand, I see FSII knocked out a few others as well. Just so you know, I am rather miffed that you didn't even leave me a deletion notice. Aside from the fact that you really can't do what you just did, I'd have defended it at the deletion forum, and had it looked like it was going sour, I'd have copied over the list to a sandbox page before you had FSII scatter things to the far winds. Grrrr... Sven Manguard Wha? 21:52, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Category:Non-free images with orphaned versions more than 7 days old.
There's a discussion on my talk page I'm sure you will be interested in - involving Category:Non-free images with orphaned versions more than 7 days old. --SPhilbrick(Talk) 22:28, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Nice catch
Thanks for that. Catfish Jim and the soapdish 23:37, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- Sure thing. Best, FASTILY Happy 2012!! 03:47, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Alexey Pivovarov
Why you deleted the article & He is really famous Russian journalist and he was brave during latest protests - he refused to speak on air if media will keep silence!--94.228.193.11 (talk) 04:31, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#PROD -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:33, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for useless link, but I want to see your answer here. Or deletion was just your vandalism?--94.228.193.11 (talk) 02:30, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Query
Fastily, look at this article [[2]]. It's an autobiography of another Wikipedian user. Please delete it. Abhijay ☎(Тalk)/✍ (My Deeds) 05:45, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Done -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:47, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily, I have a concern to raise about. Apparently in December 2011, User:PurpleHeartEditor was blocked as a suspected sockpuppet of User:Asgardian, whereas he claims that he isn't and has actually said so that he isn't. May I request he be unblocked, or should he continue to be blocked? Abhijay ☎(Тalk)/✍ (My Deeds) 07:13, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- Checkuser evidence (accessible to admins with the checkuser right) suggests otherwise. If User:PurpleHeartEditor/User:Asgardian wants to be unblocked, he will have to appeal directly to the arbitration committee. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 19:27, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily, I have a concern to raise about. Apparently in December 2011, User:PurpleHeartEditor was blocked as a suspected sockpuppet of User:Asgardian, whereas he claims that he isn't and has actually said so that he isn't. May I request he be unblocked, or should he continue to be blocked? Abhijay ☎(Тalk)/✍ (My Deeds) 07:13, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Problems with user 46.196.33.96 and 88.247.101.165 AGAIN!!!!!!!
Hey, A few days ago I informed you about user 46.196.33.96/ 88.247.101.165 that he is simply destroys the article Ben Gurion Airport. You warned him and he does'nt listen. I'd love if you help me again.--Friends147 (talk) 10:33, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- All the IP did this time was add a link to qantas.com. If you don't mind my asking, what's wrong with it? -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 19:35, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
What are talking about? Which qantas? i mean to the article Ben Gurion Airport (in Tel Aviv)! he delete everytime things from the article without proof (i have) and if i'm show him my right proof he just ignore.I'm really don't understand why did you get me wrong.--Friends147 (talk) 00:03, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Please consider taking this issue to the Administrator's noticeboard. I think they may be able to help you with such an issue of long standing abuse.
Sound file nominations
If you are in fact carefully reviewing the files that you nominate, why did you nominate a national anthem, a recording of a Walt Whitman poem, and recordings of multiple Wikipedia articles for deletion? Calliopejen1 (talk) 14:56, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- I am personally of the belief that these files should be deleted, so I nominated them for deletion to see if others agreed with me. In case you haven't noticed, I am perfectly open to opposing opinions; if someone finds a file to be useful, I'll be happy to default to keep/move to commons. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 19:35, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- So in your view, the national anthem of Malaysia as performed by the US Navy band should have been deleted? Calliopejen1 (talk) 01:56, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Really, error rate is very high ( Apollo12 - Strollingonthemoononeday.ogg or K-V Street Video1.ogg ). Quality of typical sound/video hosted on wikipedia is low but it is not valid reason to nominate everything Bulwersator (talk) 19:47, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- Those are both...files on Commons. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 19:49, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- Um, they are on commons because you moved them there after you nominated them for deletion, and then others pointed out that your nominations were bad. Calliopejen1 (talk) 01:55, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Wrong. I stand by what I nominated. If I thought otherwise, I would have withdrawn the noms a long time ago. Since you obviously ignored what I had to say, I will repeat myself one more time: I have listened to all these files and am of the opinion that they are not useful to the project, so I have nominated them for community review. As always, you are welcome to disagree and voice your opinion at FFD. However, please refrain from making this a personal matter. I do not appreciate your rude, condescending messages and the disruptive banners you placed on FfD pages. I have always found you to be reasonable and well-mannered, but your recent behavior is rather unbecoming of an administrator. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:12, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Um, they are on commons because you moved them there after you nominated them for deletion, and then others pointed out that your nominations were bad. Calliopejen1 (talk) 01:55, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Those are both...files on Commons. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 19:49, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Unprotection
This seems good to me (although my other two suggestions still stand). I was already using this system in fact, because Twinkle's batch unprotect feature is nifty, so I already have my unprotections spread over four pages. So yeah, sounds good to me, maybe get more than one admin to "subscribe" to these? - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 22:17, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- I was planning on having the bot notify the unprotecting admin via talk page message. I suppose we could set up a page for admins to watch, but IMO, that seems a bit unnecessarily complicated. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:13, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Category:Photographs of the American Old West
I noticed you deleted a category similar to this and I would like to request restoring that please. Although this category is empty at the moment it is used as a administrative category and may or may not have items in it at any given time as they are identified or found. Thanks. --Kumioko (talk) 22:21, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- I tried to be patient thinking you were busy but since you have been working and responding to other questions since I left mine I think your ignoring me so I guess I will just recreate the category. I shouldn't have to recreate a maintenance category like this just because it doesn't have an image in it at the moment. I guess I will have to go through and mark the 800+ maintenance categories with the big ugly Admins please don't delete me if I'm empty banner. --Kumioko (talk) 04:16, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- I find it rather irrational that you gave me only six hours to respond before assuming that your message was going to be ignored. For the record, Wikipedia:There is no deadline, and Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a volunteer service. I respond to talk page queries as soon as I have time. Have patience! -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:19, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Frankly as an experienced editor you should have known better than to delete that category anyway since its obviously a maintenance category. I shouldn't have to tag hundreds of categories with an unnecessary gaudy message when the purpose of the category is obvious but yet this is the 10th time just in the last couple months I've had to restore one of these because some admin has deleted it without going through a proper CFD process. And just because Wikipedia:There is no deadline, and Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a volunteer service is true of others time as well. --Kumioko (talk) 12:18, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- I find it rather irrational that you gave me only six hours to respond before assuming that your message was going to be ignored. For the record, Wikipedia:There is no deadline, and Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a volunteer service. I respond to talk page queries as soon as I have time. Have patience! -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:19, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
salting
No sooner after Johnny de Brest was deleted again that it was recreated. Same old spam, from the same user, it appears. Can you delete it again, and salt it please? --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:54, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- That won't be necessary. If User:BergHollywood recreates the page again, let me know and we'll remedy this with blocks, not salts. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:34, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Possibly User:Oldus66 again
174.99.36.246 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) contacted me and Imzadi1979 (talk · contribs) about making a file for North Carolina. Contribs are in some of the same articles Oldus66 edited. Looks like a duck... –Fredddie™ 03:23, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Blocked – for a period of 3 months hope that helps. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:36, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Please take a look at this page and what anonymous has done there. It is non-cooperative editor who obviously wants to prevent anyone else from editing the article. Alliumnsk (talk) 08:11, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Warned user. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 09:04, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- I'm surprised. You gave no reasons. 77.185.11.84 (talk) 09:22, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
PUF Closure: Footage of US RQ-170 from Iranian sources
restored from archive for (delayed) reply
Could I ask you to explain the above closure more. It seems to me that, in your closure, you make no mention of our "policy" of respecting the copyright of countries even when there are not copyright relations and so the images are PD in the US (I discuss this more fully at the PUF). The reason I ask is that your closure is being used as some sort of precedence at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 December 22#Template:PD-Iran in US. I think they are mistaken in this usage and are confusing law with policy and not recognising that policy can go further than law. If you closed the discussion simply because they are PD and PUF isn't the place to discuss whether their use is allowed within policy then this will obviously have quite a different meaning to if you closed the discussion meaning the images are PD and we can use them within policy. If you did intend the second sort of closure I would ask for an explanation of while you think their use is allowed given what is stated at WP:C and in the e-mail. I do not think that a PUF discussion is the appropriate venue to be having such a discussion so I think an RfC should be held - that is of course unless I've missed some previous discussion. Dpmuk (talk) 00:53, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- Hm, yes, in that PUF discussion, I was definitely only evaluating the copyright status of files in the US. The scope of WP:PUF is restricted to determining the copyright status of files and not whether a file is within policy. Your concerns are valid however, and this should be raised at WP:FFD and/or WP:RfC. At any rate, if I'm not mistaken, there is currently no policy that discusses copyright with regards to nations the US has no copyright relations with. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:27, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry for the delayed reply to this but I've been visiting friends and family over Christmas and new year and not had a chance to reply. I believe the situation is unclear as to whether there is a policy, hence the reason I've used it in quotes when I first use it. This topic appears to be in a bit of a weird situation thanks to when it was last considered (2005). WP:C is a policy and makes reference to the fact that we should respect copyright in this situation. That said WP:C discusses legal issues and this isn't one so it's in a weird place. I also doubt there has ever been a full discussion of the issue as WP:C refers to an e-mail from Jimbo from a time when, I believe, his word was largely taken as what should be done. I also think that the position stated at WP:C is at odds with how we now treat images more generally where we use images that are PD in the US but copyrighted in their country of origin. Given all the above I think we need a discussion to clarify the situation and I plan on starting an RfC on the issue in the next couple of days. In the meantime I don't think we should be encouraging the use of such images as it will create work if the RfC decides we shouldn't use them, but at the same time I don't think we need worry about deleting existing images, even though, in my opinion, deletion of such images is justified by WP:C. Dpmuk (talk) 09:19, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Files in Category:Move to Commons Priority Candidates that are already on Commons
Moved to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Images and Media/Commons/Drives. --Leyo 13:08, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Please undelete Talk:Two Envelopes Problem/sources
Please could you undelete the Two Envelopes Problem subsidiary Talk page "sources". The chronological list of all publications on this topic is a vital resource for editors of this page. For some time it had been a subsidiary page to the main article but a consensus had been reached that it should be moved out of main article space. But not deleted altogether. Richard Gill (talk) 12:50, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- This page was never deleted Bulwersator (talk) 12:52, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Dear Bulwersator, to be precise, I think that Two envelopes problem/sources has been deleted, and that this deletion automatically also destroyed Talk:Two envelopes problem/sources.
I had been trying to move the former to the latter, since the former had been up for merge or deletion for some time. The actual consensus was to move the page to a subpage of the talk page of the main article.
If that is impossible, please put a recent version of Two envelopes problem/sources back in my user space, or iNic's. Richard Gill (talk) 14:05, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Dear Bulwersator, to be precise, I think that Two envelopes problem/sources has been deleted, and that this deletion automatically also destroyed Talk:Two envelopes problem/sources.
Here is the notice at Two envelopes problem/sources:
- A page with this title has previously been deleted.
- If you are creating a new page with different content, please continue. If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the deleting administrator using the information provided below.
- 07:59, 3 January 2012 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Two envelopes problem/sources" (R2: Cross-namespace redirect from mainspace)
- 12:38, 17 August 2011 RHaworth (talk | contribs) moved Two envelopes problem/sources to User:INic/sandbox [without redirect] (revert)
The day before, I had moved the content of Two envelopes problem/sources to Talk:Two envelopes problem/sources, and replaced it with a redirect to the main article. Richard Gill (talk) 14:24, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear Fastily, or Bulwersator, can you temporarily recover Two envelopes problem/sources for us? I hope it has not been lost forever. Richard Gill (talk) 07:44, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Marc Ecko
Wondering why Marc Ecko's Wikipedia page was deleted. I noticed that you listed the reason as Unambiguous advertising and promotion. However, Wikipedia:CSD G11. explains that articles written from a neutral point of view don't apply under that criterion. If indeed you believe there is bias, please restore the page so we can fix it - Marc Ecko is clearly a notable enough public figure that he should be included. Transatlanick (talk) 14:58, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Marc Ecko? -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:00, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Nelson Dennis.jpg, again
This file, which you've deleted twice, is back. [3] Nelsondenis248 brought this to a "request for undeletion," which is for noncontroversial requests, rather than bringing this to deletion review, and apparently the administrator who undeleted it was not aware of the history of this file. I've raised the issue on his/her talk page. ScottyBerg (talk) 15:09, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
It's been re-deleted. ScottyBerg (talk) 18:03, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Perhaps you could comment on commons:Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Denis_Photo-1.jpg --MGA73 (talk) 18:50, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks very much. ScottyBerg (talk) 20:19, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Långaryd family
Why have you removed the article about the Långaryd family. It is NOT hoax. The family's is in Guinness Book of World Records in two places so it is wrong to say that the family is just a fiction. One can argue whether it is correct to call it a family by definition, but the concept is a reality.
Read more about the family at http://langarydsslakten.se/english.htm
--Magol (talk) 16:23, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#PROD -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:00, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
File:RodolphFaneDeSalisbyGSWatson.jpg
I was wondering if you could please say why this image of a painting made by someone who died over 70 years ago was deleted? I seem to remember applying a PD Art tag when I uploaded it.Rodolph (talk) 20:37, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Since you added an OTRS pending tag to the file, let's wait for the OTRS team to process the email you sent. Once they do that, the file will be automatically restored. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:02, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Use Case Diagram
Hello. I had Use case diagram watchlisted, and IIRC, I remember other users having contributed to it. Whenever you have a minute, could you userify it at User:Mann_jess/Use_case_diagram? I'd like to see if any of it is salvageable for a new article. Thanks. — Jess· Δ♥ 00:36, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- BTW, no rush on this. I won't be able to get to it for another day or so anyway. So, this request is very much "at your leisure". :) Thanks! — Jess· Δ♥ 00:37, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, content deleted under G12 cannot be userfied. I'm afraid there's not much I can do; the page and its previous versions were a pretty blatant copyvios. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:08, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Cuthbert covercropped.jpg
Hi, I have been asked to re-examine the file you recently deleted of File:Cuthbert covercropped.jpg (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). I would like to restore the image and add {{Non-free promotional}} for the missing license, which appears to have been missed as an oversight. In consideration that the book is the earliest in existence for Europe and the image is being used by the British Library trustees as part of a campaign to purchase the artefact for £9m, is there any other reason that this image was problematic that needs to be fixed? Thanks --Fæ (talk) 04:32, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- As far as I can see, no. Feel free to restore. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:09, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Image recreation
It looks like you deleted File:Cg logo reduced.jpg at 23:37 and it was recreated again at 23:45 but for some reason I cannot determine where I can view the log. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 04:56, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- [4]? -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:10, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks, but how do I get to an image log on a normal image page? However, the deleted image now exists again. ww2censor (talk) 05:28, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- History -> "View logs for this page" (Directly underneath "Revision history of....", upper right corner). Is that what you were referring to? -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:37, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks, but how do I get to an image log on a normal image page? However, the deleted image now exists again. ww2censor (talk) 05:28, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
FYI. =) --slakr\ talk / 05:37, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, yes, I'll get around to that in a bit. Thanks for letting me know. Best, FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:39, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Please un delete page
Could you please undelete File:Senior Trooper insignia.jpg? This file was originally created and uploaded by User:SGT141 on November 15, 2007. It was edited/revised by User:DanTD on November 23, 2007. The image had or should have had license and release information nearly identical to File:Master Trooper logo.jpg which is a candidate for transfer to commons. The image File:Senior Trooper insignia.jpg was used the the articles Senior trooper and Louisiana State Police. I do not have a copy of the file to re-upload, and therefore ask that you please undelete this photo so that I may fix whatever issues there seems to be with the license tags, release information, etc. Sf46 (talk) 06:13, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- Done -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 06:23, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Too fast
Please hold off on deleting the voice userboxes - I am in the process of a restore. Requested at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Double_sharp&oldid=469467839#Voice_Userboxes Thanks 7 07:05, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- I trust you left a similar message for User:Ronhjones, yes? -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:18, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- No - Ronhjones was tagging them back in Dec... I just was giving you a headsup because you were deleting them faster than I could remove the CSD tags after restoring them. Regards. 7 07:31, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, I see. That makes sense then. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:35, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- No - Ronhjones was tagging them back in Dec... I just was giving you a headsup because you were deleting them faster than I could remove the CSD tags after restoring them. Regards. 7 07:31, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion not warranted
We note that you have deleted the page:
National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority
The reason code was G11 which I understand refers to unambiguous promotion - this was not our intention.
We will recreate the page and attempt to provide more useful text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.153.243.230 (talk) 07:15, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Restoration request
Can you restore me the diffs of File:Utopian Dances cover.jpg because I wanted to demonstrate a bug in FTCG here.--Ankit Maity Talk • contribs 08:17, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- Can't restore it, but I'll give you a screencap - File:FTCGBugTemporary.png -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 08:23, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thank You.--Ankit Maity Talk • contribs 10:44, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Please undelete Two envelopes problem/sources
Dear Fastily
Here is a reformulation of my recent request concerning deletion of Talk:Two envelopes problem/sources.
Bulwersator responded to my request, saying that the page had not been deleted. What has happened is, I think, is the following. Two envelopes problem/sources has been deleted, and this deletion has automatically also destroyed Talk:Two envelopes problem/sources. I had been trying to move the former to the latter, since the former had been up for merge or deletion for some time. The actual consensus was to move the page to a subpage of the talk page of the main article.
To be precise, the day before, I had moved the content of Two envelopes problem/sources to Talk:Two envelopes problem/sources, and replaced it with a redirect to the main article, in line with another sub-Talk-page, Talk:Two envelopes problem/Arguments. I was stupid enough not to keep a personal back-up copy.
If undeletion is impossible, please put a recent version of Two envelopes problem/sources back in my user space, or iNic's. Or has it now gone forever? Richard Gill (talk) 09:07, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
PS. Here is the notice at Two envelopes problem/sources:
- A page with this title has previously been deleted.
- If you are creating a new page with different content, please continue. If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the deleting administrator using the information provided below.
- 07:59, 3 January 2012 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Two envelopes problem/sources" (R2: Cross-namespace redirect from mainspace)
- 12:38, 17 August 2011 RHaworth (talk | contribs) moved Two envelopes problem/sources to User:INic/sandbox [without redirect] (revert)
- Is this it? Click here to view it -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 09:46, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
deletion of Iroquois-di-suvero.jpg & File:800px-Occidental Avenue South (Seattle, Washington).jpg
please reconsider, these wrongful deletions. these are in strict accordance with the NFCC. there can be no non-free alternative to 3D art. Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 00:17, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Did you intentionally transfer Commons:File:Occidental Avenue South (Seattle, Washington).jpg to en.wikipedia in a clumsy way? --Leyo 09:12, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- thank you; @leyo - well, there is no bot, as the other way. the image upload is so clunky, i'm surprised anything gets done. perhaps the elegance will increase when the upload wizard rewrite is done. what we need is an upload that lets you choose where it goes based on a dialogue. meta data is in history but there is no way to capture it from commons. Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 17:28, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- I refer to the “800px-” in the file name that normally occurs when folks transfer the preview version instead of the full size. In your case the low resolution is wanted, but probably not this ugly file name. --Leyo 17:34, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- thank you; @leyo - well, there is no bot, as the other way. the image upload is so clunky, i'm surprised anything gets done. perhaps the elegance will increase when the upload wizard rewrite is done. what we need is an upload that lets you choose where it goes based on a dialogue. meta data is in history but there is no way to capture it from commons. Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 17:28, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
Restoration request 2
I will inform you when the bug is solved.--Ankit Maity Talk • contribs 10:45, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- It can be deleted now.--Ankit Maity Talk • contribs 11:16, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- Done -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 04:25, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Ketevan Kalandadze
- Hi, what is the reason for deletion of article about contemporary georgian artist Ketevan Kalandadze? Maxim Sablev (talk) 11:45, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- "no ref added". Looks like the editor who tagged the page forgot to enter their reasoning into the deletion template. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 04:27, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Silent Life restoration request
Hello, I found second publication in major media covering Silent Life movie. Here are the link to both publications mentioning the movie. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ef444a56-24dd-11e1-bfb3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1iPu7iOoj
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15674340
May I ask you to restore article http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silent_Life&action=edit&redlink=1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by MisterFirst (talk • contribs) 14:55, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G4 -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 04:28, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
University of Oxford Georgian Society
Dear Fastily,
Happy New Year. I noticed that my article University of Oxford Georgian Society has been deleted as a similar one has been deleted previously. I have specifically redrafted the new article to address all the issues that were in the Oxford Georgian Society article (specifically removed sections on the current society, its president etc, basically all the info that does not have at least 2-3 reliable sources). I think its an interesting article and there are tens of wiki pages on other oxford university socities, so its not the topic that was an issue but content, that has been fixed - its all well documentted and cited. Please let me know if its possible to reinstate the page and I'll be happy to run you through the changes made.
Best regards,
David — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.172.3.95 (talk) 15:48, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G4 -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 04:28, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi
Hi, could you take a look at user WhoSays edits on Eric Saade, I think that the user has made the article into an unsourced and commentary version deleting alot of sourced material on December 25. If you find that to be so too please take some action as the user has been warned several times now. Sincerely.--BabbaQ (talk) 17:24, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- Warned user. The last time they made such edits was on December 29th. If the user makes unsourced claims or adds OR again, let me know and I'll block. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 04:33, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Please undelete Dakota Curling Club
Hi Fastily, This is Ryan, the Dakota Curling Club President, I believe the information on http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/dakota-curling-club/history.html was taken from wikipedia and not the other way around. For example, compare the information for the St. Paul Curling Club with that on spiritus-temporis. Likewise compare the Geographic information for St Paul with that on spiritus-temporis and you'll see that the spiritus temporis is nearly identical to parts of the wikipedia entry. In fact, spiritus temporis says they get their data from publicly available sources, probably including wikipedia. Please undelete our wikipedia page Dakota Curling Club entry. Thanks, Ryan DCCLeagueMgr (talk) 18:31, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G12 -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 04:33, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
File:Frazier Peak directional sign.jpg
Silliest deletion I ever heard of. All of the information was there when I uploaded it. Now I have to do it all over again, assuming I can find it on my hard drive. What a waste. No wonder the number of editors is going downhill. Yours, GeorgeLouis (talk) 20:20, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- We can restore images, so you don't need to find it on your hard drive. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 20:32, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
(Un)used ogg-files
It is cool that you work on the ogg-files so that we can get rid of the junk and move the good files for Commons. However, there is a problem with some of the files. It is not possible to see that they are used unless you check "what links here". So I checked the files you nominated for deletion and moved some of the files that was in use to Commons.
As an example you could check Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2011_December_26#File:Gettherebeforedark.ogg. There is nothing under File:Gettherebeforedark.ogg#File usage but under What links here.
The problem also make the bot tag used files as orphan. --MGA73 (talk) 20:58, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) That particular file is incorrectly licensed. The description at G.I. Joe Adventure Team#Commander Voice suggests that the original uploader copied off of the original recording. There is no evidence that the uploader is the copyright holder. As to the file tagging, if a file just has links to it, then it is not in use. The orphaned tag is meant to allow us to keep track of files with no transclusions. As many orphaned files are on orphaned file lists, if we discounted files with mere links, we would miss quite a few files that don't have any real translusions. Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 21:41, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- If someone incorrectly uses a file via a link instead of a real translusion then in my opinion the solution is not to delete the file but to correct the article.
- Most of the files that was in use was used via a template and not just a plain link. Example File:Winnipeg.ogg that is used via {{IPAc-en|audio=Winnipeg.ogg|ˈ|w|ɪ|n|ɪ|p|ɛ|ɡ}}. If that is not a valid use then we should delete the IPAc-en template.
- So my point is just that it is best to check "what links here" before a file is nominated for deletion as unused.
- If the file is unfree I think it is better to delete it as unfree than as unused/unusable. --MGA73 (talk) 22:01, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- Alright, I'll see what I can do -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 04:34, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
1994 Cotton Bowl
I removed all of the copyright infringing text yet the article was still deleted. Just wanted to know if there was another reason that the article was deleted, Thanks.1906cubs (talk) 00:47, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- 1906, I will recreate the article without the copyright content in just a minute, and then you can add on as much as you want (provided of course, its not copyright-infringing). Nolelover Talk·Contribs 00:58, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- I have recreated the article. Nolelover Talk·Contribs 01:07, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Bot operator communications
This does not seem to satisfy WP:BOTPOL#Good communication, nor does it seem to be to be an appropriate response to someone questioning you about your actions. What, exactly, was rude about Thincat's comments that deserved summary removal instead of a reply? Anomie⚔ 02:43, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- It wasn't the nicest message. Regardless, I have done or am doing what was asked. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 04:36, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Tony Colbert
Hey, I saw that you deleted a page called Tony Colbert, the doctor at Arsenal F.C. which was not created by me but you deleted. I just want to know why you deleted it or what violations the article had (not notable etc). Thanks. --Arsenalkid700 (talk) 03:25, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#PROD -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 04:37, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Jehovah's Witness beliefs
Hi Fastily, Did you read the discussion at the talk page contesting the speedy delete nomination of Jehovah's Witness beliefs? The Watchtower Information Service website has clearly lifted content from the Wikipedia page, not the other way round. As the page unambiguously states, their content was added in 2010; the original Wikipedia article was created in 2006 and revised constantly since then. (Much of the information at the specific article on the Watchtower Information Service website is actually my work, written on Wikipedia and then lifted by them.) The 1999 copyright note on the external website clearly referred to the website, not specific pages. The nominator of this supposed copyvio is running a campaign to force the deletion of pages that contain material critical of his religion. Would you please restore the page? BlackCab (talk) 04:27, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Fair enough. Restored -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 04:38, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Appologies, but would you mind restoring the talk page as well? 173.209.98.181 (talk) 04:39, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Already done? -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 04:40, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Yup, my bad. I saw it wasn't there, but by the time I left the comment, you had brought it back. Sorry! 173.209.98.181 (talk) 04:42, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Appologies, but would you mind restoring the talk page as well? 173.209.98.181 (talk) 04:39, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you restored the page and I was wondering about the results of the investigation of the page with regards to possible copyright infringement. The page that it mirrors seems to give two conflicting dates, which have been the subject of some dispute. The copyright on the page is from 1999, and while it's possible that the page was created on a later date, I can't conclusively say that it was. Is there any way the publishers of the page can be contacted to verify a date the article was written by them , as they obviously do not state that they copied the article directly from Wikipedia, I think it's somewhat presumptuous to assume that they did, and more likely that an individual editor, years ago, chose to copy it from them and claim it as their own. It really is simply a matter of making sure that Wikipedia is not in violation of copyright laws and not as the editor previously stated, "a campaign to force the deletion of pages that contain material critical of his religion." which of itself is a false accusation because this is the only page I have ever nominated for deletion and that because of it's failure to adhere to WP:NPOV and the recently discovered likely copyright infringement. Willietell (talk) 05:07, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- If that is the case, please consider nominating this page for deletion at WP:AfD -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:09, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- I already nominated it for deletion, you deleted it, then resorted it at the insistence of User:BlackCab. I believe if you really look at the article this page mirrors http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/doctrine-changes/jehovah-witness-beliefs/ you will notice that the website contains much more information, leading the logical person to conclude that it contains the original material, and that the Wikipedia page plagiarizes it by taking out choice subheadings and using them as the basis for the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_beliefs . While I was trying to discuss the page in talk, one of the editors provided a link to the page, stating that it was an official site of Jehovah's Witnesses. I don't think there can really be any question to the reasonable person that the site contained the article first, though there is a date indicated of 6 July 2009, this date seems to be the date of a revision of the article and not the date of it's original writing. Please investigate further, thanks. Willietell (talk) 05:28, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Willietell is wrong. The "Beliefs" page on the external website, which is datestamped July 6, 2009, is evidently a copy of the Wikipedia page Beliefs and practices of Jehovah's Witnesses before it was split into two separate pages on "Beliefs" and "Practices". It doesn't have the "Defection" section which I added in April 2009,[5] and apart from other minor differences, the external website's text is pretty well a straight lift from that Wikipedia article as it looked around that time. Should Willietell nominate the page as an AfD (which will be his third attempt to have the whole shebang deleted on the grounds that it is "all lies" and now a copyvio) I can examine the evidence in more detail there. Right now Willietell is being a nuisance and wasting other editors' time. BlackCab (talk) 06:07, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Editors who have been working on the article for several years are well aware that the information on the other website is a mirror of an earlier version of the Wikipedia article. Willietell has been trying to have the article deleted on any grounds he can find because he has difficulty accepting statements made about his religion by secondary sources. First he claimed it is an attack page which was immediately dismissed by an admin, and now he's lied about it being a copyvio. Surely it is time to do something about his disruptive behaviour?!--Jeffro77 (talk) 07:52, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Willietell is wrong. The "Beliefs" page on the external website, which is datestamped July 6, 2009, is evidently a copy of the Wikipedia page Beliefs and practices of Jehovah's Witnesses before it was split into two separate pages on "Beliefs" and "Practices". It doesn't have the "Defection" section which I added in April 2009,[5] and apart from other minor differences, the external website's text is pretty well a straight lift from that Wikipedia article as it looked around that time. Should Willietell nominate the page as an AfD (which will be his third attempt to have the whole shebang deleted on the grounds that it is "all lies" and now a copyvio) I can examine the evidence in more detail there. Right now Willietell is being a nuisance and wasting other editors' time. BlackCab (talk) 06:07, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- I already nominated it for deletion, you deleted it, then resorted it at the insistence of User:BlackCab. I believe if you really look at the article this page mirrors http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/doctrine-changes/jehovah-witness-beliefs/ you will notice that the website contains much more information, leading the logical person to conclude that it contains the original material, and that the Wikipedia page plagiarizes it by taking out choice subheadings and using them as the basis for the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_beliefs . While I was trying to discuss the page in talk, one of the editors provided a link to the page, stating that it was an official site of Jehovah's Witnesses. I don't think there can really be any question to the reasonable person that the site contained the article first, though there is a date indicated of 6 July 2009, this date seems to be the date of a revision of the article and not the date of it's original writing. Please investigate further, thanks. Willietell (talk) 05:28, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
RPP needs you
Since you're so excellent at handling RPP, would you please go there and clear the massive backlog (AN got no-one to respond)?Jasper Deng (talk) 05:25, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- >.> -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:26, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Done now. Regards, FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:45, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
Hey there Fastily, thank you for your contributions! I am a bot, alerting you that non-free files are not allowed in user or talk space. I removed some files I found on User:Fastily/TMI.
- See a log of files removed today here.
- Shut off the bot here.
- Report errors here.
- If you have any questions, place a {{helpme}} template, along with your question, beneath this message.
Thank you, -- DASHBot (talk) 05:40, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Thought I should let you know, I'm not sure what Marek was trying to do with that page. I've notified him at his talk page about it, but I'm guessing it was somehow created in error. Calabe1992 05:43, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Gone now. Regards, FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:45, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| For clearing a massive backlog at RPP. Jasper Deng (talk) 05:46, 5 January 2012 (UTC) |
- Thank you!! Glad I was able to help. Best, FASTILY Happy 2012!! 06:14, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Time for a second (or more?) pass for Fbot?
In working on that little task of 'Non-free files with orphaned versions' - I've noticed the first pass(es) of Fbot haven't picked up a goodly number of these files. Sorry I didn't tag them, but will do so in the future if needed to see why the Bot didn't pick them up. Skier Dude (talk) 06:01, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- It has been awhile since I last ran that task. The soonest I can run it again will be tomorrow. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:02, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Wait a minute...are you referring to Fbot task 8 or Fbot task 11? -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:16, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Another barnstar for you!
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| For clearing a massive backlog at RPP and giving my bot work to do. :D →Στc. 06:42, 5 January 2012 (UTC) |
- Thank you!!! :) Cheers, FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:02, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, You've deleted my article about the NALIS Foundation and state it's some ambiguous copyright infringement. It is MY article and its my business to use my paragraphs in other publications I write. I'd really appreciate it if you could possibly put it back and relate it again to the Bulgarian version, because I can't dedicate too much time on writing things like that. Besides the article in the Italian periodical is written LATER than that in WIKI, I didn't copy it for wiki. Perhaps I made a mistake by not signing in when submitting the English version, but the truth is that I forgot my password and how I did it with the Bulgarian one. You can easily contact me via email: ekaterina.dikova@nalis.bg Thanks in advance for your cooperation. Ekaterina Dikova NALIS Project Manager 85.14.25.189 (talk) 09:02, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
A cookie jar for you!
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I told people only a few hours ago on IRC that I'd give a jar of cookies to the admin who closes this TFD thread. One admin said they would go buy their own jar of cookies. Not only did you do it, you did it in a matter of hours, when I expected it to be sitting for days. Here is a jar of cookies! And thank you :) -- DQ (t) (e) 09:31, 5 January 2012 (UTC) |
- Thanks!! Happy to have been able to help. Cheers, FASTILY Happy 2012!! 10:07, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Respect. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 10:57, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
File:Single Trash.jpg
It's orphaned because I removed it from the article about the artist. The reason why I removed it from the article about the artist is because it's an invalid fair use, because it's not being used in an article about the album, and thus an f7 seems to be valid. Besides, I think it's a hoax. The Mark of the Beast (talk) 21:43, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Then you probably should have tagged it with G3 in the first place. Files meet the criteria for immediate deletion under WP:CSD#F7 if they are using a clearly invalid license tag or if the file is sourced to a news agency in which the file is not the subject of critical commentary in the article which it is linked to. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 05:05, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- OK, then I'm confused, because isn't that what f7 is for? The Mark of the Beast (talk) 07:07, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- WP:CSD#F7 actually does a pretty good job explaining what is eligible for deletion under F7. I'll answer specific questions, if you have any after reading the criteria. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:26, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- Non-free images or media with a clearly invalid fair-use tag. That's why I chose f7. The Mark of the Beast (talk) 18:54, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- That criterion only applies to blatantly mistagged files (e.g. a scan of a 2D work of art tagged with
{{Non-free software screenshot}}). File:Single Trash.jpg was claimed to be an album cover and resembled an album cover closely enough. It did not meet the criterion for immediate deletion. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:33, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- That criterion only applies to blatantly mistagged files (e.g. a scan of a 2D work of art tagged with
- Non-free images or media with a clearly invalid fair-use tag. That's why I chose f7. The Mark of the Beast (talk) 18:54, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- WP:CSD#F7 actually does a pretty good job explaining what is eligible for deletion under F7. I'll answer specific questions, if you have any after reading the criteria. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:26, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- OK, then I'm confused, because isn't that what f7 is for? The Mark of the Beast (talk) 07:07, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear Fastily, can you please indicate to me the discussion page corresponding to this deletion? I would like this article to be restaured, so as to correct the problems. Thanks in advance, --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 12:17, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 08:00, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily,
You deleted the above file...I am a new user and I was not sure exactly what was required to display this image. I have an email from the editor of the newspaper giving the permission... I forwarded this to the address given by wikipedia but something went wrong somewhere... http://www.evangelical-times.org/copyright.php Could you let me know whether I need anything else? Andrewprowell (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 13:02, 5 January 2012 (UTC).
- User:Fastily/E#F11 -FASTILY (TALK) 08:00, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Silent Life movie
Dear Fastily, Thank you for your comments on my talk page. May I also nominate IMDB (Internet Movie Database) as a reliable independent source of information, that listed Silent Life (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099209/), while having also eligibility criteria ( https://resume.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?titleeligibility) protecting the source from the titles out of public interest. Can we base on this coverage as well to include Silent Life? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MisterFirst (talk • contribs) 17:38, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) IMDB is user-editable, and thus is not typically considered a reliable source (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 20:47, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Intersect of Free/Non-free media
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?categories=All+free+media%0D%0AAll+non-free+media&ns[6]=1&ext_image_data=1&doit=1
It would be nice if someone could clear what looks like a small backlog by appropriately tagging :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 20:24, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
"Espial" deletion.
Noticed that "Espial" [1] was deleted - I have not seen the original text but would like to add an article on the Espial "TV Browser".
The Espial "TV Browser" is one of many TV Browsers very rapidly coming to market, very different than the Desktop, Mobile or Tablet browsers that are described in Wikipedia based on the unique interface requirements of the viewer (8ft+ more away, remote control), the constrained environments (Set top boxes, game consoles, Blue-ray players and TVs), and the requirement to be as good if not better than desktop browsers.
The Espial TV browser is based on Webkit, and today supports HTML5 more completely than many desktop browsers. Other TV browsers are based on Gecko.
Also noticed that the article "internet browser" only describes desktop and mobile browsers. Tablet browsers and TV Browsers should be added.
To understand the market for TV Browsers - Hulu, YouTube and other media aggregators are adopting TV browsers to display content on these devices, while ALL major TV manufacturers (Hitachi, Sony, Panasonic) are looking to integrate TV browsers on all their platforms to satisfy the need for media/web consumption via the TV screen.
Please advise on what is required to correct the content.
Thanks
Bmahony (talk) 20:39, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Feel free to. You don't need to ask for my permission to create articles... -FASTILY (TALK) 08:03, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Media Files Instruction
Fastily, I saw on WP:ADCO that you're willing to help editors who want to expand their knowledge of Files and Copyright. I don't know if full-fledged Admin Coaching is the right 'fit' for me, per se, given that I mainly deal with more gnomish issues and my content creation doesn't seem to be up to the level many RfA !voters expect, and I doubt it ever will be. However, I would very much like to help the project as much as I can. I can learn about Files and Copyrights and apply that information to the non-admin tasks involved with maintaining Files. Is that something that you'd have the time to show me the ropes regarding? Achowat (talk) 22:01, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- If you're not planning on running for adminship, then yeah, my admin coaching program probably isn't right for you. How about this - I'll give you a few pages to read, which should give you a general understanding of media file policy (WP:IUP, WP:NFC, WP:NFCC, WP:DELETE, WP:ICT, WP:FUG, WP:PERMISSION). If you have any questions relating to policy or specific files, feel free to ask me. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 08:20, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Geraldine Hughes
Hello. Why did you delete the page for actress Geraldine Hughes? She is clearly notable. She was the female lead in "Rocky Balboa", a film that grossed over $155 million. She also had a major role in "Grand Torino", along with several other TV and film roles. A Google search results in a massive number of hits. How can she not have achieved notability? — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Atrocity Exhibit (talk • contribs) 23:31, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#PROD -FASTILY (TALK) 08:26, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal
Hi, I might have accidentally wrote the article in an advertising format, can kindly help to restore and I try to clean it up? Thanks. Zuff (talk) 02:39, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Go for it. Deleted text appended below. Click here to view it. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:28, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for unleashing me
May God bless you. 89.210.124.119 (talk) 05:24, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Question:
Thanks for being quick on the A10 speedy. I closed the now moot AFD. How do I redirect the deleted title as a reasonable search term to Treasure Island (2012 TV miniseries) without messing with the current tag that the errant article was A10'd? Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 07:21, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what you mean by that. If you want to create a redirect at the title of the now deleted article, feel free to do so. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:29, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
I think you deleted my userpage by mistake. I'm pretty sure I didn't tag it. I've been cleaning out my sandbox. Could you please restore it?Greg Bard (talk) 07:49, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
AfDs
- I've noticed that lately you've speedily deleted articles that were at AfD but never actually closed the discussions: [6] [7] [8]. Just thought I'd let you know. ;) Erpert Who is this guy? | Wanna talk about it? 08:25, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I think you missed the other ones also nominated with File:WashingtonHuskieshelmet.png. Mtking (edits) 08:33, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
rm speedy deletion of latif yahia page in favor of lock request
hi, I put the wiki bio page up for speedy deletion. Not 100% convinced yet if this user deserves a wiki bio, but have reconsidered deletion in favor of locking page, and reversion to an Accurate version.
Users: "81.83.157.57", "AMA2010", "2.49.216.202", and "TVNEWS11" appear to be created for the sole purpose of spreading misinformation about this person, erasing CITED information about the topic (ie: my research), and promoting a book and movie about the claims.
I've also contacted Admin C.Fred about this, who has edited the page in the past, requesting page protection and reversion. I tried to undo some of the fake user edits, but it got to be tedious, and i figure you admins can do it easier anyways. Thanks!
Trickietrickie (talk) 10:57, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:TVNEWS11 warned. If they continue to edit war, please report them to WP:AN3 -FASTILY (TALK) 21:02, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Added a new refrenced, hyperlinked, factful and non-promotionful article. Please feel-free to edit for more detail. But Admins - please stop deleting as this article follows guidelines.
I mean it - this article was meeting guidelines and I will post again - leave it alone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Articleperfector (talk • contribs) 21:56, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
I am an article writer and you refuse my article's without just cause. You are unfair and bias. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Articleperfector (talk • contribs) 23:05, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Revengefor vandalising the article
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RussianLiberal (talk • contribs) 10:01, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Request Userfy Template:PD-Letters Patent
...as requested in the TfD discussion. Buffs (talk) 18:22, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Done at User:Buffs/Template:PD-Letters Patent -FASTILY (TALK) 08:02, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
File (Image) deleted
Hi You deleted File:Mobile payments model india.png under F3. Considering I created this image on my own, was the problem that I had chosen to upload it under a license that limited derivatives..etc.? Let me know what needs to be done to restore the image because it acts as a simple pictorial summary for a section of the article. Tanmaig (talk) 11:55, 6 January 2012 (UTC) Tanmaig(talk)
- I tagged this image for deletion because I believed it was a copyright violation (image extracted from a copyrighted document and presented as own work). The image description helpfully said where it came from, but now it is deleted I cannot see the source and recheck; if I got that wrong I apologise, and it should be restored. I subsequently also nominated File:Mobile growth india.svg and in this case I definitely was incorrect; the data - not image itself - was taken from a copyrighted document. I have removed the speedy tag from that one. RichardOSmith (talk) 14:59, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
My page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Samara got deleted due to allegedly being advertisement. I would like to know why was it considered advertisement and what makes it advertisement.
I am asking this again since i did not have a straight answer why the page is not acceptable. My intention is to correct it and resubmit it.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pedro Bestler (talk • contribs) 14:37, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 21:04, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
I thought that you would be able to help rather than simply put what caused the deletion. I need to understand the cause for the deletion, not just a standard reply as that is not going to help. If you are not able to help please let me know of someone else that i can contact to help me understand how to create the same article in a different way so that i don't have to go through this process again. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pedro Bestler (talk • contribs) 11:16, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Just wondering what was on The Limited before you G6'd it. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:08, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Deleted text appended below. Click here to view it. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:07, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Could you please restore it to that? That G6 doesn't count, since it is not redundant to Limited Brands. The Limited is its own store. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 23:04, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Hello, anyone home? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 03:34, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Could you please restore it to that? That G6 doesn't count, since it is not redundant to Limited Brands. The Limited is its own store. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 23:04, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Copyvio
This image File:Tim Burton Image425.jpg is just a cropped version of this copyvio File:17566561-17566563-large.jpg you deleted. Can you either delete it or add the source info that I seem to remember was on the deleted image? ww2censor (talk) 20:56, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- We can't use it anyways: the file is non-free and Tim Burton is still alive. Textbook violation of WP:NFCC#1. At any rate, this was the source. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:13, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily. Would you consider salting 4shared? its gone through an AfD with the result of delete and has been repeatedly recreated since. It seems that there is little chance that a viable version is going to be created. Just a thought. Best, Sparthorse (talk) 21:57, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Second the motion. Ive nominated it twice for speedy now, and it looks like its been created and deleted 5 times today. Gaijin42 (talk) 22:01, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- I have left a waring for User:Articleperfector. If they recreate the article, we'll remedy this with blocks, not salting. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:18, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion review for Mind and Life Institute
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Mind and Life Institute. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 22:40, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Hi would you be able to userfy the page as per request at DRV thanks for your time. Edinburgh Wanderer 23:14, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Rescaled fairuse images
Why did you undelete the categories? I renamed them to use "files" instead of "images". — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 22:50, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Dakota Curling Club part 2
Hi Fastily, This is Ryan, the Dakota Curling Club President, I believe the information on http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/dakota-curling-club/history.html was taken from wikipedia and not the other way around. For example, compare the information for the St. Paul Curling Club with that on spiritus-temporis. Likewise compare the Geographic information for St Paul with that on spiritus-temporis and you'll see that the spiritus temporis is nearly identical to parts of the wikipedia entry. In fact, spiritus temporis says they get their data from publicly available sources, probably including wikipedia. Please undelete our wikipedia page Dakota Curling Club entry. Thanks, Ryan DCCLeagueMgr (talk) 18:31, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G12 -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 04:33, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
I've read the G12 provision multiple times, but as I said, that other website (spiritus temporis) copied this content out of wikipedia. We (the Dakota Curling Club) wrote the original wikipeida article when we first opened the club. If anything, spiritus temporis is in violation of the Creative Commons license associated with wikipedia for not attributing their work. How do we get the original text and article back? DCCLeagueMgr (talk) 23:08, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
deleted Category talk:A-Class Disability articles
Hi. Did you check the authorship of the page Category talk:A-Class Disability articles before deleting it because an author who had not edited it requested deletion under CSD G7? Did you read the notice I added to the cat page? Did you read the contested deletion section on the talk page? Please restore this, which is needed by WP Disability, or explain to me how a project is supposed responsibly to manage its classification categories. Thanks. --Mirokado (talk) 00:42, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- You blanked the page on December 31st, 2011. In accordance with WP:CSD#G7, page blanks by the sole author of a page can be interpreted as a request for deletion by the author. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:48, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, very sorry, you have just removed the talk page! I have spent most of the day worrying about someone trying to delete another article and "must have lost my presence of mind" (link for when you feel like relaxing and a laugh). Yes deleting the talk page was fine as I decided the project template is not helpful for mass-produced pages like that. I think next time I will add the deletion template myself instead of just blanking the page. Thanks and sorry again. --Mirokado (talk) 01:01, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Fast by name...Thanks
Thank you! Have a good morning/afternoon/evening/night. fredgandt 02:25, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Undeletion
Hi. Could you please undelete Muscat International Airport. There was a lot of info that has vanished, but I stand by to remove any copy vio material. Thanks, — Abhishek Talk 03:24, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not allowed to userfy or restore copyright-violating material back to the mainspace. You might be able to find the deleted text on way back machine - [9]. Sorry, FASTILY (TALK) 03:46, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Please restore this and dig a little before deleting
Why did you delete an image that has a fair use rational with "lack of licencing" as the rationale. It's clearly copyrighted. Please restore it. File:Toronto International Airport and Airport Expressway, 1964.png -- ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 03:38, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Deleted DirectFix
Hi,
You deleted the page I created "DirectFix". To be fair I ask that you either re-instate the page or go delete the following pages. If you look at the pages I created and compare it to iFixit you will notice we are the same type of company. I used very similar wording like their page because it is live and not deleted. Please look at their page and then look at mine and if you deleted mine then I ask you to delete theirs and also iResq. Here are the links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFixit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IResQ
Regards, Robert Stanley — Preceding unsigned comment added by AXMicro (talk • contribs) 04:03, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)That is not considered a valid reason for an article, though.Jasper Deng (talk) 04:06, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) I can't tell for sure because your page has been deleted, but those pages both have good references. Just copying their wording and content is not enough. you need to satisfy WP:Notability on your own. Gaijin42 (talk) 04:08, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Here is what we had on our page. We have great references go search us on the internet.........Again this is not fair... our info is just as valid as iFixit yet you are showing favoritism to them by deleting us and not them.
We don't generally use duplicates of article content on article talk pages
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DirectFix is a private company in Morgan Hill, California. The company web site, directfix.com, publishes free wiki-like online repair videos and guides for consumer electronics and gadgets. DirectFix teardowns of new Apple products are carried by The New York Times[2], Gizmodo[3], and other publications. Founder Robert Stanley aims to reduce electronic waste by teaching people to repair their own broken electronics[4] and offering tools, parts, and videos to discuss repairs[5]. == References ==
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Well, with that you have just declared your conflict of interest. Also, accounts cannot represent groups of people. Please read and observe these guidelines when editing regarding DirectFix.Jasper Deng (talk) 04:23, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
"accounts cannot represent groups of people." Again then you need to delete the page for "iFixit" and "iResq" as they also violate the same issue you have found with my page that I listed. Again if you are stating I am in violation then so are they. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AXMicro (talk • contribs) 04:30, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- (please stop making new sections for each of your comments) No, the same issue does not exist with those articles, and suggesting they be deleted because your article was deleted is not a valid reason for deletion.Jasper Deng (talk) 04:33, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
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2011 Bolivian protests
ALL the pages were deleted along with the erroneous page. It has significatn sourced content. Can we please restore the content from 2011 Bolivian prtests [10] per this [11](Lihaas (talk) 07:07, 7 January 2012 (UTC)).
Declined speedy in Nmatavka's user space
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U-KISS 1st Japan Live Tour
Hello. How did you do this? You just deleted my page without giving me 3days to explain my side. I felt like you have stepped on my ego as a page creator.!!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by JmKissme (talk • contribs) 14:44, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 04:44, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
This and associated pages have been speedily deleted incorrectly. I contested this as soon as I became aware of the issue but my following of 'due process' has been ignored. A simple look at the page history makes it obvious that after 100s of contributions this page does not deserve speedy deletion. How is this recified??Rjstott (talk) 20:59, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- [12]. Revise the body of the article as you had intended. Once you're done, I'll give you the deleted text of the infoboxes, categories, meta-templates, ect, so you can re-create the article. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:11, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, this doesn't fix it at all. Nor do I or anyone else now have access to the original article to enable recovery on the non-copyvio text. I had no intention of changing it at all, I was just the original author. If there was just one sentence that showed copyvio then this was easily fixed with appropriate identification and edit. Rjstott (talk) 18:06, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Have found the text on a wiki mirror but can't spot the copyvio nor can I move the non-wikipedia material easily because of formatting issues. Any chance you can let me have the original wiki entry as a text file that I might re-engineer into the article which is already being re-written from scratchRjstott (talk) 18:15, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Needs merger
Hey, if you get a chance, the "Germany in 2011" article still needs merged into "2011 in Germany". I can do the merge if you are not interested in combining them. Thank you and happy new year. Fotaun (talk) 16:25, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Vroom
Thanks for the quick response on the speedy delete requests. With The Wizard Trap, I think that's at least three spammy pages you've taken out shortly after I've marked them. Nick Number (talk) 18:52, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
User:Gourami Watcher
Are you sure you meant to delete User:Gourami Watcher? I couldn't see any tags on it, even though it was showing up at CAT:SD. Cheers SmartSE (talk) 00:47, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- I don't think so. Restored. Thanks for letting me know. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 04:47, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Extensive sock block
Special:Contributions/203.59.158.166
You might as well unblock this or reduce it to a few hours, he's gone through 3 IPs since (as seen here), as these crappy Aussie ISPs are highly dynamic; SPI can't even rangeblock them due to collateral damage. Might as well not risk some poor shmuck getting blocked access within those 3 months, and it's doubtful George will get the IP again.. if you see the amount of one-off IP uses we've tagged as socks already, you'll know that's true enough. He just goes on bugging us daily, no one can do a thing about it really.. can be blocked, change IP just by reseting his modem, and back in 5 mins. Such is life. Ma®©usBritish [chat] 02:09, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Can you have a look at File:Ross School Logo.png, and restore the deleted history, as a text logo it is not eligible for copyright and therefore the FUR put on by the up loader was in error, if you agree and do restore the history I plan to tag it for moving to commons. Mtking (edits) 02:15, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- I had a look, and as far as I could tell, there was nothing that needed restoring, so I moved the file to Commons. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 04:52, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
WP Futures revival
Admins can see deleted pages, right? Can you take a look here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Futures Studies and see if there's anything useful to restore? And an editor was particularly interested in who was the first/last active member in that project.
See: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/ForesightAndFuturesStudies. — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 06:10, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- While yes, I can view deleted pages, that will not allow me to determine who the first/last active member of that project was. Sorry, FASTILY (TALK) 06:12, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- I mean, isn't there a participants list or anything? The guys in the deletion discussion were referring to a certain active member. And besides that, if the project gets revived, is there anything useful to restore from the old page? — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 06:19, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- Only two members listed - User:Wendyinfutures and User:FayssalF. There was limited content on that page, which imo, would not be helpful at all if you're seeking to reboot the project. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:22, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- THANKYOU. — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 06:25, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- Only two members listed - User:Wendyinfutures and User:FayssalF. There was limited content on that page, which imo, would not be helpful at all if you're seeking to reboot the project. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:22, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- I mean, isn't there a participants list or anything? The guys in the deletion discussion were referring to a certain active member. And besides that, if the project gets revived, is there anything useful to restore from the old page? — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 06:19, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Restoration of article 'An End to the Means (novel)'
I created the article 'An End to the Means (novel)' but you speedily deleted it based on G12 as the reason. Please explain. Although CorenSearchBot correctly identified http://anendtothemeans.com as the source of the draft Wikipedia article content, procedures in article 'Wikipedia: Donating copyrighted materials' were subsequently followed. The webpage/blog for An End to the Means now contains a statement of release (http://anendtothemeans.com/statement-of-release/). I documented the release on the talk page of the article. Wikipedia did not offer a button 'Click here to contest this speedy deletion'. Request the article 'An End to the Means (novel)' be restored or an explanation/recommendations be provided to improve the article and republish. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DengXiuYuan (talk • contribs) 06:20, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- By "'Wikipedia: Donating copyrighted materials' were subsequently followed.", do you mean that you sent an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org in accordance with WP:PERMISSION? -FASTILY (TALK) 06:23, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
I did not send an e-mail to permissions-en@wikimedia.org because, per the article 'Wikipedia: Donating copyrighted materials' it specifically states to write an e-mail ONLY if you want to allow Wikipedia to use content but DON'T want to put a license statement on the website. I put a statement of release on the website so therefore, did not think an e-mail was necessary. DengXiuYuan (talk) 06:29, 8 January 2012 (UTC) Hi Fastily, I never received an answer to the above question. Can you please provide an answer or restore the 'An End To the Means (novel)' article? Thank you very much!DengXiuYuan (talk) 23:03, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
DHWANI CET
Hello,
The page DHWANI CET was deleted by you by saying that it fall to (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion).
But DHWANI is most popular and largest social and cultural festival (started in 2001 -in 60th anniversary of Starting of technical education in Kerala) in kerela which brings almost 50,000 students of different engineering collages across the state/country.Being hosted by College of Engineering, Trivandrum the prime Engineering institute in Kerala,DHWANI attracts people from different sections.
Please restore it and help me to avoid further deletion.
Abilngeorge (talk) 13:09, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) As the "article" had already failed WP:PROD, and an AFD is in process, I have restored. Unless the article is brought up to proper standards it will be deleted in a few days. Please read WP:DELETE and comment at the appropriate AFD discussion (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 13:24, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Fbot task 4
Do you think it would be possible to either
- a) run Fbot task 4 daily at 23:00 UTC for the rest of the month; or
- b) give me a copy of task 4 so that I can do it?
I'd like to have it run right before the daily stats are compiled for the drive. Thanks, Sven Manguard Wha? 23:41, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
P.S. Thanks for the kind words re: the RfA.
- I definitely am not able to run the bot daily. Presently, I run it once a week. I'll be happy to give you the program and let you run it, if you're able to secure BRFA approval. And you're most welcome! :) Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 00:53, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Here's the thing. It would be so much simpler if I had a copy of task 4, but then again, I could also make use of tasks 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, 14, and 15 (and probably whatever else you come up with next). In order for me to be able to use any of them, I think you'd have to do some recoding, and I myself have about the same knowledge of javascript as your average squirrel does, so I can't help, or fix anything that goes wrong. For the once a month that I'd want anything run, it's just as easy to ask you to do it. There's no reason for me to ask you to spend hours coding me in, and then keeping me up to date when the code changes. If it were all on toolserver and I could stick in a password and click a button, it'd save me asking you, but none of your programs are built that way. Nevermind, I guess. Just please have task 4 run daily now, and during future drives. Sven Manguard Wha? 04:19, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Again, I'm unable to run the bot daily. Believe it or not, it's not that difficult for me to code in a login function as described above, and I'd be happy to do that if you could secure BRFA approval for any of the above tasks. If you're planning on running the bot off the toolserver, I can also supply you with a bash script that will run the program indefinitely. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:11, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Oh wow, misread... I did not see the "not" in "not able" there at all. Please code Svenbot in for task 4, I'll be filing a BRFA shortly. Sven Manguard Wha? 13:36, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Svenbot 2 has been speedy approved, so as soon as you have the code ready, I can start the run. Sven Manguard Wha? 15:38, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Just emailed you the download link. Be sure to download both files and be sure that they're not in your Downloads folder when you run them. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:56, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- I emailed you back. Now I understand why you can't run it daily. Sven Manguard Wha? 23:53, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- Just emailed you the download link. Be sure to download both files and be sure that they're not in your Downloads folder when you run them. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:56, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Svenbot 2 has been speedy approved, so as soon as you have the code ready, I can start the run. Sven Manguard Wha? 15:38, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Oh wow, misread... I did not see the "not" in "not able" there at all. Please code Svenbot in for task 4, I'll be filing a BRFA shortly. Sven Manguard Wha? 13:36, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Again, I'm unable to run the bot daily. Believe it or not, it's not that difficult for me to code in a login function as described above, and I'd be happy to do that if you could secure BRFA approval for any of the above tasks. If you're planning on running the bot off the toolserver, I can also supply you with a bash script that will run the program indefinitely. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:11, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Here's the thing. It would be so much simpler if I had a copy of task 4, but then again, I could also make use of tasks 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, 14, and 15 (and probably whatever else you come up with next). In order for me to be able to use any of them, I think you'd have to do some recoding, and I myself have about the same knowledge of javascript as your average squirrel does, so I can't help, or fix anything that goes wrong. For the once a month that I'd want anything run, it's just as easy to ask you to do it. There's no reason for me to ask you to spend hours coding me in, and then keeping me up to date when the code changes. If it were all on toolserver and I could stick in a password and click a button, it'd save me asking you, but none of your programs are built that way. Nevermind, I guess. Just please have task 4 run daily now, and during future drives. Sven Manguard Wha? 04:19, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Question
Hi there. Was just wondering what we do with this sort of thing? Basalisk inspect damage⁄berate 07:22, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- Well, I guess a PROD would acceptable. AFAIK, we don't speedy articles for being in a foreign language. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:28, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
I notice that you have modified this template. I must congratulate you for that; nevertheless, would you alter the documentation for us, please? Everybody must know about this. I have recently notified the uploader about this. --George Ho (talk) 10:02, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- Hm, I guess you're right. This isn't very accurate. I'll manually tag instead. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:30, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Leonard Betts
- Thanks for doing this history-merge; but afterwards, please log it: see Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen#New requests. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:25, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Question
Hi Fastily, apologies in advance if I'm missing something, but I wondered why you deleted Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Task Force I believe it contained a list of all the editors signed up to the project. Another editor spotted it and raised the question here. Best Pol430 talk to me 13:14, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- How strange. I could have sworn there was a
{{Db-move}}/{{Db-g6}}tag on the page. Guess not :\ Sorry about that. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:31, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
It seems there was a reply that was lost in the shuffle due to not having the ticket number (ticket 2011052510001716) in the subject line. Didn't help that it was sent six months after the initial reply by OTRS. It regards this file so it may provide the requisite permission for restoration. – Adrignola talk 18:04, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- It certainly does provide the necessary permissions. Restored -FASTILY (TALK) 20:34, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
List of organizations that support the Stop Online Piracy Act
You deleted something still open at AFD claiming it was (G3: Vandalism). All information was verified by references found. If someone did something to vandalize the page, just check the history, and undo their vandal edit. Dream Focus 22:46, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Katarighe edit review
Fastily, I'm helping out checking into CCI reviews performed by Katarighe in light of this.
One I'm looking into is the deletion of Anastas nika (not Anastas Nika, which may be related, but is different).
You deleted, as a G12. When I look at the DD, I only see a couple of three word phrases. Neither the article nor the source are in English, so my lack of language skills is hampering me. Given the problems with Katarighe, we are double-checking many edits, including this one. Can you help shed light on why this is a G12?--SPhilbrick(Talk) 00:42, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Undeleted. Definitely not a G12. Not sure what happened there :o -FASTILY (TALK) 00:44, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for your prompt attention.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 01:21, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Hey Fastily, I closed the AFD discussion for Quizlet VS. as a non-admin closure. I hope you don't mind. -- Luke (Talk)
I notice that you readded a di-nosource tag to this image despite me leaving an explanation of why I'd removed it in the edit log. You then didn't even have the decency to inform me that you'd re-added it. I note that our deletion policy says that when there's disagreement over whether something meets a speedy criteria it's normal to start a discussion rather than re-add the tag. I have now started such a discussion. The description of F4 is overly vague and certainly doesn't describe a situation such as this. However in essence it's purpose is to make sure we can verify that we can legally use a file and as I say in this case we don't need source information to determine this, hence I don't think it's a F4. Feel free to comment at the discussion. Dpmuk (talk) 01:43, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Files, PD or not, must have a verifiable source indicated somewhere on their file description pages. At any rate, the intent was not to edit war with you. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:12, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ahh, now if we're talking about being able to verify the 'accuracy' of an image rather than the 'source' of that image then I can see why having a source is useful but the tag you used specifically speaks about copyright concerns and as I explained I don't think there is any copyright concern. Given that the F4 criteria also talks about licenses it's clear it's intent is also copyright concerns not verifiability. To be honest I think F4 is badly wordly and, at best, only just supports the di-nousource tag at all.
- At least in terms of articles we don't speedy delete because of lack of verifiability but we do for copyright problems. Given that the image is PD and that the intent of the speedy is about copyright concerns I'd suggest that a speedy tagging shouldn't occur even if strictly within policy, appealing to WP:NOTBUREAUCRACY and WP:IAR (although I am aware of the irony of these arguements when it comes to this image as it probably should be deleted for other reasons). This is why I started an FfD to thy to get wider input. An RfC on F4 may be a better way to go and I'll consider drafting one when I get some time. In short I still think a F4 speedy tag is not correct for this file, although I'd also have no problem with someone taking to FfD. Dpmuk (talk) 07:42, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- RfC started here. Dpmuk (talk) 08:01, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
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Speedy Gonzales
lol, you deleted Talk:Shoukhrat Mitalipov before i could fix the copyright link to the correct one (which i'd noticed before it had finished tagging). - Happysailor (Talk) 07:53, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry about that. Would you like me to correct the link in the log? -FASTILY (TALK) 08:54, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
F4. Deleted images
Hi, i understand that I did not choose a license for the images. Which license should I choose as I am working on behalf of Steven Williams at the Chapel recording studios. The images are coming directly from the computer here and I believe the copyright would belong to to Steven Williams. How do I go about re-uploading the images? I have tried but wikipedia doesn't want to let me do so. I am a new assistant at the Chapel studios and new to editing wikipedia pages. How should I proceed?
Dan Lee Martin — Preceding unsigned comment added by StevenChapelWilliams (talk • contribs) 10:03, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Please see WP:DCP and WP:PERMISSION. Read and follow the instructions there on sending an email to our OTRS team. Once you have done that, the files will be automatically restored. -FASTILY (TALK) 10:07, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
why did you delete my article
I requested a postponement of deleting the article because I was getting copyright permission and rewriting it based on feedback from Sparthorse. Why did you have to delete it? Sparthorse was allowing me to try to rectify. I don't appreciate you deleting the page while I'm trying to edit. -[evanomics] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Evanomics (talk • contribs) 22:25, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Link the page in question, it's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:39, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
uDigits
Dear Fastily,
Could you tell us please, why you are deleting everything regarding the game uDigits? This pictures has been made by us, and your article "F11: No evidence of permission for more than 7 days" does not make a sense. Please, contact us explain what do you see wrong with this article. Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Igoris Vasiliauskas
Lead Designer at uDigits
uWaver Ltd
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Chip Wolt (talk • contribs) 10:24, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#F11 -FASTILY (TALK) 02:40, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Unbulleted_list
Hi,
Please will you review your closure of Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_December_27#Template:Unbulleted_list. Though there were more keep !votes than otherwise, each was based on a technical misunderstanding; and each refuted with an explanation. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:17, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- Fair enough. Reclosed as delete. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:51, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:56, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Andy did not refute every point. your original closure was correct. Frietjes (talk) 19:50, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- In that case, could you do me a favor and start a WP:DRV on this? I'm not sure what to think now :\ -FASTILY (TALK) 20:02, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- sure, see Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 January 9#Template:Unbulleted list. Frietjes (talk) 20:43, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Nor did I claim to have done so; however, they were all refuted Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- In that case, could you do me a favor and start a WP:DRV on this? I'm not sure what to think now :\ -FASTILY (TALK) 20:02, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Andy did not refute every point. your original closure was correct. Frietjes (talk) 19:50, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:56, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Please see Template talk:Foreign character -- PBS (talk) 00:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- I assume the above relates to the comment I wanted to make, that although the decision was 'delete', the template(s) are still live - or have I missed a trick somewhere?--Smerus (talk) 15:49, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Vickers Victorias
As I understand the process, you have nominated the Koch photograph for deletion in seven days (that is the effect of your categorisation, is it not?). Can you tell me why? I have (with the help of other editors) tried to fulfill all the necessary requirements, and I don;'t have any idea of why, once again, someone wants this photo off the article.Lexysexy (talk) 08:29, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Please link the file in question. It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:55, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- File:216 Squadron RAF Vickers Victorias at Ismailia, Egypt, c1929 (A A Koch).jpg
I see that Graeme Bartlett has already intervened. Lexysexy (talk) 00:02, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Kathleen Chandler
I realize the page Kathleen Chandler was originally created by a banned user, but the topic was notable as a state representative. I was someone who edited and watched the page as well. There was a similar instance with Kathleen Clyde (Chandler's successor) being created by the same user, the page deleted on those grounds, and then restored. --JonRidinger (talk) 13:27, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Recent deletion of college football helmet images
Hello, is there a way to unlink all of the pages that link to an image before deleting it? Your recent deletion of the college helmet files pursuant to Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2011_December_31#File:Florida_Gators_football_helmet.gif (among others) has broken the infobox on every page that linked to them, which is a relatively large number. Cleaning up each one individually is a nontrivial effort, and since the file has been deleted, normal members like me can't be sure they've cleaned up every page that used to link to the image in question. It would just be much more helpful if you could unlink pages that use the pictures before deleting them.-Jhortman (talk) 15:39, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- UPDATE: Ok, I see that I can still use the "What links here" link on the deleted pages, so I've tried to go and clean up some of the pages from the images that were already deleted. It's going to be a long process to get manually rid of all of these helmet pictures, though. There are certainly at least 100 of them, and even the least-used ones have at least 2 or more links per picture. It would be much more simple if there were a way to automate it. -Jhortman (talk) 17:16, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Guy who doesn't know how to put in a section header
Dear Fastily, a permission to publish the following files File:Gold platet wire for satellites.png File:Tungsten wire GTP.png File:Headquarter GTPC Towanda.png was sent to permissions-en@wikimedia.org on December 16th 2011 by Mr. Denes Szechenyi, Head of group communications of Plansee Group. Was something wrong with the permission? Can you tell me how to upload the images again? Thank you in advance.
Best regards, Frank_Schramm Frank Schramm (talk) 15:55, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- As long as you followed the instructions at WP:DCP and WP:PERMISSION, there shouldn't be a problem. Once our OTRS team processes the emails you claim to have sent, the files will be automatically restored -FASTILY (TALK) 18:46, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Unbulleted list
I'm puzzled by your closing statement for this template: (1) it's a template, not a file, (2) the concern raised by the nominator was that that plainlist works better. However, it has been pointed out that plainlist does not work in image captions, while unbulleted list does work. plainlist has less functionality, which means it cannot be used to replace unbulleted list in some cases. I also argued that by simply adding "class=plainlist" to unbulleted list, there would be no need to orphan it, saving tens of thousands of senseless edits. neither of these ideas points were addressed. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 16:29, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- It's not clear when you refer to "plainlist" whether you mean the template, or class. {{Plainlist}} was always meant to replace, not duplicate, {{Unbulleted list}}. Another editors have an example, during the TfD, of how to use lists in image captions; which was the only issue you described in the TfD. Since there are only 3763 transclusions {{Unbulleted list}}, and many of those are through parent templates (as was explained in the TfD), we will not need "tens of thousands" of edits, which in any case would not be "senseless ", as we don't need two templates for the same thing.. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:02, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- you can simply add the plainlist class to "unbulleted list", and there would be no need to orphan the template. the unbulleted list template doesn't have the same restrictions as the "plainlist" template, and can be made to generate the exact same html markup. the syntax for "unbulleted list" is basically the same as "collapsible list", which means it can be be indented when nested inside another template (like an infobox). on the other hand, you cannot indent the internal contents of a plainlist. so, given these differences in input syntax, and the fact that the "plainlist" template cannot be used inside of image captions, I see no reason to get rid of a template which actually works in these cases. in other words, why not just fix unbulleted list? Frietjes (talk) 19:47, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Remove Commons move tags?
Had to tag some Paula Stewart files which have Commons move tags. Since they are questionable as PD, should I remove the Commons tags from them? Thanks, We hope (talk) 16:46, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Laurence Dale
Dear Fastily
In consultation with the tenor and artistic director, Laurence Dale, I was preparing an entry for him on Wikipedia. I can confirm that I hold the copyright for the texts jointly with Mr. Dale. I would be grateful if you would re-consider your decision to delete. I don't see how our proposed entry is any more 'advertisery' than, for example, the entry for Ian Bostridge or other opera directors and singers.
I would be most grateful for your comments. Thank you in advance for your time and trouble.
Brian Galliford — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fdarts (talk • contribs) 20:04, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 20:07, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Fan Arts
No Fan Arts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loanathecat (talk • contribs) 23:44, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Restoration of 'An End to the Means (novel)' article
Hi Fastily, Icreated the article 'An End to the Means (novel)' on Saturday, but you speedily deleted it based on G12 as the reason. Although CorenSearchBot correctly identified http://anendtothemeans.com as the source of the draft Wikipedia article content, procedures in article 'Wikipedia: Donating copyrighted materials' were subsequently followed. The webpage/blog for An End to the Means now contains a statement of release (http://anendtothemeans.com/statement-of-release/). I documented the release on the talk page of the article. Wikipedia did not offer a button 'Click here to contest this speedy deletion'. I did not send an e-mail to permissions-en@wikimedia.org because, per the article 'Wikipedia: Donating copyrighted materials' it specifically states to write an e-mail ONLY if you want to allow Wikipedia to use content but DON'T want to put a license statement on the website. I put a statement of release on the website so therefore, did not think an e-mail was necessary. Never received a response to the last bit. Request the article 'An End to the Means (novel)' be restored or an explanation/recommendations be provided on how to improve the article and republish. Thank you in advance; appreciate your help!DengXiuYuan (talk) 01:21, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Awesome. Thank you very much Fastily! I greatly appreciate it.DengXiuYuan (talk) 03:37, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
I did not create the article, but I was in the process of providing an argument (see below) to the CSD on Chanking when it was deleted. Would you be able to restore it to the normal Afd process? Thanks! Location (talk) 06:13, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Keep. Various sources touch on the technique and it's importance to funk music: 1) "[ James Brown's 'Brand New Bag'] featured a brand new sound made by choking the guitar neck and strumming percussively to produce a sound Brown called 'chank'." [13] 2) Sound is evident in classic funk hits by James Brown.[14] [15]) 3) The sound derived from this method is attributed as a likely "genesis of reggae".[16][17] 4) Jimmy Nolen, in some sources referred to as "Jimmy 'Chank' Nolen", is credited with introducing the term to the musical vocabulary. 5) ""Despite the fact that Jimmy Nolen defined the guitar style which influenced decades of guitarists and funk groups to follow, including Earth Wind and Fire, Tower of Power, Chic, George Clinton, and more, his influence on other forms of contemporary popular music such as hip hop is often overlooked." and a escription of how the "chicken scratch" or "chanky" sound is made.[18] 6) John Scofield wrote a song entitled "Chank" as a tribute to Nolen.[19] 6) Reference to "chank guitars".[20] Location (talk) 06:13, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastly, Finally I have done some more work. is it already ok? Can u already accept it after so many months?? :) Thank you. Regards,--Pravdaverita (talk) 22:31, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
deletion of image Justice Markandey Katju.jpg
The above image was deleted by you. This image was taken from the following site: http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/132_mkatju.htm their is disclaimer at the very bottom of the page. The disclaimer says this in particular "All the contents of this Site are only for general information or use." The photograph is for general use and can be used without copyright infringement. Please restore the image. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mitakshira (talk • contribs) 13:42, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Kelus.jpg
Uh, what licensing information was missing from this file? I thought I was pretty careful about including all that was needed. I got a bot notice [21] and added some more info just to be sure (that bot is extremely unhelpful btw). It would've been nice if you at least notified me before deleting the file.VolunteerMarek 00:39, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- It's sufficient. Restored -FASTILY (TALK) 02:36, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks.VolunteerMarek 21:16, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Category talk:UConn Huskies
I noticed you recently deleted Category talk:UConn Huskies. You might have missed {{G8-exempt}} on the page. This redirect has been maintained in order to preserve archive links to an RfC over the use of Connecticut versus UConn in the name of the categories for the University of Connecticut athletic teams. If you have no objection I will go ahead and restore the page. –Grondemar 03:55, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Halperin.JPG
Hi Fastily,
First of all, thanks for doing all you do on Wikipedia. I've seen your name come up many times and you have been making great contributions to the project. I was surprised to see that you deleted File:Halperin.JPG; I was the only editor who commented in that discussion other than the nominator, and I argued against deletion. I understand that deletion discussions are not votes, but surely a closure that contradicts the sole comment in the discussion should be preceded by a response countering that comment. Any clarification about why this image was deleted despite the concerns I raised would be appreciated. More importantly, however, I recommend contributing to rather than closing single-comment discussions in the future when the sole comment recommends a different course of action than the one you believe to be correct. You've been doing great work in this area of Wikipedia, so I realize that you closed the discussion in good faith.
Neelix (talk) 04:58, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
A bit hasty in close discussion
I do not understand why you closed an ongoing discussion nor why your felt there was consensus for deletion. But, in any case, I'm owed a template for blind tagging of disambiguation link and {{disambiguation needed}} does not qualify. — Dispenser 06:48, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- In closing the discussion, I found that the reasons to delete the template were more compelling than those to keep it. In other words, the strongest argument made the keep votes was that this was part of a trial and visually appealing. The delete votes stated that this was no longer useful to the project since the trial is mostly inactive and visually unappealing. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:09, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- So far the experiments have been small (~200 articles so far) to test basic workflow and functionality. And as I've reiterated several times and current consensus is that {{disambiguation needed}} is only used when a person has attempted to disambiguate the term and is unable to do so. Examples: "Was it reviewed in the US or UK edition of PlayStation Magazine?", "Is this the same John Smith?", or "Just which Lake City in the US?". Experts then can use a tool to find these issues in their WikiProject. That's of course screwed up if we have bot/blind taggers.
- I can partially understand the visual objects, but the Germans think our templates/tags are grossly inappropriate (they're to attract editors, seriously) and no one has put forth a better way to distinguish it from the {{disambiguation needed}}. The current design fits into the visual theme of vector and in the future I'll be upgrading Dab solver to output a more WYSIWYGish interface, which will really helps with editing Tables. — Dispenser 22:28, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Please re-instate the Jennifer Su page
Dear Fastily -- Please kindly re-instate the page on Jennifer Su that you had deleted. I indeed exist and have been on Wikipedia for many years now. I moved house and my emails changed, so that is probably why I hadn't received any notice of pending deletion. Your prompt re-instating of Jennifer Su would be very much appreciated.
Thank you so much and wishing you a happy 2012 and upcoming Year of the Dragon.
Kind regards Jennifer
Jennifer Su Anchor, Summit TV and Sky News "The African Business Report" Presenter, 5 FM ("The Hollywood Report" on 5 FM Gareth Cliff Mornings) Presenter, SABC 3 (South African Broadcasting Corporation) www.jennifersu.com Twitter: jennifer_su Facebook official fan page: jen su Former News Anchor of Star News Asia, and RTHK Radio 3 in Hong Kong and also Thai TV Channel 11 Newsline in Bangkok, Thailand
Please feel free if you would like to request additional information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonyanewsdesk (talk • contribs) 09:06, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#PROD -FASTILY (TALK) 19:52, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia CoI
Please will you put a copy of Template:Welcome to Wikipedia CoI, which you just deleted, in my user-space? cheers. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:41, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Done at User:Pigsonthewing/Welcome to Wikipedia CoI. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:54, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
File:CIE logo jpg.jpg deletion
Hi, you deleted "File:CIE logo jpg.jpg" because of reason F4. In your page you said I am welcome to upload again with license information, but wikipedia won't let me. I have permission to use this picture - there is no license on it. It is free to be used. Please advise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vkurka (talk • contribs) 16:50, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Click here, fill out the necessary information, and check the box for "Ignore any warnings". -FASTILY (TALK) 19:54, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily. You deleted this article, but G4 does not apply as the new version of the page was neither identical or unimproved compared to the previous one. Please restore and conduct another AFD if necessary, thanks. 94.9.69.145 (talk) 19:18, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Would you consider starting a DRV? I'd like a few more opinions on this matter before I outright restore it. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:56, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks.
Deletion review for Håkon Winther
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Håkon Winther. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. 94.9.69.145 (talk) 21:09, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Speedy deletions
Thanks for the deletions of Title of new article here. Something in the coding of the templates on Talk:List of serial killers by country isn't playing nice with one or more of the scripts I have installed, so if I don't preview the page first, Title of new article here is created when I save rather than my edits being saved to that talk page - very odd. – ukexpat (talk) 19:41, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Sure thing. If you can't figure out what's wrong with that script, I guess I'll have to keep deleting the page ;) -FASTILY (TALK) 19:58, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Dhar, India, photographs
Hi. Put up some images for the monuments of Dhar, in India, which you flagged. I took these myself and happy to have them shared without any restriction. Be a shame to loose them... could do the transfer to commons and other things that might be needed? I am taken up with work at the moment and don't have time to figure out the system, for which I'm very sorry. thanks. Zippymarmalade.
- Could you link the files in question? It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:58, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Green Planet 4 Kids
My page was deleted with the reason "G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion" Below is the content of my deleted page.
'Green Planet 4 Kids is an English-language magazine published annually by Regional Maple Leaf Communications Inc. It is illustrated by Canadian artist Bob Hahn and was first published in 2010. The magazine uses a dinosaur group of cartoon characters "The Eco Family" in the form of comic strips that humorously depicts different ideas that ordinary families can implement to live more environmentally friendly. There is an accompanying website greenplanet4kids.com.'
Please advice me which part of this content I should change so it does not sound promotional.
Here are some of the reasons why I think this page should be on the wikipedia (Please advice me if it should be listed in some other section. )
- 260,000 copies of the book were distributed last year alone (in 2011).
- Many schools across Canada use "Green planet for kids" as their co-curriculum material.
- Its accompanying website http://greenplanet4kids.com won families online magazine award http://www.familiesonlinemagazine.com/awardApril10.html.
- Its accompanying ipad app was among top five green apps (http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/gadgets-electronics/stories/five-green-apps-for-your-ipad)
Please let me know if you would like to learn more about this book, and I could send you a free copy of it.
Regards, Nick — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick helps (talk • contribs) 22:26, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 02:53, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Jefferson Academy AZ
Quick thing: is there a way I can see the Jefferson Academy AZ article that got G11'd? I work on AZ school stuff (including most of the articles on the AZ high schools list), so it might be salvageable. They do have a high school component from what I read when I inserted the redlink. Raymie (t • c) 23:07, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Please link the page in question? Jefferson Academy AZ doesn't seem to have ever existed. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:56, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Muhammad Iqbal
On 6 January 2012 you deleted Muhammad Iqbal as "Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.disna.us/LIFE_OF_IQBAL.html". On what basis did you come to that conclusion? Gimmetoo (talk) 02:45, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
You probably want to get over to DRV and either explain what you were thinking rather persuasively, or withdraw your G4... Honestly, it looks to me like if you did look at diffs, you didn't scroll down far enough to see the paragraphs of additional, sourced content vs. the AfD'ed version. Cheers, Jclemens (talk) 03:04, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Could you undo you deletion of this file. The helmet is copyrighted and there will never be a free use alternative. CRRaysHead90 | We Believe! 03:12, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily requested I reply here as I nominated the file. The issue is with the website(s) that creates all of these files, they use a template helmet file that is copyrighted to them which they do not release in a CC-BY-SA compatible way and then add a logo to it. As a picture of a helmet can be taken at any game and released CC-BY-SA and a FUR (if needed) made for the element of the image that comprises the logo the images as taken from the helmet websites are replaceable and we cant make a FUR for there use.(for more information see Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2011 December 11#File:LSU Helmet.png) Mtking (edits) 03:49, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- You want us to compromise our ability to illustrate a helmet because you're worried that a helmet template which has been used for 6+ years without complaint you say violates WP:FUR? I think you should have discussed this matter with WP:NFL before you went around tagging the images. And if the template is your concern you should have looked for a free-use template alternative so we could have re-done this properly without compromising the integrity of the quality of the infoboxes. Sometimes you shouldn't go 'directly to speedy deletion and IFD. I think you have handled this wrong. CRRaysHead90 | We Believe! 06:40, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- The issue has been discussed in a number of locations and I have not gone "directly to speedy" as you put it:
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#Fair use football helmets in team infoboxes
- Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2011 December 28
- Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2011 December 29
- Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2011 December 30
- Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2011 December 31
- Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2012 January 1
- Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2012 January 2
- at atleast one other editor although disagreeing with the outcome feels that I did a good job getting overwhelming consensus on the college football helmets question, I have made a number of suggestions as to how these can be replaced, one such example is at West Virginia Mountaineers football. Mtking (edits) 06:53, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- I really wish you would quit using that LSU helmet discussion, it's not the end all be all on what happens with these images, it's the consensus for that helmet, if you want something to be applied wiki wide I would suggest you start a central discussion so the entire wiki can partake and we can formulate an actual game plan of how to either undo what you have started or find a way to correct the problem you have pointed out. You should not compromise the quality of the articles til then, but that is just my suggestion. CRRaysHead90 | We Believe! 07:04, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- Well the issue is the helmet template is one that is copyright, WP:NFCC says non-free can only be used when a free alternative can not be sourced or created, and a free alternative can be created so we cant use non-free. Have a chat with User:Moonriddengirl the WP copyright expert if you want more detail. Mtking (edits) 07:11, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- I really wish you would quit using that LSU helmet discussion, it's not the end all be all on what happens with these images, it's the consensus for that helmet, if you want something to be applied wiki wide I would suggest you start a central discussion so the entire wiki can partake and we can formulate an actual game plan of how to either undo what you have started or find a way to correct the problem you have pointed out. You should not compromise the quality of the articles til then, but that is just my suggestion. CRRaysHead90 | We Believe! 07:04, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- The issue has been discussed in a number of locations and I have not gone "directly to speedy" as you put it:
- BTW, I keep seeing you say the helmet templates are copyrighted but I have yet to see you provide the evidence to prove it. CRRaysHead90 | We Believe! 07:16, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- I think that comment shows that you don't understand copyright, you might find WP:COPYOTHERS helpful to explain. Mtking (edits) 07:51, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- You want us to compromise our ability to illustrate a helmet because you're worried that a helmet template which has been used for 6+ years without complaint you say violates WP:FUR? I think you should have discussed this matter with WP:NFL before you went around tagging the images. And if the template is your concern you should have looked for a free-use template alternative so we could have re-done this properly without compromising the integrity of the quality of the infoboxes. Sometimes you shouldn't go 'directly to speedy deletion and IFD. I think you have handled this wrong. CRRaysHead90 | We Believe! 06:40, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
deletion of page: The rule of Communist Aesthetics
The rule of Communist Aesthetics was a synthesized concept brought up by my a professor of mine in a history/psychology class. He uses it repeatedly and when other teachers were queried concerning it, they stated roughly the same thing as he. Although it is not readily known within most online communities, it is real. It has been used on my campus (University of Michigan) for many years. I hope that you can see through what may seem like humor in it and leave it be in the case that other students (or others) may use this site as a resource for the unusual rule of Communist Aesthetics. Magnetictanthor (talk) 05:10, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)Usage within only a class is not sufficient for verifiability.Jasper Deng (talk) 05:12, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Dale S
Would you stop being so efficient. I just laid out the reasons for deletion on the talk page and you already deleted it. My gosh. Would you start doing a horrible, crappy job. :) Bgwhite (talk) 06:19, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
{{Foreignchar}}
I stopped watching the largely inane discussion about deleting {{foreignchar}} some time ago, so I have only just discovered that the final decision was to delete. However, I can't see that much reasoning was given by the closing admin. Since the issue is evidently quite contentious, and there were (arguably) strong arguments on both sides, I was hoping you could give some guidance on how you weighed up the arguments in reaching your conclusion. I am particularly worried, since there were a large number of people who had evidently gravely misunderstood the purpose of the template. --Stemonitis (talk) 17:03, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Well, there's really not that much to say. After reading the debate, weighing arguments against each other, and taking into account the number of valid keep/delete votes, I felt that there was a consensus in favor of deleting the page -FASTILY (TALK) 18:52, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- It was that weighing up that I was really asking about. (I trust you didn't make the mistake of treating it as a vote.) How did you decide which arguments held the greatest weight? Which were they? Which did you discount, and why? --Stemonitis (talk) 19:18, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Could you please answer my question? That would be more appropriate than simply ignoring my reasonable requests, and deleting the templates anyway. In simple vote-counting terms the debate may have seemed clear, but there was so much misinformation and misunderstanding that that approach is entirely untenable. You must have weighed up the arguments in some manner, and it would be the responsible course of action, in the interests of transparency, to publish the course of your deliberation. Please give a full explanation of your actions before carrying on with this course of action, for which I can see no real community backing. --Stemonitis (talk) 08:12, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Have patience. I have a big talk page, and it moves quickly. I won't guarantee a timely response, but I will guarantee a response. Let's make this easier for both of us. Tell me, using arguments presented only in the debate, why the !votes to keep are superior to the !votes to delete. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:03, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not necessarily saying that they are. At the moment, I just want to know how you came to your decision, since you gave no indication when closing the debate. Any anyway, I thought such debates were meant to be about the arguments presented; you can't call them "!votes" (literally, not votes) and then rely on simply counting them to determine the outcome. Indeed, WP:DPAFD explicitly states that such "processes are not decided through a head count" (not my emphasis). Everything you have written so far suggests you were simply totting up votes and following majority rule, with no thought for the strength of argument on either side, which is something of a concern. I don't mind being patient, provided there is some hope of interaction, but you deleted one instance of the template while I was trying to engage you in discussion, and the other template is being actively orphaned as we speak. The only way this can move forward is if you explain your thinking in closing the deletion debate, as you should have done at the time, and frankly, the sooner the better. --Stemonitis (talk) 20:46, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- It is not a vote. All the guidelines say so, and I have re-iterated it. When closing a discussion, you do not count heads. You must instead weigh up the arguments. Since you evidently have not done so, I strongly recommend that you go back and un-close the discussion to allow someone who is prepared to do it competently to do so. Your actions in this matter have been disgraceful. You have made an error, and you have compounded it by being uncommunicative, and by pressing ahead with further deletions despite the fact that you know the actions are contested. My requests are not unreasonable and your inability to comply with them would seem to undermine your position as a TfD closing admin; you don't appear to understand the basic precepts of the position. Anyone who treats TfD discussions as a vote is not an appropriate person to close a TfD discussion. --Stemonitis (talk) 07:24, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Having failed to get any useful input from yourself here, I have had no choice but to list the template for deletion review. A good admin should always be able to justify his/her actions, which you have been unable to do. The burden of proof does not lie with me to explain why you were wrong, but with you to explain why you were right. Indeed, you should have given that explanation when closing the debate in the first place. I fear the deletion review may end up making you look bad, and it is with regret that I launch the process, but you left me no real choice. Possibly the worst aspect of this débacle was your continuing with deletion despite my concerns; this isn't something I would take action on, but is something you should understand and which I place here for the public record, and it is something that you should think very carefully about should you continue to act as the closing admin in any discussion. --Stemonitis (talk) 07:44, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Your personal attacks help me to not feel bad about this, so thanks for that. And as it happens, I had already given up expecting any help from you, as I think I stated above. That is why I started the deletion review (and before your suggestion, incidentally). I also don't think your response here is an appropriate response to criticism for an admin, but that's a separate issue, and as I say, not one I want to get into. --Stemonitis (talk) 07:54, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
If anyone is interested, here is the DRV → Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 January 12. Jared Preston (talk) 08:21, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Um... hi (yes, it's about a deletion)
Hi Fastily,
I was a little surprised that there wasn't any discussion before deletion at Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2012_January_2#File:AnimatedTyping_by_Scanning.gif - thought I was in the right place to ask questions :( I'm happy not to contest the deletion; I've got very little experience in such matters, but could you give me some pointers to how I would go about asking questions or starting a discussion in future? I'd like to not be caught out again... Failedwizard (talk) 09:01, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- The file was a copyright violation (copyrighted Windows content was adapted to create this work), so I'm afraid that in any event, it cannot be restored. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:51, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry - I didn't put that very well... I've got no problems with the deletion, I utterly accept the fact - I'm just wondering how I would go about starting a conversation if it happens again with an image that I think should be kept? Failedwizard (talk) 23:13, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Check out Wikipedia:Introduction to deletion process. That explains the deletion process and !vote system we use. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:08, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry - I didn't put that very well... I've got no problems with the deletion, I utterly accept the fact - I'm just wondering how I would go about starting a conversation if it happens again with an image that I think should be kept? Failedwizard (talk) 23:13, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
Hey there Fastily, thank you for your contributions! I am a bot, alerting you that non-free files are not allowed in user or talk space. I removed some files I found on User:Fastily/TMI.
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- What the heck is this Fastily? I see this message all the time, and never know if I should revert the bot because you have some sort of purpose for "TMI" or what. Sven Manguard Wha? 18:27, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- That page is the result of semi-automated dumps generated from files image-linked to expired PRODs that I delete. In my experience, files linked to expired PRODs often have a host of problems and tend to be FfD/PUF/DR material. It's fine if DASHBot is removing non-free files, because that means that the files are linked to the mainspace or tagged with {{subst:orfud}} -FASTILY (TALK) 20:45, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Zanran
Hello, Fastily. I see that you deleted Zanran under CSD G4 (recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion). However, the author of the article has been posting on my talk page about this, saying, amongst other things, that the article is substantially different from that discussed at AfD, and, having looked at both, I agree. My inclination is to restore the article, and let it be taken to another AfD if necessary. Perhaps you would like to look back at it and let me know what you think. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:15, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- That's reasonable, I agree. Would you like to do the honors? Best, FASTILY (TALK) 20:46, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- Done Thanks. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:55, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi
Hi, perhaps is time to indefinitly protect Amanda Lindhout new editing conflict going on now between users. And the article has been protected so many times without improvements in behaviour from users overall.--BabbaQ (talk) 16:06, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- I've just warned Twafotfs for edit-warring. If he continues to edit war, let me know and I'll block -FASTILY (TALK) 20:48, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
clean up
could you take care of the transclusions listed here per WP:CSD#G8, as I stated in WP:TFD/H? 198.102.153.2 (talk) 16:10, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Fastily. Just wanted to let you know that, following a question at my talk page, I've pulled up the history of this article and tucked it elsewhere pending a full investigation of copyright concerns. The tagger evidently didn't realize that there was clean content in the history, or I'm sure he would have listed it at WP:CP rather than tagging it for {{Db-g12}}. Some people at the talk page think it may be a reverse infringement, I gather, but I have no opinion on that yet myself. When I have a little more time, I'll do the digging and see what I can find out and what might be salvageable from earlier edits. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:38, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, yes, that's definitely fine by me. Thank you for looking into it. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 20:50, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- You could start by telling us what information you used to come to the conclusion that the wiki article was copied from disna.us, as I asked before. That would make things a lot easier. On the other hand, if you didn't investigate prior to deletion, then saying so would also be helpful. Gimmetoo (talk) 20:54, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
As you have failed to respond, my working hypothesis is that you did not investigate the article prior to deletion. Even if the article were shown to have copyright violations at this point, your failure to investigate, and failure to respond to inquiries, raise serious concerns. Given the numerous similar complaints you've received in the past, I believe your actions display a pattern of misuse of an administrative tool. This is your last chance to reform. Gimmetoo (talk) 11:25, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily. You said that this was "housekeeping and non-controversial"
I am fervently opposing the deletion. Did you read the edit summaries? The talk page? This is not a non-controversial deletion.
I am requesting the following: 1. Restoration 2. Listing in Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 20:59, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Since that was not a "non-controversial" deletion I started a Redirects for discussion Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2012_January_11#Wikipedia:Nortwest_Airways WhisperToMe (talk) 21:42, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- Er, okay? -FASTILY (TALK) 22:00, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 00:52, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
nicole kidman
Did you really mean to delete the kidman talk page ?Gaijin42 (talk) 22:05, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Hey.
You deleted P.L.U.C.k. now how am I going to find out what it stands for? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.61.226.140 (talk) 01:16, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Please restore File:HaydenAZ.jpg
Did you look at the talk page of this file prior to deleting it? File talk:HaydenAZ.jpg -- You certainly didn't reply. Copyright owner (the heir) gave proper permission at Flickr. Please restore promptly, and don't jump the gun next time! --Pete Tillman (talk) 01:44, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Yup. The file is not only eligible for deletion under WP:CSD#F11 but also WP:CSD#F3. Do your reading before making frivolous claims. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:50, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Did you read the talk page? Do you really want a formal complaint? --Pete Tillman (talk) 03:01, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Yugoslav Space Program
By doing research on above topic I obviously wanted to see what does Wikipedia have about it, and I found out you deleted the page as a hoax. I did not create the page, nor I know how to do it. But being from Yugoslavia, and not remembering anything about 'our' space program from my childhood, I wanted to research the topic, after learning about a Slovenian documentary scheduled to release next Spring about that issue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfJiNPZ38kY). It discusses work of Slovenian rocket scientist Herman Potocnik. I admit I am skeptical about the hypothesis that Tito 'sold' rocket science to Kennedy, and that Verner von Braun built his work on Potocnik's blueprints, but I believe Wikipedia should perhaps have some information about the topic and the film project.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.91.148.51 (talk) 02:25, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
What you fail to consider with deleting this page is that while the U.S.A. launched the Apollo program in 1960, this does not mean that negotiations for the Yugoslav data did not begin in 1960. The Talks with the CIA could very well have occurred within the timeframe. I would suggest reinstating the page, however stating that the information has a lack of sources that are YET TO BE RELEASED in the "houston, we have a problem" documentary. Once this documentary is released, you could choose to delete it or not. However, until then, you have no justifiable cause or reason to delete the page.
Please reinstate image
I received correspondence today saying that you had deleted an image of a worker at the Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory in 1956 because there was supposedly insufficient data giving permission to use it. As you can see from the correspondence (below) I had already written showing that I did indeed have permission to use it but does not seem to have been taken into account. So, unless you have other reasons (in which case please leave me a note on my Talk Page or email me), would you please reinstate the image? Here is the correspondence giving the data which shows I had permission to use it from the copyright holder - Mr. Paul Greenhall of the Smithsonian Institute. Sincerely, John Hill (talk) 02:53, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear John Hill,
Thank you for your email. Our response follows your message.
12/17/2011 01:32 - John Hill wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam: > > Apparently User:Ronhjones feels there is some copyright problem with the image File:Greenhall Crawford 1956.jpg. On the image page is a copy of a letter sent to me by Mr. Paul Greenhall, son of Arthur Greenhall who took the picture, who inherited the photo when his Dad died. Paul Greenhall is also the Director of the Greenhall’s Trust – WI and a close friend of mine since we grew up together in Trinidad in the 1950’s and I worked with his father as an assistant (along with Mr. Crawford illustrated in the photo) doing research on rabies there. I wrote to Paul at the time (2007) and he sent me the letter which, as I mentioned is on the file’s page, which gave me permission to “use, reproduce and or duplicate as needed any image that Paul Greenhall provides. If the images are used, the desired citation is: Courtesy of the Greenhall’s Trust – WI. > > This, to me, would seem to satisfy Wikipedia’s requirements. If not – please email Mr. Paul Greenhall at popenstor@aol.com and ask him personally. He is the Curator of Molluscs at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. I would prefer you do this for 2 reasons: 1. I don’t want to bother him again over a matter he thought he had dealt with sufficiently and I know he is extremely busy. 2. I am sick and bedridden and in constant pain and trying to cope with family and friends over Christmas.So, I would appreciate any help you can give on this matter. > > However, if you can’t do this I will write to him again – but it would have to wait until sometime in January. Please let me know if this is OK and/or if you need me to write to Paul again. > > I have pasted in a copy of his original email giving permission below (which you can also find on the file page. > > Best wishes to everyone at the Wikipedia for the New Year and apologies for not contributing that much recently – I just haven’t been well enough. I really support Wikipedia and its aims and I do appreciate the care that is taken to make sure everything is legit. > > Sincerely, > > John Hill > Cooktown, Australia. > .......................................................................................................
> > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: GREENHAL@si.edu > To: popstentor@aol.com > Sent: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 7:05 AM > Subject: Images for John Hill Australia" > > The photo shows Mr. Crawford who was Arthur Greenhall's Senior Assistant and close friend. John Hill 03:03, 20 February 2007 (UTC) > > "John Hill has permission from the Greenhall Family to use, reproduce and or duplicate as needed any image that Paul Greenhall provides. If the images are used, the desired citation is: > Courtesy of the Greenhall's Trust – WI”
Unfortunately the image has already been deleted by the community.
If you would like to know why this material was deleted or how to review this decision, please consult the deletion log at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete> and enter the title of the article in the Title field. This will provide details of the user who deleted the article as well as the reason. You can contact the user who deleted the article for further information by clicking the link "talk" after that user's name.
You may also wish to read <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article> for tips on how to write an article that will likely not be deleted.
Yours sincerely, Sarah Stierch
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- Whoever gave you permission to use the file on Wikipedia also needs to specify a license for the file to be released under, and a new email with that information needs to be forwarded to OTRS. Until then, the file cannot be restored. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:57, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
M.D.N.A.
Hello - you recently deleted this article, although the reason you provided makes no sense. Please explain. JKW111 (talk) 03:08, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Oh nevermind - i see now, there were two separate articles, although some wikilinks now go to deleted article. JKW111 (talk) 03:11, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
There is no bad brunches on my tree!!! return michael! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.1.71.197 (talk) 03:21, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Vandal report
- 152.226.7.211 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)and 152.226.6.204 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) had been inappropriately performing vandalism. Please do something about this.--NeoBatfreak (talk) 04:01, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Warned user. If any of the IPs continues to vandalize, let me know and I'll block them. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:06, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Read Guo Jing and Beggars' Sect to finding out which pages they have vandalized and I've put up on fixing it.--NeoBatfreak (talk) 07:17, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Sonorama
Hello Fastly, have you read my previous message? I think the article is already ok, User:Pravdaverita/Sonorama, can u already accept it? Thank you, Regards --Pravdaverita (talk) 13:43, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
PUNJAB FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
I am sorry but my temper is really high now. According to wikipedia I (the creator of the article) can contest the proposed deletion. I was actually doing that but then I clicked save and all of a sudden it was gone. Basically you did not give me the chance to contest this deletion. I will act bossy here but please just revive the page because I did not copyright that one section, I rewrote it in my own full words. By the way did you even bother to inspect why it was put up for deletion. I bet you didn't because even the most stupid idiotic people would see that this page was not copyright at all. I actually remember when we went into this situation with the History of Indian football page when I supposedly copyrighted that from an article created after I created this page. This is almost the same case. I am being accused of unjustified copyright and I would love to have my views expressed without you or someone else deleting it without my word. Thank you. --Arsenalkid700 (talk) 20:27, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Do you have the revised text of the page? If so, feel free to re-post. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:52, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- I do not have one. I usually would store a copy of the page but I created the PFA page on my London Laptop when I was there. Can you just restore the page and I can revise that one section like when what happened with the history of Indian football page. --Arsenalkid700 (talk) 03:48, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ok you have still not replied. I am just going to guess that you had a lot of people to reply back to and missed my post. Anyway I want to know if the Punjab Football Association page can be recovered. Like I said I can fix it if given the page and I don't have time to recreate it so please if you can, restore the page and the copyright will be fixed. --Arsenalkid700 (talk) 11:17, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- I do not have one. I usually would store a copy of the page but I created the PFA page on my London Laptop when I was there. Can you just restore the page and I can revise that one section like when what happened with the history of Indian football page. --Arsenalkid700 (talk) 03:48, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- Have patience. Even the business world does not move this fast. I have a big talk page with many messages and I don't always notice changes that are made to it. For future reference, instead of threatening to be my personal poltergeist, you could move the thread to the bottom of the page, where I'd be more likely to notice it. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:26, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I am sorry bout that. Like I probably mentioned before to you or maybe someone else I am very serious when it comes to wikipedia. Also I do have a problem with being impatient. Once again I am sorry about that. I do understand how many questions you get per day and next time I will take your advice. Cheers. --Arsenalkid700 (talk) 01:34, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)It's good to know that you are serious about Wikipedia, I myself haven't been able to edit it that often lately. I myself have an impatience issue but I realized that being impatient doesn't get you anywhere except for boiling water. Patience is a virtue. Here's a tip, if you see a speedy deletion tagged on your page, quickly go to edit and copy the source code minus speedy deletion template, go to the talk page and contest it, if the page is gone, at least the source code is in your clipboard and you can create a subpage in your userspace and paste it there, or if it's your article, why not move it to your userspace and remove the template from the page and continue editing it from there. It shouldn't be deleted as long as it's in your userspace. As for you Fastily, I would recommend maybe setting MiszaBot to maybe 12h.—cyberpower (Talk to Me)(Contributions) 01:44, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I am sorry bout that. Like I probably mentioned before to you or maybe someone else I am very serious when it comes to wikipedia. Also I do have a problem with being impatient. Once again I am sorry about that. I do understand how many questions you get per day and next time I will take your advice. Cheers. --Arsenalkid700 (talk) 01:34, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- Have patience. Even the business world does not move this fast. I have a big talk page with many messages and I don't always notice changes that are made to it. For future reference, instead of threatening to be my personal poltergeist, you could move the thread to the bottom of the page, where I'd be more likely to notice it. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:26, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Hahaha thanks for the advice cyber stalker. :) I will follow your advice as well. --Arsenalkid700 (talk) 02:30, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Callum Driver
I noticed you deleted this article because of non notability. I have references that prove that this article is notable Ref 1. As you can see under the team lineups it says Drivers name for Burton Albion, so he has made a professional appearance. Thanks for your time. Zbase4 (talk) 03:49, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 January 12#Callum Driver. Feel free to comment. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:04, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
I see this article has been deleted as being the same as one previously created. Not so - the difference is that Driver has now made his full football and professional debut with a fully pro side in Burton Albion. This debut is referenced in the article. Please restore the article as notability has now been established and referenced - Thanks.--Egghead06 (talk) 07:44, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Can provide further reliable sources for notability. Otherwise can it be restored please?--Egghead06 (talk) 05:53, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Delete the Article Wordbee- translator.
Dear Fastily
First of all, I would like to thank you for what you are doing on Wikipedia. In fact, I am writing about companies on the translation market tools that are applying the cloud computing. And I begin my work with the product that I know best and the others later. Could you please let me know how can I repair my work and why the other companies information can be published on Wikipedia. I am very appreciated if you let me know the reason so that I can do better and write more article about them. I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
Best regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Huy Quoc Nguyen Dang (talk • contribs) 09:12, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 19:38, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Depositphotos page
Dear Fastily,
First of all, I would like to thank you for what you are doing on Wikipedia. I'm writing you because you deleted page of Depositphotos stock photo agency with the reason of "G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion". Could you specify please why you made such a decision. The company has been already established on the stock photography market and serves tens thousands of customers worldwide. Isn't that fact enough for the company to be featured on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mallboro (talk • contribs) 11:04, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- If Fastily doesn't mind my commenting, it seems to me that we have here an example of a surprisingly common kind of misunderstanding. As you yourself have pointed out, the reason for deletion was that the article was written as "advertising or promotion", not because the company is not significant enough to be the subject of a Wikipedia article. It may be that the subject is perfectly suitable for an article to be written about it, but that particular article was not written like an advertisement, and so was unacceptable. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:05, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi James. Thank you for clarifying this for me. I wrote Depositphotos article in a style that very similar to pre-existed articles of Depositphotos' competitors. It will be very helpful if you can tell me what part of the article made it look like an advertisement. Thank you in advance. Mallboro (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:01, 12 January 2012 (UTC).
- (talk page stalker) Well, the fact that prices for the photos are listed, how one becomes a contributor. Oh, and the fact that the only reference is its own website. If this is based on other articles, I'll warn you about WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS because it looks like we'll have to purge some "competitors" as well (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:13, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
File:U.S. RQ-170 on display in Iran 1.jpg
Hi, please read this: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-August/027373.html 87.236.209.23 (talk) 12:59, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- That's immiterial. What's important here is that there is no source and no license for that file. Sven Manguard Wha? 14:30, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- If you're posting that mailing list link because of the recent PUF discussion then it was raised there and Fastily has also acknowledged to me on this page that when he closed the PUF he was only determining whether the image was unfree (which it clearly isn't as it's PD) not whether we should use it. I do intend to start a RfC on whether we can use such images as that e-mail seems out of keeping with current practice but it's the most recent thing we've got and still referenced at WP:C. I've removed the speedy tag as I don't feel it's appropriate. Take to WP:FfD if desired. Dpmuk (talk) 15:46, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Oh and there is a source in the upload comment. I'm going to assume good faith that the article does give the Iranian government as the source of the photo (given the language I can't tell) as it does seem the highly probable source. If that's the case it's PD, which is the reason for the deleted PD-Iran in US tag. It's definitely PD so not a G12 we just need to sort out whether we should (rather than can) be using it. Off to start a RfC. Dpmuk (talk) 15:51, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- RfC started here. I will try and do more notifications later. Dpmuk (talk) 16:12, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
University of Oxford Georgian Society
Dear Fastily,
Thank you very much for your response. I believe there was a misunderstanding which I would like to clear up - the article Oxford University Georgian Society was not simply reposted and hence in violation of G4. I have specifically addressed the issues raised under the Oxford Georgian Society Discussion page, and the article University of Oxford Georgian Society is now well referenced and cited with numerous external sources and reading materials, which was the issue with the previous article (anything that only has one reference has been removed). I believe its an interesting topic that has tens of analogous articles on Wikipedia (Oxford University Polish Society, Oxford University Greek Society, Oxford University Russian Society etc). I would thus like to kindly ask for the article Oxford University Georgian Society to be reinstated. Please let me know if you require any additional information / clarification.
Best regards,
--81.159.130.123 (talk) 15:32, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Green Planet 4 Kids
Hi, I went through the link you sent, and rewrote the article. I wanted to get other editor's opinion, but unfortunately WP:RFF is currently inactive. I am posting the content here before uploading it on main wiki page. Can you please have a look at it and let me know if this is okay now.
Green Planet For Kids is a Canadian magazine about green living ideas. It covers following areas
Water
Electricity
Heating and cooling
RRR (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
Yard and garden
Transportation, and
Environmental choices
This annually published magazine started in 2010, and 260,000 copies were distributed across Canada in 2011. The magazine uses a dinosaur group of cartoon characters in the form of comic strips to depicts different green ideas. It has an accompanying website, and an ipad app — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick helps (talk • contribs) 15:44, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry, I just updated the link. It'll take you somewhere where you can get another opinion. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:41, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
newline at the top of geobox
Could you take care of this? thank you. 198.102.153.2 (talk) 15:53, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of 'Bestselling cars of all time'
What was the reason of deleting page: 'Bestselling cars of all time'. I suppose you, or someone else might have thought that if there already is 'List of bestselling automobiles' & 'List of bestselling automobiles' such page as 'Bestselling cars of all time' is usles. But as a metter of a fact it was completely different content! It might have been unnoticed for someone who isn't interested in such topics. Once again, I'm politely asking to recreate that page.
I'm looking forward for your answer.
- (edit conflict)(talk page stalker) The reason given for the deletion: "G7 One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page" I'm not an Admin so I can not see who the author is but, even if it's Fastily, if an author request deletion there's not much an admin can do. Mlpearc powwow 17:13, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, Fastily - OTRS review and approval
Dear Fastily,
On December 2, 2011 you deleted File:Nelson_Denis.jpg pursuant to this PUF discussion: [22]
The following day on December 3, 2011, as part of an Administrator's Noticeboard discussion [23], you provided me the following, and very helpful, guidelines:
- I recommended that you send an email to OTRS, which you did. When the email you sent is processed, and if the permissions are valid, the file will be restored. Frankly, I've done everything I can for you... -FASTILY (TALK) 20:55, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Your guidelines were followed. OTRS has verified and approved the permission as valid. The photo file has been restored. [24]
Thank you for your guidance in this matter. It was very helpful, and greatly appreciated. Nelsondenis248 (talk) 22:18, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Katarina Olsson
Unambiguous copyright infringement, eh? Can I point out that I got the majority of the information in the article was sourced from Wikipedia and some from the audio podcast of Big Finish (I think it was early November 2011) and from a brief bio.
Given the 90% of Wikipedia is material taken from other sources and then redrafted, I think you decision to target my little article seems a little churlish. Has Miss Olsson offended you in anyway? Did you ask for an autograph and she slighted you? Or do you have a particular disdain for voice actors?
I'd have to assume all of those, because the decision to delete the article without suggestion of amendment would appear to breach the very spirit of Wikipedia, the "peoples encyclopedia", providing us with a real glimpse into what is effectively a cabal of like minded people. Or am I wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ascolti (talk • contribs) 23:18, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G12 -FASTILY (TALK) 01:15, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Tymon Kruidenier, et al
Thanks for deleting these two articles today. Best, A Sniper (talk) 03:34, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
I don't see how this article could possibly qualify as unambiguous advertising or promotion, and it has previously survived a deletion discussion (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mac Miller). I think it should be restored. --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:01, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry, didn't realize you had already declined the speedy. Restored -FASTILY (TALK) 05:02, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:03, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
This editor has been around since 2007, and has almost 70,000 edits, but it looks like he's created 30 or 40 articles of the type I tagged tonight and you deleted: an article about a non-notable actor that consists of a generic single sentence lede followed by a filmography straight out of IMDB. These are all actors who played bit parts, many or most of which they weren't even credited for, so they're clearly non-notable, as least as far as the data from IMDB shows, and the articles don't pass our notability requirements.
I've never come across a situation quite like this, so I don't know what the best thing to do here is. Any ideas? Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:29, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- I would recommend leaving a note on the editor's talk page (I see you've already done that here), and politely ask them to stop creating such articles. If they refuse or recreate the articles, this can be remedied with continued warnings and subsequent blocks as necessary. -FASTILY (TALK) 05:38, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- OK, thanks, that's what I'll do. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:43, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Holiday Plaza
While you were deleting Holiday Plaza, I was editing it to remove the attack part. The whole thing wasn't an attack article, so I think that editing is better than speedy deletion. I did, however, tag the article for notability and prod it. However, I don't really care that much, and don't particularly mind if you re-delete what I put. If not, and if it survives prod, then we should undelete the rest of the history for attribution purposes. Qwyrxian (talk) 05:41, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, sorry about that. Please feel free to undelete as necessary. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 05:43, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily, You deleted 'File:Harry-barr-epping-1948.jpg' with your reason F11. I was the author and uploader and had followed the directions on the deletion request by sending an email to permissions@wikimedia.org on 02/01/2012. I received a response back today 13/01/2012 asking me to use a specific email template. Of course it is too late now so I'm not sure what to do. Do I reupload the file or can you restore it? Benlevy1 (talk) 08:30, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- Continue the email correspondence. Once you provide the necessary details/release of permission to our OTRS team, the file will be automatically restored. -FASTILY (TALK) 10:43, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Deletion on Multimedia University
Fastily, the record shows that you had deleted the article Multimedia University for violating G12. You also give the website link. The article are meant for and is about the same entity, Multimedia University. I don't think that the article is lack of citation since the official website would be the source of information. Perhaps a proper citation should do. By deleting the whole article, this might an act of vandalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by S12796 (talk • contribs) 11:10, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G12 -FASTILY (TALK) 11:13, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Need Help
Hello Fastily, within September 2011, an editor editing under User:Ysoliman2010 has come back again, making some disruptions. He claims to be an administrator, even though he isn't. May I request banning this user from editing because it appears he just is gaming the entire system. Abhijay (☎ Talk) (✐ Deeds) 11:31, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- Is he editing under another account/IP address? User:Ysoliman2010 is currently blocked. -FASTILY (TALK) 11:35, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily, could you please undelete User:Virinchi523/NO DADA NO KKR? Regards,
--Carbon Rodney 11:36, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, can you delete the talk page (above) as well please? While you were living up to your name and deleting rapidly, I was adding some (unnecessary, as it turned out) extra explanation for the speedy delete request to the talk page. So now there's a talk page, where there wasn't when you did the deletion. Sorry for the extra work. Thanks. 81.107.26.167 (talk) 11:47, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fasty, can you please restore this file since the corresponding article have been restored, as discussed here [25]. I am currently working to improve the article. Thanks. --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 13:31, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Your deletion of Dubai Museum
Hello Fastily! I see you deleted the Dubai Museum article, leaving the following summary: "(G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.weknowdubai.com/70743/dubai-museum/)"
That's a big mistake. The fact is that we are the victims of infringement here as Wikipedia is not credited in that page for the text, neither the photographer is credited for his photo (File:Al_Fahidi_Fort.jpg, which is found at http://www.weknowdubai.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Al_Fahidi_Fort.jpg on the weknowdubai website, notice the 2011/12 in the URL).
The webpage you linked to is by all means a new page. Not only the image was uploaded in 2011/12, the page as a whole has no history saved in the Wayback Machine, while the rest of the site is there. Searching the 8,335 URLs that have been captured for this domain not one of them includes the word "museum". Looking at the website's history, this is how it looked in Nov 2010, and this was then the same page that now includes the Dubai Museum page, it has no link or mention whatsoever of the museum.
If you have a look at other sections at the website you'll find many parts here and there taken from WP articles. This website has been lifting it's contents off Wikipedia ever since its inception. Compare this to this.
All the details describing the museum and fort I wrote after my personal visits to the museum, other information is cited. Our article is not new, the history of the article should show clearly how it's been built over the years, and not with one copy-paste action. People steal from WP without attribution all the time, and it seems odd to assume that we are the infringers just because others have copied the article word for word and ignored our attribution requirement. I hope you can restore the article as soon as possible. Cheers! -- Orionist ★ talk 15:21, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I haven't seen this file, but if it's just a screenshot of the EFF website, then it should be OK, because "Any and all original material on the EFF website may be freely distributed at will under the Creative Commons Attribution License, unless otherwise noted." https://www.eff.org/copyright Trycatch (talk) 16:30, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, I did not know that. Restored Thanks for letting me know -FASTILY (TALK) 20:49, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
File talk:Time of Angels.jpg
You recently deleted the file File talk:Time of Angels.jpg with the edit summary, "(G8: Page dependent on a deleted or nonexistent page)". The page was sign-posted with the template {{G8-exempt}}, so should not have been deleted. Kindly revert your deletion; if you wish, place the page in my User space. (If you wish to respond, please do so here.) HairyWombat 17:34, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- Done at User:HairyWombat/File talk:Time of Angels.jpg -FASTILY (TALK) 20:50, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Why was this page deleted? The page could have been moved to Eastern nagari alphabet before the deletion. Chaipau (talk) 18:26, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#PROD - see Eastern Nagari alphabet -FASTILY (TALK) 20:51, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Deleted images
Hello, you deleted images
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=Integralcitysidebar001.gif
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=Integralcitysidebar002.gif
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=Integralcitysidebar003.gif
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=Integralcitysidebar004.gif
since then I have contacted Marilyn Hamilton, the author of the images, and she agreed to publish them under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License (see her message below). Could you please allow reuploading these images?
Greetings Editor I am contacting you to let you know that the 4 maps that were deleted from this entry are originals created by me and I give permission under the Creative Commons license for them to be published in Wikipedia as noted below CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license. Marilyn Hamilton Marilyn Hamilton 20:45, 13 January 2012 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Integral_City
Yours truly, Eugene Pustoshkin 21:20, 13 January 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Евгений Пустошкин (talk • contribs)
- Please feel free to re-upload the files. You don't need to ask for my permission to do that. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:28, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
You deleted my article Consumer Debt Relief and I'm not sure that your reason is correct...I did not intend to advertise but only to provide a clear understanding of this developing industry and referenced both an industry certification body and an industry trade association only to advise consumers to refer to these groups, these trade groups do not receive any benefit from consumer reference and inquiries.
I spent considerable time and would like to at least reference the article somewhere to "save" so that I can ask further input from your editors and re-submit as I think this information is very helpful to consumers.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cdrexpert (talk • contribs) 21:47, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 22:29, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
AAG Page Deletion
Hello, You deleted my hard work. I designed my page after other corporations (Quicken Loans, Go Daddy) and it was deleted. From my understanding, you believe it was not neutral enough. Instead of deleting, perhaps you can send a message saying that. I will make the article as neutral as possible. I cited sources and was still doing so. Can you please offer advice to make my article stick? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Briejim (talk • contribs) 22:48, 13 January 2012 (UTC) Furthermore, there is lack of information about reverse mortgages on Wikipedia, when reverse mortgages have gained popularity and is still misunderstood! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Briejim (talk • contribs) 22:51, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 23:07, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Last and First Men
You tagged Last and First Men.pdf and Last and First Men-iphoneversion.pdf as lacking evidence of permission, even though they have links to Project Gutenberg's website here where they give their permission to use their material. What more is required? 23:59, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
BGC Partners page deletion
You deleted this page based on the following reason: (Expired PROD, concern was: no assertion of notability, no sources)
What is the basis of this inference? This page is for a reputed company which has been around for a long time. Why would it require assertion or notability when it is stating the companies facts. Please refer to the corporate website for details www.bgcpartners.com
This deletion is baseless and the page should be restored. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.120.100.96 (talk) 03:10, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)Notability must be asserted; there apparently were no sources cited.Jasper Deng (talk) 03:14, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Remember a Day poster JPEG
This poster is the original advertizing poster for this existing film - both historically and present, how do you want it placed - in what format? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CatWizard777 (talk • contribs) 07:55, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- Link the file in question? It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:37, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Complaints from User:Rcbutcher
Hi Fastily, I wanted to make you aware of a conversation regarding you taking place on my talk page and on User:Rcbutcher's talk page. Rcbutcher clearly disagrees with some recent actiosn of yours, and I've directed him towards ANI, so its possible he will raise the issue there. I wanted to make sure you were aware of the discussion. Best, Sparthorse (talk) 10:51, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Sonorama
Hi Fastly, please, Can you tell me what must I do now with the article User:Pravdaverita/Sonorama? You userfied the article, and I have written and translated the information as you told me. I don´t understand why you haven´t answered my previous messages, please can help me? Thank you very much. --Pravdaverita (talk) 20:56, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
1007D
1007D died of drug overdose on 26 December 2011, and another sockpuppet of him will not be created due to his death. I'm currently using his computer. See this talk page archive section for more info about this. 71.142.222.218 (talk) 00:12, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- Hi, 1007D. Glad to you see that you have again returned to disrupt Wikipedia immediately after your rangeblock expired. I will fix that right now. And I will also block your new block-evading sockpuppet, There Is a Fifth Dimension (talk · contribs). --MuZemike 00:01, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Lost earlier (pre-move) archives of a talk page from a delete
As a result of the delete below we have lost "Archive 2" of "Talk:OPERA neutrino anomaly" when the base article got renamed to "Faster-than-light neutrino anomaly". How do we retrieve it now? There are many similar deletes for "Archive 1" too.
14:10, 11 January 2012 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Talk:Faster-than-light neutrino anomaly/Archive 2" (R3: Recently-created, implausible redirect)
PS: Just checked—we have lost archives 1 and 2 of "Talk:OPERA neutrino anomaly" from the deletes. They should be part of "Talk:Faster-than-light neutrino anomaly". Ajoykt (talk) 04:05, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, could you please restore Talk:Faster-than-light neutrino anomaly/Archive 1 and Talk:Faster-than-light neutrino anomaly/Archive 2. Thanks, --D.H (talk) 09:36, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- Hmm, is there a reason why you don't restore those pages? They are certainly not "redirects" because they are full of older discussions. --D.H (talk) 10:47, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Can you look at the file File:Foy V-ODK Sportsmanship Trophy.png, is this current file the same as you deleted earlier today and is the uploaded gaming the system here ? Mtking (edits) 11:52, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- It is, but I can't speedy it right now, because G4 does not apply to items previously deleted through non-XfD means. It may be better to warn the uploader and remedy this with blocks should they continue to re-upload the file after it is deleted at the end of the week. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:41, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- Found where it is taken from (http://www.auburn.edu/odk/Trophy.htm) and taged it as a copyvio, he has been warned before about it. Mtking (edits) 21:37, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Brazilian vandal
Hi there FASTILY, VASCO here,
since you blocked the "user" previously (please see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:177.0.204.119), could you please extend the punishment? He has returned and, from what i see, the ways are still the same.
Attentively - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 19:18, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Articles for Creation Appeal
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Clinical Information Modelling Initiative
You deleted the Clinical Information Modelling Initiative page for copyright violation yet there is no such violation on the page. The content from the page referenced is a statement of principles cited by a number of sites; one of the principles is making content freely available. Oughnic (talk) 20:49, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G12 -FASTILY (TALK) 20:54, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
The original text, created in England, of the three principles is available (and states "1.CIMI specifications will be freely available to all"). The openEHR foundation have not asserted any copyright over the text on their site. Please reinstate the page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oughnic (talk • contribs) 21:41, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Multimedia University deletion
Hi, base on the previous post: Deletion on Multimedia University, could you please restore it so amendment can be made to the page? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by S12796 (talk • contribs) 02:05, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G12 -FASTILY (TALK) 04:40, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
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Hello Fastily!
Hello there, This is Demetri.
I saw you flagged my revised article for deletion and this has been my third failed attempt at uploading due to G11. Please understand I am an avid user of Wikipedia and want nothing more then to contribute my article in a respectful, neutral fashion, alas I manage to fail at every attempt.
Live chat has fruited me no help so I was wondering if you may be able to direct me the right way. I understand even on my third revision, perhaps the "promotion" problem comes from the Magazine links, however I felt it was somewhat necessary, as I read many articles from other bands and a large amount of their credibility is presented by their quotes and reviews from credible magazines and websites, which are also noted on their pages.
Could you perhaps tell me what tones are incorrect for the Simeon Soul Charger article and what links are innapropriate? Your help would be graciously accepted and appreciated.
Thank you kindly and Happy New Year! -Demetri — Preceding unsigned comment added by DemetriSolvo (talk • contribs) 05:03, 15 January 2012 (UTC) DemetriSolvo (talk) 05:05, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 11:35, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Hey
Would you be able to move a sandbox of mine into mainspace for me please? Calvin • Watch n' Learn 22:07, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- What's the page that needs moving? -FASTILY (TALK) 00:32, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Calvin999/Sandbox5 to Complicated (Rihanna song) with the history spilt starting from here please. Calvin • Watch n' Learn 00:39, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- I've deleted the page blocking the page move. Feel free to move the userspace page when you're ready or alternatively, copy+paste the text of the sandbox into the mainspace. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:42, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- OKay thanks. Calvin • Watch n' Learn 15:10, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- I've deleted the page blocking the page move. Feel free to move the userspace page when you're ready or alternatively, copy+paste the text of the sandbox into the mainspace. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:42, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Calvin999/Sandbox5 to Complicated (Rihanna song) with the history spilt starting from here please. Calvin • Watch n' Learn 00:39, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
United States Equestrian Drill Association
Sir/Madame:
I am very distressed that a decision to delete this page was made without proper notification - either to the organization or to me.
Let me assure you that there is absolutely NO copyright infringement.
Kindly see that all concerns in this matter are communicated either to me, in my capacity as the Media Coordinator for the United States Equestrian Drill Championship, or to Mr. Gary Bonner, Exec. Director of the USEDA (email: CPRTEXAS@cs.com). We will be quite happy to provide whatever verification you may require.
Your arbitrary decision is negatively impacting the organization - at at time when it is seeking to up its public profile snd level of sponsorship participation.
Kindly restore this page without delay.
Thank you,
Melvincox (talk) 11:41, 15 January 2012 (UTC)Melvin H. Cox
- User:Fastily/E#G12 -FASTILY (TALK) 20:59, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of talk page
Hi,
I noticed that you recently deleted my talk page. It was being redirected to my talk page at Commons in order for me to keep all my messages from the different language Wikipediae I am working on together as it is not going to be possible for me to edit for a while. Is this prohibited?
--RaviC (talk) 16:36, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- The mediawiki software reads cross-wiki redirects (i.e. redirects created with "#REDIRECT [[]]") as broken redirects. The appropriate thing to do would have been to create a soft-redirect, which I'll do for you. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:02, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of 2011-12 Liga Nacional Superior de Voleibol Femenino - First Round
Hi, the article 2011-12 Liga Nacional Superior de Voleibol Femenino is about a volleyball league season in Peru, the league was originaly divided in two parts Apertura and Clausura. The "apertura"'s first round was on the article 2011-12 Liga Nacional Superior de Voleibol Femenino - Apertura First Round but, this week it was announced that the Clausura part of the tournament would not be played and the Apertura would be the only tournament played.
After that I copied the content of 2011-12 Liga Nacional Superior de Voleibol Femenino - Apertura First Round to 2011-12 Liga Nacional Superior de Voleibol Femenino - First Round and added a redirection on the first article, my mistake i didn't know how to move pages, you deleted both.
Could you please undelete 2011-12 Liga Nacional Superior de Voleibol Femenino - Apertura First Round and move it to 2011-12 Liga Nacional Superior de Voleibol Femenino - First Round which is what i should've done, please. ShadowMkf Talk 18:40, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Umberto Orsini
Please review your deletion of this article for G12... I didn't copied anything, the site http://webmii.asia simply returns Wikipedia articles with the notice "Powered by Wikipedia" and a link to the relative article on Wikipedia... indeed one minute after you deleted the article it also has disappeared from the link you supposed I've copied: http://webmii.asia/Result.aspx/Umberto/Orsini. You can verify this, ie: http://webmii.asia/Result.aspx?f=Nino&l=Manfredi&r=intl returns the same WP article about Nino Manfredi, and the same occurs with anyone else. --Cavarrone (talk) 18:58, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Mania Akbari's 10+4
Clearly, you have not referred back to Mania Akbari's page to learn more about 10+4 or refer to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1198049/ for more information. I do not understand why you deleted the page, it does require more editing but the major problem is that the director has very recently fled from Iran and had always been keeping details a secret, thus you may not be able to find legitimate resources for now. She has fled the country and can now reveal her works. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Parnian.farnam (talk • contribs) 19:19, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- Link the page in question? It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:07, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Wrong deletion
You have wrongly deleted my article without discussing. The reason has been given as G11, but your reason was unsatisfactory.
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 22:36, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Hoax
Can Kraisit Agnew be salted. There is a strong link with Kraisit Chaikaeo, which was also repeatedly recreated. RashersTierney (talk) 22:46, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- No need, User:Mllemohoy, who repeatedly created the article, has since been blocked -FASTILY (TALK) 22:49, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Charleta Tavares
Can you take a peek at the history of Charleta Tavares from when it was deleted the first time? I need to know who created it. It looks like it was deleted for plagiarism which is characteristic of OSUHEY. Marcus Qwertyus 06:31, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- That would be User:Salvatione, who created the page on 15:24, 3 September 2007 (UTC). -FASTILY (TALK) 06:32, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Charleta Tavares
Charleta Tavares is a long standing a current politician in the state of Ohio. Deleting her article is a disservice to constituents. There was zero copyright infringement in that article. Please provide a thorough explanation to why it was removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.252.212.50 (talk) 06:33, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G5 -FASTILY (TALK) 06:44, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
I am not a sockpuppet, but am an Ohioan. And I am greatly outraged at how hastily and terrible Marcus has treated these articles — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.252.212.50 (talk • contribs) 01:48, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Notice of discussion at the Administrators' Noticeboard
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NYGFan (talk • contribs) 07:39, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, could you please check out user WhoSays latest addition to the Eric Saade article here. The user is now adding purely a baseless rumour from a blog. --BabbaQ (talk) 12:20, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- While your at it you could check out this possible sockpuppet who is trying to influence a merge decision on Lisa M. Montgomery with two IPs here and here. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:43, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- WhoSays blocked indef. I had a look at the IP edits you linked above, and I'm not seeing evidence of blatant sock puppetry. However, if votestacking or a continued, excessive amount of IP editing to that page occurs, let me know and I'll semi the page. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:45, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for all the help.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:45, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- Inappropriate tagging by user you have warned here.--BabbaQ (talk) 21:00, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- And unwillingness to read good faith suggestions.--BabbaQ (talk) 21:04, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- Inappropriate tagging by user you have warned here.--BabbaQ (talk) 21:00, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for all the help.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:45, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- WhoSays blocked indef. I had a look at the IP edits you linked above, and I'm not seeing evidence of blatant sock puppetry. However, if votestacking or a continued, excessive amount of IP editing to that page occurs, let me know and I'll semi the page. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:45, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Tfd close
You closed Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_January_6#Template:POV-check-section as "redirect". However, it was obviously the intention of all the editors involved in the discussion (including the nominator) that the three templates would be replaced by their more general counterparts with a "section" parameter. However, {{COI}} doesn't have such a parameter. I made a sandbox version, and added an editprotected request. If you have time to do so, please copy the sandbox to the main template page.
Note also that {{POV-check}} did have a section parameter, but that its code was flawed, mixing the "section" parameter with a talkpage section parameter. It took a quite some edits to the template and some 30+ articles to bring some order into the chaos. Debresser (talk) 03:04, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- Done -FASTILY (TALK) 11:37, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. If you have a spare minute, I have an adminhelp template on User:Debresser/Template sandbox for a few more copy&paste requests. Debresser (talk) 12:34, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- Done too -FASTILY (TALK) 21:13, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- That was awesome. Thank you. Debresser (talk) 21:55, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- I did another 50 templates today, and finished all of them. There is an editrequest at {{Specify}}, if you care. Debresser (talk) 02:23, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- Done as well. Where are the 50 templates? I can do those for you too. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:45, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks. I did those. They were in Category:Templates needing substitution checking. Debresser (talk) 23:02, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- I did another 50 templates today, and finished all of them. There is an editrequest at {{Specify}}, if you care. Debresser (talk) 02:23, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- That was awesome. Thank you. Debresser (talk) 21:55, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. If you have a spare minute, I have an adminhelp template on User:Debresser/Template sandbox for a few more copy&paste requests. Debresser (talk) 12:34, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Oxford Georgian Society
Dear Fastily,
My request was removed by Miszabot III on the 14th Jan before you managed to reply. Here is my inquiry and hope you'll have time to look into it. Much appreciated:
Dear Fastily,
Thank you very much for your response. I believe there was a misunderstanding which I would like to clear up - the article Oxford University Georgian Society was not simply reposted and hence in violation of G4. Issues raised in the Oxford Georgian Society Discussion page were specifically addressed, and the article is now well referenced and cited with numerous external sources and reading materials, which was the issue with the previous article (all information and chapters with only one reference has been removed). I believe its an interesting topic that has tens of analogous articles on Wikipedia (Oxford University Polish Society, Oxford University Greek Society, Oxford University Russian Society etc). I would thus like to kindly ask for the article Oxford University Georgian Society to be reinstated. Please let me know if you require any additional information / clarification. Best regards,
--81.159.130.123 (talk) 13:03, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G4. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oxford-Georgian Society. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:01, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- Dear Fastily, again thank you for looking into this. If you however read the reasons for the deletion of the article, you will notice that it was due to the lack of referencing and citations in the previous article. The fact that previous version has been deleted is now stopping us from creating a page on this topic forever, even though the relevant research has been done and all the materials added (please see the latest page removed by you). It is a very well cited article, writing about a topic that is well represented on Wikpedia (Oxford University Polish Society, Oxford University Greek Society, Oxford University Russian Society etc). I would thus really appreciate it if you could have another more detailed looked at the article.
Thank you in advance
--88.211.47.74 (talk) 10:08, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Hannah Mills
I am not an expert with wikipedia protocol but you recently deleted a page for Hannah Mills. My issue is that happy sailor moved the origional article to make way for his own which I question. Therefore I thought that by putting a disambiguation page there I would avoid a lengthy discussion of not having one as the superior article. I appreciate this is only for two people so isn't ideal. I note that as soon you deleted the page it has already be recreated by happy sailor. Sorry I dont no how to add the coding to invite him to the conversation and he never replied to the one he created on my page. talk 18:56, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- An Olympic sailor & world champion surely is a primary topic compared to an 18th century quaker? Since there is only two articles, the Disambiguation guideline says a disambiguation page is not necessary, and spares editors from clicking through multiple pages to find the other article. If there was more than the two articles, then I would have no issue with creating a disambiguation page for the name in the future. - Happysailor (Talk) 20:30, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- To be fair she hasn't competed in an Olympics or won the Worlds title outside of the Youth Classes. I admit she is selected for the games and likely to win a Worlds going on current form. The way I see it is Hannah Mills (sailor) should have been created. (Primary topics are all about personal views over 10 people have contributed to the Quacker story just you and me to the sailor and that is because we are interested in sports stastics) You may have broken internal links to Hannah Mills the Quacker in your actions sooner or later another Hannah Mills would have come along and there would be a need to disambiguate. However this isn't the point simple question did you contact the moderator Fastily before recreating the page as per the instruction left on the page after deletion? As the action of the moderator wasn't to move it back. talk 13:48, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- First, no internal links were broken (the only 2 that existed for the Quaker (not quacker)), because I corrected them during the page move unlike your own page move that broke all of the 'sailor' Hannah Mills links. Secondly, I suggest you look at the page log and the message Fastily left before speaking for Fastily, as there was no such message saying not to move it back. - Happysailor (Talk) 18:33, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of Min Ko Naing
Hi Fastily, I saw that you speedily deleted File:Min Ko Naing.jpg on the grounds that a free equivalent exists. I'm glad you found one--I was looking for such, but didn't have any luck. Could you point me to it so that I could upload that one in its place? Cheers, Khazar (talk) 02:03, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- NM, saw your note at the top, followed the link, and understood better what you were arguing. I do respectfully disagree on the availability of a free equivalent, though, and I'm surprised you found it clearcut enough to speedy. Since Min Ko Naing's so much in the news, I went ahead and appealed here to save time, but please chime in if you want: [26]. I'll leave the image down for now. Cheers, Khazar (talk) 02:33, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of new photo
Hi Fastily
Just double checking your reason for deleting the [file] I uploaded for the Stephen Hill article. I'm learning about free use & and non free use images, but I couldn't find any free pictures of Stephen Hill and figured if there are ones used for his company's annual report and website, that would be OK given the non-fair use criteria. If not, what's the best form to ask permission from the company do you think? Thanks for bearing with me. Best regards, Jbro68 (talk) 05:11, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#F7 -FASTILY (TALK) 05:36, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Rubinkumar
Fastily, please see User talk:Rubinkumar#Rollback. Eagles 24/7 (C) 06:17, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- I've reverted myself. Thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:23, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- Wait, I'm confused. Why did my rollback privileges get taken away? Did I do something bad? If so, please tell me.
--RubinkumarTalk 22:23, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Image Deleted Does Not Violate Copyright
Hi Fastily -
I am Ho Baron, a sculptor with a Wikipedia page. I uploaded one of my images back in 2007. Sorry but I rarely log on and just discovered that you deleted the image:
00:11, 26 November 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:Free Thinker.jpg" (Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2011 November 12#File:Free Thinker.jpg.
Since I have not been logged on, I missed my messages RE the discussion of the deletion. I appreciate that you are trying to protect my intellectual property. I thank you for that. However, I had thought that I filled out a copyright form for this image back in 2007 (note received from Wikipedia in 2007 is below - I thought that I had done the copyright sourcing).
So, what do I need to do to get the image back? Will I have to reload it myself or is it hidden somewhere in the Wikipedia image archives?
"Thanks for uploading Image:Free Thinker.jpg. Wikipedia gets thousands of images uploaded every day, and in order to verify that the images can be legally used on Wikipedia, the source and copyright status must be indicated. Images need to have an image tag applied to the image description page indicating the copyright status of the image. This uniform and easy-to-understand method of indicating the license status allows potential re-users of the images to know what they are allowed to do with the images.
For more information on using images, see the following pages:
* Wikipedia:Image use policy * Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 20:09, 30 October 2007 (UTC"
Thanks, Ho Hobaron (talk) 06:37, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- Could you send an email to our OTRS team at permissions-en@wikimedia.org, telling them exactly what you told me? Be sure to indicate that you have released the statue under a Wikipedia-compatiable license and that you acknowledge that you cannot withdraw the agreement to release the statue under the license of your choosing. Once you have done that, the file will be automatically restored. For detailed instructions on how to do this, please see WP:DCP and WP:PERMISSION -FASTILY (TALK) 21:53, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Sonorama
Hi Fastly, please, Can you tell me what must I do now with the article User:Pravdaverita/Sonorama? You userfied the article, and I have written and translated the information as you told me. I don´t understand why you haven´t answered my previous messages, please can help me? Thank you very much. --Pravdaverita (talk) 13:42, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
- I do not recall having received previous messages from you. However, if you feel that the page is ready for the articlespace, feel free to move it to the appropriate title. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:46, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Notice of discussion at the Administrators' Noticeboard
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- (Section "User:Priyabhar repeatedly removing Template:Copyvio") RichardOSmith (talk) 15:36, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Hospice of Southern Illinois
I understand the reason for deleting the page, however this was not the intention of the page (G11 advertising). I would like to resubmit my page however I need access to what the old page said. Will you please grant me access to it or repost it so I can make changes? Thank you.
Cjuehne (talk) 20:24, 16 January 2012 (UTC)cjuehne
Restore requestion
Could you please restore File:Club Santos Laguna logo.svg. Currently Club Santos Laguna has no logo, and this is an svg version. The logo was uploaded at Commons but it is very original. Thank you. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 21:07, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Rostock S-Bahn
could you restore the deleted revisions of Rostock S-Bahn? I had tagged a template used by this article by 'db-test', and since that template was transcluded here, you deleted the article by 'db-test' too. I think the article is fine, just the template was a test. Frietjes (talk) 22:22, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Poptropica screenshot
Why did you delete it? It is in use at Poptropica article.Greg Heffley 23:01, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of File:Kittens.jpg
Please check the comments in the file you deleted...only the current revision was up for deletion not "the whole file". DMacks (talk) 00:25, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
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Susanna's Seven Husbands
Heya, I noticed that you deleted Susanna's Seven Husbands for copyright issues. I had replaced the disputed content with details about the Novel. Could it be undeleted? OR should I start a new article? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 09:03, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- Never mind, someone already has created it. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 09:05, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi there Fastily,
you deleted a page of mine, Anyvan, in September, and I would like to make alterations to put the page back up. I know it was flagged for non notability, but I believe there has been significant media coverage over the last year to make additional references and hopefully restore the page. Did you have any specific concerns regarding the page, or was it only non notability.
Thank you for your time, I really appreciate it.
Tompey (talk) 10:15, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#PROD -FASTILY (TALK) 11:56, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Speedies
Could you hit User:Ryulong/Userboxtop as well? I fully protected it years ago and I can't tag it now.—Ryulong (竜龙) 10:24, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
And figure out some way to remove all of the transclusions of User:Ryulong/CPenguin?—Ryulong (竜龙) 10:29, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm afraid I just cannot understand why you would delete an entire article instead of doing what should have been done: cut out the copyvio and reduce it to a stub. I have now restored it and done this. It is a significant institution, worthy of an article. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:55, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Exia Process
Hi, just wondering what the criteria for deletion of Exia Process was. Thanks a lot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nigelshaw (talk • contribs) 14:11, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 21:09, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Someone does want to see the Hiroshi Kato (aikido) page!
The deleted Hiroshi Kato (aikido) page was not my page, but I wanted to refer to it. Kato Sensei is one of the very few living direct students of the founder of aikido. Aside from this historical importance, he is an inspired teacher of the art. Since the concern that led to deletion seemed to be a concern that no-one cares to use that page, I thought it would be appropriate to point out that I do, and others like me (any kind of martial art student) might like to as well. Especially when Kato Sensei, born in 1935, passes away.
Thanks. 149.130.195.139 (talk) 21:22, 17 January 2012 (UTC) Mike Wiest
- User:Fastily/E#PROD -FASTILY (TALK) 21:25, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
three spheres deletion
Hello fastily,
I tried to follow your direction for releasing our pages content but i was unclear on how to proceed the page that describes the process is confusing.
Basically the page you say i'm plagerizing is an old blog post from me and my group at Envirolution. threespheres@blogspot.com is from 2007 and should not be up but they dont delete it.
Either way we have permission to use those text chunks and we feel it is important to get the definition of Three Spheres out to the wiki-public.
Thanks for your time
Skye King Laskin (talk) 22:07, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- Send an email to our OTRS team at 'permissions-en@wikimedia.org', stating that you are the author/representative for three spheres, and that you agree to irrevocably release the text of your blog under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and the GFDL. Once you have done that, the page will be automatically restored. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:25, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this fails fair use or not, and I'm definitely WP:INVOLVED and unfamiliar with the policy; what's your opinion? --Rschen7754 22:52, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, it's a textbook violation of WP:NFCC#1. I'll tag it as such. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:56, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
It is on CNN. You really did not and do not have to delete is so fast.--2012 Phenomenon is important (talk) 00:48, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Demisexual
On the 17th of December 2011, you deleted the page for Demisexual. I am confused as to why you did this, as you provided no specific reasons — and last I remember the page for Demisexual contained adequate coverage and definition of Demisexuality with no obvious errors or invalid information/links.
I have looked further into the 'G8: Redirect to a deleted or non-existent page' but I am still to discover why it was exactly deleted (what precise content resulted in grounds for deletion? Etc) I cannot find other informational sources external to Wikipedia that provide a precise and elaborate explanation of Demisexuality like Wikipedia did; so this deletion troubles me to no end.
Any information you can provide on the matter would be very appreciated, and I would; of course, be very relieved if this page was restored and/or errors corrected so it may remain a tangible page to all.
Thank you, and my kind regards. --94.193.215.4 (talk) 02:08, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
- See Demisexuality. User:Beeblebrox is the admin you're looking for. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:24, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
Gor Mahia F.C.
Hi Fastily, would you mind taking a second look at Gor Mahia F.C.? It has 164 edits going back to 2006, so not in my view an article that couldn't be restored to a pre copyvio version. Especially as the 2006 version was very words by an editor other than the one who did the copyvios. I'd already declined the speedy once and reverted back a few months. ϢereSpielChequers 14:30, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- I'll file a WP:CP report. Restored for now. Hope that helps. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:10, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Gor Mahia F.C.
Hello. I noticed you have deleted the Gor Mahia F.C. article due to copyvio. The subject is very important and the article was created over five years ago, so speedy deletion of the article cannot be justified. It would be equally ridiculous if articles on Manchester United or FC Barcelona were instantly deleted just because someone has added copyvio text into them. Could you please restore the page as soon as possible. I think the article was copyvio free just one or two weeks ago. Julius Sahara (talk)
- See #Gor Mahia F.C. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:12, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- Please be aware that Jahazi Otti was more or less editwarring and repeatedly readded. He has by now a level-3 warning for that. I have reset the article to the last version without copyvio and Facebook sources (= version of 8 January 2012) and hope that it stays without copyvio. Night of the Big Wind talk 12:51, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- Hi night of the Big Wind. Remember that deletion is not the only option to us, and it isn't an option in articles like this where there is a pre copyvio version to restore to. Protection and blocking are both options. In the case of an article where one particular individual is repeatedly adding copyvio then if they don't respond to dialogue ultimately we have to block them. Protection would be an option if multiple people were adding the copyvio. ϢereSpielChequers 13:32, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Jake.edu
He is not trolling. He is requesting that someone make a redirect to So Random! (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) at the title "SO R@n:D0ᴟ!".—Ryulong (竜龙) 11:55, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, okay. Thanks for letting me know. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 12:05, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah. It's just confusing because you can create the page if you wanted to, but the peons like him and I are blocked by the MediaWiki:Titleblacklist or meta:Title blacklist (probably ours).—Ryulong (竜龙) 12:07, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
No thank you.
"This noticeboard is for issues affecting administrators generally – announcements, notifications, information, and other matters of general administrator interest." "No administrative action necessary." No "closure" necessary—AN is not about appeals for action. Fifelfoo (talk) 12:04, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- Any issue here is either moot or resolved. It's beyond me why you're adamant on keeping this open. -FASTILY (TALK) 12:11, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- Please point to the "call to action." Fifelfoo (talk) 12:14, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- Tell me then, if it's not a call for action, what exactly is it? -FASTILY (TALK) 12:16, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- It is an announcement of analysis and information, of general interest. I suggest you revert yourself now. Fifelfoo (talk) 12:17, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- Many thanks. I've noted two users who had an interest in the topic of "edits while edits weren't happening," and meta is discussing the broader implications. Having read a years worth of AN archives for a case, it helps if non-disruptive page sections aren't hidden; as hidden sections in the archive require manual intervention before they're text searchable. Fifelfoo (talk) 12:28, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- It is an announcement of analysis and information, of general interest. I suggest you revert yourself now. Fifelfoo (talk) 12:17, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- Tell me then, if it's not a call for action, what exactly is it? -FASTILY (TALK) 12:16, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- Please point to the "call to action." Fifelfoo (talk) 12:14, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Mass deletion of category pages
When mass-speedy-deleting pages, please actually make sure that the claimed CSD actually applies in each case. Today, you've deleted lots of categories nominated under CSD C1, but which are populated - such as Category:2nd-millennium establishments in Monaco. Please be more careful next time. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:55, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- Right, my bad. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:43, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- How about you help with restoring and detagging them? The list of categories which I'm refering to and which haven't yet been handled is:
- עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:54, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Pépoi
Hi! You very understandably deleted Pépoi as a redirect to a non-existent page. I've now created the page at Pepoi (assuming that many Wikipedians would prefer the unaccented though less correct form). Would it be in order for me to re-create the redirect at this point, or to ask you to un-delete the previous one? Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:22, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- Since the redirect was only deleted because it was a "Redirect to a deleted or non-existent page", there's no problem with you re-creating it once its target exists. On the other hand, I don't see why this redirect is necessary - if "Pépoi" is the correct title, then the article should be at Pépoi and a redirect at Pepoi. Don't copy the content over - see Wikipedia:Moving a page#How to move a page. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 15:36, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- Done. Thank you for your advice. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:14, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily
Could you please deal with this: Talk:Microsoft_Security_Essentials#Edits_by_James_.28User:M.O.X.29 It seems to be a case of "I don't get it". He CLEARLY fails to understand copyright policy and repeatedly asserts his position in the most pig-headed manner. Thanks, —James (Talk • Contribs) • 3:03am • 17:03, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- Might I suggest DRN? This reads like an editorial dispute to me. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:45, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Haymarket Monument
Hi, I uploaded 3 files of the Haymarket Monument in Chicago that were deleted, Can you prove to me that this monument is copywritten or otherwise OWNED disalowing free distribution of photographs of it?
Possibly unfree File:Critical mass Chicago, passing Haymarket Monument.jpg
Possibly unfree File:Haymarket Monument by Mary Brogger 2.jpg
Possibly unfree File:Harmarket Monument with Anarchist Graffiti.JPG
- I have a question for you - Can you prove to me that this monument is not copyrighted? -FASTILY (TALK) 02:46, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion review for Damian Roberts
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Damian Roberts. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. --George Ho (talk) 20:31, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion review for file:WMAM_Radio_Station.jpg
You deleted this image with the log entry of:
- 00:16, 9 January 2012 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:WMAM Radio Station.jpg" (F7: Violates non-free content criterion #1)
I object, as I personally took the photo, and in the description, I state that I did so and was hereby releasing it into the public domain. The explanation that (F7: Violates non-free content criterion #1) therefore seems to be void, as this is an image I created.
If you blundered, please restore. If you provided the wrong explanation, please correct or clarify. Thank you. --Kentmoraga (talk) 21:16, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Kugiko San
I didn't see any of the problems on your list about my article, Kugiko-San. I'm just wondering why it was deleted. I'm not upset or anything, I just want to know how my article can qualify for inclusion in this encyclopedia. Sir aaron sama girl (talk) 04:38, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#PROD -FASTILY (TALK) 08:03, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Good work on Syn by the way
Given we've interacted recently it often is important to be explicitly positive about when things go right, good work deleting Synthesis-inline and moving Syn over it. Fifelfoo (talk) 10:56, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of File:Movies_es5-20030823.png
You recently deleted File:Movies_es5-20030823.png. In any case, there seems to have been a misunderstanding in terms of the deletion discussion and rationale. I've tried to explain what I think is going on and what I think should be done at File talk:Movies_es5-20030823.png. As per the deletion review guidelines, I wanted to bring this up with you and the deleting admin first. —mako๛ 15:05, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- Per File talk:Movies es5-20030823.png, I think it should be undeleted. Sven Manguard Wha? 19:03, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
File:George William Goddard.gif
Please restore File:George William Goddard.gif so I can add a FUR and new license to the image. Once again contacting me before deletion is much better. So please contact me before any more deletions. Thanks. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 15:37, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- Place the wikitext you intend to add to the page, and I'll restore it with the new text. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:15, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- What is with the obstinate cat and mouse game, I am going to add the same rote boilerplate every dead person gets, that you could have added before deletion: {{Non-free use rationale |Article=George William Goddard |Description=George William Goddard |Source=http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/ggoddard.htm |Portion=All |Low_resolution=Yes |Purpose=To illustrate person at peak of career |Replaceability=Non replaceable, person is dead |other_information= }} {{Non-free fair use in|George William Goddard }}
Deletion of Rachota article
Dear Fastily,
on January 9th, 2012 you speedily deleted the article about Rachota Timetracker [1] considering it as spam [2]. I have read the reasons to recognize an article as such and I don't understand what it was exactly that disqualified the article. Rachota Timetracker is a free and open source application which was well known already prior to the article creation. Besides, you might not know that it was recently added to Red Hat's Fedora Linux distribution [3].
[1] [[27]] [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spam [3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/rachota
Since Rachota project and Wikipedia itself share that same vision of free access to information (or tools in Rachota's case), can you please explain to me what are the grounds for deletion of the article about this open source application? Or even better release your strict verdict?
Thank you very much for your reply.
Best regards, -- Jiri Kovalsky NetBeans Community Manager http://netbeans.org
--Cesilko (talk) 15:44, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 22:11, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of the Pivotal Payment Wikipedia page
Hi,
My name is Alex Galasso and I work for Pivotal Payments. Our Wikipedia page was recently deleted by you and we would like to inquire further.
The article was published for about 12 months with no problems and strictly stated factual information.
Please let us know how we can remedy this situation and have the page restored.
Thank you for your time.
Feel free to contact me at agalasso@pivotalpayments.com.
Alex — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.254.235.50 (talk) 17:03, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- Link the page in question? It's unclear what you're referring to -FASTILY (TALK) 22:10, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Corrupt ADMINs, Destroying informatio on wikipedia
Are you working for the Fed or SOPA? Why have you erased an article (on the day of wikipedia's global protest of internet censorship) without any discussion?? Free energy suppression and free enrgy claims are not the same thing, nor do they have the same information. Please un-erase the article, and let a merge proposition decide if the two are similar. --Namaste@? 19:43, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- Oh yeah, because obviously, I totally support censorship. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:09, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
User:Diza
Do you mind dealing with this?Andrew Kurish (talk) 23:08, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Alan Murphy
Not this again. You have deleted this player for the usual nonsense reasons. There are nearly 1400 League of Ireland players. Are you going to ruin all the work? Its time for you people to get some proper rules. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.251.222.123 (talk) 23:16, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Sittingbourne FC logo
The image File:Sittingbourne FC Logo.png was deleted by your good self about ten minutes ago under an F5 criterion, however the image in question was (and indeed is) still linked in the article, apart from a brief period when the image was removed by a vandal and not restored until later. I am at fault for not removing the deletion notice (it slipped my mind, many apologies), and I respectfuly request the restoration of the image. It's Malpass93! (drop me a ___) 00:15, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Tricia Dingle page
Why did you delete the page of Emmerdale's Tricia Dingle? I was just looking it up for some information and I see it has gone. She was a popular character from a popular UK serial drama, and had a very memorable exit. People often look up these sort of things, it is not as if she has no links to the show - her husband and grandfather are still in the show and her mother was a big character too. I don't see why this page does not exist when pages of characters of less importance remain. You are essentially deleting information about the history of the show. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DesertHotIceCold (talk • contribs) 00:33, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#PROD -FASTILY (TALK) 00:52, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
Hey there Fastily, thank you for your contributions! I am a bot, alerting you that non-free files are not allowed in user or talk space. I removed some files I found on User:Fastily/TMI.
- See a log of files removed today here.
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Strange things occuring your way....
Hi, Fastily. Recently at WP:PERM/R you gave rollback rights to User:RaunakR, who even don't exists. Look at it here. What has happened to you? I guess your account is probably hacked.Even though if he had existed, Edit counter strictly mentions that there is no such user. I would probably ask you to be careful, or change your password. If you give any reply, please leave me a {{talkback}}. Thanking you, Dipankan001.Dipankan In the woods? 11:36, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- If you'd looked at the User:RaunakR page, you would have seen that it quite clearly says "04:08, 17 January 2012 MBisanz (talk | contribs | block) moved User:RaunakR to User:General [without redirect] (Automatically moved page while renaming the user "RaunakR" to "General")". RaunakR does exist, they're just called User:General now --Jac16888 Talk 11:44, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_January_10#Template:OlivierAward_...
Regarding Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_January_10#Template:OlivierAward_..., Since when is three votes to keep and nominator plus 1 delete a consensus to delete. Did you miscount the votes? Are you going to make me go through a WP:DRV?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:40, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
- If you intend to stand by your decision, please userfiy all the templates and talk pages in my user space.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:45, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
- I don't understand why you responded to the other two queries but not this one. The first step of the DRV is to request that the admin reconsider his decision. I can't really move forward until you confirm that you have reconsidered your closure decision. I guess I will have to wait until after the blackout.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:52, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
- Dude chill. I was AFK for 10 minutes. I'll userfy them. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:55, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
- I am suppose to attempt to discuss my disagreement with your decision, but you have not offered any communication as to why you feel 3 keeps and nominator plus one delete constitutes consensus to delete. A simple cogent explanation would suffice to evidence that we remain in disagreement.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:51, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- I see you have not edited much today. However, I want to remind you what rule #1 at WP:DRV begins as follows: "Deletion Review is to be used where someone is unable to resolve the issue in discussion with the administrator (or other editor) in question..." Basically, we have to go through the hoops where I say look you closed something with 3 Keeps and Nominator plus one delete as a consensus to delete for what seems to be no apparent reason. Then you either say 1. Oops., 2. I'm an admin and I felt like it (probably not a good reason, but you never know. maybe it will get support at WP:DRV), 3. It is common to close in favor of the minority opinion in cases such as this where X is the case, 4. I disagree with your assessment of the majority opinion for x reason, 5. remember this is not a vote and I weighed the arguments.
- I generally am an impatient discussant, so I am just basically saying I am still impatient. I am bored at having to wait. Thus, I am scribbling my musings.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:12, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- I'm always happy to provide explanations, but if you're going to be disrespectful, this conversation is over. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:43, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- It seems to me that you violated procedure. I am just annoyed at your response which has taken you over 48 hours and counting to formulate. It seems now that you are looking to the nominator to explain why 3 keeps and nominator plus one delete is a consensus to delete. That is a decision you are suppose to explain by yourself. Your decision to close according to the minority decision is not something you are suppose to ask the minority opinion to explain.
Actually, I don't understand why you are WP:CANVASSing only the minority opinion. Did you forget to ask all the people who voted keep?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 03:17, 20 January 2012 (UTC) - If you believe that your closure decision is suppose to be explained by the discussants rather than yourself, which I doubt any admin does, I don't understand why you think it would be proper to WP:CANVASS only the minority opinion. Obviously, if you believe it is the responsibility of the discussants to explain your closure decision, you should pursue a neutral explanation by also soliciting explanation from those who voted keep.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 06:58, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- It seems to me that you violated procedure. I am just annoyed at your response which has taken you over 48 hours and counting to formulate. It seems now that you are looking to the nominator to explain why 3 keeps and nominator plus one delete is a consensus to delete. That is a decision you are suppose to explain by yourself. Your decision to close according to the minority decision is not something you are suppose to ask the minority opinion to explain.
- I'm always happy to provide explanations, but if you're going to be disrespectful, this conversation is over. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:43, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- I am suppose to attempt to discuss my disagreement with your decision, but you have not offered any communication as to why you feel 3 keeps and nominator plus one delete constitutes consensus to delete. A simple cogent explanation would suffice to evidence that we remain in disagreement.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:51, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- Dude chill. I was AFK for 10 minutes. I'll userfy them. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:55, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
- I don't understand why you responded to the other two queries but not this one. The first step of the DRV is to request that the admin reconsider his decision. I can't really move forward until you confirm that you have reconsidered your closure decision. I guess I will have to wait until after the blackout.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:52, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily asked me to comment here. Of course, it's a discussion and not a vote, so the closure was hopefully not based on counting votes. My own opinion, like others who voiced an opinion in the debate, is obviously biased. my primary objection was that it is simply redundant to keep both the 25 year span templates and the larger all year version, when we have an article which has all the years together. if we look at the opinions, we have 'De728631' who wants the 25 year span templates deleted, and the single template kept. this is not stating that we should keep both, which was my primary objection to the larger template. We have TonyTheTiger who is stating that this is the standard template system for award templates. What is not clear is why it's desirable to have the information in two places, or why we need the larger combined template. We have emerson7 stating that it is established convention, and some strange argument about it being easier for newer editors to have the information duplicated in multiple templates. I thought Plastikspork's comments summed it up very well, and I agree that a suitable compromise could be to have the larger template simply transclude the smaller 25 year span ones. however, I still don't see why this is necessary, since it would only be used in the main toplevel article, and that article already has the complete list. as far as going against convention goes, I have changed a few dozen of these and this is the first time anyone has complained, so I am assuming that folks either (a) don't care, (b) like it better without the larger combined template, or (c) have just now began to notice, which seems unlikely, since I have changed dozens of these. please let me know if this does go to DRV. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 16:17, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- The 25-year span templates were not deleted. The decision was to delete the full templates based on the following responses regarding the full templates:
- Frietjes (talk · contribs) (nominator) Delete there is no need for one that includes all the years, and requires updating lists in more than one template 00:36, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- De728631 (talk · contribs) Keep let's have them grouped in a single template per genre. 01:39, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) Keep For the actual award article we use the full template. This is how it has always been for awards 15:02, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
- Emerson7 (talk · contribs) Keep it's a pretty well establlished convention that's useful in reducing clutter and simplifying editing and updates 21:50, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
- Plastikspork (talk · contribs) Delete Having the information in only one template, with only once place to update, will reduce the chances of things getting out of sync, and will reduce the work required to update each year 20:52, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
- Basically, it is common procedure to include a template in the main article regarding its subject. That is what the full template is for. I'm not sure what the reasoning is behind not wanting a template on the main article. Meanwhile, in the biographies where there are often several other templates, the short span is used to keep down the link count on the pages. Which of the three keep votes are you saying don't present a reasonable justification for keeping.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:43, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- update, it seems we have reached a compromise, see my talk page. Frietjes (talk) 18:02, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- The templates are ready to be restored to mainspace.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 03:07, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- I guess I can do this myself.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:04, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- One of the talk pages did not get restored (Template talk:OlivierAward DanceAchievement). Was this always missing or did it get lost in the shuffle?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:23, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- P.S. I have recreated by copying Template talk:OlivierAward Choreographer. Not sure if I missed anything though.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:29, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- I guess I can do this myself.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:04, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Works for me. Thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:17, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- The templates are ready to be restored to mainspace.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 03:07, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- update, it seems we have reached a compromise, see my talk page. Frietjes (talk) 18:02, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- The 25-year span templates were not deleted. The decision was to delete the full templates based on the following responses regarding the full templates:
Restore
Please restore 
. The polite thing to do is to ask me to provide a license rather than to delete an image. Thank you. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 00:48, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- The file was deleted for lacking a source. Name/cite/link the source and I'll restore. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:48, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- Dude, where do you think the 1910 US census comes from? The source is the 1910 US Census from NARA. Please leave a message on my page before deletion when you have a question. It saves everyone time. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 15:35, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- Do you have a more specific source than that? Also, I don't believe I am under any obligation to leave talk page messages as I delete pages. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:12, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- No more is needed, please try hard not to be so stubbornly obstinate. With the same effort to delete you could have notified me and saved all this rationalizing why you won't restore a pd-gov doc. Even you can figure out that a image from the census comes from the census, you can read about it in Wikipedia. If you have time to argue here about why you are delaying restoring you can take the time to notify me. Thanks. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 08:27, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Dude, where do you think the 1910 US census comes from? The source is the 1910 US Census from NARA. Please leave a message on my page before deletion when you have a question. It saves everyone time. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 15:35, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Denmark’s K48 Kilogram.jpg
This image was deleted WITHOUT any warning on the relevant pages, all of which are on my watchlist. Please explain - as I remember, the original image was produced for the explicit purpose of replication in Wikipedia. Martinvl (talk) 16:48, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#F11 -FASTILY (TALK) 21:12, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- You did not answer my question Where and when was the notice of deletion published. Martinvl (talk) 09:15, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) When it's a possible copyright violation, which therefore puts the project at possible legal risk, there's no need to "publish" the notice of deletion anywhere at any time (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:06, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Resurrection of the discusssion.
- Firstly, archiving a discussion within 24 hours of the last comment is quite ridiculous.
- Secondly, would B Wilkins please justify his comment. Fastily did not give anybody a chance to give an opinion and he has removed the evidence, not has he said where his published his intention to remove this image.Martinvl (talk) 19:47, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)
Firstly, Fastily is well versed in deletion policy and does not hesitate to delete if it falls under criteria. You could say Fastily acts like a bot sometimes just doing it.
Secondly, archiving is done automatically by a bot named MiszaBotIII and this user's parameters are set to archive after 24 hours of the last comment posted. Since this user's page is loaded up every day by comments, this user feels that this is necessary.
Thirdly, a user does not have to publish a notice of deletion for every object they delete. If it falls under criteria for deletion, it gets deleted. The owner of the object is usually notified but it's not required of admins and editors to notify them. You may wish to check out WP:CSD and WP:AFD for some information about this.
Lastly, you may wish to check out user talk page parameters by scanning either the history or the source for any archive setup. To prevent more agitation if the future, you may want to substitute
{{DNAU}}to prevent the thread from being archived or{{SUBST:DNAU|NUMBER}}where number equals the number of days long the thread should be retained after the last thread.@Fastily, this thread may need to be manually archived now because I give the Do Not Archive Until instruction to a user, MiszaBotIII fails to archive that thread.
I hope this information is of some help to you.—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 511,570,803) 21:31, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks Cyberpower678, but I believe we've already answered Martinvl's question above. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:05, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- I used that image in a number of artciles, but a thrid party was responsible for having loaded it in the first place, so I am not fully au fait with the details of the copyright assocaited with that image. If Fastily has acted improperly, I am unable to comment because Fastily has removed the evidence - not a very healthy state of affairs. Martinvl (talk) 08:23, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Evidence? I don't think you understand what we are trying to tell you. Evidence of deletion is in the deletion log and discussions can be held with the deleting admin on their talk page. I don't get what you are trying to ask? You can always ask the administrators to take a look at the deleted file and have them give you the necessary information. Also please be aware that you type the username correctly. You seem to have developed the habit of typing Fesilty.—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 511,712,066) 16:43, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- I used that image in a number of artciles, but a thrid party was responsible for having loaded it in the first place, so I am not fully au fait with the details of the copyright assocaited with that image. If Fastily has acted improperly, I am unable to comment because Fastily has removed the evidence - not a very healthy state of affairs. Martinvl (talk) 08:23, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks Cyberpower678, but I believe we've already answered Martinvl's question above. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:05, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
You deleted my course page
Fastily, I am a Teaching Fellow connected to the Education Program. I just logged in to check my course page as I have grading to do and also want to check up on my students who are currently using the page to complete assignments and I see that you've deleted the course page:
Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Wiki-Project Management (Jonathan Obar)
No note on my talk page, no warning, no nothing. What is going on here? Jaobar (talk) 05:58, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Strange, I'm not sure how that happened. Sorry about that. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:46, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Bob_the_Wikipedian (talk · contribs) and I got it all working again - looks like nothing important was lost *crosses fingers*. Epistemophiliac (talk) 17:45, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Three photos
Hey, I'm going to start by apologizing for last week. I was in a pretty shitty mood and shouldn't have taken it out on you.
Yesterday you deleted three images that were listed at possible unfree files. I contested the nominators rationale and nobody else commented or rebutted my reasoning, so I'd appreciate those photos being reinstated until there is a proper discussion identifying the images as eligible or ineligible for PD-Simple. Cheers, ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 16:12, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Apology accepted, life happens. And fair enough, both restored. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:22, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Why did you delete that file? The discussion wasn't finished... GSorby – Ping 00:22, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- There is no quorum and discussions may be closed by any administrator after their seven day discussion period is up. I believe you've been around long enough to know that yes? -FASTILY (TALK) 00:30, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
US fair-use stamps
I noticed that there are 18 modern US stamps; the first 18 images found at Category:Postage stamps of the United States, that are being used purely as decoration without any critical commentary. I'm off on a wikibreak and will likely not be visiting much, so perhaps you would have a look and maybe nominate for deletion. If you do drop me a talkback so I can find them easily if I do log on. Many similarly used stamps have been deleted previously. The fact that such stamp were issued as an honour can easily be made in prose, so they fail WP:NFCC#8 and also WP:NFC#Images #3. You can always refer to my record of stamp deletion discussions. Good luck. ww2censor (talk) 03:38, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- All tagged as such. Hope that helps. Enjoy your break! Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 06:53, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Super Thanks
Thanks for all of the work you do, especially with deletion of unneeded/unnecessary images! -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 03:40, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- Sure thing. Just happy to have been able to help. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 06:54, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Waimate
You were a little too hasty, I think, deleting the article Waimate. A vandal had added a redirect tag to a non-existant article.-gadfium 08:14, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear Fastily, you removed an image (Kicked into Touch (cover).jpg) from my personal Wikipedia info page. Despite having already explained that I own the design and two images featured on the book cover, so there is no copyright infringement. Please restore it asap. Long Ben Every (talk) 12:03, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- In that case, please send an email to our OTRS team at "permissions-en@wikimedia.org" and tell them what you told me. Be sure to specify a Wikipedia compatible license to irrevocably release your work under. Once you have done that, the file will be automatically restored. -FASTILY (TALK) 12:09, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Commemorative Stamp Images
Hi..
When I wrote the Fair-Use text, I made it quite clear that the image of the Stamp was not to identify the person on which the image was placed. It was to illustrate the stamp, and placing it on the individual's Wikipedia page was to note the honor bestowed by the Untied States Postal Service of the individual.
The image of the Commemorative Stamp is being placed on the individual's Wikipedia article page to illustrate the stamp, not the indivudual, which is clearly identified by other images and text in the article. A United States Commemorative Stamp honoring an individual is intended for wide distribution. As such it adds historical significance to the article.
The other images on the page are irrelevant (Criterion 3a), as the image of the stamp it is not on the page to enhance the topic (Criterion 8).
The use of the image of the stamp on the individual's page in compliance with the USPS guidelines that allows fair use to illustrate the stamp in question.
Bwmoll3 (talk) 07:05, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- Respectfully, I disagree with your interpretation of WP:NFCC#8 and WP:NFCC#3a. Since there is a disagreement here, I'll nominate the files at WP:FFD shortly -FASTILY (TALK) 11:53, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- (Nearly gone on the wikibreak). If the stamp is not there to identify the person it must still comply with all 10 non-free policy guidelines. The use of non-free stamp images cannot be used just for decoration to show the person was honoured by a postal administration because unless there is something really unusual about the stamp the fact that such a stamp was issued can be easily explained with prose. So they all fail WP:NFCC#8 and besides which there is no critical commentary (that would need to be sourced with WP:RS) about the stamp itself, so they all have to go as have numerous others that were similarly used by other editors. Any image used on a page enhances that page and your reference to USPS's fair-use policy is a red herring because we do not use the US legal fair-use criteria, we use a much stricter standard for the use of any non-free image per the policy guidelines. ww2censor (talk) 16:05, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ok, however you are adding the requirement "... The use of non-free stamp images cannot be used just for decoration to show the person was honoured by a postal administration because unless there is something really unusual about the stamp the fact that such a stamp was issued can be easily explained with prose ...". That isn't part of the Fair Use requirement. The Fair Use requriement simply says "to illustrate the stamp in question (as opposed to things appearing in the stamp's design)".
 | This image is of a United States postage stamp produced in 1978 or later. The copyright for it is held by the United States Postal Service. It is believed that the use of postage stamps
qualifies as fair use under the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. Usage that does not fall under fair use requires a license from the USPS. This includes usage of the stamp's artwork to illustrate its subject, rather than the stamp itself. | ||
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- Also, please review the United States Postal Service rquirements for use of United States postage stamps not requiring permission USPS Uses Not Requiring Permission
- I'm not trying to be picky here, but if you can provide a reference that states your additional requirement about the stamp being "really unusual about the stamp the fact that such a stamp was issued can be easily explained with prose", then we can agree, but I don't see that in the USPS requirements or the Non-free USGov-USPS stamp. The stamp on the article pages are clearly there for Educational Use, and Wikipedia is non-commercial, which clearly meets the USPS requirement as stated on their website page for fair use.
- If I need to add that statement to the Fair Use Statement as part of the document, that is easily done, as well as adding the Credit Language as specified in the USPS guidelines.
- Now, the guidelines you specified in WP:NFCC#8 do not apply, because I'm not trying to add Contextual significance to the individual; I clearly stated it was to illustrate the stamp which is written about in the article, and I see nothing in the Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria about "critical commentary".
- Also, when reading WP:NFCC#3a, The use of other fair-use illustrations in the article is about the individual for whom the article was created. That is not the stated use for the stamp, as I wrote in the fair use statement, which clearly states that the stamp illustration is to illustrate the stamp, not the individual, and there are no other illustrations of the stamp in question on that individual's article.
- ith regards to WP:RS, the images of the stamps are all over the web. I'm very unclear what you mean by "reliable source". We agree the source of the stamps is the United States Postal Service. That is why I am trying to follow the USPS guidelines for fair use of the images. The source of the images of them that I found on the web to upload is irrelevant.
Two photos deletion
I was very unhappy of why you deleted and File:Matty Levan.jpg and your reason for "Lack of licensing information" as which I had the necessary info as a copyright to who the images came from, I was also very unhappy that you didn't inform me of these deletions. also could you explain to me why I was lacking licensing info?, thanks. TheDeviantPro (talk) 18:54, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#F4 and User_talk:TheDeviantPro#More_information_needed_about_File:Matty_Levan.jpg. -FASTILY (TALK) 11:54, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
You deleted this image since it was tagged as being an orphaned fair use image, but that is incorrect. As you can see by this edit, [28], the image was in use for three days prior to its deletion. I would appreciate it if you could restore this image. Thank you, Aspects (talk) 15:18, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
The above file was deleted as a result of Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_files/2011_December_6#File:Angelamiss.jpg. I had pointed out in that discussion that there were two versions of the file. The screen capture version was uploaded over the original, free file, which had been in use for quite a while without any problems (unless I missed something). As that was the only free image of Angela Fong we had, can you restore the original version please? NiciVampireHeart 15:46, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
believed mistake on speedy deletion of "Chicago Cultural Plan"
Hello Fastily,
I received a speedy deletion on my entry of "Chicago Cultural Plan" with a citation of G11. There is nothing being advertised or promoted here. It is an accurate entry about a historical document that exists in City of Chicago, sanctioned by Mayor Harold Washington in 1986 and re-sanctioned by Mayor Rahm Emmanuel just recently in 2012.
I included a link to the original document and had planned on adding a link to the the new civic document once completed.
These documents are of public record in Chicago City Hall and were created by the citizens of Chicago.
I request approval of my entry.
Thank you and regards, Jorge Orozco-Cordero — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jorge ozco (talk • contribs) 22:08, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 23:57, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Libyan football clubs
I am declining the speedies on the same group of articles where you're deleting Even 2nd division is indication of possible importance, tho not necessarily notability. And saying a group is a libyan football club is context, especially with a reference. I know they won't be kept in the end unless somebody works on them, but it is better to follow orderly procedure & not overuse speedy or stretch the definition. I wouldn't have challenged the prods. DGG ( talk ) 00:22, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
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Template Movenotice
Fastily, you close the template for deletion discussion (Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 December 28#Template:Movenotice), but I noticed this discussion is not listed at Template talk:Movenotice. Shouldn't there be a notice on the talk page that there was a deletion discussion? Thanks, D O N D E groovily Talk to me 05:31, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Go Bertil Go.jpg deletion
Hello, I've updated it with the source link, but Wikipedia is not letting me reupload until your say-so. Please help.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/57621386@N05/6747138827/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ehfeng (talk • contribs) 05:38, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Help! Stanley Kubrick /Sandbox
You deleted the sandbox for Stanley Kubrick, previously found here [[29]]. Previously, editors who are working to improve the article Stanley Kubrick were using the talk page for this article [[30]] to store material that they had removed from the article. I copied the text of the article to Stanley Kubrick/Sandbox in order to undertake some moderate deletions. I wanted to get some feedback from other editors before I deleted significant portions of the article. I understand that maybe the page I created was in the wrong namespace or something, that is why I asked on the talk page for Stanley Kubrick if I was "doing it right." However, your actions were not helpful, because you deleted all of my edits, as well as the material that other editors were storing on the talk page. It would have been much more helpful if you could have directed me to the proper method for creating a sandbox page. Is it too late recover any of this material? Puddytang (talk) 06:43, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- I've userfied that page for you at User:Puddytang/Stanley Kubrick. Next time, please create userspace drafts for things like this. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:18, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Thank You, Fastily :) Can you recover the talk page as well, [[31]], I was more worried about this page because it is the work of a number of other editors, not just me Puddytang (talk) 08:04, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- Another request for the talk page (Talk:Stanley Kubrick/Sandbox) to be restored please. It has been in existence since October, without any trouble. Thanks. --Lobo512 (talk) 16:24, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
The page was restored, so no worries! Puddytang (talk) 01:42, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Rachota article
Dear Fastily,
on January 9th, 2012 you speedily deleted the article about Rachota Timetracker [1] considering it as spam/advertising [2]. I have read the reasons to recognize an article as such and I don't understand what it was exactly that disqualified the article. Rachota Timetracker is a free and open source application which was well known already prior to the article creation. Besides, you might not know that it was recently added to Red Hat's Fedora Linux distribution [3] so there is certainly no reason for advertising Rachota Timetracker.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachota [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fastily/E#G11 [3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/rachota
Since Rachota project and Wikipedia itself share that same vision of free access to information (or tools in Rachota's case), can you please explain to me exactly what are the grounds for deletion of the article about this open source application? Or even better release your strict verdict?
Thank you very much for your reply.
Best regards, -- Jiri Kovalsky NetBeans Community Manager http://netbeans.org --Cesilko (talk) 15:44, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 22:11, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Modify Watches
Hi there
I'm the founder of Modify Watches. I tried to put our page up, but it was deleted immediately for being promotional. I felt like I just gave the facts of the company, and I spent a lot of time pulling in all relevant links (NYTimes article, link from abc.com, a White House event the company was invited to, etc.).
I'd like some help in recreating a page that would meet your standards. Can you or one of the admins please help? I'm happy to share any/all information you need
Cheers
Aaron — Preceding unsigned comment added by Argyle35 (talk • contribs) 17:15, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Hi there, i suggest you read the guideline on company notability. Also, as you have a conflict of interest with the article, please make sure you read this page. Cheers, benzband (talk) 21:24, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Blocking for unknown reason.
Hi! What is reason that u had blocked my IP? (188.29.91.224 (talk) 23:43, 23 January 2012 (UTC))
- (talk page stalker)Fastily is out for the next few days. It would help to know what IP you are talking about and why you are on this one? Your current IP has never been used on Wikipedia yet and it has a clean block log.—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 512,200,673) 23:48, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- U see my IP! This one: 188.29.91.224 (talk) 23:53, 23 January 2012 (UTC) I was blocked by him for vandalism what I never did! What is it for? I could only edit my talk page where I placed request for unblocking. 188.29.91.224 (talk) 23:53, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- As I said this IP's only edits are the ones made to this page. It has no blocks recorded and has 4 contributions. You may switched to a different IP. One that is not blocked and has a fresh start to Wikipedia.—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 512,203,999) 00:05, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ok! Then I am crazy! I saw a mirage today. ^)) 188.29.91.224 (talk) 00:10, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
- Click on your own IP. You will see a list of contributions made to this IP. Click Here and you will see a list of blocks and unblocks that were imposed on your current IP.—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 512,208,318) 00:30, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ok! Then I am crazy! I saw a mirage today. ^)) 188.29.91.224 (talk) 00:10, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
- As I said this IP's only edits are the ones made to this page. It has no blocks recorded and has 4 contributions. You may switched to a different IP. One that is not blocked and has a fresh start to Wikipedia.—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 512,203,999) 00:05, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
- U see my IP! This one: 188.29.91.224 (talk) 23:53, 23 January 2012 (UTC) I was blocked by him for vandalism what I never did! What is it for? I could only edit my talk page where I placed request for unblocking. 188.29.91.224 (talk) 23:53, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
File:Gagnongrave.jpg Deletion
Hi,
I just logged in to Wikipedia for the first time in about a month and discovered that a photograph I had uploaded, Gagnongrave.jpg, was deleted by yourself after a 2 week notice. Another editor provided this rationale:
3D artwork, US location, no date of creation, have to assume no FoP.
First, the photograph was not 3D artwork. I personally went to Arlington National Cemetery and took the photographs of Rene Gagnon's headstone. Rather than upload two files, I simply made one with both side by side. Second, there's no apparent key to the other editing lingo, so I'm not sure what "FoP" stands for or the relevancy of the photograph having a location in the United States. I can't speak to the date of creation data, as the page is now gone (I can't see what information I had added when I uploaded the image) and the photograph was taken and file created and uploaded sometime in 2006. Third, the Rene Gagnon (a flag raiser at Iwo Jima) is now missing a photograph that had illustrated his burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
Please let me know if I need to request a review of this deletion or if it's something that you can remedy yourself.
Thank you
15:32, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion review for File:Gagnongrave.jpg
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Deletion review for File:Edelsohn-Rebecca 1910 census.jpg
An editor has asked for a deletion review of File:Edelsohn-Rebecca 1910 census.jpg. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 23:24, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
HELP! File deletion - File:Raiders Key Art Tom Jung.jpg
I left messages and emailed the user that submitted this file for deletion - No response.
The logic for deletion is not clear to me? Could you explain? Jobrjobr (talk) 01:35, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Files for deletion? -FASTILY (TALK) 02:13, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
-->>HELP - Could an administrator take a look at this file deletion - I believe an editor incorrectly flagged this file for deletion. Thank you. Jobrjobr (talk) 09:09, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Range block reasons
Hi,
Please use {{anonblock}} as your reason when you do anon-only range blocks of entire ISPs. It's in the dropdown under "templated reasons". I had a complaint from a customer of three.co.uk who didn't know what the hell was going on when he hit your block of that ISP. -- Tim Starling (talk) 19:38, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Verismic Software
Hi Fastly, I'd like to disagree with your deletion of the Verismic Software article, explain my stance and ask you to reinstate the article. I believe the Verismic article does not fall foul of the G11 rule. The article is factual, referenced with reliable outside sources and written with a neutral point of view.
I realized that every article must stand on it's own and not be compared with others, but in order to prove my good faith, I'd like you to look at two articles: 1E and Verdiem. Both were written by their directors of marketing and neither declared their COI. I feel that both violate the NPOV and yet they have been up since Sept 2009 and June 2010 respectively.
Fastly, would you please review the article again and reverse your deletion? Or if you have a helpful suggestion on how to improve the tone, I'd like to hear it.
Thanks, HeidiSmith (talk) 16:46, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Roy Suenaka Article
On 4 January, the entry for Sensei Roy Suenaka was deleted citing this concern: "Article lacks claims of notability and independent sources."
Sensei Suenaka is an 8th Dan master of Aikido and founder of the Wadokai Aikido style of Aikido and the American International Ki Development and Philosophical Society which boasts several hundred members and dozens of dojos.
I would like to recreate the webpage on Sensei Suenaka, this time being sure to meet the guidelines for notability and independent sources. Thanks!
CyWyss (talk) 12:43, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) As you can see from the top of the page, Fastily is away for a few weeks. I recommend you create a WP:USERSPACEDRAFT, and read WP:FIRSTARTICLE very carefully. Beware that "hundreds of members" and "dozens of dojos" is clearly not a show of notability. Please also read about reliable sources. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 13:11, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
American Science and Surplus deleted
Hello Fastily,
I see you recently deleted American Science and Surplus on 6 Jan 2012, for reason G11. I'm not the author, so I don't know how poor this article may have been, but I would like to be able to see it anyway. As a regular user I don't seem to have a way to view deleted pages. Could you restore it for me somewhere, perhaps in my user space? Bchabala2 (talk) 07:05, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
- On further thought, perhaps the incubator would be a better place than my personal userspace Bchabala2 (talk) 07:23, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
I am sorry but based on your closure I can rip and copy all content from any Iranian website as I see fit. I do not agree that is ok. Either way the issue has been in discussion at:
-- A Certain White Cat chi? 10:49, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
- If you look here you'll see that Fastily has already clarified that in closing the PUF he was only commenting on the fact that the images are PD in the US, not whether we should be using them. Fastily has also already been made aware of the RfC here. Dpmuk (talk) 23:17, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
A request for comments has been opened on administrator User:Fæ. You are being notified due to your prior participation in ANI, RfA, or RfC discussions regarding this user. Thank you, MadmanBot (talk) 19:49, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Curious as to why this article was G8'd... Can't see the history, but it used to have an article describing the organization, wasn't redirected and is not an orphaned image. Paleking (talk) 18:38, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
deleted photo
Hi, you have deleted my photo and now I am unable to reload it. I have use permission as the photo is of me taken at an event by one of my friends who is a photographer and has allowed me to use it as I see fit. It is also on my own webpage www.bretfreeman.com
How do I annotate this so it will not be deleated?
Thank you,
Bret — Preceding unsigned comment added by Britfighter (talk • contribs) 10:05, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- Link the photo in question? It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILYs (TALK) 00:51, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Fireman Sam
Hi, just so you'd you know : Fireman Sam links to File:FiremanSamTitleCard.jpg (which you deleted Dec. 25). Cheers, benzband (talk) 20:53, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- I do not have access to my admin account at the moment. Please make that request at WP:REFUND. If anyone gives you a hard time, tell them I sent you. -FASTILYs (TALK) 00:52, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Editor, Due to certain reasons, i couldn't update the content on Umbrella Media Worke. As a result, it got deleted. I'm recreating this page with relevant content. This information is for your reference and observation.
Thanks and Regards Trigger.o.metry (talk) 16:14, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
- I did not delete this page. The admin you're looking for is User:NawlinWiki -FASTILYs (TALK) 00:54, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion review for Verismic Software
An editor has asked for a Wikipedia:Deletion review#Verismic Sotfwaredeletion review of Verismic Software. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. HeidiSmith (talk) 21:57, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
File:Harry Kalas' grave.jpg Claiming sole ownership of this image.
I clearly stated that I was the sole creator and sole owner of that image, yet you deleted it anyway, even after I had jumped through all of the hoops to ensure that its copyright status and its release for use had been properly completed. I had given Wikipedia full license to use that image as long as I was properly credited with its ownership. Bill S. (talk) 03:24, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
- If that is indeed the case, please send an email to our OTRS team at 'permissions-en@wikimedia.org'. Tell them what you told me. Be sure to specify a wikipedia compatible license to irrevocably publish the file under. Once you have done that, the file will be automatically restored. For detailed instructions, see WP:DCP and WP:PERMISSION -FASTILYs (TALK) 00:57, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi. File was deleted because it was marked with "no license". However it seems that there was a substed license template. The reason I noticed is that my bot had some problems with the file. --MGA73 (talk) 07:55, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
Sheets Brand
Hello. A page a created "Sheets Brand" was recommended for speedy deletion on 1/20/12 for promoting a product. How can I userfy this page and its content so that it can be seen an as neutral and informational page for the company? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamihud (talk • contribs) 19:49, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILYs (TALK) 00:58, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Could you please give more details as to why the Red Hawk Leadership Honor Society page was deleted.
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.219.8.236 (talk) 18:56, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#PROD -FASTILYs (TALK) 00:58, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
And this one was speedy G11'd after a significant prior contentious history around deletion discussion and extensive work in the last few years. What's the deal? Paleking (talk) 18:42, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
- I do not have access to my admin account at the moment so I cannot view the deleted text. Please make these requests at WP:REFUND. -FASTILYs (TALK) 01:01, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Regenerate backlog
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Images_and_Media/Commons/Drives#Bot_tagging_update - it may be nice to relaunch {move to commons} tagging Bulwersator (talk) 07:40, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
- I don't believe this is my call to make. Cast your !vote here. -FASTILYs (TALK) 11:34, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Yahel Sherman Page
I found that Yahel Sherman page was deleted by you. DJ Yahel aka Yahel sherman is psy trance artist and has website djyahel.com. You can check out the bio and information. I don't know why this page as this DJ is well known in trance niche, endorsed by Paul van Dyk and Infected mushroom and other trance artists. I thought that this artist deserves wikipedia entry. I'm his fan and I would love to keep tab on his music but it seems there is nothing on wikipedia other than his album waves of sound. You can check out the official site if you have any doubts. Let us know if it is possible to create page for this artist or it'll be purged in future too. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.31.184.136 (talk) 16:54, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
- Please see WP:REFUND to request your article to be restored. Fastily is out and will remain out for -4464 days. I am answering on this user's behalf during their abscence.—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 513,995,322) 19:27, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
New Thread Question
What should with the new threads I can't answer? I don't think that letting them archive without a response is the correct thing to do. Should I just guide deletion requests to WP:REFUND as per request?—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 513,853,021) 02:18, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
- Every single message above that could require action on my part has been about a deletion, so yes, direct users to WP:REFUND. -FASTILYs (TALK) 11:34, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
- OK. Will do from now on.—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 513,995,322) 19:27, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Can I view my deleted edits?
This link shows that I have a total edit of 3,312 out of which 30 edits has been deleted. Is there any way to view my deleted edits? Joydeep (talk) 10:51, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
- Deleted edits are edits that were reversed for some reason. You are perfectly able to view them but the as to be able to call them up is a challenge because you would need to sift through your contributions to find them. This is what I know but it is best you ask someone else just in case.—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 514,190,502) 17:48, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Err, actually, deleted edits are edits made to a page which has since been deleted, and only admins can view them. If, for example, you have ever tagged an article for deletion, and the article was later deleted, that would increase you deleted edit count. I don't know how deleted edits are viewed, so I have no idea if a log can be pasted elsewhere. Either way, it probably better to ask another admin. Nolelover Talk·Contribs 17:56, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
- ... as Nolelover stated ... no, an editor cannot view them (admins can .. unless they've been sufficiently suppressed). But, as suggested, if you ever AFD'd or worked on an article that was later deleted, those are your deleted edits (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 18:13, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you all for the help. Yes, I have put AFD tags to some newly made articles which were nonsense or constitute vandalism. So those articles are deleted and my deleted edits are increased. Perfectly understand that. Joydeep (talk) 18:23, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
- If it makes you feel any better, 11% of my edits are deleted. Sven Manguard Wha? 21:24, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
- There's no problem in having deleted edits. In fact, many deleted edits are constructive, such as this speedy deletion tag. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:35, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
- If it makes you feel any better, 11% of my edits are deleted. Sven Manguard Wha? 21:24, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you all for the help. Yes, I have put AFD tags to some newly made articles which were nonsense or constitute vandalism. So those articles are deleted and my deleted edits are increased. Perfectly understand that. Joydeep (talk) 18:23, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
- ... as Nolelover stated ... no, an editor cannot view them (admins can .. unless they've been sufficiently suppressed). But, as suggested, if you ever AFD'd or worked on an article that was later deleted, those are your deleted edits (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 18:13, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Err, actually, deleted edits are edits made to a page which has since been deleted, and only admins can view them. If, for example, you have ever tagged an article for deletion, and the article was later deleted, that would increase you deleted edit count. I don't know how deleted edits are viewed, so I have no idea if a log can be pasted elsewhere. Either way, it probably better to ask another admin. Nolelover Talk·Contribs 17:56, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
(del/undel) 10:36, 31 January 2012 (diff | deletion log | view) . . Poopstick (Requesting speedy deletion (CSD G3). (TW))
- Of course, the result was:
(del/undel) 10:41, 31 January 2012 Luk (talk | contribs | block) deleted "Poopstick" (G3: Vandalism (TW)) (view/restore)
Request to restore the deleted logo
Hi Fastily,
There was a logo Image:Celoxis-logo.jpg uploaded for Celoxis article but the article was deleted and as the article was not restored for a long time, you have deleted the logo. Now the article is restored and I request you to restore the logo. Jaiswal.pramod (talk) 06:29, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
- Please see WP:REFUND to request your image to be restored. Answering for Fastily,—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 514,384,127) 13:18, 3 February 2012 (UTC).
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Too Late the Hero (band)
Hi Fastily,
I checked out the resonance of Too Late the Hero's latest publication Statement of Purpose and I found out that this album was criticized by many well-known newspapers and magazines like The Aquarian Weekly (Link), Allmusic (Link), Sputnikmusic (Link), The New Review (Link) and Spirit of Metal webzine (Link) The Revenge was reviewed by Examiner.com (John Smith: Too Late The Hero - "The Revenge" July 20, 2011)
They toured together with Lamb of God (Link) and toured alongside acts like Us, From Outside, Memphis May Fire and This Romantic Tragedy through US and CN (Link), and played at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival (Link)
I think the band meet one of the criteria. Do you think too? --Goroth (talk) 00:50, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#PROD -FASTILYs (TALK) 21:28, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion review for File:Popcorn deelites.jpg
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PD Italy images
Hi Fastily, i have removed the tags you added to some PD-Italy images, as policy dictates that PD-Italy images must never be moved to Commons. Joyson Prabhu Holla at me! 15:59, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
- I would like you to immediately delete this image and this image. I uploaded them in early 2008 when i had no idea of what the licenses meant. Yes, i was that ignorant! Thanks. Joyson Prabhu Holla at me! 16:04, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Image
I have undeleted File: Old Dutch.gif as more sourcing info is to be inserted. I will continue to monitor the situation to ensure this is done.--Wehwalt (talk) 12:02, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Fbot bug
Hey Fastily, just noticed that your bot was flagging some of my images as "Flagging orphaned free file" even though they are not orphaned - then after a day or so removing the tag. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Downloads4.png - I think it's because I randomly choose one of my images at User:Download/navigator to display and it's only recognizing the randomly chosen one. Might be something to look into, -download ׀ email 00:59, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Fbot mistakes
Hey, some images are being tagged to move to Commons that are already tagged to never be moved to Commons (like this one). Also, images are having their orphan tag removed that are still orphaned (for example). ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 02:37, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
- I can't explain the second one, it might be the redirect loop, but I can explain the first one. PD-Italy isn't on the bot's blacklist. I'll add it now, and Fbot's other task will remove the transfer tags from anything with PD-Italy on it. Sven Manguard Wha? 02:52, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily already did that, actually. Things will be sorted out shortly. Sven Manguard Wha? 02:59, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
- The second one may be because of the image redirect. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 01:37, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily already did that, actually. Things will be sorted out shortly. Sven Manguard Wha? 02:59, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Dow Brain Wikipedia entry
Hello Fastily,
I was hoping you could give me some direct feedback on what particular sentences within the Dow Brain entry were unacceptable for publication.
I read the G11 classification and wanted to edit the article for resubmission.
Thank you,
Dow Brain — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theorchestr8or (talk • contribs) 01:40, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- If this is a deleted article, please go to WP:REFUND to have it restored or moved to userspace for fixing.—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 515,203,692) 02:15, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
With thanks
After the unnecessary and ongoing drama at the admin noticeboard, I've decided to follow your example and unabashedly have 'borrowed' your subpage Fastily/E at User:Skier Dude/D. If this is problematic, just drop me a note. I have added one thing you might want to add as well - a section BLPPROD. I had to add a note that I don't have access to the OTRS database (was refused quite a while ago and was left with a very negative experience). I had to add User:Skier Dude/O as people are constantly misreading the bottom of the image description pages :( Again - thanks for the work on those subpages :) Skier Dude (talk) 06:29, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- It's definitely fine by me! I'm glad you found it useful. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 07:48, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
NonFreeImageRemoved.svg
Can you please undelete File:Supermushroom.png, and explain why you removed it? There's a deletion discussion here that has not been closed and that doesn't have consensus. The image is in active use at Power-up. Diego (talk) 06:59, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- You failed to make a convincing case against the nominator's concerns, which was that the file did not meet the criteria outlined at WP:NFCC -FASTILY (TALK) 07:46, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- "Failed to make a convincing case"? I thought that closing admins were supposed to find wether consensus has been met in a discussion, not !supervote. Given that the image did include the rationale required for WP:NFCC and that the rationale was policy-based (namely that it's Notable and the proposed alternative is not), this can't qualify for a close. And given that you didn't even care to give a rationale for the closure, I'm taking this to deletion review. Diego (talk) 11:12, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
I've asked for a deletion review. I'd like that you provide a more detailed explanation of the reasons to delete the file and why you don't think the discussion was a "no consensus". Thanks. Diego (talk) 13:49, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
To konw the reason....why Kaushal Kumar page has been deleated.
Hi,
I have created a page kaushal kumar today,with some information realted to IT.I was looking to add valuable information related to software industry into that but unfortunately you have delated that page.Could you please advice me the reason behind this.
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kausneha (talk • contribs) 07:33, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 07:41, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
hai, I am still confused ,how come ,To write about any software tool comes under "G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion".If this is the case then why we have so many pages related to any software or related to any book. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kausneha (talk • contribs) 07:48, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Why did you delete B
Kind of hard to understand why this article was deleted. B is the second letter of the alphabet, it is important and has a long history that deserves to be here on wikipedia. SkyMachine (++) 09:20, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, not sure what happened there. I thought I restored it earlier but I guess not >.> Thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:22, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
FYI, Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#WP:TFD_deletions_by_admin_User:Fastily.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 14:43, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Beckinfield
Hi, the beckinfield page was in the process of being edited. The information that was on the page taken from http://www.theatricsllc.com/mptv-2/ was only being used as a rough guide and would not be shown in it's original state.
We have permission from the Staff of the site to make a Wikipedia page about Beckinfield, and would be grateful if the page could be un-deleted. As said the information that was displayed on the page was only to be used as a guide while I was in the process of typing up a new copy.
Thanks for any help you can give, Please give us a chance. all information will be hand typed and all content will be credited to their respectful owners. --JXXXE (talk) 23:19, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G12 -FASTILY (TALK) 23:20, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Ahh, Ok. Thanks --JXXXE (talk) 23:27, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Edit Notice Move Request
Welcome back! Could you please execute this by moving it to Template:Editnotices/Page/List of Pokémon: Black & White: Rival Destinies episodes. Season 14 is done and no longer needs the notice. I have created the Season 15 page that now requires the notice.—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 515,203,122) 02:12, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks! Done -FASTILY (TALK) 10:49, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. I hope I was of some help during your absence.—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 515,274,252) 12:08, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Overall, you were. Sorry for being so short with you earlier. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:49, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- That's ok. I should've started to realize that was getting annoying for you.—cyberpower (Talk to Me)(Contributions) 13:37, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- Overall, you were. Sorry for being so short with you earlier. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:49, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. I hope I was of some help during your absence.—cyberpower (Chat)(WP Edits: 515,274,252) 12:08, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of user talk pages
I noticed that you are deleting user talkpages of IPs. Please do note, that per WP:User pages that user talkpages should NOT be deleted as they do contain important information. In fact, I have overruled one of your deletions as the talkpage is relevant to a current spam case. Could you please stop, and probably even consider to undo your deletions? Thank you. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:14, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- AFAIK, those pages consisted of either vandalism or test edits. I checked before deleting, but clearly not carefully enough >.> -FASTILY (TALK) 22:51, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- There were indeed a couple which were test edits, but most of them were not. 7 seemed like test edits, one was plain spam (I left that one as well), the others had messages from others, messages from bots, or questions by the user; and most of them quite recent (I saw one of the 27th of Januari). I've restored 13 as not non-controversial deletions. Thanks. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:30, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion review for File:JaxNatlCemeterySite.JPG
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Mugginsx pic of her dog
I hope anyone will use my pic of my dog. (I just hope they don't show a cat getting the best of her! 
Mugginsx (talk) 16:42, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
You should not have removed the image of Karel the Robot
As I explained in the talk page, I am the author, there is no licensing problem. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PavelSolin (talk • contribs) 17:28, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Link the file in question? It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:52, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello, it seems like you have deleted the mentioned page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lubetzky for G11 reason. the page has been up for more than 3 years and seems like some recent edits by a contributor may have caused the flag. Would you please restore the page to an older version and I will make sure to review and remove any unambiguous advertising or promotion copy. Thank you, greatly appreciated.
Khaled — Preceding unsigned comment added by Khaled.abohalima (talk • contribs) 17:48, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- There were no edits by a recent contributor which caused the article to be a spammy copyvio. It's been like that for awhile -FASTILY (TALK) 22:54, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Lisa Dewey page deleted for PROD
Hi Fastily, You deleted the page "Lisa Dewey" for the reason PROD... but this doesn't make any sense, as I made changes based on all the requests that were made. Others had updated the page too, and I didn't get any notification that there were new things that had to be addressed. Please restore the page and I will make any updates that need to be made to make this page appropriate. Prodoom (talk) 18:29, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- You sure you have the right page? No edits were made to it after the prod was applied. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:56, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
I'm pretty certain... I didn't see the PROD, but I started the page and a few others contributed. It had been up for several months and from all accounts, it met the standards of what is required for a musical artist.
Prodoom (talk) 23:35, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Thank you! The notation mentions some style issues, but nothing is listed in the Discussion area. I'm happy to help make any fixes! Prodoom (talk) 23:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Fbot
Hi. I noticed you said the issue with Fbot's editing rate was "resolved" after I blocked it recently. While you did bring the speed down, the bot is still not in compliance with the requirements. I'll quote it here so we can be clear:
Bots' editing speed should be regulated in some way; subject to approval, bots doing non-urgent tasks may edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots doing more urgent tasks may edit approximately once every five seconds.
I've emboldened the section that applies. In the last 750 edits or so of Fbot, I picked 3 random sections to count how many edits it is doing in a minute. It varied between 20 to 30+. Now, in the quote above, it says urgent tasks may allow for once every five seconds. Your bot has been making an edit every 2-3 seconds and I am doubtful if what its doing can be termed as "urgent". Please fix whatever you need to. Thanks! Killiondude (talk) 18:39, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- You actually took the time to count my bot's edits? Didn't know I was that important. No matter, this will be resolved concurrently with the advent of moving my bots to wmf labs; I don't intend to run anything substantial until then anyways. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:02, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- I normally check on things after I make blocks that aren't related to vandalism. When I looked at the contribs and saw an abnormally large amount of edits per minute, yes, I did count. Thanks for the response. Killiondude (talk) 00:19, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure what the bot speed issue is. If the bot is flagged, it shouldn't be causing any problems for RecentChanges, etc. And unless the bot is doing something controversial or something that requires manual review, the edit rate should be completely irrelevant, right?
The reason for the speed guidelines is to prevent flooding of RecentChanges and other venues and to ensure that bots don't do an ungodly amount of damage before someone has the chance to notice. In this case, it looks like the edit rate is irrelevant. Am I missing something? --MZMcBride (talk) 01:03, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.
Sven Manguard Wha? 20:10, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Undelete
Kindly undelete File:Trans-Asia ship.JPG, File:Asia Malaysia.JPG, and File:Asia Pacific.jpg — they have existed since June 2010, so they are not recent. Nyttend (talk) 22:31, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Could you give me a legitimate reason why we need these? There are no file links to them and they are highly ambiguous search terms. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:07, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Relevant. There are more reasons to leave file redirect than remove them. Also, the deletion log description you left was a bit deceptive, as Nyttend points out, they are not recent. Killiondude (talk) 00:25, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
In general, you want to keep redirects around unless they're broken or completely misleading or useless. If nothing else, the redirects prevent people from re-using certain poor titles. But primarily it's a matter of trying as hard as possible to keep links working. In old e-mails, sexts, message board posts, and elsewhere on and off the Web. I speak with a bit of experience and familiarity with the topic. ;-) I haven't really delved into the specifics here; I'm simply making a general comment about deleting redirects. --MZMcBride (talk) 01:07, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Create protection request
At Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. If you could help. Thanks, Lyk4 (talk) 06:30, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- Already done by Materialscientist -FASTILY (TALK) 07:11, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
With a little help from my friends..
Hello Fastily,
The first page I created was deleted before I could finish it, I come from wordpress and
thought I could do multiple edits and apparently I was wrong. Is it possible to re create my first page more throughly so I can continue to add to Wikipedia's infinite knowledge? Please guide me as to what it is I should do from here because at the moment I'm a little confused as u can see by all the edit's I tried to accomplish.
Thank You,
- The Atlantic Press -
Mr. Steven Casados — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atlantic Press (talk • contribs) 06:34, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Multimedia University
Why did you delete the Multimedia University article? if it's because of "Unambiguous copyright infringement" of the university logo, you can just delete the logo from the article. why did delete the whole thing?! 210.195.90.56 (talk) 07:03, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G12 -FASTILY (TALK) 07:17, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- now I get it. the article was probably copied from University's website. thank you for replying 210.195.90.56 (talk) 07:21, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello, my article about Central Europe Private Aviation has previously been deleted by you as an administrator. I just wanted to ask you what did I do wrong, because there are many articles about nonprofit organization like CEPA and nobody deleted them. (i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Business_Aviation_Association)
Could you please give me some feedback what should I change that it is not deleted?
Thank you very much, AviationSpecialist AviationSpecialist (talk) 09:58, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 10:05, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Liam Feeney
Hi
I was trying to upload a new photo o Liam Feeney playing for Millwall rather than Bournemouth
Are you able to help?
Kind Regards Martyn
- Link the file in question? It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 10:06, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
What tag to use?
I am not sure what tag to use to discuss the copyright status of File:Americans Elect Icon.png which is tagged a free being of simple design but it is clearly obvious that this is complicated creative design that was not just made by using simple type and shapes. Non-free use would satisfy me. Before it get moved to the commons, per the recent move tag, I would like to discuss it or should I just refactor it as a non-free image? Thanks ww2censor (talk) 10:56, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- Change it to fair use. The uploader mentioned fair use at upload anyways. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 11:42, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
TamoGraph Site Survey
Hello,
This article was deleted by you citing G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion. I would appreciate if you could take a second look. From my side, I'd like to add that TamoGraph Site Survey is well-known product among WLAN professionals; it is taught about in vendor-neutral CWNP books and courses, and it is made by a company references to which one can find in hundreds of online publications and dozens of books (e.g. CWAP, CWNA, or CWTS study guides), so notability doesn't appear to be an issue, nor was it cited as a reason for deletion. So apparently you meant advertising or promotion only, of which I can't find any traces in my text. I tried to be totally factual, as I was in my articles about similar products by other companies, for example Ekahau Site Survey. Could you either revise your deletion decision or tell me what specific parts of my article sounded like advertisement and what, in your opinion, should be changed? Thank you.WiFiEngineer (talk) 11:07, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 11:42, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Yes, you've already mentioned G11, but I was asking to more specific information. Pointing to specific "unambiguous advertising" in the article in question would help. Thank you.WiFiEngineer (talk) 11:49, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion review for TamoGraph Site Survey
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Need Help!
Look at my talk page and notice what I pointed out to Status. Swifty*talkcontribs 19:49, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Oh and can someone delete the old files on this. Thanks! Swifty*talkcontribs 19:51, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks fastily and welcome back! yay! ^_^ Swifty*talkcontribs 16:08, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Fastily, the article has been improved significantly since the deletion discussion. Therefore the criteria G4 can not be applied. About ten other wikipedias also think she is notable. Please undelete the article. Inwind (talk) 10:07, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- Whatever "improvement" might have been made to the article was simply the removal of unsourced kayfabe. The central concern at the AFD, the absence of reliably, independently sourced content establishing notability, was not addressed when the article's only reference was a promotional interview posted to a blog. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 12:00, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of User:B.wilson
Hi, you deleted User:B.wilson, please see User_talk:Bmusician#Admin_help... why this is problematic. Yoenit (talk) 12:18, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Request to restore the deleted logo
Hi,
Earlier I created an article called Celoxis and has uploaded the logo. But for some reason the article was deleted and the logo was deleted by you as it was unused non-free media file for more than 7 days. Now the Celoxis article is back on Wikipedia and I request you to restore the logo. The logo file was File:Celoxis-logo.jpg. Jaiswal.pramod (talk) 13:47, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Thank you. Jaiswal.pramod (talk) 05:45, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Vivid Racing
Imagine my shock at looking up the page I contributed to and finding it was deleted. I spent hours trying to maneuver through the Wiki pages to create my contributions and thought they were informational. The process of Wiki seems flawed if an editor isn't even given a warning and explanation as to why their page might be deleted. Instead, it's just taken off. Are deleted pages even archived somewhere so that I can retrieve it and redo it? Please let me know. I certainly didn't save it because I couldn't believe it would go missing.Betty Merm (talk) 15:36, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 20:59, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Request
Hello! It seems like you have deleted Vatra, Panalbanian Federation on the grounds of content copyright infringement. Could you please provide me what was written, so that I may be able to rewrite the article with no copyright issues, but at the same time, preserve what was not a copy? Thanks and please let me know if you have any questions! Mosmirenjohesi (talk) 15:45, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- For legal reasons, I cannot return deleted, copyrighted text to you. Sorry, FASTILY (TALK) 21:00, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Sam Magri
Hi I don't understand why the Sam Magri page was deleted when he his in the Portsmouth FC first team squad (in the second tier of English football!!) and he plays regularly for the England youth teams, when the page was made before he may have not been particularly relevent however now he is part of the first team squad and soon to make his first team debut I feel there will be interest in a page on him. If the page can not be reinstated can I at least have a copy of the page so when he makes his debut (in a few weeks) I can have a copy of the page to put up again. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Linvoy4england (talk • contribs) 16:33, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Linvoy4england/Sam Magri? -FASTILY (TALK) 21:01, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Daniel Lubetzky Wikipedia Page
Dear Wikipedia Volunteer,
Thank you for all that you do to keep Wikipedia a source of abundant and reliable information. However, I was upset to see that Daniel Lubetzky's Wikipedia page was taken down. I'd like to ask that Daniel's page is reposted to Wikipedia as it contains lots of valuable (and of course all accurate) information for people researching the fields of social entrepreneurship, Mideast peace and healthy eating.
Again, thank you for all of your work. I look forward to hearing from you, Adeena — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adeenaelise (talk • contribs) 18:40, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 21:01, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Did you know that your click "here" button action is edit? :- ) DCS 21:53, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- I believe that is the point. The page is quite large, and the gallery is commented out, so the only possible way for others to view the content is by clicking edit. Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 22:02, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Template:newm
Now that {{newm}} has been deleted, you also need to delete {{newc}}, {{newc/h1}}, {{newm/h1}} as well as the pages listed at Special:PrefixIndex/Template:Newc/Conversations. See my comment at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 1. « D. Trebbien (talk) 00:31, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Do ya think you could at least look at the edit history and try to realize when someone might have inappropriately deleted the content and proposed an ill-advised deletion? older ≠ wiser 04:17, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
- Please see Talk:Atonement - there may or may not be consensus for the deletion to support my move proposal. --Uncle Ed (talk) 04:22, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
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Marko Livaja
I want to submit an appeal to the PROD, as the player already made his Serie A debut in late October 2011. Matthew_hk tc 11:37, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
You have deleted an information not advertising
There are several companies' information on wikipedia ,if they are not treated as advertisement then why mine company's.Glassbeam IT services is a IT company based in Bangalore HQ in USA.I am trying to create a page for that like Cognizant,TCS,Oracle etc. So I request you to kindly look into again your decision.
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jkjha (talk • contribs) 12:32, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 12:46, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Are you kidding me?
So you are going to let this page stand as is, knowing full well it is against policy? This is why Wikipedia is so bad, because of editors like you who see fit to allow pages that shouldn't. 98.28.12.216 (talk) 12:38, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion
I would've appreciated it if you actually responded to my Contest For Speedy Deletion for the image of the MV Brigitte Bardot and at least give me a chance to fix it instead of deleting it right away. Bioniclepluslotr (talk) 19:53, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#F11 -FASTILY (TALK) 21:03, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- I did provide evidence of permission in form of a Facebook wall post, because that was the only way I could contact them. I put a link of the thread, in which the owner of the photo specified that I was allowed to use any photo they uploaded on Facebook for Wikipedia. I even included the original photo so you could see that the user who gave permission was indeed the one who posted it. Bioniclepluslotr (talk) 20:31, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily. I've sent you an email. Please respond when you can. Cheers. Steve Public (talk) 21:45, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily, did you get my email? Steven Zhang Join the DR army! 06:59, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Oh, yes, I did. Sorry, haven't had a chance to get back to you! I'll do that right now :o -FASTILY (TALK) 07:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Great, looking forward to it. Steven Zhang Join the DR army! 07:04, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Oh, yes, I did. Sorry, haven't had a chance to get back to you! I'll do that right now :o -FASTILY (TALK) 07:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
re: Livaja
Thank you for the note. That article was deleted last year because it failed our notability guidelines, but I'm comfortable that as it has been re-created, it now passes them. Best regards. Jogurney (talk) 14:29, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
- Sure thing, just wanted to make sure you were aware of the page's restoration. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 22:03, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Gloom - deletion request
I know you're busy, but could you open a request for deletion on the article Gloom ? I can't do it because I can't make the page. My justification is that the page is purely synthesis and a definition of a word. Gloom is not a notable concept.82.132.242.60 (talk) 14:59, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
- Certainly, I'll do that in a moment. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:03, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
- Done at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gloom -FASTILYs (TALK) 11:48, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
G8
- 2012-02-09T13:09:56 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File talk:Scouts du Mali-self.png" (G8: Talk page of a deleted page)
- 2012-02-09T13:09:45 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:Scouts du Mali-self.png" (F8: Media file available on Commons: NowCommons commons:File:Scouts_du_Mali-self.png)
Just wondering, was this really a correct G8 deletion? WP:CSD seems to list an exception from G8 deletion for Commons moves: "This excludes [...] talk pages for images that exist on Wikimedia Commons." --Stefan2 (talk) 15:04, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Fastily/TMI
Hi. I know you've already explained the purpose of that page to me, however since it came up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/NFCC Enforcement, I think it might be a good idea to explain it at the top of the TMI page. Thanks, Sven Manguard Wha? 17:20, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
- Got rid of the gallery. Hope that helps. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:04, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
- Well if it's serving a legitimate function, by all means keep doing it. Just tell us what it is so we can defend you. Sven Manguard Wha? 22:43, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
- It's a cumulative, daily bot-generated, bot-sorted dump of all files linked in PRODs I delete. Since deleted prods often contain problematic images, I decided to aggregate a list where I could review them en-masse. I try to review the list once a week, make the necessary nominations, and delete it when I'm done. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:55, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
- Well if it's serving a legitimate function, by all means keep doing it. Just tell us what it is so we can defend you. Sven Manguard Wha? 22:43, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
MSU Interview
Dear Fastily (I believe we've interacted a few times),
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
- Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
- Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
- All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
- All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
- The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 19:18, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
TfD Close
While I don't normally second guess closes on things like TfD, I believe that you have misapplied SNOW on this discussion. Your close, as written, would seem to be unfair to those who raised the multiple valid reasons for deletion. It also doesn't seem to fall into the definition as listed on the SNOW page. As this will most likely be listed in the template of prior deletion discussions on the talk page , I would ask that you reconsider, and refactor, your close as a simple delete decision, and not as a Snowball result. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 20:26, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
- Alright, I'll look into it. I've just started re-reading the discussion. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:17, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
File:Tupac_Amaru_Shakur.jpg
You appear to have deleted this image. I do not find this to be satisfactory speedy deletion. Please explain in detail your deletion of this image, or restore it. Your explanation at User:Fastily/E#F7 is insufficient in this case. Gimmetoo (talk) 00:45, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- In that case, it belongs at FfD. I'll send it along shortly. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:52, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Here you go: Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2012_February_10#File:Tupac_Amaru_Shakur.jpg -FASTILYs (TALK) 11:48, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Template:Cover Drive
You closed the TFD as delete but didn't delete it. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 05:04, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- You also forgot {{Lundy}} Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 05:09, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- It used to still contain transclusions until it was recently orphaned. Deleted now. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:54, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- It used to still contain transclusions until it was recently orphaned.
Wistia page
I would like to see the deleted page and use it to resubmit a similar one as I use them for a video provider.
I am a novice (obviously) and would like them to have a page.
Cheers Jonathan (97.118.193.27 (talk) 06:03, 10 February 2012 (UTC)).
Hi Fastily. You missed to implement your decision. --Leyo 08:40, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- That was intentional. I'm waiting for the template to be orphaned: Wikipedia:TFD/H#To_orphan. -FASTILY (TALK) 11:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- OK. It's just not mentioned there. --Leyo 15:32, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Why did you just delete a featured picture? FPC requires English-language searchability in the title. As I see it, the FfD had 3 in favor of keep and 1 for delete—the latter based on an irrelevant Commons rationale. Will you please restore? —Eustress talk 15:37, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've restored it, pending discussion I'm about to open on WP:ANI#Reversed file deletion - more opinions, please. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:47, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Oxford Georgian Society
Dear Fastily,
My request was removed by Miszabot III on the 19th Jan before you managed to reply. Here is my inquiry and hope you'll have time to look into it. Much appreciated:
Thank you very much for your previous response. I believe there was a misunderstanding which I would like to clear up - the article Oxford University Georgian Society was not simply reposted and hence in violation of G4. It was initially removed due to lack of references (please refer to Discussion Page) this has since been specifically addressed, and the article is now well referenced and cited with numerous external sources and reading materials. Current situation does not allow for this topic to ever appear on Wikipedia which makes the encyclopaedia less complete. Its an interesting topic that has tens of analogous articles on Wikipedia (Oxford University Polish Society, Oxford University Greek Society, Oxford University Russian Society etc). I would thus like to kindly ask for the article Oxford Georgian Society / Oxford University Georgian Society to be reinstated. If you believe there are still not enough references and sources, please let me know. Please let me know if you require any additional information / clarification.
Best regards,
Jonas --88.211.47.74 (talk) 17:39, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Oxford Georgian Society? Er, I don't believe I deleted that page... -FASTILY (TALK) 02:21, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion - Richard Charles Guthridge signature
hi this image was deleted without warning - could you please restore ASAP? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Styrusclay (talk • contribs) 20:51, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Link the file in question. It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:22, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
=One Million Moms
Please restore that article, which you speedy deleted as G11. from AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/One Million Moms -- I've been working in good faith on the article, & I don't really see how you could say it's not fixable. It needs a discussion, which will provide a more stable solution. If it gets deleted it gets deleted, but I want a chance to defend it. I;'m not sure what any version of the article could be said to be promoting, exactly. Battleground is not a reason for speedy. DGG ( talk ) 21:19, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Fair enough Done -FASTILY (TALK) 02:23, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
- While I've been embroiled in this 'battleground' and am skeptical that the article will become meaningful and neutral in the near future, I thank you for restoring the history to help with an open SPI case of mine. ☆ Antoshi ☆ T | C 03:03, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Tetany
Since you deleted Tetany (action potential summation), can you please move tetany (medical sign) to tetany? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:24, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Why did you protect this page? There is no vandalism - there is, however, a run of content disputes between a registered and unregistered editor, which semiprotection shouldn't be used for. Magog the Ogre (talk) 05:08, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Hasty and wrong deletion
There's no question that Taylor Business Institute is notable. It's been advertised, in commercials, ads, in the news, FOR DECADES. It's a business college, fairly well known. I did not write much, at first, but I was gonna get to it. You and others SIMPLY DID NOT GIVE ME THE CHANCE to expand or add context etc. Why not? Why be so hasty, quick, and knee-jerk? I barely wrote it minutes ago, and it's gone already, simply because it was a stub. Taylor Business Institute is sourced, known, and notable. Copiously so. Why do that? It seems like certain Wikipedians who deal with this matter are trigger-happy with the deletion button, without carefully or fairly or intelligently considering the matter, or giving any time. Others could have added to the stub too. So what? It just needed some expanding. But TBI is notable. That's not really debatable. Cheers. Hashem sfarim (talk) 12:48, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Please read the deletion rationale. The article was deleted because there was not enough context to identify to subject of the article; see CSD A1. Stubs would have been acceptable as long as there was enough context to identify the subject of the article. If you want to create your article with less risk of deletion, than you should have done it in userspace, or have submitted it to AFC. If the institute has been advertised and is in ads, commercials, in the news for "decades" then there needs to be some way to verify it. If it needed some expanding, then you could have done it in userspace or in AfC, because you would have enough time to work on it, and would not have had it deleted. Cheers. --Bmusician 14:58, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- I would add that Hashem clearly has failed to read WP:FIRSTARTICLE, even though it has been pointed out to him more than once on his talkpage. Even a stub must meet certain standards; otherwise, you're better off creating a WP:USERSPACEDRAFT. Railing on because policy states that an article that looked like TBI did got deleted is like peeing yourself while wearing a dark suit: nobody else notices (or cares), and eventually you feel pretty crappy. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 15:05, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ayayaya, wilky, Admin or not, that was not cool or fair. I hardly create any articles (not really all that interested), and most of the ones that I have created (in this account and some others) were NEVER deleted or given this problem. Even stub-like things. The majority have remained no problem. So not sure what you're belching about here. Also, again, the bottom line is that it seems that this article was SO HASTILY QUICKLY deleted NOT because TBI is not notable or sourced etc (there are plenty of articles on WP that are actually LESSER known things than TBI, for real), but simply because I did not write enough about it yet, at the time. But my point (again, sighs, and double sighs) is I would have soon, or if given enough time, or if I was kindly warned to by others to expand it within a few days (for example) otherwise the thing might get deleted. But in this case, just about no time was given, and it was deleted at the speed of light, when by now (if given the chance) I would have expounded, added, edited, and reffed the thing. Where it would be developed more so. It just would have been nice if a WEE BIT more time was given (you know, more than 3 seconds maybe?) to expand it. Yeah, it would have been better if right off the bat I had more context and sentences in the article, I agree. I'm just saying that it was NOT really necessary to delete it THAT quickly, because by now it would have been modified and bigger and more "contextual" and sourced. Also, my point too is, what would have been the big crime for those two editors to uh try to work on it a tad or expand it a bit themselves? Instead of being so delete-crazy about it? There's a point. Anyway, I don't appreciate your rudeness. That's not the way to win me over to your dogmatic uptight argument. But to only confirm my position all the more. Regards.... Hashem sfarim (talk) 20:08, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- I would add that Hashem clearly has failed to read WP:FIRSTARTICLE, even though it has been pointed out to him more than once on his talkpage. Even a stub must meet certain standards; otherwise, you're better off creating a WP:USERSPACEDRAFT. Railing on because policy states that an article that looked like TBI did got deleted is like peeing yourself while wearing a dark suit: nobody else notices (or cares), and eventually you feel pretty crappy. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 15:05, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Clarifying a misunderstanding
I DO appreciate the "help" and the words and advice that Bmusician (and even to some extent you) gave before. And the point about deletion. Whether I totally agree with its hasty implementation by some, or not. I KNOW that I should have written more in the beginning. That would have been better, I know.
I was just making the point (that you're ignoring) that it would have been nice if more than 3 seconds were given in deleting the thing. Like maybe 24 hours. THAT'S IT. Regards. Hashem sfarim (talk) 20:58, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Stop spreading the exact same conversation around. We keep discussions in one place, and the final word has been left on one of the multitude of pages you dropped this onto. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 19:51, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
TGF Centre Structure Concept
Hi
I understand why you deleted my image but I still don't understand how I can license this image and noone seems willing or able to help me.
The image belongs to the TGF Foundation but I am not sure what they need to give me to prove that they have copyright.
Please help and advise. If possible please don't point me to information on the subject. I've read heaps of stuff here but I'm still unclear. I would really appreciate a simple explanation. ThanQ Cneeds (talk) 12:39, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#F4 -FASTILY (TALK) 04:36, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Sinopak.JPEG
Dear Fastily
You deleted this file citing a copyright violation. This was not justified as I would normally own the copyright! Shahiran.JPEG was also deleted inappropriately. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pakhistory1 (talk • contribs) 13:31, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
- That file has been deleted twice by two different administrators because it lacked proper licensing information. If you are the copyright holder, then you need to send an email to the OTRS team. Please see Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries for details. Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 20:26, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi just noticed you deleted the above as G6. Where has the page been moved to and what was requested to be moved there.Edinburgh Wanderer 01:10, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Undeleted
I undeleted Template:FULLROOTPAGENAME. The page was not blanked and there was no CSD notice. looking at it, the page has not been edited since mid 2010. In addition it breaks every edit notice on the wiki. --Guerillero | My Talk 02:31, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- I also undeleted it. Mine was recorded [32] so apparently I beat Guerillero. Your deletion said "G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page)". The only contributor was User:Amalthea who is an admin and wouldn't have to request deletion, and I couldn't see a request anywhere. I guess the deletion was an accident. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:40, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Etymotic
I don't know why you deleted Etymotic. Etymotic Research is a big brand which produces high end in-ear headphones. I don't know why Etymotic was deleted because of G8. Please restore this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.87.140.221 (talk) 02:36, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 04:37, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
File:Ats-3_test_tx.ogg
Hiya! I was wondering if you could possibly restore File:Ats-3_test_tx.ogg? I'm very sure that as a product of NASA, the satellite's test transmission would fall under public domain (since NASA is an entity of the Government of the United States), so the NASA-Public Domain license tag would apply in this case... RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 03:54, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- Is this file free or unfree? It was claimed in the file description page to be unfree. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:40, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- The file should be free, since it was made by NASA. File:Apollo13-wehaveaproblem.ogg has a similar license: Template:PD-USGov-NASA. What was the source page of the file? RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 07:27, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Alice Smith School
why did you delete this page? as far as i could see, there was no copyright infringement. it is also the page of my school, and me and my friends did a lot to help improve it. Kitty10026 (talk) 09:24, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G12 -FASTILY (TALK) 13:03, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
FYI
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Mathsci (talk) 10:08, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Reverting
Why are you reverting me? Those pages are being abused to advertise paid editing, the oldid is still being linked to, and if you look at the history IPs are posting things on the pages and it's being used as a communications centre using the email function... I am trying to help you here... --Mistress Selina Kyle (Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉) 13:23, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- IPs have not edited said pages as you so claim recently (the one with recent edits (10 days ago) - User talk:MyWikiBiz is now semi-protected. The next page with recent edits is User talk:Thekohser, which was edited little less than a year ago) and do not meet any of the criteria for speedy deletion. If you believe the pages should be deleted, please list them at WP:MfD. -FASTILY (TALK) 13:28, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
YGM
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Marathon Box vs. Fastily!!!
Hi there,
I have been trying to submit an article 'Marathon Box' and you have deleted it as 'G3: Vandalism'!!!
I understand that Wikipedia has many guidelines and I'm not about to dispute them! However I have two queries, firstly what can I do to rectify this, it's a genuine thing, admittedly the personality/web presence etc has a fairly niche following of 300-400, mostly in Wales and Northern England but never the less we as friends and followers wanted to add a page on his/her antics, hence I spent quite some time going through all the codes etc to submit it!!! Secondly, I appreciate it has been 'deleted but is it still stored somewhere so I can at least retrieve it for myself?
Thanks for you time and happy editing!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marathonbox (talk • contribs) 10:57, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) A following of 300-400? How does that meet notability standards? (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 19:50, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi!!! A little puzzled by your point!?! If you read the sentence I volunteered the information because I don't think it's a huge amount (I assumed the word "niche" was a giveaway). I appreciate the whole point of this system is that the more experienced contributors, like yourself, are responsible for keeping an eye on the efforts of the new(in our case first time) contributors, but it might be constructive to actually be... Constructive. The phrase you've jumped on was actually part of a question, directed at someone with experience and knowledge of the subject in the hope that they may actually be able to help. I also appreciate, that there are all sorts of guidelines in place to make Wikipedia the fantastic resource it is, and in my opinion one of the reasons it is so superior is the breadth of subject matter. As l said in my previous comment, I appreciate that 'Marathon Box' is essentially a blogger with a relatively small following(to be fair the numbers were Facebook related, the blog is actually quite popular) but those of us who do follow it, enjoy it and thought it was worthy of note. The notability standards are fair enough and as I said earlier, I'm not about to start disputing the guidelines which have made Wikipedia what it is, but I do find the air of superiority in your reply a bit random and completely unnecessary. For future reference you might like to consider "Wikipedia has notability standards, you might be as well reading them". Finally, could you please provide an equally patronising answer to my second point as to whether the original text is still retrievable? As myself and the other fans who discussed submitting it the first place would not only enjoy being replied to as if we are idiots but would also like to keep a copy of the text. Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marathonbox (talk • contribs) 21:54, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Hey there MB - another idiot here, and though I've never been able to nail the patronizing part, I'll try my best. :) Yes, your material is still out there....but only admins like Fastily and BWilkins have the technical ability to see it (and for that matter, delete it). Many admins will, if not copy the text to your personal userspace (like User:Marathonbox/Marathon Box), at least email you a copy. That's probably the best we can do because, and sorry, but I'm going from what you've said, an internet personality with 300-400 followers is probably not notable. And when I say probably, I mean it doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell, as we say around these parts. Check this link out (will take you less then 30 seconds), and nod understandingly to yourself. Got it? Of course you do. The fact that you understand that we need to have standards, and that there's a chance that something you really like may not be notable means that you are far smarter then 90% of the...umm.....that wouldn't be nice. Anyway, hope this helped. Cheers! Nolelover Talk·Contribs 22:22, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Cheers for that, although I'm mildly disappointed that you answered my strop informatively and as if dealing with... a grown up!!! I have read through some more of the rules ("Raaaa raaaa raaaa you should have read and memorised them all before daring to try and pollute Wikipedia's sacred inner sanctum" - Yes, you are perhaps correct bwilkins, but there are quite a lot and this was my first experience of it and I had understood the open editing principle to be a system where the more experienced helped the newbies) since my last rant and it's fairly clear that this was never an appropriate subject(incidentally the link you sent me is much clearer than the majority of the guidelines I've read so far). As a final point, could an admin please send/e-mail me the text?!? (If that's my new friend, could you also include instructions on how to open, read the e-mail? I'll leave my iPad switched on, so should be able to manage that part all by my self) Thanks again, Another Idiot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marathonbox (talk • contribs) 00:07, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- Here's a better question: were you writing about yourself? (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 00:13, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello again!!! No afraid not, although to be fair I realised fairly early on that signing up as the name I was going to submit wasn't the brightest idea! There were three of us doing the original post, but the other two have got lives and aren't carrying on whining about it anymore, unfortunately I haven't. Thanks for everything, it's been emotional x — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marathonbox (talk • contribs) 00:18, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
about the cementary page
Hey, the page has been confirmed by the Polish wikipedia stuff. It is a real obect, but there are little info about it. Nevertheless, it is not a joke and this is the amount of info I have found about it. What is more, the pictures were made by me and there are no problems with copyright stuff :)
please let me know, and revive my page ;D
Zazula73 (talk) 13:52, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- War_Cemetery_in_Łazy#War_cemetery? -FASTILY (TALK) 22:35, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Amy Goodman article protection
Hi, I've added a request to reconsider protection of Amy Goodman; AIV doesn't work with IP-hoppers. Thanks, Rostz (talk) 14:10, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- I don't believe the disruption is extensive enough to make editing the article strained or impossible at this time. Remember that protection is applied sparingly because it can inhibit good-faith contributors from editing as well. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:37, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
You're being discussed at ANI
See Problems with Militant atheism and WikiProject Conservatism - another editor noted that you were being discussed but he/she also didn't tell you! Dougweller (talk) 17:49, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- If you're referring to me, I didn't see any need to tell Fastily. Perhaps it was lost in my admitedly somewhat sarcastic post, but as I also noted, MathSci has already informed them of the discussion (as they are supposed to) and which is still visible above. They used the standard template (ANI-notice) but did not link directly to the post, but I believe that's generally considered sufficient particularly for an admin who should be able to find the thread. (If it isn't let me known, although I rarely if ever start an ANI threads I do often check that people have carried out notifications.) Nil Einne (talk) 20:45, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- I posted a notification further up the page at 11:08 just after the ANI report. Mathsci (talk) 22:25, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry for the unnecessary post. Dougweller (talk) 08:31, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- I posted a notification further up the page at 11:08 just after the ANI report. Mathsci (talk) 22:25, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
This subject page has now been launched (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_Therapeutic_Retreat) and so the image below which is a logo (non free image) should now be allowed to be visible.
Shall I re-upload it?
Приморя/Primorye 02:40, 13 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Primorye (talk • contribs)
Getting Proof of Permission
Hello! First time creating a wikipedia page and didn't realize I had to send proof of permission for the photo. I am getting the owner of the photo to send permission to permissions-enwikimedia.org. Please hold off on deleting the photo this time round. Thanks so much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Naordway (talk • contribs) 05:52, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
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Deleting "File:Stjohntribunedetail.jpg"
Hi, you've deleted this file WRONGLY in my opinion. It's a newspaper footage from over 80 years ago, and it's irreplaceable. If you think I can replace it, with a reasonable effort, or you can do it with not too many difficulties, please adice me how. Thx! עמירם פאל (talk) 07:12, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#F7 -FASTILY (TALK) 08:06, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've seen the F7 section and written the above afterwards. Please respond to the content. It will be a shame to lose this footage in St. John article. עמירם פאל (talk) 08:24, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- On second thought, you're right. But the file does seem to fail WP:NFCC#3a. I'll list it as such. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:06, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- Please, don't look for ways to discourage me from contributing to the en:wiki. You've marked four images which illustrate four different aspects of St. John's life, as redundant. Don't you agree they add interest to the article? illustrate it? Maybe some of them can be considered as free licensed?
- On second thought, you're right. But the file does seem to fail WP:NFCC#3a. I'll list it as such. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:06, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've seen the F7 section and written the above afterwards. Please respond to the content. It will be a shame to lose this footage in St. John article. עמירם פאל (talk) 08:24, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Help me, please, instead of the other way around! עמירם פאל (talk) 07:11, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've tried to repair File:Robert William St. John.jpg and added the rationale - Please correct me where needed and advice concerning the other three images - Help me make the article better instead of deleting the images! Thank you! עמירם פאל (talk) 08:32, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi fastily. I am a new user from Greece that I am trying to "promote" better the Greek region of Messinia. By word promote I mean re write or add content always within wikipedia standarts about History and traditions of my region. At this concept I tried to add Navarino Icons a Greek brand that has traditional Greek products under the category of Category:Brand name food products. I haven't finished adding the article with a friend of mine and realize that you delete. Please alow me to add the whole article for your cosideration and give me suggestions of what to change in order no to look like an advertisment. I do not want to look as advertisment either but I amnot en experience user. So maybe the reference I used was not the best ones. but I think is much better tah similar article in this category. So just asing you to let it up and let me and the community to shape it and make it better.
Thank you very much I hope you will find some time to reply and help me out.
I am User Grzontan
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 23:12, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Approved Page is now Deleted
You have deleted an article created by me [33] which was approved by another editor [34] . While i understand it is unambiguous advertising as per you, i don't understand how an article approved by an editor can be deleted by another. Please let me know what i need to change to get my article online. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prateekshah03 (talk • contribs) 14:28, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- You can appeal the deletion at WP:DRV. I highly doubt that an AfC submission that falls under G11 would be accepted. --Bmusician 14:51, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Luciann Mosescu possible serial copyright violator
Greetings Fastily, Thank you for dealing with the deletion of copyrighted image File:Eurovision Selectia Nationala 2012.PNG (as shown on this deletion log). I have deepest concerns that the user, who I named above, may be a serial copyvio. Luciann has uploaded several images over the last 12 months, all of which are based upon the non-free Eurovision Song Contest images; which they appears to manipulate, and then adds licencing tags stating the work belongs to them. On their main Wikipedia page, the user has had several warnings about this, and yet they still continues to violate copyright legislations. The same user has had File:Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2012.PNG deleted only a few hours ago for the same copyright violation. Plus several other images deleted, all for the same copyvio reason.
This isn't the first time that File:Eurovision Selectia Nationala 2012.PNG has been removed either. On February 3, 2012 the image was nominated for speedy; and subsequently deleted for copyvio on February 11, 2012 (I think you may have deleted that one too). During the nomination process, Luciann personally removed deletion tags, to which they were warned about. With all of these copyright issues cropping up time and time again, I fear that the user may be wandering down a disruptive path unknowingly. Is there any action that should now be taken to prevent further copyvio disruptions from this user? Thank you in advance for your time reading this. Wesley☀Mouse 23:29, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- You've taken the appropriate action by leaving the user warnings. If they continue to upload copyvios, let me know and we'll remedy this with blocks. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 23:53, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Sandbox
I couldn't find your reason for deleting Wikipedia:Sandboxes on that reason list you have on a feature of your talk page.
I discovered that it wasn't there when I was leaving headnotes on my sandbox. It had a link to "Wikipedia:Sandboxes" and I see it red. So I click it, and I see on the list the only person who deleted it. So should I recreate the page? Er...? Please respond on this section because I will be watching this page.
ObiwanLostToBarney (talk) 02:23, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- It looks like you were looking for the Wikipedia:Sandbox. It's not clear if that was what you were asking about, but I've fixed the link in your sandbox. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:37, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Kevin Perez photo
Hi, you deleted Kevin Perez photo by mistake. And my brother who's a photographer of the photo, send you email that he's allowing me to publish the photo on this site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marelica5 (talk • contribs) 03:52, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- When the email you claim to have sent is processed by our OTRS team, the file will be automatically restored. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 05:54, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Excelsior JET page
Hi Fastily
Just noticed a *Excelsior JET* page had existed, but was deleted (Reason: Wikipedia:PROD). I do think it is valid to have a page about the product, beacuse (1) it is still used to speed up Java start up (2) other articles link to it.
Is it ok, if I go ahaed and create a new page about? If so, where can I find the old page content?
Halloleo (talk) 04:51, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Herguan University
You speedy-deleted Herguan University as a blatant hoax. I believe this was a mistake. The subject of the article is a scam operation, and thus could be considered a hoax (see this article in Chronicle of Higher Education and this archived piece from San Jose Mercury-News), but the article (which has been here almost 3 years and had over 200 edits) is no hoax. Please reconsider your deletion. --Orlady (talk) 05:48, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ah...that would explain a lot. Restored. Thanks for letting me know. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 05:56, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Okan Derici
Hi! I saw you deleted Okan Derici due to the previous discussion. But I'm pretty sure you have also seen that the reason for deletion was WP:NFOOTBALL because of having not yet made a first team or senior international appearance. Long after that discussion he played in a 2011-12 Turkish Cup match. I think, at least it should be reconsidered before direct deleting.Hcagri (talk) 08:47, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello again...
Hi there. On the 7th February, you deleted File:Accrington Stanley FC.svg, because it was an unused non-free file. However, it was only unused because someone uploaded a version to Commons and used that in the original file's place. When the Commons file was inevitably deleted for being non-free, the page became logo-less. Could you un-delete the original if at all possible? Cheers, It's Malpass93! (drop me a ___) 12:06, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of "ISO/IEEE 11073 Personal Health Data (PHD) Standards"
Dear Fastily
If I understand it, you are responsible for deletion of the above page, with a reason "(Expired PROD, concern was: No indication of notability)"
Is that correct?
IMHO the topic is "notable". The standards dscribed here are the subject of a considerable amount of work by a committee of an international standards organisation (the sponsor is the IEEE 11073 Standards Committee of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society), and are the basis of products being certified and promoted by a significant trade body concerned with the interoperabiity of personal health devices (go here and search for "11073" http://www.continuaalliance.org/connected-health-vision.html).
If you can be specific about your concerns then I can attempt to get others involved with the creation and use of these standards to address your concerns.
In the mean time it would be very kind of you to restore the page. You are welcome to contact me for further clarification.
Thanks. Charles Palmer charles.palmer@acutetechnology.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acutetech (talk • contribs) 17:53, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#PROD -FASTILY (TALK) 23:13, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily, you see that bit where it says "it would be very kind of you to restore the page"? So why did you point him at a page saying "You may request that the page be restored"? --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 23:27, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've restored the page, per the above request. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 23:29, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) So that Acutetech understands our PROD policy and acknowledges what they're asking for. Once they've done that, I restore the page. Hardly unreasonable imo. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:31, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- WP:Deletion policy doesn't say "understand PROD policy", it says "Even after the page is deleted, any editor can have the page restored by any administrator simply by asking." Therefore, putting hoops in their way to jump through is unreasonable. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 23:40, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- Nonsense. I believe that an informed decision saves users a lot of trouble in the long run. At any rate, I find this is a problem with the current system and I plan on starting an RfC on it soon. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:51, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- If the page has no chance at all, I will usually so advise the person in a personal note, but restore it if they still want; often they do not, when given an adequate explanation. Fastily, the principle that a prod can always be restored is important, and we don't want to put hurdles in people's way, like links to a page of boilerplate that says no more than the original Prod notice--though it certainly says it briefer and more clearly.But the person is obviously a paid PR agent "If you can be specific about your concerns then I can attempt to get others involved with the creation and use of these standards to address your concerns." and the page contain some obvious copyvio--the wording of the "note" is quite indicative of that & is not encyclopedic, and the situation warrants some attention, more so than just this one article, which I will give. If you're going too fast to carefully read the entire article and make appropriate comments and advice, and deal with concerns that arise that need an admin, such as a COI user with a company user name, you're going too fast. (I see OrangeMike already took care of the username block). Deleting improper material is necessary, but it's not always sufficient. DGG ( talk ) 00:24, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Nonsense. I believe that an informed decision saves users a lot of trouble in the long run. At any rate, I find this is a problem with the current system and I plan on starting an RfC on it soon. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:51, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- WP:Deletion policy doesn't say "understand PROD policy", it says "Even after the page is deleted, any editor can have the page restored by any administrator simply by asking." Therefore, putting hoops in their way to jump through is unreasonable. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 23:40, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) So that Acutetech understands our PROD policy and acknowledges what they're asking for. Once they've done that, I restore the page. Hardly unreasonable imo. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:31, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Question
Does this look like an inappropriate edit summary? :[35] Abhijay (☎ Talk) (✐ Deeds) 11:18, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- Eh, it's not exactly ideal. I'll mention this to Dave. -FASTILY (TALK) 13:17, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note (for that Forrest Gump-styled edit summary quote but just so you'd know, I'm a great fan of Don Rickles and his preferred genre of insult comedy... so there~!) but the thread starter was having some issues with his partner during his vacation and came to grind his axe on my talk page instead, I have since forgiven him for his folly. Note also that the thread starter had been WP:Canvassing for support to belittle me on not just your talk page but also on a few others including another Admin, if that is not "having a axe to grind" then I don't know what is. Like I've said, I took the liberty of forgiving the troll and imposing an interaction ban with him so if he starts another round, you know what to do. Me, on the other hand, has got to be going to work my graveyard shift soon. Cheers and best. --Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 13:36, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- I am not with my partner on vacation. I'm on a school vacation Dave. I simply wanted to ask Fastily a question about if your edit summary was considered appropriate or not. Arrgh. Forget this. I'm out of here. Thank you all for being good people here. I've now made the decision to retire in peace. Fastily, remove my rollbacker and autopatrolled rights. I don't want them anymore. Abhijay (☎ Talk) (✐ Deeds) 13:39, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ladies and germs, that's how the fat lady sings~! Well, Abhijay... suit yourself for the quagmire you got yourself into, it is your choice, after all. Just try to remember the interaction ban, will'ya? Best and out. --Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 16:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
To fastily
Remove my autopatrolled and rollback rights. I don't want them anymore. I'm retiring from Wikipedia. Abhijay (☎ Talk) (✐ Deeds) 13:55, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'm sorry to hear that. Hope you decide to come back one day. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:03, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've come back now after some peace and quiet. I admit I was upset, and that in that issue between me and Dave both of us were upset. He said things he didn't mean to say and I did things I didn't mean to say. Well if that issue isn't heading to anywhere and he constantly blames me as a troll and among other things, I'd rather refrain from coming near his path ever again. Abhijay (☎ Talk) (✐ Deeds) 01:30, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily, please refer to User talk:Baseball Bugs. Some editor has posted potentially nasty things about me. Abhijay (☎ Talk) (✐ Deeds) 12:21, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've come back now after some peace and quiet. I admit I was upset, and that in that issue between me and Dave both of us were upset. He said things he didn't mean to say and I did things I didn't mean to say. Well if that issue isn't heading to anywhere and he constantly blames me as a troll and among other things, I'd rather refrain from coming near his path ever again. Abhijay (☎ Talk) (✐ Deeds) 01:30, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Advice needed
I have created a navigation template for Michelin restaurants in the Dutch provinces Groningen, Friesland and Flevoland. But when finished, I noticed that all restaurants are still red links and only the links to related templates are existing. In effect, I guess that the template, at this moment, is a straight candidate for the firing squad. Am I right in that and should I wait with launching till I have done at least 1 restaurant? Night of the Big Wind talk 16:13, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- Good call. Yes, for the reasons you mentioned above, I'd definitely recommend waiting until at least one or two of the links are blue before turning the template live. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:12, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion review for Paul J. Alessi
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Paul J. Alessi. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review.
Thank you for your time and consideration. Trismosin (talk) 17:16, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
An annoying uploader
Would you kindly have a look at the uploads of Mythy88 who has uploaded several images whose authors or sources are not himself. Several of the images have clear metadata attributions to someone else. He keeps removing deletion notices and now has started claiming some images as his own work and uploading the same previously tagged images to the commons under the new self claims though with somewhat different names. Besides the usual image deletion notices I have posted a number of tailored detailed warnings and information about permission but he has ignored all advise. I can keep tagging the images both here and on the commons or start making formal deletion nominations but I think he need more than that with an admin's intervention. TIA. ww2censor (talk) 17:57, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- See File:Liberty Center Bucuresti.JPG He's marked the upload Copyright Dico si Tiganas who are firm of architects. My bet is he works for these guys - he asked for their article to be created. My worry is - I don't know if he has permission to upload these photographs even, let alone release them on any kind of license. I've blocked him 12 hours, just to stop him and see if we can get his attention. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 18:33, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- And he claimed this for File:Liberty Center Bucuresti.JPG. Quite difficult and, as EotR says, possibly works for them but fails to engage in any way so we cannot determine anything concrete. ww2censor (talk) 21:04, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- You might now want to be aware of this: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dico si Tiganas. ww2censor (talk) 14:04, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Melanie Paxson
I do not know who the user was that PROD'd the article, but the nominator is complete wrong, the person does indeed pass WP:ENTERTAINER, the article just did not have references from what I remember. If I had known the article PROD tagged, I would have worked on the article myself to have it in better shape. Can you userify the content for me please: User:QuasyBoy/Melanie Paxson, so I can work on it. QuasyBoy 20:58, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of File:Truebinaryclock anthony liekens.png
Hello Fastily,
I received a message about a week ago that an image (File:Truebinaryclock anthony liekens.png) I uploaded was going to be deleted because it said that there was no proof that the author agreed to the CC Attribution license. As instructed I forwarded the email thread between myself and the author to the permissions-en@wikimedia.org address where the author specified the CC Attribution license. Also as instructed I put {{OTRS pending}} on the file description page to prevent premature file deletion. I did not hear anything back but just noticed that the image was deleted. ???
Could you please reply on my talk page so that I am notified?
A goethals (talk) 21:00, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily,
I'm not sure what was on Talk:Just The Funny, but I think it was deleted by mistake. Here's why:
- Just The Funny was initially created, and then speedy deleted (I was not involved with that initial tag).
- Talk:Just The Funny was subsequently tagged for deletion under G8.
- Just The Funny was re-created, and tagged by me for speedy deletion. I left the G8 tag in place on the Talk page as a result.
- Additional content was added, and I removed my own speedy deletion tag, but forgot to remove the G8 tag from the Talk page.
- Talk:Just The Funny was deleted by you under G8.
Anyway, given that I removed my own speedy deletion tag from the article, the Talk page should probably not have been deleted under G8. Singularity42 (talk) 22:07, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, probably not. Restored. Thanks for letting me know. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:29, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
SWFINAL deleted
Hello, I believe I just labeled the photo that was deleted incorrectly, and if you could help guide me on how to label it would be so very much appreciated. I own the image I uploaded, it is a poster used (and approved by all in image) for any and all things connected with our production of SNOW WHITE forever. It is available online for all to use and reference as well. How do I better label so it won't be deleted again? Cheers and Best. Beckbah Beckbah (talk) 22:50, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- Link the file in question? It's not clear what you're referring to -FASTILY (TALK) 05:56, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
King Arthur Court
Evening Fastily, I somehow have found myself looking into King Arthur Court, Tennessee which was a deleted Prod a couple years back. It's really weird that this place is in GNIS, and is featured on the Bearden Quadrangle yet it doesn't seem to exist in real life. You live in the area, do you have any further insight? -Marcusmax(speak) 02:55, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Mystery solved I think..."King Arthur Court" is the name of a subdivision, if you have access to Knoxville News-Sentinel archives it is identified as a subdivision in the foreclosures page. Not sure if I should remake an article though, foreclosure listings aren't exactly a reliable source. -Marcusmax(speak) 03:11, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
A DRV connected to you. User:Bittergrey/CAMH Promotion
Hi Fastily,
You performed a deletion of User:Bittergrey/CAMH Promotion as seen here. The deletion is now under review at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2012_February_14#User:Bittergrey.2FCAMH_Promotion. The CSD-tagging admin has undeleted. You contribution to the DRV would be welcome. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 08:49, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
That was fast...
After I requested User talk:Bmusician/unprotectedtalk for deletion, it was done before it even finished re-loading! Thank you! --Bmusician 12:15, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
File:Andy Johnson-Laird Streak Image - Daisies.jpg
Apologies. I saved this image before I realized that Andy Johnson-Laird needed to email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org (which he has now done). I'm new to Wikipedia, so I wonder whether you might be able to tell me whether I need to re-upload the image or whether you can restore it? Thanks in advance. QueenieBeeIsMe (talk) 23:16, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- I searched the system for it, but I could not find the email in question. What was the subject header of the email Mr. Johnson-Laird sent? -FASTILY (TALK) 23:27, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
The subject line is: Permission to use file Andy Johnson-Laird Streak Image - Daisies.jpg The From line is: andy@jli.com The To line is: permissions-en@wikimedia.org The email body reads: Please take this email as explicit permission to use, without restriction, the thumbnail image uploaded as "Andy Johnson-Laird Streak Image - Daisies.jpg" on Wikipedia. Thanks in advance Andy Johnson-Laird
Please let me know if the above is not the correct thing to be doing. QueenieBeeIsMe (talk) 23:45, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
I should have also perhaps mentioned that his email included his "business card" as an embedded graphic and his PGP public key -- both of which were intended to authenticate the email.
But might they have caused the email to have been rejected? QueenieBeeIsMe (talk) 01:18, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- Could you ask Mr. Johnson-Laird to send another email, in which he specifically indicates a Wikipedia-compatible license to irrevocably release the file under? Once that has happened, let me know and I'll restore the file. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:49, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. He has done so. He chose to use the Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike, so I will arrange to put the appropriate tag in the template. QueenieBeeIsMe (talk) 16:41, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
- I searched the system for the email you described, but can't seem to find it. What was the subject header of the new email that Mr. Johnson-Laird sent? -FASTILY (TALK) 22:35, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Gee. I'm really sorry about all of this, Fastily. I'm still trying to learn how to do this right.
Mr. Johnson-Laird confirms that he just sent another email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, the subject line of which is: "Permission to use file Andy Johnson-Laird Streak Image - Daisies.jpg". The text of the message is: "Attention: WP Administrator Fastily. Please take this email as explicit, irrevocable, permission to use, subject to the Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike license described on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ICTIC#For_image_creators, the thumbnail image uploaded as "Andy Johnson-Laird Streak Image - Daisies.jpg" on Wikipedia. Thank you for being so attentive to licensing details. It is much appreciated. Regards Andy Johnson-Laird"
I've also asked him to remove the in-line graphic and the PGP public key (which is just text) from his message, in case this is causing the message to be rejected. QueenieBeeIsMe (talk) 04:05, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- I found the email, but there's still a problem I'm afraid. Mr. Johnson-Laird did not specify which creative commons license to use (There are multiple cc licenses. Note that only cc licenses allowing commercial reuse and derivatives are acceptable for Wikipedia). Could you ask Mr. Johnson-Laird to send one last email, in which he specifies the exact creative commons license to use? Thanks, FASTILY (TALK) 03:10, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Oh. I understand now. I'll have him do that this evening, Pacific Time. I'll ask him to resend the most recent email with the appropriate license specified. Thanks again for all your help. QueenieBeeIsMe (talk) 04:44, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
OK. I spoke to him. He's sent another email with the subject line: "Permission to use file Andy Johnson-Laird Streak Image - Daisies.jpg" to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. The text reads "Attention: WP Administrator Fastily.
Regarding the thumbnail image uploaded as "Andy Johnson-Laird Streak Image - Daisies.jpg". Please take this email as explicit, irrevocable, permission to use subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License license described by making appropriate choices for the file at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/. Thanks again for your efforts. Regards Andy Johnson-Laird
Thanks again for all your help, too. QueenieBeeIsMe (talk) 04:53, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Oh dear. I just re-read the copy of the email. He picked the wrong license didn't he? Let me try one more time, please!
OK. I've emailed him. You should have another email by tomorrow morning Pacific Time. This email will specify the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License which I understand is the commercial use/derivatives permitted license WP needs. Thanks for your understanding on this. QueenieBeeIsMe (talk) 07:36, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily: Just wanted to check -- did you receive the appropriate email from Mr. Johnson-Laird? Will it be possible to get the image restored please? Thanks in advance QueenieBeeIsMe (talk) 04:53, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Template:Non-free use rationale
I am writing to inquire about the purpose of Template:Non-free use rationale, as used on File:Krenek's chord classification from Studies in Counterpoint.png and other files. It seems that the written out rationale where superior to the table's lone assertion that the file is used as an example of the subject. What makes the template preferable? Hyacinth (talk) 07:24, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- The table is cleaner and easier to read; uniformity saves us 10 or so file workers reviewing time and makes it easier for newbies to read file description pages. FWIW, it's unnecessary to spell out all of the information implied by the template. If you think that a wall of text is going to prevent your files from being nominated for deletion, you are sorely mistaken. -FASTILY (TALK) 13:13, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- What do you mean by "10 or so file workers reviewing time"? Ten people's time? Since in the past that text is exactly what has kept files from being deleted you may know I am not mistaken, or was not. Perhaps what I am asking is: would you happen to know what changed? Hyacinth (talk) 20:53, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- I think I've made my reasons clear. If you can't stand the table, fine, change it back, but realize that you are doing a disfavor to both newbies and experienced media file specialists. This is a trivial matter and believe me, I have no interest in arguing over it. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:14, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- What do you mean by "10 or so file workers reviewing time"? Ten people's time? Since in the past that text is exactly what has kept files from being deleted you may know I am not mistaken, or was not. Perhaps what I am asking is: would you happen to know what changed? Hyacinth (talk) 20:53, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
You have explained yourself, but not fully to me. I still have questions. Hyacinth (talk) 23:20, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Would I better off if I went through and changed my files over to that template? Would it be helpful to you, or you all, if I went through and changed my files over to that template? Hyacinth (talk) 04:36, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Reflexsive self consciousness
Why has this page been deleted? How do you know that Eugene Halliday Society is copyright material. As far as I know they (the trustees)created the page and wish it to exist. Apepch7 (talk) 14:11, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Are you referring to Reflexsive self consciousness? The page has never existed. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:20, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- They're talking about Reflexive self-consciousness. --Floquenbeam (talk) 03:22, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, I see. Thanks Floq. Apepch7, please refer to User:Fastily/E#G12. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:28, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- I have already read G12. Both the text on here and on the external site were written at the same time. In fact it was probably on here first and then copied to the external sit by the trustees of the Eugene Halliday Society. There is no copyright breach and the page should not have been deleted. Did you check any of this before deleting? The internet is full of sites which take quotes directly from here ... nothing unusual in this. Do you have the facility to reinstate the page?Apepch7 (talk) 09:20, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Hello, I am one of the Trustees of the Eugene Halliday Society. I used the material from Wikipedia on our website eugenehallidaysociety.org. I know Apepch7, and we both worked on the Wikipedia page on Eugene Halliday (he was the original author). If I remember correctly, I first wrote the page on Reflexive Self-Consciousness, which links to the Eugene Halliday page. Thank you for your consideration in respect of copyright. Both pages were, in fact, written on Wikipedia before I used them on our website. I would like you to restore the page if possible. Should I have asked permission from Wikipedia before using the articles on our website, even though I wrote, or part-wrote them? (Both entries also appeared on Facebook some time ago.) Hephzi (talk) 20:12, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Fair enough, Restored. Thanks for clarifying that. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:20, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. I don't know if you can shed any light on the following issue: a company called Alphascript is publishing paperback books, which are being sold on Amazon, all with content lifted from Wikipedia - at the exorbitant cost of £42. They have brought out one on Eugene Halliday, as well as many other titles http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1/279-8262587-3020067?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=eugene+halliday&x=0&y=0 and other dodgy titles, including a manual of suicide http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=books-uk&field-author=Frederic%20P.%20Miller. They claim that they are publishing under "copyleft". I've emailed Amazon and so far had no satisfactory reply. Do you have any views or knowledge the allowability of such publishing? Many thanks. Hephzi (talk) 10:56, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Fair enough,
- Hello, I am one of the Trustees of the Eugene Halliday Society. I used the material from Wikipedia on our website eugenehallidaysociety.org. I know Apepch7, and we both worked on the Wikipedia page on Eugene Halliday (he was the original author). If I remember correctly, I first wrote the page on Reflexive Self-Consciousness, which links to the Eugene Halliday page. Thank you for your consideration in respect of copyright. Both pages were, in fact, written on Wikipedia before I used them on our website. I would like you to restore the page if possible. Should I have asked permission from Wikipedia before using the articles on our website, even though I wrote, or part-wrote them? (Both entries also appeared on Facebook some time ago.) Hephzi (talk) 20:12, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- They're talking about Reflexive self-consciousness. --Floquenbeam (talk) 03:22, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Why was Wikipedia:Syntaxhighlight deleted? It was a redirect to mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight GeSHi. Your rationale was that it was a "redirect to a deleted or non-existent page", but its target exists and has not been deleted. I thought the redirect was useful since there is no page on Wikipedia itself about the syntaxhighlight MediaWiki extension that is used on Wikipedia. There is Template:Syntaxhighlight, but that only explains the template use, i.e. {{syntaxhighlight}}, and not the tag use, i.e. <syntaxhighlight>. Thanks. —danhash (talk) 15:06, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Cross-wiki redirects appear to the database as broken, because, well, the page being redirected to doesn't exist locally. At any rate, I've fixed this with a soft redirect. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 03:21, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ok thanks; I'll try and remember that. Is there a list of broken redirects somewhere? —danhash (talk) 16:26, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken redirects -FASTILY (TALK) 21:21, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ok thanks; I'll try and remember that. Is there a list of broken redirects somewhere? —danhash (talk) 16:26, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
WP: Prod of "Michael A. Ventrella"
Hi there! Michael A. Ventrella here. I am sorry I am not proficient in Wikipedia, but apparently my site was deleted; I am not certain why. I am mentioned on other entries, so it kind of makes sense that there should be one specifically for my work -- but perhaps not?
Thank you. I look forward to hearing from you. I was not attempting to abuse Wikipedia, but of course would like a listing.
75.97.248.151 (talk) 18:10, 15 February 2012 (UTC) Michael A. Ventrella
- User:Fastily/E#PROD. The reason given in the nomination was "Non-notable and unreferenced BLP". Apparently, you aren't notable enough to meet Wikipedia's criteria for topical inclusion. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:31, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
File:SWFinal.jpg.
Hello it was for file File:SWFinal.jpg that my above query was about. Cheers! Beckbah (talk) 19:30, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#F4 -FASTILY (TALK) 03:31, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Dave_Rajput page's photos
About photos you deleted from his page, wasn't really totally sure how to show ownership when it came to posting the photos on wiki so that I could use them on the page named above. I am directly related to and editing this's person's page on their behalf. This person, Dave Rajput owns all the photos and more in question-therefore I can choose to post them. I put his name as owner and person giving permission to post them on wiki. SO, why then did they have to be deleted- I just need a little help with this, I'm still getting used to creating and editing pages, so I need a little help. Thanks, JenniferChicago JenniferChicago 19:39, 15 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by JenniferChicago (talk • contribs)
- Please see User:Fastily/E#F11. If you have any other questions, let me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:33, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Aunt Bam's Place
Ummm, why did speedy delete Aunt Bam's Place under G8?
G8 states: Examples include talk pages with no corresponding subject page; subpages with no parent page; image pages without a corresponding image; redirects to invalid targets, such as nonexistent targets, redirect loops, and bad titles; and categories populated by deleted or retargeted templates.
This was NOT a talk page. It was NOT a subpage with no parent page. It was NOT an image page without a corresponding image, hell it wasn't an image at all. It was NOT a redirect etc etc. etc.
The only thing that has been going on is that there's an anon IP who's going around vandalizing pages related to Tyler Perry [36] and s/he has been tagging the Aunt Bam's Page article for speedy deletion for no reason. Or, excuse me, based on the reason that the play "doesn't exist". Now, I'm not THAT familiar with Mr. Perry's ouvre but somehow the fact that you can buy tickets for the play - unless this is some elaborate hoax - [37] suggests that the play exists or is in production or something.
Even if somehow the article was a good candidate for deletion, obviously G8 is NOT the appropriate reason.
Do you have any clue as to what you're doing?VolunteerMarek 02:23, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Note that VM brought this up at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#WP:TFD deletions by admin User:Fastily. I've restored the page, as this was obviously a mistake. --Floquenbeam (talk) 03:16, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of the file MicahAltman.jpg
Hi, Micah Altman sent an e-mail on Feb 11 to permissions-en@wikipedia.org with the subject Affirmation of CC-BY-SA for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MicahAltman.jpg to confirm the permission to use the photo, but you still deleted the file. Was his e-mail not received or what is the problem? Best wishes, Sigma0 1 (talk) 02:57, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Found the email, Restored and file description page updated. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:47, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Is there any way I can restore what I wrote and then edit from there and change the language? My page Alex Cantrall was deleted and I did not save it on my computer, despite it taking me a long time to complete... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ishein (talk • contribs) 04:52, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
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- I saw this post in my watch list and being nosy decided to see what it removed because I couldn't believe you'd intentionally have a non-free image in your userspace (and indeed it would appear it was unintentional). This has led to this post to the bot owner as the bot seems to have a minor bug. As it mentions your archives I thought I should let you know. Dpmuk (talk) 06:37, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Robert William St. John
You didn't respond to my request above, to refrain from erasing 4 of the five pictures in this article. Will you at least allow two of them? One with his picture and another one with one of his books cover? עמירם פאל (talk) 10:36, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Er, I restored the files and forwarded them to WP:FFD. You're welcome to make your case there... -FASTILY (TALK) 21:57, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Article "European Centre for Allergy Research Foundation"
Dear Fastily,
On 00:11, 24 November 2011, you have deleted the article "European Centre for Allergy Research Foundation", reason: (Expired PROD, concern was: Unsourced since creation in 2009 -- non-notable per WP:ORG.).
I would very much appreciate it if you restore the page again. I am ready to improve the article and remedy the problems for which it was originally deleted. I will integrated sources and references, as wished.
Thank you, Allergyresearch ECARF Allergyresearch ECARF (talk) 15:11, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily, Please am requesting a restore of the article Why Obama Will Win in 2008 & 2012 and reversal to how it were on 15 February 2012, when it was messed up by User:Inlandmamba, but administrators NawlinWiki and Orangemike thinks that the whole article is "blatant advertisement"; please, kindly take a look at the article as it were before User:Inlandmamba's contributions, and advise. Thank you. —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 18:00, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- We can't say whether he will win in 2012. However, I feel 100 percent safe in saying that he will win in 2008. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:05, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- [citation needed]--Jac16888 Talk 18:10, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- This, for example:[38] :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:31, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Dunno...I'm pretty sure the Electoral College is guilty of WP:SYNTH. =/ Nolelover Talk·Contribs 18:38, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Baseball Bugs, Jac16888 and Nolelover, This article is not my personal opinion but about a book written in 2007; please, kindly look at the "Speedy deletion nomination of Why Obama Will Win in 2008 & 2012" section of my talk page. Thank you. —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 19:02, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- That Village Voice article is interesting. If media make fun of someone, does that make them notable? I'll concede that if Obama wins again, that author might be onto something. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:12, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- The piece from the Voice is a classic journalist's bit about a non-notable subject who thinks he should be notable, but finds that the world disagrees with him. There's just nothing there to make this self-published book from a non-notable writer notable. I suspect that Johnmoor is another pseudonym of the book's author, but of course I may be wrong. Alll the other "sources" are mere directory listings and the like. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:16, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- I thought it is the business of Wikipedia:Administrators to groom younger contributors and not to chastise or make jokes out of their contributions? Orange Mike is even being sceptical about the intentions of the contributor; need I remind you that it was my calling on NawlinWiki to caution Inlandmamba for turning my contribution into an advert that eventually resulted in the deletion of this article, yet you claimed on my talk page that "On the contrary, the Mamba's edits were well-intentioned efforts to establish a context for the book, and constitute a good-faith, albeit unsuccessful, effort to make a case for the book's notability." That is your opinion of a contribution that took away relevant citations and replaced neutral words with promotional words. I guess some Wikipedia:Administrators are not so neutral after all; anyway, take a cue from HairyWombat's clarification of this issue on my talk page. Thank you. —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 11:10, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- The piece from the Voice is a classic journalist's bit about a non-notable subject who thinks he should be notable, but finds that the world disagrees with him. There's just nothing there to make this self-published book from a non-notable writer notable. I suspect that Johnmoor is another pseudonym of the book's author, but of course I may be wrong. Alll the other "sources" are mere directory listings and the like. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:16, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- That Village Voice article is interesting. If media make fun of someone, does that make them notable? I'll concede that if Obama wins again, that author might be onto something. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:12, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Baseball Bugs, Jac16888 and Nolelover, This article is not my personal opinion but about a book written in 2007; please, kindly look at the "Speedy deletion nomination of Why Obama Will Win in 2008 & 2012" section of my talk page. Thank you. —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 19:02, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Dunno...I'm pretty sure the Electoral College is guilty of WP:SYNTH. =/ Nolelover Talk·Contribs 18:38, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- This, for example:[38] :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:31, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- [citation needed]--Jac16888 Talk 18:10, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Christian Science Monitor cover
What was the problem with File:Christian Science Monitor.jpg? It seems to have been being used entirely properly in the infobox of the article, to show the overall design and masthead of a typical issue.
Was there a problem with its rationale? You deleted it as an F7. Jheald (talk) 18:46, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Looks like it was a mistake. Thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:55, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Category:British aircraft 2010–2019
I see you deleted a cat of this name and date. Was that because it was empty? I am about to upload an article on an aircraft which would populate it, best in a sub-cat Category:British civil utility aircraft 2010–2019 or maybe Category:British sport aircraft 2010–2019. I have not quite decided which off these two would be best but, either way, they need a Category:British aircraft 2010–2019. OK for me to do that, or am I missing something?TSRL (talk) 21:20, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- In that case, please feel free to recreate the category once you have created said article. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:52, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
per "A page with this title has previously been deleted. If you are creating a new page with different content, please continue. If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the deleting administrator using the information provided below."
12:10, 15 February 2012 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Rational Systems" (G8: Redirect to a deleted or non-existent page)
Why did you delete Rational Systems ? That page should redirect to Tenberry Software. Three articles link to it. Please restore it. Thanks, --Wbm1058 (talk) 21:29, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- At the time Fastily deleted it, Tenberry Software had been speedily deleted -- see the deletion log. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:48, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
I believe the file (File:D Yo scale.png) should not have been deleted. It was no longer unused and File:D Yo scale.svg is not identical. Thus all reasons to delete no longer exist. Hyacinth (talk) 23:03, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Undelete image.
Hi Fastily,
Can you please undelete this commons file. I have received appropriate permission through an OTRS ticket. Regards, Steven Zhang Join the DR army! 00:09, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Opinion on a file
Hello Fastily, I was hoping to get your opinion on a file. I moved the local File:Travis Doucette 2011.jpg to Commons indirectly through Flickr, where it was immediately deleted. I left a note on the admin's page where it was ignored. Could you please take a look at the image and uploader history and tell me your opinion? ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 05:08, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- BTW, I wasn't watching the local file and only now realized it was deleted here as well... Though I still don't see a reason not to AGF, based on the uploader's other uploads and identifying as a personal friend of the subject. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 07:23, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not going to lie - at best, this is a no-permission situation. It's a professional quality photo and there doesn't seem any evidence that the uploader of the file is the copyright holder or representative of the individual in the photo. The flickr entry is dubious too, and reeks of copyvio. I think that photo is also the flickr user's sole upload, which doesn't do much to help their case. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:35, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
File:KHNHLS.jpg
Hey! How exactly can a discussion with three "keep"s and two "delete"s result in deletion? As you see, people are divided in their opinions and it's a mixed bag. It should not have been deleted because it was used as a fair use image on the film article and accepted by many on the actress' article. Clearly there is no consensus to go by, and I kindly request that you restore it. Shahid • Talk2me 08:25, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Someone's impatient. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:31, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- And you're once again wrong - "no effort was made by the users who !voted keep to assert the file's compliance with WP:NFCC" - I think I did an effort and it was quite an effort which was visible to all. I explained the rationale in detail and besidea that the file was accepted back then on FAC and in proceeding discussions. Consensus was always to keep the image on the article, and now it is just deleted without any proper consideration of what and how useful it might be. As I said, it is used on the film article, where it totally represents the film's mood, style and location, and is perfect fair use there. I don't think such sudden deletions are fair at all. I do know and accept that it is not a vote, but it doesn't mean some group's opinions can be just ignored, just like you just did. I once again request that you restore the file. Shahid • Talk2me 08:44, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- So, even my message is being ignored? I don't think you need the support of Secret of success if you are responsible enough as an administrator. Several other editors had disagreed with his opinion, and you, as a closing admin, should have taken their views into account, because, as you said, this is not a vote but a discussion, and clearly, no consensus to delete the file was reached on this discussion. Shahid • Talk2me 11:05, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- If this is to be FfD round 2, it surely shall not be one sided. -FASTILY (TALK) 12:20, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Pardon me for saying so Shahid, but I feel you are going a bit out-of-topic here. I did respond to your concern and you failed to continue the discussion further by not replying to my post in the page. Looking at the points given : "The image supports...achieved with prose alone." That sounds wrong because the necessary details are given in the poster and all other relevant points can be given through prose. If I have missed out any specific detail, please let me know. You also said that it is used in the film's article, and that is exactly what a violation of WP:NFCC#8 is, as the poster describes the character to the necessary extent. Thanks. X.One SOS 12:47, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- I did not reply back to you because I did not think it would make any sense because probably we had different opinions. As I said, the fact that you think differently and do not agree with me does not mean your opinion is more valid than mine, though I respect yours. I do think the image contributes to the article and does what the prose alone can't. So do two other editors. This should not have been deleted in the first place. Opinions vary, but there is a way to settle such disputes, not by merely deleting an image that was used in one article for almost four years and the use of which many had supported. If you had tried to help me find another image which would have made your personal reading experience better, I would have certainly appreciated that, but just being against one image does not just contribute to the project in any way.
- Back to Fastily, never can I agree with the way you chose to handle the situation. I think you should have been more sensible in regard to the issue and to others opinions. As I said, no consensus to delete the file was reached on this discussion, and I believe you can give me the proper answers (which I deserve) yourself. ? Shahid • Talk2me 13:37, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Pardon me for saying so Shahid, but I feel you are going a bit out-of-topic here. I did respond to your concern and you failed to continue the discussion further by not replying to my post in the page. Looking at the points given : "The image supports...achieved with prose alone." That sounds wrong because the necessary details are given in the poster and all other relevant points can be given through prose. If I have missed out any specific detail, please let me know. You also said that it is used in the film's article, and that is exactly what a violation of WP:NFCC#8 is, as the poster describes the character to the necessary extent. Thanks. X.One SOS 12:47, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- If this is to be FfD round 2, it surely shall not be one sided. -FASTILY (TALK) 12:20, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- So, even my message is being ignored? I don't think you need the support of Secret of success if you are responsible enough as an administrator. Several other editors had disagreed with his opinion, and you, as a closing admin, should have taken their views into account, because, as you said, this is not a vote but a discussion, and clearly, no consensus to delete the file was reached on this discussion. Shahid • Talk2me 11:05, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- And you're once again wrong - "no effort was made by the users who !voted keep to assert the file's compliance with WP:NFCC" - I think I did an effort and it was quite an effort which was visible to all. I explained the rationale in detail and besidea that the file was accepted back then on FAC and in proceeding discussions. Consensus was always to keep the image on the article, and now it is just deleted without any proper consideration of what and how useful it might be. As I said, it is used on the film article, where it totally represents the film's mood, style and location, and is perfect fair use there. I don't think such sudden deletions are fair at all. I do know and accept that it is not a vote, but it doesn't mean some group's opinions can be just ignored, just like you just did. I once again request that you restore the file. Shahid • Talk2me 08:44, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
We might have had different opinions, no doubt. I also commend the way ideas get distributed in a discussion, but each and every opinion should have a justification from the user who expresses it. There are certain ways to think, and policies (or at least I think so) cannot be compromised for the views of an editor. If you do think the image contributes significantly more to the article which will be an impossible task for prose, kindly elaborate your point. Your last point was irrelevant, again, pardon me, but deleting an image and supporting a policy is certainly a contribution to the project. Best regards. X.One SOS 14:11, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- No no, it's not just policy, it's one criterion in this policy, which you think is not met with, while I, as well as two other editors, think it is. Simple. Elaborating more than I've been doing in the past four years on this article, no way. And with all due respect, I do not think I should be having this debate with you while I turned specifically to the closing admin, namely Fastily, whose reply and action I am still awaiting. Thanks. Shahid • Talk2me 14:52, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Deleting an image which has three keeps and two deletes really just goes to show that it is pointless placing them at deletion.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:06, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Numerically there might have been more keep votes, however the quality of the keep arguments amounted to nothing more than "I like it", which does not carry weight in NFCC discussions. "The article is worse off without it", which was one of your opinions, is not sufficient. All you had to do was explain what the image illustrated that could not be illustrated by text, free images, or the lead infobox image (which was not put up for deletion). No one did that, so the files got deleted.
- As an aside, if I remember the images correctly, they were just images of the main characters. Those are really hard to justify, especially three of them in one article, and especially with the main characters also illustrated in the movie poster. We don't use non-free images for decoration. While I don't consider myself an NFCC zealot (I'm much more inclined to keep, and defend, screenshots than other people I've worked with), I really can't see how you could defend these. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:50, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Dear Sven, the image was also used on the article of the leading lady, and it was accepted there three years ago. Since then, there have been editors who questioned its use, but the consensus was to keep them. I also cannot recall anyone saying "I like it", or even something that can be considered similar to such a statement. I sincerely believe the image adds a lot, as it shows an emotional scene, and the acting shown in it could never be put into words. You see, it's all about opinions, and in this case there isn't a clear verdict. On an article about an actor, it can only increase readers understanding of the topic. Its use on the film article is another story, and I don't mind removing it if proper reasoning is given. Shahid • Talk2me 17:06, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- First, justifying an editor's action is by no means a crime and there seems to be absolutely no restriction that I am put on ice from commenting here. And I must say that one of the editors has given no reason for his argument, without which it could taken as a plain vote. And as Sven pointed out, stuff like "The article is worse off without it" sounds like a total generic rant. If he could kindly take the trouble of explaining with a lucid apprehension, it would be cool. My best wishes. X.One SOS 17:30, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- What the user said is "This image has a use for critical commentary which has been discussed at FAC and many other occasions" - not what you just quoted (which he said in a different section concerning another image the deletion of which I do not mind). Second, I don't mind you coming here to give your opinion, which I respect. I still think I want to know the closing admin's take on a deletion which I think was not justified, and for some reason he refrains from giving it. It is at the end of the day his responsibiliy as you were one of the involved parties. Throughout this discussion, he has not added more than 20 words (17, to be precise) about the whole issue, although two editors have come here to question his acts. Still waiting. Shahid • Talk2me 18:02, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- First, justifying an editor's action is by no means a crime and there seems to be absolutely no restriction that I am put on ice from commenting here. And I must say that one of the editors has given no reason for his argument, without which it could taken as a plain vote. And as Sven pointed out, stuff like "The article is worse off without it" sounds like a total generic rant. If he could kindly take the trouble of explaining with a lucid apprehension, it would be cool. My best wishes. X.One SOS 17:30, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Dear Sven, the image was also used on the article of the leading lady, and it was accepted there three years ago. Since then, there have been editors who questioned its use, but the consensus was to keep them. I also cannot recall anyone saying "I like it", or even something that can be considered similar to such a statement. I sincerely believe the image adds a lot, as it shows an emotional scene, and the acting shown in it could never be put into words. You see, it's all about opinions, and in this case there isn't a clear verdict. On an article about an actor, it can only increase readers understanding of the topic. Its use on the film article is another story, and I don't mind removing it if proper reasoning is given. Shahid • Talk2me 17:06, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Deleting an image which has three keeps and two deletes really just goes to show that it is pointless placing them at deletion.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:06, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Fastily, do I understand you do not wish to reply to my messages? I find it frustrating that I refer to an admin and request that he take responsibility for his acts, and instead they invite other editors to settle the discussion, and refrain from making any comments on their own talk page on a topic that is essentially a complainst on an unjustified deletion they have performed. You are the one who has to give me answers, not others, because you are the one who's actually deleted the file. I'm not the only person who has been displeased with your management on FfD, as you can see above, and I'm even more surprised at the way you have been evading the issue on this very talk page, which is most disheartening. I'm sorry, but this is not how I would expect an admin to act (basically avoiding a discussion), and I feel rather silly and uncomfortable with it. If you are not quite sure of how to handle the situation, then I would again request you to restore the file, because no consensus was there, and I explained more than once that basically everything concerning such issues boils down to personal opinion, which you must have considered back then when you deleted the file in question, while essentially ignoring what others had to say (and ironically, now you do just the same). I don't mind replacing the file with another one, but this is not done in such manner (and I totally accept the deletion of the two other files which you had deleted, by the way). Please forgive me if I come across as a random badgerer; this is certainly not my intention, but please do try to understand my position. Shahid • Talk2me 23:02, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Despite your beliefs to the contrary, Fastily, like every other volunteer on this project, is under zero obligation to answer your posts to this or any other talk page. To answer your initial question, How exactly can a discussion with three "keep"s and two "delete"s result in deletion?, keep in mind that *FD discussions are not votes, and their outcomes are actually determined by policy and guideline arguments. They seem like votes only because the editors either agree or disagree based on arguments grounded in policy, while the bolded "keep," "delete," et al are there for easier summary of the rationales given in those (dis)agreements. If, however, you believe a *FD discussion was closed incorrectly, you're always free to request deletion review. --slakr\ talk / 23:17, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- My thought echo slakr's exactly. I invited others to participate because I wanted to be sure that IMO, I made the right decision. That said, I still stand by that close. Feel free to take it to drv if you want -FASTILY (TALK) 23:36, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Slakr, thanks for the reply, but I do not think it is you who should be here, answering for someone else and on top of that, treating me like a little kid by explaining Wikipedia basics like "this is not a vote". This is almost insulting. Regardless of how many keeps and deletes there were, there was no consensus to delete this image, and Fastily did not say even a word in this regard. Fastily, you should have been responsible enough to be able to justify your acts, instead of waiting for other admins and users to do it for you. The image should not have been deleted in the first place, but it is your attitude that disappointed me more. Shahid • Talk2me 07:57, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Pride and pomposity are two different things. While pride may be shown in Wikipedia, other priggish statements like "I am not a kid to be thought Wikipedia basics." utterly does not seem to have veracious support. Regards. X.One SOS 08:15, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- And when did I say that? If you misquote me, then at least mention it (this is not the first time you misquote someone in this section). I'm not going to give any importance to your preachy and pretentious message and I prefer to let it go. And once again, a suggestion, be more responsible for your own acts, not others' - it will take you nowhere. Thanks, Shahid • Talk2me 08:31, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- I believe you missed out the word "like" from my quote "other priggish statements like." X.One SOS 11:21, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Not that I want to create an argument out of nothing really, or be petty for that matter - but when "like" is used as an adverb, it is synonymous to "such as" or "for example", which means you had attributed this quote to me. So please do not be quick to think someone else is misjudging you while it can be seen as quite the contrary. I believe one should learn to acknowledge their mistakes and even apologise if they are misunderstood instead of just trying to prove their point arduously (has someone mentioned here "pride"). Even if your quote was what I had actually said, Slakr could clarify himself. He need not have someone else play his attorney. Anyway, I respect you, so I won't proceed with this discussion as it is going nowhere. I think better and more meaningful images can always be added with proper rationale. That wasn't my problem in the first place (and actually I was not the only editor who questioned the deletion on this page); I believe administrators should treat users' opinions without bias particularly when it comes to deletion. And I believe they should be responsible enough to handle complaints in regard to their management themselves instead of letting—or actually inviting others—to do it for them. Thanks and EOD. Shahid • Talk2me 14:27, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- I believe you missed out the word "like" from my quote "other priggish statements like." X.One SOS 11:21, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- And when did I say that? If you misquote me, then at least mention it (this is not the first time you misquote someone in this section). I'm not going to give any importance to your preachy and pretentious message and I prefer to let it go. And once again, a suggestion, be more responsible for your own acts, not others' - it will take you nowhere. Thanks, Shahid • Talk2me 08:31, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Pride and pomposity are two different things. While pride may be shown in Wikipedia, other priggish statements like "I am not a kid to be thought Wikipedia basics." utterly does not seem to have veracious support. Regards. X.One SOS 08:15, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Erdemirspor is an existing and active professional basketball club, currently playing in the Turkish Basketball League. Please see their official website here: http://www.erdemirspor.com Also see the official Turkish Basketball League website, as they list Erdemirspor in the clubs listing: http://www.tbl.org.tr/beko/takimlar.asp?sezon=2011-2012 Please undelete Erdemirspor article, because there are many other articles, referring to that page. — Ekin(talk·@) 09:14, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Erdemir SK. Please use the WP:MOVE function when changing article titles to preserve the article history. -FASTILY (TALK) 10:07, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Okay. I moved the page according to WP:MOVE rules. Erdemirspor is live now. Thanks and have a nice day. — Ekin(talk·@) 11:20, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of comments from users talk pages
Since the note that I left was primarily to inform Ultra that i responded to their comments on my talk page and not vandalism I believe it is a violation of Wikipedia policy for you to delete it. If the user wants it deleted they should do it not you. --Kumioko (talk) 12:24, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- "P.S. as the blocking admin the fate of WPUS has been decided by you. I hope that I am wrong and the project succeeds but I doubt that it will without me performing the ongoing maintenance and support of the project. You may well have single handedly killed off the project through your actions." As far as I can tell, there is no purpose to this statement other than to incense. -FASTILY (TALK) 12:29, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Its fine if you think that. Only time will tell. I left ultra a message that you deleted it and that I suggested to you it was innapropriate. I also told him if he wanted to see it to check the history of the page. That is as far as I am going to go so if you choose to delete that message as well then that's your choice. I'm not going to continue to be sucked into more Wikidrama. --Kumioko (talk) 12:31, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- I reviewed the comment and replied on Kumioko's page - and, Fastily, your analysis was pretty accurate, and your response appreciated. But it's a non-issue. Thanks, UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 14:33, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Its fine if you think that. Only time will tell. I left ultra a message that you deleted it and that I suggested to you it was innapropriate. I also told him if he wanted to see it to check the history of the page. That is as far as I am going to go so if you choose to delete that message as well then that's your choice. I'm not going to continue to be sucked into more Wikidrama. --Kumioko (talk) 12:31, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of redirect
Hello, Fastily. You deleted the redirect Guru Ravidas under CSD G6 (Housekeeping and routine non-controversial cleanup) following the move of the article Guru Ravidas to Guru Ravidass. However, there are at least three reasons why I can't see this as routine and non-controversial. Firstly, the spelling with a single s is commonly used, so it is a very likely search term, and so a redirect is likely to be useful. Secondly, the article has existed at that spelling for more than four years. It is therefore very likely that external links exist to the article, whether on external web sites, on individual computers, or wherever. For this reason, when a page has existed for a long time like this, it is almost never a good idea to delete the redirect, even if the redirect seems to be an unlikely search term (which, as I have indicated, is not so in this case). That is, in fact, why CSD R3 specifies recently created redirects. Thirdly, there are 179 internal links to the page from other Wikipedia pages, and they were all orphaned by the deletion. Again, after an article has existed for so long, this is likely to be the case
My immediate response to this was to restore the deleted redirect and write the message above to inform you. However, having written the message, I have looked again, and I can see no justification for the move. No reason for the move was given, and a Google search for "Guru Ravidas" produces 915,000 hits, as against 741,000 for "Guru Ravidass". I am therefore going to revert the redirect, but I thought I might as well let you have my thoughts on the redirect anyway, now that I have written them. Please let me know if you think I am wrong, or if you have any other comment you think worth making. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:48, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- That's definitely fine by me. Thanks for the explanation and thanks for handling that! Best, FASTILY (TALK) 21:25, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Deleted Page STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Series
Hello,
On December 1st 2011 the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Page was deleted from Wiki by Fastily. This event is the longest running competition on ESPN other than sports center and we feel needs to have a page dedicated to it. The original page had information on the property, winners by year, as well as other content about the events. This seems to still be present on some international WIKI pages, but does not appear on EN or US versions. If possible, we would like to have this page reactivated. Please contact me with questions - brad.sorgen@stihl.us. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.230.240.34 (talk) 18:16, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Link the page in question. It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:27, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Vandalism
- Hope this message finds you well. FWIW, since there's an interaction ban enforced between me and Abhijay following the discussion on ANI, please note that should some anon IP and/or newly registered account editor harass him on his talk page, I'm not to be held responsible for it. Although, I need to point out that there has been at least two stalkers of mine who would always go out of their way to harass their victims, so as to create further animosity and bad faith in order to get me into trouble. In short, their real target is me and not the intended victim. But the good thing is, I'm not open to such cowardice and underhanded tactics, as it goes against my honour and moral ethics. So if Abhijay complains, please take a look into the matter for us as I don't want to be the point man here. In fact, it is really none of my concern as I'm applying WP:DENY with regards to the trolling vandal. Thoughts? (PS: Omigosh... another anon IP just pasted something there... it has already started! Remember, I am out of here! Don't want to be blamed for something I didn't do... sheesh~!)--Dave ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 19:53, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'll back Dave up on this - he has had a number of trolls pop up in the past who have made it their clear purpose to try and get him in trouble (see, for instance, User:Dave1195 - !). So them trying to "raid" and cause trouble for him in this situation is (quite unfortunatly) predictable. - The Bushranger One ping only 21:28, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) Really? They're still at it? :o Well, if you ever need admin assistance with these stalkers, let me know; I do love a good game of whack-a-mole. All the best, FASTILY (TALK) 21:30, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
1875 tornadoes
Hi Fastily, this might not be rationale enough to restore the deleted article, but it suggests that it was based on reported events: [39] I mention this especially because the speedy request cast doubt on the storms' occurrence. Thanks, 99.12.242.7 (talk) 22:20, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- 1875 tornadoes? Nothing has ever existed at that title. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:32, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'm referring to the article you recently deleted about tornadoes in the southeast in March of 1875, listing storm damage in Georgia and Alabama, which was proposed for speedy deletion by Sharkguy05 [40], with the rationale that the article was largely fictitious. A quick Google search suggested otherwise. 99.12.242.7 (talk) 00:04, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'm going to need you to specify an exact URL. It's really not clear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:45, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Sure. [41]. The user who requested speedy deletion has explained that large portions of content were invented, yet I did find online sources supporting the occurrence of some major storms at that time [42]. I only noticed the article moments before its deletion, and didn't have time to fact check it well. My question is whether its fictions rested upon enough fact to merit another look. Thanks, 99.12.242.7 (talk) 14:09, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- This article consisted of nothing more than a table. Articles must contain some substantive encyclopedic (e.g. in the form of paragraphs) content; otherwise, they are deleted under WP:CSD#A3. At any rate, this could be useful in another article, so I'll post the text of the article below for your convenience. Click here to view it. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:35, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Sure. [41]. The user who requested speedy deletion has explained that large portions of content were invented, yet I did find online sources supporting the occurrence of some major storms at that time [42]. I only noticed the article moments before its deletion, and didn't have time to fact check it well. My question is whether its fictions rested upon enough fact to merit another look. Thanks, 99.12.242.7 (talk) 14:09, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'm going to need you to specify an exact URL. It's really not clear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:45, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'm referring to the article you recently deleted about tornadoes in the southeast in March of 1875, listing storm damage in Georgia and Alabama, which was proposed for speedy deletion by Sharkguy05 [40], with the rationale that the article was largely fictitious. A quick Google search suggested otherwise. 99.12.242.7 (talk) 00:04, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
He's wanting rollback back; didn't know if there was any backstory/under-a-cloud sort of thing going on, so I thought I'd toss it to you. Cheers =) --slakr\ talk / 23:02, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
- Looks like Salvio giuliano already took care of it. Abhijay requested removal of his rollback in good faith, so there's nothing wrong with giving it back to him. Thanks for letting me know though. All the best, FASTILY (TALK) 23:33, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Listin
i am ausitic girl who had grammer prombles i writed kdramas please dont detele this by --Sunuraju (talk) 06:24, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of File:Soul Calibur DC.jpg
I'd just like some clarification. The FfD had no !votes (other than the nom), the concern raised was "Invalid FUR" but no explanations (despite resquests) was offered, and at first glance, the FUR seemed perfectly valid. The file was deleted, but the debate not closed and the article using it still links to it. Thanks in advance for clarifying the situation. :) Salvidrim! 08:21, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- You're right, there isn't a problem with the fur. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:50, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, thanks for the second look! :) Salvidrim! 08:51, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Not sure if everything's intended, it seems previous non-free versions may have been restored at the same time? Salvidrim! 08:53, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Is there anyway to get this restored right? Someone did this deliberately after our previous end of this problem. If you could restore it that'd be great! The History page is my main concern. Swifty*talkcontribs 11:55, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Will you please him I keep telling him over and over he is showing no proof for merging the two and he is now calling me a vandal. Swifty*talkcontribs 13:07, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Plus if you look at all I've shown to him he's obviously not seeing that the page was made out of vandalism. Everything I showed proved it. Swifty*talkcontribs 13:12, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Okay he's sitting here trying to push my buttons. Swifty*talkcontribs 14:10, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Look at his last comment and how he's hounding me on my talk page. Swifty*talkcontribs 14:24, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
The pages got merged so it didn't get resolved as you can see on my talk page he sided the opposite of what I was telling him and then went and said I'd get blocked for what I was not wrong in doing. I think I won't be doing anymore editing on here or involvement much on here I'm tired of people seeing things the shouldn't not checking sources thoroughly as they should and just believing what they want. I can't take it anymore. :( Swifty*talkcontribs 18:33, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Swifty is a bit excited, and doesn't seem to understand the difference between a warning for edit-warring and a warning for vandalism. There's been a substantial edit-warring problem here, but Swifty seems to have taken your warning against one of the participants in an edit-war as an endorsement for his point of view (which seems to be that the Fort Worth Star Telegram, allmusic, and BMI are unreliable sources). If you can take the time to try and calm him down, I'd appreciate it. I cleaned the licensing problems out and let my view be known, but, having used my admin bit, I'm pretty much out of the picture for further edits.—Kww(talk) 20:03, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Pirehelokan block
I've reviewed the unblock request at User talk:Pirehelokan, and it looks to me like it was really just a newcomer misunderstanding - different country, different culture, unfamiliarity with en.Wikipedia. Would you be OK if I unblock? (I'll keep an eye on future contributions and will offer guidance) -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 15:20, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Of course! I trust your judgement. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 09:40, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 11:16, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Precinct committeeman
(Deletion log); 16:31 . . Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Precinct committeeman" (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.the912patriots.com/What_is_Committeeman.html)
That page is not copyrighted. In order for a page to be copyrighted you must place a copyright notice is as follows: Copyright © (first date of creation) (name of owner). Like this: Copyright © 2010 John Smith.[http://www.whatiscopyright.org/] This page is not.
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On (Deletion log); 16:25 . . Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "User:Phoenician Patriot/Agenda: Grinding America Down" (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2010/nov10/dvd.html), I have the permission to copy in full that article: Re: Reprint Permission From: Phyllis Schlafly <phyllis@eagleforum.org> OK.
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From: Phyllis Schlafly <phyllis@eagleforum.org> Date: Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:41 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: Reprint Permission To: Eagle Forum <eagle@eagleforum.org>
OK. Phyllis Schlafly
On 10/21/2011 11:05 AM, Eagle Forum wrote:
Forwarded message ---------- From: Kevin Myers (MCRC) <slak@cox.net> Date: Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:39 PM Subject: Reprint Permission To: eagle@eagleforum.org To whom it may concern,
Eagle Forum has a synopsis on the documentary Agenda: Grinding America Down on your website. I am attempting to write a Wikipedia article on this film and would like to use your piece in whole or in part as the backbone to my page.
http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2010/nov10/dvd.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Phoenician_Patriot/Agenda:_Grinding_America_Down
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Please restore these.
Phoenician Patriot (talk) 15:59, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Please see User:Fastily/E#G12 and follow the instructions on that page. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:41, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Deleted image
Hi Fastily, you deleted my image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Violent-crime-rates-UK-1981-to-2007.png .
This was a mistake because the reason it was deleted (no evidence of permission from the image's creator) does not apply to this image, as I stated in the image information. I created this image from publicly available data, specifically for Wikipedia. I was warned that the image may be deleted, so I responded to the email address I was given to show that I made the image myself (Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:32 AM):
To: permissions-en@wikimedia.org
"Dear Wikimedia permissions people,
I notice the message saying my image will be deleted, unless I email this address. The image ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Violent-crime-rates-UK-1981-to-2007.png ) was created by me. I thought I made this clear on the upload, but I'm new to this process so I probably missed something. Please show me what I need to do to show that I created it myself. I plan to create and upload more images for Wikipedia.
Many thanks,
Robin"
I plan to make many graphs for Wikipedia, but won't if they keep getting deleted. Please tell me what I need to do to show that this is my image and that I give permission, other than what I've already done. Be gentle, as I'm new to Wikipedia media content creation.
--Lets Change the World (talk) 18:35, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Camp Agawam
Dear Fastily,
You, along with Oniongas and Espresso Addict, deleted the article 'Camp Agawam'. Unlike the others, however, you also deleted the picture that went with it separately. Why?
Your reason for the deletion of the article was the 'advertising' policy violation. This was not intentional, and I do not have a separate copy of the article. Why didn't you warn me first?
Angrily,
Jrfribbs (talk) 21:50, 18 February 2012 (UTC)Jrfribbs
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 09:43, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
File:Hamilton Camp Mary Tyler Moore.jpg
File:Hamilton Camp Mary Tyler Moore.jpg (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
I deleted the image that I created under my request. I wonder if the image meets WP:NFCC#8 and #3a. This can help you decide: Wikipedia:Media copyright questions/Archive/2012/January#Images of Hamilton Camp. To be honest, the image that I uploaded was of the 1970 episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show; the infobox image is the 2005 photo from the album cover. The guy looked very old in the current image; in 1970, he looked very young. That should meet #8, shouldn't it? --George Ho (talk) 23:54, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'm afraid not. Non-free images depicting differences in age are generally not acceptable under WP:NFCC. The only time something like this would be acceptable under WP:NFCC#8 would be if a picture of him at a young age was somehow significant with respect to the context of the article. Unfortunately, I don't think this is one of those cases. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:52, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion discussion of File:New bham new street.jpg
Hi - a couple of years ago you added an {{rk}} tag to this image, though as far as I can see no discussion has ever taken place. Is this correct? If so, should the rk tag be removed? (Please note, I'm not suggesting that the image should be deleted). An optimist on the run! 08:28, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- At first I was thinking, "well your guess is as good as mine, this was a long time ago". At any rate, I dug around for a bit and found the answer on the talk page: [43]. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 09:54, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Duped by a vandal
I think that you've been duped by a vandal. Uncle G (talk) 12:17, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Miller Pipeline
Thank you for deleting this page. The situation is that Miller Pipeline Corporation exists as an article, but that entity is no longer a corporation. Instead it is a limited liability company. Therefore the information needs to be housed on a new page called "Miller Pipeline" (which is what the entity is known by). Could you help effectuate that change properly?--YHoshua (talk) 13:23, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- As the person who placed the speedy deletion tag, I have moved the page :) Mato (talk) 17:30, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Please undelete as I can't seem to re-upload
Hi,
Can you please undelete the file [[44]]
Its a license-free picture, I can mention that but its not letting me re-upload.
Please undelete and let me know so I can add the description and the free license information.
Thanks and Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Immi2k (talk • contribs) 23:49, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Click here and check the box for "Ignore any warnings". -FASTILY (TALK) 23:52, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Saskatchewan Major Baseball League
You have deleted this page. I was still in the process of adding more information to it, can I get it back?Brant 7 (talk) 23:54, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- [45] Finish it offline before posting it to Wikipedia again. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:02, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Kalyan97
You deleted an article by Kalyan97 (talk · contribs) who continues to add a book by someone with a similar name - this looks like COI, and the book he is adding, Indian hieroglyphs: Invention of writing by S Kalyanaraman is self-published by Kalyanaraman's "Sarasvati Research Center". Dougweller (talk) 09:52, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- Now at SPI, he and his socks keep recreating Srinivasan Kalyanaraman, the latest being Srinivasan kalyanaraman - both now salted. Dougweller (talk) 16:52, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Alice Smith School page deletion - creative commons licence granted. How to reinstate?
Dear Fastily,
I am writing about the deletion of the Alice Smith School Wikipedia page. I have already sent in the Creative Commons Attribution about the piece of text that I assume was the G12 issue.
From here, how do I reinstate the page? Many thanks for your help, Lorien Holland Lorienholland (talk) 03:58, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
The history is as follows: 1: 22 DECEMBER 2011: This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference.
03:18, 22 December 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Alice Smith School" (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of )
2: email from me (Vice Chair of the Alice Smith School Council of Governors lholland@alice-smith.edu.my) to permission-en@wikimedia.org on Feburary 9, 2012 about the piece of text which I assume was the G12 issue. The text is below.
I hereby affirm that The Alice Smith School is
the sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the school report by Mrs Patricia Lee on the 25th anniversary of the Alice Smith Schools Association presented at the Annual General Meeting
I agree to publish that work under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0" (unported) and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites. I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by me. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
[SENDER'S NAME AND DETAILS (Lorien Holland lholland@alice-smith.edu.my)] [SENDER'S AUTHORITY (Vice Chair, Alice Smith Schools Association, Kuala Lumpur)] [DATE] 8 February 2012
Lorienholland (talk) 03:58, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Lorien Holland
2 Lurah Tunku
Bukit Tunku
50480 Kuala Lumpur
+60123030105 Lholland@alice-smith.edu.my
- When the email you claim to have sent is processed by our OTRS team, the page will be automatically restored. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 05:54, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your help Fastily. Do you know how long the OTRS team take to process issues like this? Thanks, Lorien Lorienholland (talk) 03:43, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Shouldn't be too long. Give it a week. If they haven't responded, send another email. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:11, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi again Fastily, I am still trying to resolve the deletion of the Alice Smith School Wikipedia page. I have now sent two emails to the OTRS team. Is there anything else I can do? Or am I better off just rebuilding the whole page myself and taking out the quotes from the school AGM that prompted the G12 action? Also, if I rebuild the page, will all the old google searches and tags still be valid? Will the file be in the same place? Many thanks for your help, LorienLorienholland (talk) 03:39, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Have patience. The OTRS team is busy, because you are not the only one who sends them such requests. Rest assured, they will answer your query sooner or later. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:28, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Oxford Georgian Society
Dear Fastily,
My request was removed by Miszabot III on the 19th Jan before you managed to reply. Here is my inquiry and hope you'll have time to look into it. Much appreciated:
Thank you very much for your previous response. I believe there was a misunderstanding which I would like to clear up - the article Oxford University Georgian Society was not simply reposted and hence in violation of G4. It was initially removed due to lack of references (please refer to Discussion Page) this has since been specifically addressed, and the article is now well referenced and cited with numerous external sources and reading materials. Current situation does not allow for this topic to ever appear on Wikipedia which makes the encyclopaedia less complete. Its an interesting topic that has tens of analogous articles on Wikipedia (Oxford University Polish Society, Oxford University Greek Society, Oxford University Russian Society etc). I would thus like to kindly ask for the article Oxford Georgian Society / Oxford University Georgian Society to be reinstated. If you believe there are still not enough references and sources, please let me know. Please let me know if you require any additional information / clarification.
Best regards,
Jonas --88.211.47.74 (talk) 17:39, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
- Oxford Georgian Society? Er, I don't believe I deleted that page... -FASTILY (TALK) 02:21, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
- Apologies, I meant Oxford University Georgian Society. Thank you in advance. Jonas --88.211.47.74 (talk) 16:09, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Oxford University Georgian Society? Also not deleted by me. The page was a redirect to Oxford-Georgian Society, which was deleted by User:Master of Puppets. Are you sure you have the right admin? :P -FASTILY (TALK) 03:24, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Very strange, it had your name before, but not any more. OK, apologies for bothering, will write to the other admin. --88.211.47.74 (talk) 13:08, 21 February 2012 (UTC) Jonas
File:District-Massachusetts.gif
You deleted this file for lack of licensing info. It's a work of the U.S. federal government and should have this sort of info:
- This image or document is a work of the United States federal court system, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
I did not upload the version you deleted. I can not locate a new version. How do we get it back in place? Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 03:39, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- What is the source of the file? (e.g. URL, ISBN book number, LoC call number)? -FASTILY (TALK) 08:46, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
I have no idea and no way to know. Perhaps the original record you deleted had some info? Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 18:47, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- It did not. That's why I deleted it in the first place. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:36, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Perhaps you might have said that in the first place. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 23:05, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Shakespeare's life talk page
Can you restore the deleted talk page? Here's what happened.
Shakespeare's Life was moved to William Shakespeare's life under an uncontroversial move request. However, I have been editing that page, and the move was made without discussion. I tried to move the page back to the original name, but it wouldn't let me until I moved the talk page. I was successful in moving the the talk page with the edit summary "Shakespeare is commonly and universally known by his surname only", but I still for some reason couldn't move the main page back and requested (I thought) help in doing so. So now the talk page is deleted and the main page is still misnamed. Tom Reedy (talk) 13:45, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- I have been successful in moving the main page, but now the talk page history is lost. If you could restore that I would appreciate it. Thanks. Tom Reedy (talk) 16:44, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Images for the Stronghold Kingdoms page
Hi!
I was wondering what I have to do to get these icon images allowed on Wikipedia. I work at firefly (the game developer) and I sit across from the gentleman who created the images. We'd all like to see these images restored so the page looks better. I'm not sure what information I can include that will not result in them being deleted once more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deutschmark82 (talk • contribs) 15:41, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- Is Firefly really will to license all these images for further use, re-use, and modification, commercial and otherwise, in and out of Wikipedia, without payment of royalties or creative control, in perpetuity? --Orange Mike | Talk 22:30, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Vva
Hi! Why bother this when file is nominated for deletion? And if there is a good reason to change the template why not set up a bot to do it? --MGA73 (talk) 16:53, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- Such changes should not be done anyway. There is nothing bad about template redirects. --Leyo 17:34, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of File:Sheetal Sheth Cover of CHI.jpg
You recently deleted File:Sheetal Sheth Cover of CHI.jpg, claiming no evidence of permissions for >7 days. An email granting {{cc-by-3.0}} was sent by the copyright holder to permissions-en@wikimedia.org on Wed, February 15, 2012 8:37:07 AM (PST). Please restore the file and indicate that the permission is on file. JBChristy (talk) 02:09, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Once the email you claim to have sent is processed by our OTRS team, the file will be automatically restored. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:52, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
I see you deleted this because there was no free alternative photo available. What makes you think this photo is available for a price? Or is available at all in other than the public domain? I obtained the photo from public articles, there is no evidence that the photo is available in any other way, and, as I wrote today, it was probably associated with (and published as part of) a Government project whose resources were in the public domain. Also, no one has stepped forward to assert copyright violation (although I recognize that a lack of complaint is less relevant to my argument, given WP policies concerning copyright). Since there is no evidence that copyright applies to this photograph, the deletion should be reverted. David Spector (user/talk) 02:54, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Can you please provide evidence indicating that the file is indeed free? -FASTILY (TALK) 04:53, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily. You state: "Under Wikipedia non-free content criterion #1, any non-free/copyrighted file which could be replaced by existing (or easily/readily create-able) free alternatives are strictly prohibited on Wikipedia. While you may not personally possess the means to locate/create a freely-licensed alternative, the omission of non-free content whenever possible is intended to encourage individuals with the means and ability to create/locate such a file, to upload that file to Wikipedia."
Please could you indicate the nature of the "existing (or easily/readily create-able) free alternative" to this image that you envision. I do not believe that such a free alternative exists, as I indicated in the image justification section. Thanks. Martin (talk) 19:31, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Can I review deleted Richard Abanes
Hi. The article Richard Abanes was deleted a few months ago, due to, apparently, notability concerns. I think he is a pretty important author. Can you restore the article so I can look at it and see if I can find more sources to meet any notability concerns (or, I may conclude he won't meet the notability requirements after all)? Thanks. --Noleander (talk) 04:37, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Template:New York cities and mayors of 100,000 population
Please Userfy Template:New York cities and mayors of 100,000 population so that I can take it to DRV.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:33, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ask Plastikspork for that, as he's the admin that actually deleted the page. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:19, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Help needed with File:Deems Taylor portrait by Carl Van Vechten.jpg
Hi Fastily. I'm copying this message which I left for you at Commons, as I wasn't sure if you'd see it there today. Anyhow, I saw you deleted File:Deems Taylor.jpg for no copyright permission after 8 days. I assume it was the one by Carl Van Vechten from the Library of Congress [46] which is PD [47]. I uploaded it again via the Upload Wizard as File:Deems Taylor portrait by Carl Van Vechten.jpg, but I and/or the "Wizard" seem to have made a hash of it. It now has what I hope is the right license and source information but ended up with 2 descriptions. Could you check it and see if I've used the right permission and perhaps fix the goofy description section? Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:57, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- It appears you specified an extra parameter while uploading. Hope that helps. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:24, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the quick help. Much appreciated. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 07:58, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Corey Smith Artist - Redirect
This is a Visual Artist and professional Snowboarder neutral page, not to be confused with (Corey Smith) the country 'Musician'. FYI the term for professional snowboarder does not exist if you are looking for something new to edit. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alice0000 (talk • contribs) 12:08, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
My RfA
Thanks for your support at my RfA, which was successful and nearly unanimous. Be among the first to see my L-plate! – Fayenatic L (talk) 13:56, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Proposal to undelete an image
Hi, I'm a new admin and propose to undelete an image, but would be grateful if you would check first that it's appropriate for me to do so. File:PigottStreetPlaque.jpg was uploaded by N12345n who later changed to use the account LoopZilla, as declared on both user pages. It seems to have been uploaded to Wikipedia, then copied to commons, then deleted from commons and then from Wikipedia due to doubts over the identity of this IP edit.
The deletion discussion Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2012 January 6#File:PigottStreetPlaque.jpg refers to the Commons account AtelierJoly, whose user page explicitly identifies that account as jointly used by the same named individual editor as above plus another named person.
I know for a fact that there is nothing amiss over this image. If I restore it will it be sufficient to summarise the above on the file page? I expect to be able to contact the uploader(s) if they would need to make any further declarations. – Fayenatic L (talk) 22:28, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for looking into that Restored -FASTILY (TALK) 21:25, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Restored at Commons, I see; just the ticket, thanks. – Fayenatic L (talk) 08:23, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Resubmitting a deleted article
You have deleted one of my articles on Merrick Systems for unambiguous advertising. The article has been rewritten. Can I submit it to you first before I save the article and you can tell me if it will likley be deleted again or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shreetex (talk • contribs) 16:20, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of List of AMD CPU microarchitectures
You recently deleted List of AMD CPU microarchitectures under criteria A10: Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic. The article in question was created back in 2007 and had a number of edits by numerous editors over several years, the most recent content edit being a few months ago. Therefore, it seems to me that the "recently created article" rational cannot be used to delete the article. I would like to request that you undelete the article, so that a discussion can be held as to whether the article should be merged into another article. I left a contested deletion message on the talk page less than two hours ago with a similar argument. You may not have seen the message on the talk page. -- Imperator3733 (talk) 01:23, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Fileserve logo.jpg undelete
Please undelete Fileserve logo.jpg, it was used in FileServe.Smallman12q (talk) 01:39, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Done, though it may not survive an F7 nomination. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 03:18, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Deafness
You deleted Deafness for G6. What page was going to be moved there? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 03:10, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Hearing impairment, as the result of an RM, according to the CSD tag. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 03:14, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
page deletion
Hi,
My page was deleted through lack of referencing.
It is autobiographical so i don't exactly know what reference i can use.
Any help would be appreciated
Thank you
John — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juanstandupguy (talk • contribs) 03:22, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- Are you writing about yourself? -FASTILY (TALK) 04:02, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Verject
Dear Fastily
I as a member of the wiki community, member of the copy editors guild, member of the linguistics project and multiple working groups within wikipedia as well as a professional linguist am quite irritated and irate over the fact that you dare delete an article and label it a hoax without even so much as contacting the author or leaving a comment on the talk page requesting clarification. What exactly is your academic or professional background that affords you the justification for doing such?
Restore the page. I cannot do that for some reason because of the way you deleted it nor do I feel I should have to waste my time reentering all the information and typing out all the links and such.
I am so pissed off right now. I open my computer having taken the time while out to locate my list of sources to add references to an article I took the time to add to our body of linguistic articles only to find that earlier work deleted without cause and my efforts labeled as "clearly a hoax".
The only thing that is clearly a hoax here is that you put any effort or consideration into performing the duties of an editor with the slightest diligence.Drew.ward (talk) 03:54, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
In linguistics, '''verject''' refers to that portion of an utterance that is neither [[Subject_(grammar)|subject]] nor [[Object_(grammar)|object]] and conveys verbal information including [[Grammatical_tense|tense]], [[Grammatical_aspect|aspect]], [[Grammatical_mood|mood]], perfection, [[Grammatical_polarity|polarity]], and [[Voice_(grammar)|voice]].. I really could care less about your... fury. A simple request will do just fine. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:02, 22 February 2012 (UTC)- FYI Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Fastily_deleting_articles_without_due_diligence -- Luk talk 09:23, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
No Games
Why did you change my speedy tag to a prod if it's already at AFD? (Also, I think it fits under {{Db-disambig}}). Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 05:55, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Ivan Babovic
You G4ed this article even though it's never been deleted by AfD - it was nominated, but was G5ed before the discussion was ever completed. I would have thought it was therefore not eligible? Thanks, GiantSnowman 09:32, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Possible fair use images
Would you mind undeleting the images at Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_files/2011_December_12#File:Jcl_front_cover.jpg_et_al so I can give them an FUR and tag them with {{Non-free magazine cover}}?--GrapedApe (talk) 12:37, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Why did you speedily delete this article? It may not have been particularly good quality, but I am genuinely surprised at it being described as an attack page. PatGallacher (talk) 13:15, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- I agree, the attack page CSD seems misplaced as I can see no evidence that any particular attack or egregious defamation was included. The film has sufficient social impact to be used as a case study example in several books about the history of gay and lesbian cinema. If you feel it should be deleted, I suggest going through AFD and having an opportunity for a discussion on notability grounds. --Fæ (talk) 13:36, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- I am considering taking this to Wikipedia:Deletion review. You will see that someone who appears to know a bit about this film has offered to improve it on my talk page. I am also puzzled by how this could possibly violate our BLP policy, since the producer and director are both deceased. PatGallacher (talk) 16:00, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Re: Aram_Haigaz_-_at_70_a.png
Hi,
This upload has been deleted twice I suspect because I keep messing up on the copyright. The image is a family snapshot, provided by the authors daughter and has been used widely in many publications. It was taken by a family member who is dead.
I have resubmitted it as Public Domain and now added a copyright tag PD-Pre1978. Could you please provide some guidance? Is this how it should be tagged so it does not get deleted?
- When (date) was the photo taken and where (country) was it taken? Also, when did the photographer (year) die? -FASTILY (TALK) 00:20, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
If File:Hamilton Camp Mary Tyler Moore.jpg that depicts a difference in age is not acceptable as long as one image of Camp is there, why was the late 70s/early 80s image of Conaway given a 'no consensus? --George Ho (talk) 18:03, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- That's my reading of consensus, and not my interpretation of policy. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:22, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Marcus Dillistone - Icehotel
I took this pic. so it is 100% mine. I uploaded it to enhance the page. There is no limit to its use. I am frustrated as I don't know what else to say or do! Please put the pic back and tell me what I should do in future when uploading pictures that I own and which I am happy for use on Wiki. I need a step by step guide so I don't waste anyone's time in future. Thanks.
User82259 (talk) 23:41, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- Link the file in question? It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:27, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Cursory deletion of files nominated at FfD
At Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2012 February 14 you have closed a number of nominated files as delete despite there having been no discussion whatsoever. This appears to me to be in conflict with Wikipedia:Deletion policy as well as Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators. Could you perhaps shed some light on your actions, perhaps with references to some guideline entries I may have missed, to admin discussions or precedents that would support your line of action? For the record, I realize that some of the nominated files had been orphaned and would be eligible for speedy deletion as such, but for others again I can not see any reason how a discussion could be forfeited. __meco (talk) 11:40, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Files for deletion/Administrator instructions. Standard practice is to delete if the reasons provided are valid and if no objections are raised. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:10, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- Indeed. That was new to me! __meco (talk) 09:11, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- That's because many, many nominations get no comment, and we cannot risk having copyright violations floating around. Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:17, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
- Indeed. That was new to me! __meco (talk) 09:11, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
It seems SFW-XL was deleted as well, rendering the entire series on Passage Research Marketing, Seattle Filmworks, ECN-2 processing a jumbled mess. Since none of the editors of these articles seem to have any relevent knowledge, I really have to ask, why would you meddle in something which you have no firsthand knowledge of? I ask that SFW-XL and Double Exposure, Ltd. Laboratory be restored, referencing C-41 and Dwaynes Photo for reference of comparable institutions of similar importance. Further, I must insist that these pages be left alone by editors who don't 'specialize in photography, photofinishing, or filmmaking related subjects. I stick to categories such as these because I am familiar with them. You would never see me delete an article about computer programming, yet these things have been done here by those with no firsthand knowledge. ISOGuru 50.4.154.66 (talk) 19:01, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Copyright violations? Listen, I'd appreciate if you could recover the master text file. I don't have to want to add all those code items, AGAIN. Notice how i cannot even log in from this computer it is so old? Imagine the effort it will take to type up the article again if you cannot help me retrieve it. As for copyright, the company logo is fair use for an article about the company. For an example of another article of similar stature see: Dwayne's Photo. Now please help me, my old computer and my old, tired hands 50.4.154.66 (talk) 17:27, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi you deleted Double Exposure, Ltd. Laboratory despite its notability as being the only operation of its kind in North or South america (article said this.) Looks like you did this on valentine's day with about 1000 other things. I was busy. . . Anyway, would appreciate if you gave me steps how to contest this deletion, contest the speed and lack of timely communication so I could prevent hte deletion. YOu look like a computer science guy with no photography background whatsoever. I have to ask, then: why are you deleting pages you have no knowledge of? As to it being tagged "original research" there were at least five sources I had linked to my article.
Maybe you can type up an article in 5 seconds on your smartphone. That represented four or five hours of hen-pecking for me. ISO Guru 50.4.154.66 (talk) 17:16, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Userspace Redirects
Would you mind deleting my user pages that are redirects into article space. Special:PrefixIndex/User:Edinburgh_Wanderer/.Edinburgh Wanderer 20:27, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- Done -FASTILY (TALK) 00:26, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Has this template been used often? Why or why not? Somehow, many image captions have not consisted of deletion notifications for a while. --George Ho (talk) 01:46, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Deleted "File:Andy Johnson-Laird Streak Image - Daisies.jpg"
Hi Fastily: I hope I'm doing the right thing here -- but the section on your talk page regarding this file seems to have been deleted -- but the file has not been restored -- hence I've recreated a section. Apologies in advance if this is not what I'm supposed to do.
Did you receive the email from Mr. Johnson-Laird last week, please? I was hoping that the file could be restored -- or am I supposed to re-upload it now? Sorry to be a pest. QueenieBeeIsMe (talk) 05:06, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Ok, this is getting rediculous...
There you go again. Being on top of things and deleting the pages before I can even write why Krasen Belev is a hoax. This is getting ridiculous. Would you stop being so good at your job and slow down, so us slow editors have a chance. If you don't stop, I'll take you to ANI for doing too good of a job. Bgwhite (talk) 07:29, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- Hm, very true. I know how to fix this. I think...I'll be asking for a bot flag like this guy soon. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 07:37, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've looked deeper in K.belev, the user who created Krasen Belev. K.belev has on his User page that his old username is User:F121212. The same exact article that was deleted is on F121212's main page and it was created by K.belev. F121212 has edited once since changing names. Looks like K.belev is using F121212 as a type of sandbox. I'm not sure what to do or if any of it is even wrong. Bgwhite (talk) 07:52, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
request
who have to write about yafone technologies — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.213.169.169 (talk) 07:43, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Daniel Lubetzky (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Hi, you speedied this under G11 (Unambiguous advertising or promotion). The article is not great, and has clearly been edited by a friend or colleague, but it contains serious sourcing as well: Fortune, Time, New York Times, Jerusalem Post, Business Week, Fast Company. I think that notability is clearly not in question and that the article should be restored and improved. I should hasten to add I'm making this request as an ordinary user, not asking for any form of special treatment! If you decline, I'll just take it to WP:DRV but the instructions there say to ask the deleting admin nicely first! :-)
The subject of the article contacted me to alert me to this issue. I don't think I have a COI of any kind, but I should disclose that I've met Daniel several times at World Economic Forum meetings and similar.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 10:25, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily, happening to come by, I see the article was also a complete copyvio of [48], the Peaceworks WebPage. That should have been given as the reason of course. You seem to have deleted it with the first listed reason instead of using them all, or using the most serious. I do not see how that article can be restored as is. However, there is an earlier noncopyvio version from June 2010 at [49] which can be restored. That version is also much less promotional, and adequately shows the notability . I suggest you restore that one. DGG ( talk ) 16:30, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Chuckie (DJ)
Hi, you have speedily deleted Chuckie (DJ) because it apparently was "Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.djchuckie.com/about". I cannot access the article's history anymore, so I am not sure, but I think I created that article in december 2009. When I did, I translated the article on the Dutch-language wikipedia to English. I had a look at the about-page linked by you, and in my memory it looks nothing like the text I translated. If the text you encountered on the article was really similar to the about-page, then I must assume that a the copyright-infringing text was added by a later edit. If so, the article should not have been deleted, just reverted to an earlier version. Is it possible for you to check earlier versions and see if this is the case? Or should I be asking this on WP:DRV? Thanks Mtcv (talk) 11:29, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- For future reference, this was the right place to ask! I looked at the article history and have restored the last clean version. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 18:42, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
why u delete glen power article, there was sources, if u dont think there good amend it, rather then delete thx — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.4.146.141 (talk) 12:52, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- Link the article in question? It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 18:53, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
File:OS Mhòir.png
File:OS Mhòir.png was and is being used on Talk:Port_an_Eilean_Mhòir_ship_burial, but you deleted it. The usage was noted on the image page before deletion. Does non-free usage rationale not cover images used for important arguments in Talk pages?
--Sbp (talk) 14:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- It does not. Under Wikipedia non-free content criterion #9, use of non-free files in any namespace but the mainspace is strictly prohibited. In other words, any non-free file that does not contain file links to the mainspace is effectively considered orphaned. -FASTILY (TALK) 18:44, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Can someone delete the previous files? I'm still sitting here trying to move everything from my JamesAlan one to this one. LOL! Swifty*talkcontribs 15:20, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- Done -FASTILY (TALK) 18:47, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks! Can you get this one too File:Black and White Movie English DVD Cover.png. Swifty*talkcontribs 19:01, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily, this is an old story and not very important, but I wanted to raise a point about the redirect you deleted here. The user attempted to place this page in their user space but used the wrong title. Another editor moved it to its likely name but did not notify the creator. You then deleted the redirect as implausible, also without notification.
Again, it is not very important, but two unfortunate things came together with this string of actions: an article in main space which was clearly not ready, and a newbie editor who likely had no easy way of figuring out that their article was not deleted (as the user talk page says) but lives happily in main space. --Pgallert (talk) 18:54, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
File:Announce_first_Q-Chem-version.jpg and File:535107106 jizyy-O.jpg
You deleted these two files, which I had uploaded, for reason "F11." However, on February 19, Anna Krylov, the copyright holder of both files, sent the following email granting permission for File:Announce_first_Q-Chem-version.jpg to permissions-en [at] wikimedia.org:
I hereby affirm that I, Anna Krylov, am the creator and sole owner of the exclusive copyright of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Announce_first_Q-Chem-version.jpg . I agree to publish that work under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0" (unported) and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.
I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites.
I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by me.
I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
Anna Krylov, Ph.D.,
Professor of Chemistry, University of Southern California
Member, Board of Directors,
Q-Chem, Inc.,
AUTHORITY: Copyright holder
February 19, 2011
She sent an analogous email granting permission for File:535107106 jizyy-O.jpg.
Since she has granted permission for both files, please undelete them. —Jt512 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:00, 23 February 2012 (UTC).
- Once our OTRS team processes the email you claim to have sent, the file(s) will be automatically restored. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:13, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Questions about a user creating a WikiProject
Hi Fastily! I have a question for you, since you are an admin, and I know very very little about WikiProjects. A relatively new editor, User:TBrandley, has been creating a bunch of non-notable pages and categories, many which have been deleted or redirected. (See his talk page for more info on that.) A few editors have tried to mention GNG and such to him, on his talk page and at AfDs, but he doesn't seem to get it. He has just created a new WikiProject WP:WikiProject Programming Blocks and related categories Category:WikiProject Programming Blocks Category:Top-importance programming block articles, Category:High-importance programming block articles, Category:Mid-importance programming block articles, Category:Low-importance programming block articles, etc, and templates Template:WikiProject Programming Blocks/class, Template:Infobox programming block. As I stated, I really don't know much about WikiProjects, but it seems that there is a process for proposal of new projects, which I am pretty sure was not done. I'm not sure really what to do, but I wanted to alert someone before this gets out of hand. Maybe I'm off-base, and Programming Blocks really needs its own project? I have no knowledge of the subject. Can you help or provide some advice? Thanks a bunch. --Logical Fuzz (talk) 01:03, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
- Well, it's not mandatory to propose projects but it is strongly recommended. At any rate, this appears to be a crudely crafted set of pages and isn't very productive at the moment. I'll nom the page at MfD. Hope that helps. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:39, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Special Barnstar |
| Puffin Let's talk! 23:08, 24 February 2012 (UTC) |
Kite flying image
I seem to recall uploading File:Kite flying MarlayPk.jpg many years ago but did not see any deletion notice in the article, maybe the image itself was not on my watchlist but I thought it was a freely licenced Flickr image. Can you let me know the details? I think this is the image but the image seems to have changed in the years though I may been been rather new at the time and did not know the licencing at the time. Can't remember. TIA ww2censor (talk) 23:54, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
- I had a look, and there was no source and no permission for the file. Normally, I would advise you to re-upload the file, but since the copyright status of the file is marked as NC on flickr, that may not be such a great idea. Sorry, FASTILY (TALK) 06:42, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Deleted file from lack of evidence of permission - what next?
My uploaded file File:Rosiescott-dv.jpg was deleted from lack of evidence of permission because I failed to add the {{OTRS pending}} tag to the file. I did however have the copyright owner email permissions-enwikimedia.org using the provided template.
It is not clear on your information page whether: a) I should reupload the file, adding the appropriate tag this time; or b) the file will be reinstated when the email is received; or c) the email has not been received and thus the file was deleted. Is the email only associated with the file if there is an {{OTRS pending}} tag?
Thanks for your help with this. Emilyjem (talk) 02:15, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- The file will be automatically restored once the email you claim to have sent is processed by our OTRS team. Normally, this takes a few days. Please be patient -FASTILY (TALK) 06:43, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Article Andrew Tink photo
Andrew Tink, himself provided a recent photo, more appropriate than the one put on by someone else. I tried to use a variant of Andrew Tink but could not. Andrew lives at Beecroft so that is what I called the photo. An administrator deleted the photo. I would like to upload the photo again and call it Andrew TinkItalic text.
Can I delete the photo currently called Andrew Tink, or can an administrator do it for me. I am not sure what I did wrong the first time.(Trahelliven (talk) 09:46, 25 February 2012 (UTC)).
- Go for it, but please be sure you specify a license tag at upload. Otherwise, the file will be deleted again. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:11, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Lewis Gordon Pugh - "no permission" retraction of images
Hi Fastily
I'm a little exasperated at the wholesale changes made by you to my wiki page & your 'FAQ' explanations don't satisfy me in this instance so I'd like to engage with you on this. Please see here: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lewis_Gordon_Pugh. These changes were made on Feb 14, after I'd spent sometime creating them & setting up the appropriate clearance on Commons.
You have removed 4 captioned images from my page. All 4 images were licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence. They are my images, I am their creator. They in no way differ from all my other images uploaded to Commons & licenced in the same way. Please explain to me why these have been singled out, & why you deem permission to be inadequate? I am reluctant to have to email Wiki commons to release them as I feel that I shouldn't have to more than double-up on the work required to reinstate them. I really don't understand how I have violated protocol & what entitles you (non-owner, non-creator, non-licensee) to override my editorial control dealing with my content.
If you believe your actions to be fair, please explain why & clarify, then, the licence under which these images should be held in order for them to happily, fairly & legally exist up there on my page.
I look forward to your helpful feedback soonest. Kind Regards Lewispugh (talk) 10:36, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Please note that you only own the copyright to a photo if your finger pushed the button to take the photo OR if the photographer of the photo has granted all rights of the photo to you. Since the photos appear to depict you speaking on a stage, I would think that only the latter case applies. If the photographer of the photos has indeed granted you explicit permission to use these photos however you wish, then please send an email to "permissions-commons@wikimedia.org" and make your case. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:17, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
File:Australian original $5 polymer back.JPG deletion
Fastily; can you please have another look at this image deletion? I'm on a very slow connection right now, but I can see this:
- "21 January 2012 Fastily (talk | contribs | block) deleted "File:Australian original $5 polymer back.JPG" (F4: Lack of licensing information) (view/restore)"
- "13 January 2012 . . Abesty (talk | contribs | block) (339 bytes) ({{Non-free use rationale |Article = Banknotes of the Australian dollar |Description = Original Australian $5 back side |Source = See above |Portion = All |Low_resolution = Yes |Purpose = Used to illu)"
Thank you,
Aaron Brenneman (talk) 14:01, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- And "File:Australian original $5 polymer back.JPG", too, please.
- Neither file had a license tag and was tagged for over 7 days. If you can give me a license tag, I'll restore it -FASTILY (TALK) 20:19, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry, I wasn't very clear. Are you at all interested in discussing how much easier it would have been for you to do the tagging yourself, while you were there? If not, I'll bother you no further, but go and do the restoration and tagging. - Aaron Brenneman (talk) 22:29, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- No, and there is no policy requiring me to do so. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:11, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Worst answer ever. Instant-RFA-fail answer. Total loss of respect answer. I'd go and dig through the various Betacommand arbitrations to find the "while we can't force you to think before deleting, would it really kill you?" principle, but I suspect that you are not interested. Instead, I'll go and think for about five seconds and fix the tag, which is what you really should have done, even if there is no "there is no policy requiring me to do so." Sorry to have distracted you from your deleting.
Aaron Brenneman (talk) 04:09, 26 February 2012 (UTC)- Obviously, we will have to agree to disagree here. I don't understand the point of throwing in personal attacks; if anything, they discredit you. Oh, and last I checked, NPA violation and bad attitude == Instant RfA fail. So, that said, get off your high horse, get over yourself, and get off my talk page :) Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 10:28, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
- Worst answer ever. Instant-RFA-fail answer. Total loss of respect answer. I'd go and dig through the various Betacommand arbitrations to find the "while we can't force you to think before deleting, would it really kill you?" principle, but I suspect that you are not interested. Instead, I'll go and think for about five seconds and fix the tag, which is what you really should have done, even if there is no "there is no policy requiring me to do so." Sorry to have distracted you from your deleting.
- No, and there is no policy requiring me to do so. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:11, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry, I wasn't very clear. Are you at all interested in discussing how much easier it would have been for you to do the tagging yourself, while you were there? If not, I'll bother you no further, but go and do the restoration and tagging. - Aaron Brenneman (talk) 22:29, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Neither file had a license tag and was tagged for over 7 days. If you can give me a license tag, I'll restore it -FASTILY (TALK) 20:19, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
article 'chereshovo'
hi, you speedy deleted my article 'chereshovo' because insufficient context. i know it was a shot starter article that i was meaning to add to. i have a lot of info and images together with history and links to historical revolutionary figures that were born in the town. i live in the town myself and i looked for past articles about here and saw one that was deleted as a blatant hoax! there are 3 chereshovo's in bulgaria, and this one is in ruse province maidenhead grid kn33ev. you can see it on google maps or any decent paper map of the area. this was my first attempt to make an entry in wiki, and i wonder if you could help me create this article better so that it can remain. i might rather try to find the first chereshovo entry by the other author that was deleted, but i cant find where it can be seen. does deleted mean gone forever? the author does not respond to messages.i feel cheeky putting up a entry that someone else tried to, but now mine has gone too. please help me get a suitable entry, and a little mentoring in the spirit of wiki. thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snowlizard88 (talk • contribs) 14:58, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Well, start a userspace draft and I'll see what I can do for you -FASTILY (TALK) 20:20, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
WTF?
What in the world was the point of this? Anomie⚔ 18:58, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- A good faith effort to uniform old discussions with new ones. I'll have it cleaned up by the end of the day -FASTILY (TALK) 20:22, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Possibly unfree file link deletion
Now that you've deleted the redirects for all of the old possibly unfree images, are you going to now update the literally hundreds of incoming links to the dicussions which are now broken? Magog the Ogre (talk) 19:10, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Doesn't seem necessary granted that the move log is present, but I suppose I can. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:25, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- I guess I don't see the point in deleting a redirect when there are a lot of incoming links. Also, the navbox at the top of the pages is broken. But whatever floats your boat; if you don't think it necessary then nevermind. Magog the Ogre (talk) 20:30, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Removing strikethrough
I don't understand why FSII performed this edit which removed a clearly-intended strikethrough. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:54, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- This one, too. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:57, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- An honest mistake using text replacement editor? -FASTILY (TALK) 20:26, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- Um, yeah, made a few of those myself. :-) Can you take a swing through when you have a chance and see how many of those need to be fixed? --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:29, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- An honest mistake using text replacement editor? -FASTILY (TALK) 20:26, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
File:WanderersLogoFeb1975.jpg
Hi Fastily, will you, please, give me the reason, why this file has been deleted? In my opinion, it contributes to the article. Nikoskla (talk) 22:24, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not Fastily (who deleted the file), but I'm the one who requested deletion on the deletion discussion page. In my opinion, that image (and File:WanderersLogoFilm1979.jpg) violate WP:NFCC#3a and WP:NFCC#8 in the article. There is already a non-free image in the infobox and they are only briefly mentioned in the article text. --Stefan2 (talk) 17:58, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
File:Project Trains no image.png
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File:District-Massachusetts.gif
You deleted this on January 4 this year. Can you restore it so it can be tagged as {{PD-USGov}}? Cheers, --DeLarge (talk) 02:14, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
- The file was lacking a source (and hence licensing information, as verifiable source is required for all media uploaded to Wikipedia). If you can give me the source of the image, I'll restore it. -FASTILY (TALK) 10:38, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Garfield statues
Regarding the deletion of the images at Garfield statues, none of the images in question had their captions tagged. If at least one did, I would've chimed in on the discussion - I have the article on my watchlist, but none of the images. It would've been useful, since I was the one who put the images in the gallery in the first place and as such just as responsible for their subsequent deletion. --Jtalledo (talk) 04:15, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
- Well, the problem with the photos were, that well, they depicted a copyrighted character, Garfield, but were inappropriately claimed to be Free content. I'm sorry, but I'm afraid these photos aren't suitable for Wikipedia. -FASTILY (TALK) 10:42, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
user talkpage deletion
I've asked you some time ago to be careful with deletion of user talkpages. I now noticed that you deleted User talk:Lkbunker as 'talkpage of a non-existent user'. Although I can see that as a valid reason when some vandal creates the talkpage of a user who does not exist, it is not when the talkpage is a redirect because the user was renamed. When you delete such pages, the signatures that the editor left before the rename and that link to the user talkpage don't work anymore, and tracking of the remark becomes difficult. I know you do a lot of good work with the deletions, but please slow down and take proper care of page histories when you delete them. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:29, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Facepalm An honest mistake. Thanks for letting me know. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 10:46, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
- No harm done, keep up the good work! --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:56, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Moved from user page
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drew.ward (talk • contribs) 04:14, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
You closed as "delete", however, I see 2 major problems:
- There was no reason for deletion. The image was used previously as a proper Fair Use image. Whether it was non-free or not, it shouldn't have been deleted under any circumstances.
- The image was used prior to 1989 without a copyright notice specifically prior to 1981 (noted on that page with Chris Creamer Sports logo website...though Closeapple misinterpreted the claim as the website being the place of location rather than a record of the date of usage for the logo).
Had I known that someone responded 2.5 weeks later, I would have responded. Buffs (talk) 04:23, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
- Eagles247 beat me to the fix. Thanks for letting me know though. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 10:39, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Old revisions
Why weren't the old revisions for File:Loma linda university church front.jpg, File:Romania chamber of deputies colleges diaspora.svg and File:CardsRetiredMic.png moved to Commons before you deleted them? WP:CSD#F8 states: "All image revisions that meet the first condition have been transferred to Commons as revisions of the Commons copy and properly marked as such." Of course, as I can't view the deleted revisions, I can't tell if the old revisions meet "the first condition" or not. --Stefan2 (talk) 00:09, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- As far as I can tell, they were either exact duplicates, scaled versions, or obsolete versions. I don't think Commons needs those and I doubt they would survive a DR even if uploaded. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:56, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Can you please check to see if File:Louisville Helmet.gif is a sufficiently identical and unimproved copy of File:LVilleCards.png that was deleted at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2011 December 30#File:LVilleCards.png if so would you consider it for WP:G4 ? Mtking (edits) 01:11, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Fastily; would it be possible for you to have another review at this image deletion please?, I have just realized that the image has been deleted since the 25 February 2012, because I was on a short break from Wikipedia editing, and I came across this today when I clicked on the deleted image's link:
- 00:52, 21 February 2012 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah & Martin Luther King, Jr..jpg" (F7: Violates non-free use policy)
Fastily, the image was kept as it was the only image of its type and their was no other free image available, and as it was also a historical image. The image was put for deletion somewhere in mid January 2012 as far as I could remember but it was decided to be kept due to the following reasons that I stated above.
- The tag Template:Non-free historic image was placed under the image's rational template, straight after the image was decided to be kept. Please Fastily, I would be very grateful if you could restore this one image as their is no other image and free version of its kind, and that was the reason it passed the "non-free use policy" and then was decided to be kept in mid January 2012. MarkMysoe (talk) 06:01, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- The image depicts Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah & Martin Luther King, Jr at a meeting in Ghana. It clearly failed WP:NFCC#8, contextual significance, as the article doesn't contain critical commentary about the image and the image doesn't enhance the readers understanding of the topic (it was used on Kwame Nkrumah). Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talkabout my edits? 09:12, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Provisional re-instatement of images in the case of OTRS pending
Hi Fastily
Many thanks for your response to my query about image deletion from http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lewis_Gordon_Pugh. I understand & appreciate the Wiki position.
- I have submitted to the OTRS to request that these images be cleared on the basis that permission exists & has been extended to me by photographers in all cases.
- I'd maintain that the same, existing licence is still valid (since this is why I chose it in the first place).
In the interim, & whilst my request is being processed, is it possible that you could provisionally re-instate these images for use, with the {{OTRS pending}} caveat?
- Essentially, I'm asking if it's possible to be granted a 7-day grace period so that my site can be up & running?
Most grateful for your feedback & for considering enabling this.
Kind Regards Lewispugh (talk) 08:01, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'd prefer to wait a few days for OTRS to confirm the email you sent and restore the file then and there. Files on Commons tagged with
{{OTRS pending}}live dangerously (can literally be deleted at any time), so I'd prefer not to restore them at this time; lest someone else should re-delete the file. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:13, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion review for Template:New York cities and mayors of 100,000 population
TonyTheTiger has asked for a deletion review of Template:New York cities and mayors of 100,000 population. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talkabout my edits? 08:50, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- I am sure you have a lot of talkpage stalkers :-) Anyway just wanted to say "well-done" on your DRV close. Agathoclea (talk) 15:50, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Fbot
Why everything except task 16 is stopped? Bulwersator (talk) 15:45, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- Because someone found it fit to block my bot for 'editing too fast'. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:18, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ech... Is it possible that Fbot will return to a slower (to protect us from creating Skynet) editing? Bulwersator (talk) 22:15, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Larson Financial page
Our page was recently deleted due to (Expired PROD, concern was: This is not a notable commercial organization. Please reconsider and repost our page. Additions such as Awards and Recognitions were recently added to the page as well as more internal links to other pertinent articles. If these are not sufficient changes, please advise as to other necessary additions 205.214.85.146 (talk) 16:38, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- Would you consider asking at WP:REFUND? I'd like a second opinion on this before restoring. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:06, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily, I was wondering what kind of licensing information was missing from the file linked above. You can still read the FUR, so I probably don't need to post it here. I listed both the source and copyright holder (as much as was published). It appears the bot that handles this tagging sometimes doesn't read the template I use correctly, so it may tag files incorrectly. Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:58, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Improper speedy deletion of Gift of the Givers
Hi again!
I finally got around to reading the text of Gift of the Givers that you pasted to your talk page. I now realize why you deleted it! Someone from the organisation had been puffing it up very badly, but because it's been deleted, I can't go and sort through the page history to find the last good edit and keep the useful stuff to improve the page. Can you please undelete it, revert to my last edit and drop a note on my talk page? I'm unfortunately not as active as I used to be, so the speedy delete slipped past me in a time when I was out of my home country for work.
This is actually an undoubtedly encyclopedic topic: I have seen them featured on CNN and BBC news lately in connection with their disaster relief actions; it just needs to be watched for ill-advised PR work from well-meaning people who need education on how to use Wikipedia. --Slashme (talk) 19:59, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'l resturn the text of the page to you. Click here to view it. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:26, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- I think you missed the point of my request: I didn't ask for the text of the last version of the page: I managed to get that from your talk page history without any problems. The issue is that the version of the page that was speedily deleted was a bad version, and I need the page to be undeleted so that I can recover the version before it got edited by someone from the organisation. I think you'll find that the last version that I edited was not great but not a candidate for deletion. --Slashme (talk) 06:28, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Re: Aram_Haigaz_-_at_70_a.png
Hi, This upload has been deleted twice I suspect because I keep messing up on the copyright. The image is a family snapshot, provided by the authors daughter and has been used widely in many publications. It was taken by a family member who is dead. I have resubmitted it as Public Domain and now added a copyright tag PD-Pre1978. Could you please provide some guidance? Is this how it should be tagged so it does not get deleted? When (date) was the photo taken and where (country) was it taken? Also, when did the photographer (year) die? -FASTILY (TALK) 00:20, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, this scrolled off into your archive, the picture was taken sometime in 1970 in the United States, the photographers death date is unknown
Jabellas (talk) 20:54, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Template:New York cities and mayors of 100,000 population
I don't understand what happened here. On what grounds did you overturn your correct decision to delete this useless template? Powers T 21:28, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for restoring the South Park Image
Thanks for restoring the Christian Rockhard image, and sorry for being rude to you earlier on. Let me know if there's any specific changes i need to make to keep the file with in fair use standards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Green-Halcyon (talk • contribs) 08:54, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Blue
Okay apparently no one wants to follow the rules when it comes to this song Rimes is most known for the song not Mack or anyone else. As I keep point out to them the sources can be contradicted plus no source states that Mack ever released the song as a single. The page needs to be restored back to Blue (LeAnn Rimes song) instead of Blue (Bill Mack song) as it follows WP:COMMON since Rimes is most known for the song. But no one will listen and people want to do what they want and tell me what to do like they got any business too.
Don't go off on any more tangents. Seems to me it would be rewarding for you to honour your "Retired" banner, to go away for a bit to recharge, and then come back refreshed sometime in the future.
And from what I've been told by Status Moriori is and admin and should know better. They wouldn't be admin if they didn't know to follow the rules and use most common known. That's what makes me sick of this site. An admin abusing POWER to get their way. That's messed up. Swifty*talkcontribs 17:17, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'm sorry to hear that. I'm afraid that this is not something that I can help you with. You may wish to initiate a thread at WP:DRN or WP:ANI as appropriate. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 06:50, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Need help re: Garfield images
When you have a minute, please take a look at this article. Garfield statues. Many of the images there went through FFD and were deleted. Most have been "recycled" under slightly different file names and have gone back to FFD. New ones also sprout up File:SpeedkingBasketballGarfield.jpg. This one File:FirefighterGarfield.jpg has both free and non free licenses, so I'm not sure where to list it as it's been to FFD before. Not sure if the editor needs an explanation about not reuploading files that were deleted for those reasons or what. Would appreciate a bit of help on this. Thanks! We hope (talk) 17:54, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
- I previously deleted these photos at PUF, which is a process restricted to establishing the copyright status of files. Since the original issue (that the files were originally uploaded as free when they were clearly derivatives of copyrighted content) has been remedied in the new uploads (as far as I can see, they have been properly tagged as non-free content), G4 does not apply. I think the best approach would be to nominate these files at WP:FFD, and I can see that you have done that. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 06:53, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks much! We hope (talk) 15:21, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
ImageRemovalBot has removed the file Andy Johnson-Laird Streak Image - Daisies.jpg
Hi Fastily: Sorry to bother you again, but now the reference to the image has gone away -- presumably because the image has been deleted for too long. Could you tell me the correct way to proceed, please? I can have Mr. Johnson-Laird email again. The text of his last message, sent on February 16 to permissions-en@wikimedia.org read as follows:
- Attention: WP Administrator Fastily.
- I apologize -- in my previous email I selected what I thought was required by Wikipedia, but got it wrong. Please discard all previous emails for the subject image.
- So, regarding the thumbnail image uploaded as "Andy Johnson-Laird Streak Image - Daisies.jpg".
- Please take this email as explicit, irrevocable, permission to use this image subject to the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
- Regards
- Andy Johnson-Laird
I'm not sure how to proceed. Do I need to start over or will the image and WP page be restored?
Thanks QueenieBeeIsMe (talk) 18:08, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry for the delay. I've archived the email in the system and updated the file description page appropriately. Thanks for patience. Also, please thank Mr. Johnson-Laird for his donation to Wikipedia, we appreciate it :) Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 06:58, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of |Homesteading and the City: The Journals| Page.
Hi, I know it was deleted under the PROD. But, I'd likme to inguire the reason propesed which had been "Unremarkable E-book, or blog.". And I have to say that,the reason diddnt really seem to make a fair case in my part as "Unremarkable" shouldn't be used in most cases to delete a page, considering this is an encyclopedia, and even with only ~500 copies of this book sold, I think it would help if people learned about this book and mabye figure or notice thing for the good as the author had, and sorry if I sound like I am advertising it XD. I try my best in being a memorable person in society. Now have a nice day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jared631 (talk • contribs) 20:32, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Deleted Page
Hi,
You deleted our page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-America_Technology_Center which is a public school page. I did edit the page a few months before you deleted it and just added all the education services we offer. I apologize if it read like an advertisment but I simply listed the services we provided. Facebook loads a page about our based on the Wiki page, before I edited the page it was very very very outdated and was not a represenation of the service we offer to pur taxpayers and stakeholders.
72.9.80.224 (talk) 02:29, 29 February 2012 (UTC)Randy Henderson
This is a redirct also that should be deletedFile talk:BCS13TitleLogo.gif since you just deleted the other redirect.Theworm777 (talk) 07:30, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Speedy declined
Hi! Regarding your nomination of Mid-America Technology Center for speedy deletion. Educational establishments are explicitly exempt from speedy deletion under WP:CSD#A7. Stephen! Coming... 10:17, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
I see you deleted this because there was no free alternative photo available. What makes you think this photo is available for a price? Or is available at all in other than the public domain? I obtained the photo from public articles, there is no evidence that the photo is available in any other way, and, as I wrote today, it was probably associated with (and published as part of) a Government project whose resources were in the public domain. Also, no one has stepped forward to assert copyright violation (although I recognize that a lack of complaint is less relevant to my argument, given WP policies concerning copyright). Since there is no evidence that copyright applies to this photograph, the deletion should be reverted. David Spector (user/talk) 02:54, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Can you please provide evidence indicating that the file is indeed free? -FASTILY (TALK) 04:53, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily. You state: "Under Wikipedia non-free content criterion #1, any non-free/copyrighted file which could be replaced by existing (or easily/readily create-able) free alternatives are strictly prohibited on Wikipedia. While you may not personally possess the means to locate/create a freely-licensed alternative, the omission of non-free content whenever possible is intended to encourage individuals with the means and ability to create/locate such a file, to upload that file to Wikipedia."
Please could you indicate the nature of the "existing (or easily/readily create-able) free alternative" to this image that you envision. I do not believe that such a free alternative exists, as I indicated in the image justification section. Thanks. Martin (talk) 19:31, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Fbot and {{Not-PD-US-URAA}}
It seems that Fbot adds {{Move to Commons}} even if the template {{Not-PD-US-URAA}} is set, as it did here. Since Commons is planning to remove all {{Not-PD-US-URAA}} files from Commons, I assume that the template should be added to Fbot's blacklist. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:29, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
- Handled. Come back soon Fastily. Sven Manguard Wha? 21:42, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
deletion of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences
Hi, I see that You have deleted Amrita_Institute_of_Medical_Sciences_and_Research_Centre citing it as a advertisement. however, being a native from Cochin, the article is very much needed and it indeed is the biggest medical college in the state of kerala in India. for a country like India, this medical college is the biggest referral centre for a whole state(kerala) and even from neighbouring states. I don't know, if in Americas/Europe such articles are seen as advertisement. but, here it is seen as a charity organization funded by "laughing amma" amritanandamayi. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita_Institute_of_Medical_Sciences_and_Research_Centre
This is a google search result showing the number of "NEWS" hits alone for Amritha medical college: is(dot)gd/b3J1ax
I humbly ask you to have a relook and restore the article.
Thank You 59.93.8.172 (talk) 16:33, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
- Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- I would not have deleted this article. It did appear promotional but the article has a history dating back to 2004, and many earlier versions were a lot less promotional. This was an improvement issue that could have been resolved by trimming promotional text back to the facts, not a speedy deletion on G11 grounds. Wikipedia benefits from an article on this Institute, purely based on the wealth of good sources that a search of GBooks shows. Please consider undeleting and trim or add improvement notices as necessary. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 16:48, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
File:CupNoodle.jpg
Fastily, I won't undo your deletion of File:CupNoodle.jpg due to WP:INVOLVED and all, but I ask you to reconsider; you seem to have closed Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2012 February 12#File:CupNoodle.jpg without noticing that the file had been fixed according to the comments in that discussion. I had already provided the correct fair-use rationale prior to the close of that discussion.
Furthermore, please see commons:Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Cup_Noodles.jpg in which a similar image was kept for a court case Stefan2 cited; curiously, he argued for deletion of mine.
Thanks. ~Amatulić (talk) 17:30, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of AliDia.jpg
Why was this image deleted? I attributed the proper liscensing and had the creator email a release exactly as I was instructed by other users after the images first deletion. Please instruct on how i can have this image reinstated. Roamingkurd (talk) 04:20, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) It was deleted because there was no licence attached to the file. If the copyright holder releases the image under a free licence, it will be restored by one of the OTRS Team when they process the permission. The backlog can be a s long as 30 days because the volunteer team is rather small. ww2censor (talk) 04:28, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks WW2Censor. I would like to note that I did attach a CC Attribution 1.0 license. Roamingkurd (talk) 00:58, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
- I cannot view the file but the deletion summary states there was not licence. Just be patient. ww2censor (talk) 01:31, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Please remove the vandal edit on Stephen Hawking from /Funny junk
I humbly request that you remove said item from your list of funny junk because it isn't up to par with the rest.
The vandal simply replaced "theoretical physicist" with "dirty lying cripple" after his birth date, which hardly warrants for praise of creativity.
Funny junk is an excellent collection by the way. Thanks for the laughs! •ː• 3ICE •ː• 19:53, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Deletion review for File:Simon Wicks 2012.jpg
I have asked for a deletion review of File:Simon Wicks 2012.jpg. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. --George Ho (talk) 12:29, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
you didn't delete my page but it was about the new series of thomas and friends. --Ticklemonster9 (talk) 18:50, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
I hope I did this right
[50] Can you see if I had and if you want to make a statement you are more then welcome to. Swifty*talkcontribs 18:56, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
- And I'm too afraid to inform the 3 that I mentioned as I fear they will bash me again. Swifty*talkcontribs 18:58, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Yeah will you inform them I'm off here I'm too afraid to. Swifty*talkcontribs 19:02, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Nimi (Actress)
It was more my mistake than anything. I needed to substaciate sources I just did not have the time to do it. Will you please restore it and I will make the nessesary changes. Also the article is leaning a litle too much in favor of the actress I intend to change that so that the article returns to the required neutral view, or i can start all over too. Please just let me know, thanks?
Mishka7 (talk) 02:42, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Hradyesh
I had mentioned reasons why the page should not be deleted. On the talk page have not received any concern about the article but you decided to delete the article. Happy to learn if missing something but so far created the article as per the prescribed guidelines ensuring usage of neautral language , no promotional / marketing mentions , cited in line references from globally respected news sources (which was filtered down as there are numerous mention about the Subject via - News , article , discussion boards , websites etc) . For indian automobile industry the subject have created historical milestones by introducing the global concept for the very first time. 'll be eager to understand your view points to enable post of this article.
Aaanshu (talk) 17:14, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Yishan Wong article deletion
Yishan Wong was just named the CEO of Reddit.
He is significant enough to warrant a Wikipedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.51.141.244 (talk) 06:24, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily is on break as of the time of this comment. No, he must also be covered by multiple independent reliable sources to have his own article.Jasper Deng (talk) 06:30, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Image deletion which were self created
hello,
I created an article "Elixir Technologies Corporation" in which i uploaded a few images that were my own creation (graphics), but they got deleted. The licensing and copyright information was also provided but it said the images had copyright violation. Kindly tell me which licensing or copyright tags i need to put in for my own work as well as software screenshots.
Also there was a logo too of the company which i uploaded under the license Creative Commons 3.0 and copyright tags of Registered and Copyrighted. What exactly was the problem in that?
Kindly help and reply asap.
Regards, Commspec — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.186.48.116 (talk) 07:42, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
- You'll need to email permissions-en
wikimedia.org from an email address associated with your company so we can verify who you are. You'll need to tell us (in absolute confidence) who you are, that you are happy to release the images under the chosen license, that you understand the implications of that, and the names of the images. You'll receive further instructions by email if there's a problem. Note that the process is currently backlogged, and so it might take a few days for your email to be answered. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:01, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
File:Dead Man Walking (Body of Proof).jpg
Hi, I can see that you just deleted the image above. However, the deletion weas opposed, with their being no comments to sipport the deletion. Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2012 February 26#File:Dead Man Walking (Body of Proof).jpg. The image had a good rationale, and licensing. And for a fact I know is that it served a purpose in the article. Now, I can see it was a mistake, so could you undo it please? MayhemMario 16:04, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
- Also, could you put a talkback on my talk when you have replied. Many thanks, MayhemMario 16:07, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
:File:Steadicam-sm
Can you clarify why this was deleted? Just stating "violation of F7" didn't help much. --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 00:19, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- In the future, please be sure to add fair use rationale for EACH usage/link of a non-free image in an article. Failure to do so is a textbook violation of Wikipedia non-free content criterion #10c and may result in the deletion of the file in question. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:26, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Your marching orders
Excuse me, but why was Fenwick and West deleted? Restore it now - this is uncalled for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.205.81.131 (talk • contribs)
- Allow me: it was deleted almost three months ago because it was a copyright violation. Someone thought it was OK to copy content from the company's website into an encyclopedic article. It could have been deleted as spam as well. Drmies (talk) 02:29, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- Though I don't like the tone of the OP's request, this is what the article in question looked like before User:Hpatsch spammed it up back in 2007. I'm not sure whether or not it should be restored though. In any case there is nothing to bar a neutral editor from writing a sourced article. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:06, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- Good call, Ron. I'm looking at a Google News search, and I think there may be something here to work on. Drmies (talk) 02:56, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
- Alright, Fenwick & West is restored. I added a few references to reliable sources--the topic seems notable enough. Thanks Ron. Drmies (talk) 03:04, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Template:Lord High Gom Togneme Userbox
You recently deleted Template:Lord High Gom Togneme Userbox under CSD G6, presumably in response to a {{db-g6}} tag added by User:Mootros. Unfortunately, the deletion was not as uncontroversial as Mootros believed, as they did not have consensus to make such major changes to the service award templates, and their changes have broken things. Furthermore, Mootros had copied the content of Template:Lord High Gom Togneme Userbox to another template, Template:Gom Userbox. Deleting the original template lost the attribution for that content. I realise that you weren't to know this, but I felt you should know what's going on.
I have submitted the templates to the Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen to have their histories merged. Since, as I understand things, the administrator who merges the history will be able to see the deleted content, I don't think you need to restore the deleted template. If you know how to merge page histories, your help would be greatly appreciated.
I am still tracing through Mootros's edits to find and fix all the damage; I expect to find more examples of similar problems. (Actually, right now I'm going to bed. I'll continue with this tomorrow.) If you deleted any other templates yesterday because of a tag added by Mootros, you might want to double check those deletions. Thank you. – PartTimeGnome (talk | contribs) 03:19, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
It has come to my attention that you deleted Multimedia University back in January as a copyright violation. The page actually has a very long history, including a good article nomination, and should have never been deleted this way. Any infringing text (if indeed there is any - its being looked into now) was clearly a later addition.
I'm sure you were probably just in a hurry and made a mistake that day, as I can't imagine you'd be that careless normally. As such, this is just a friendly reminder to be careful with the delete button. It took nearly two months for someone to notice the error on this fairly high profile article. A similar error on a less well-known (but notable) subject might never be corrected since deletions are rarely reviewed.
Thanks, ThaddeusB (talk) 04:49, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Elaine Shemilt page
Dear Fastily
I have removed the sections that were paraphrased from another source, and inserted detailed references with sources? What remains from the website is a few career elements. Everything else now written in my own words except where referenced.
best — Preceding unsigned comment added by Steve6212353 (talk • contribs) 12:11, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Dear Fastily
I have now updated the page (off line) on Elaine Shemilt which was deleted. I have deleted much of the info which came from her website and found other sources which are referenced accordingly. I realise that there is still more to do and add, but before I do this I wanted to check that I am on the right lines?
I have pasted the offline version below:
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Elaine Shemilt is an artist and researcher, especially known as a fine art printmaker. [1] Her work ranges across a wide variety of media. However hers is not a conventional approach to the medium. According to the art historian and theorist Alan Woods: "Her work ranges across a wide variety of media. Initially it focused on installation, the various printmaking media were used in an attempt to continue and develop the installations by other means. If the event is inevitably lost , a new artwork is launched from it, and as themes and subjects occur and re-occur, their re-generation might usefully be imagined as located within an extended family of images." [2] She is a graduate of Winchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art and has exhibited internationally including Switzerland, Denmark, Holland, Canada, USA, Australia, Italy and Germany including the Hayward and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; and the Edinburgh Festival. She established the Printmaking Department of the School of Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (University of Dundee) in 1988 and was Course Director of Printmaking from 1988 -2001. She is currently Professor of Fine Art Printmaking and a Professional member of Society of Scottish Artists [3]and was its President from March 2007-2010. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2000 and of the Royal Geographical Society in 2009. In 2002 she was made a Shackleton Scholar[4] and awarded a Carnegie Scholarship. She is a Trustee of the South Georgia Heritage Trust [5]which was established to promote the environmental protection and habitat restoration of this natural wilderness in the Southern Atlantic.[6] In 1998 she was invited to lead a project to improve the environment of the military base on the Falkland Isles by the the then Commander, Brigadier David Nichols. The experiences of the staff and student team she put together led inevitably, to independent artworks by all. Four years later in 2002 this led to the exhibition, "Traces of Conflict, The Falklands Revisited 1982-2002" at the Imperial War Museum. Shemilt's work in this exhibition was inspired by the abandoned field hospital at Ajax Bay, and according to the Imperial War Museum Keeper Angela Weight Shemilt " was gripped by the aura of a place where the writ of war did not run and young men were tended irrespective of whether they were friend or foe." [7] An important strand of her work involves collaboration between Art and Science. Her work with the Genome Diagram developed by Dr Ian Toth and Dr Leighton Pritchard at the Scottish Crop Research Institute resulted in a portfolio of work including installations, digital animation, prints and music. [8] She has also collaborated with the video artist Stephen Partridge on a number of installations, including "Rush" first exhibited at the Fieldgate Gallery [9], London and the most recent, "Quattro Minuti di Mezzogiorno", a HiDefinition Video installation. Exhibited in Fuoriluogo 15 - Una Regressione Motivata, Limiti Inchiusi Arte Contemporanea, Campobasso, Molise, Italy. December 2010, January 2011. The exhibition included work by Fausto Colavecchia (IT), Douglas Gordon (GB), and was curated by Deirdre MacKenna, Director of Stills - Scotland’s centre for photography in Edinburgh. == References ==
== External links ==
== Academic Papers/Chapters ==
== Works in Collections ==
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Steve6212353 (talk) 11:56, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- When you created this article, did you closely paraphrase or copy portions from another source? The article must be written in your own words. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:48, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
complied with permissions process, but wikimedia does not acknowledge
Dear Fastily... I'm writing you concerning: "05:52, 15 February 2012 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted page File:G semantics1946model.png (Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2012 February 7#File:G semantics1946model.png - until adequate permissions are secured for the image)" As I think is evident to anyone who has looked closely at this item (see, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2012_February_7#File:G_semantics1946model.png ), I am a conscientious editor trying to comply with all standards. I am assured by Martin Levinson, president of the entity that "owns" this image, that he has submitted within the last 10 days the consent form to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. This is in compliance with the instruction you supplied: "F11 This file was missing evidence of permission. It was unclear whether the copyright holder had given permission for the file to be used on Wikipedia under a given license. If you are the copyright holder of this file, send an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, in which you identify yourself as the copyright holder of this file and select a Wikipedia-compatible free license to irrevocably release the file under. If you are not the copyright holder, but are in contact with the copyright holder, have them send an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, in which they identify themselves as the copyright holder of the file and release the file under a Wikipedia-compatible free license. For more detailed instructions on how to do this, refer to Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission."
Dr. Levinson's emailed submission to permissions-en@wikimedia.org read in part, "To: Wikipedia Permissions Email Response Team
On behalf of the Institute of General Semantics ( http://www.generalsemantics.org ), hereinafter referred to as "IGS"
I hereby affirm that IGS is sole owner of the exclusive copyright of the Alfred Korzybski "silent and verbal levels" diagram, also sometimes referred to as the "process of abstracting from an electro-colloidal non-Aristotelian point of view" diagram (seen in the attachment).
IGS agrees to publish that work under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0."
Dr. Levinson told me yesterday he has had no reply. I then sent a follow-up email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org and also have no reply. This is why I am coming back to you. Your deletion of the file assured us that the deletion was "until adequate permissions are secured." I request your help. Canhelp (talk) 14:46, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- I found the email in the system and have restored the file accordingly. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:44, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
/* File:Standingbearlake.jpg */
Why did you delete my file? I have shown sufficient info that my image belongs to the government, hence belongs to the public. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goodman5million (talk • contribs) 08:30, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Templates for discussion
Hello Fastily, I think you forgot to delete these templates (Sale el Sol and NASA). The discussions were closed by you, but the pages were not eliminated. I just came here, just to remind you of these pages. Lucas S. msg 17:18, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
- There is still a work for a bot Bulwersator (talk) 18:44, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Hiller Flying Platform
Hey Fastily, would you mind a quick explanation for deleting File:HillerFlyingPlatform.jpg per Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2012 February 29#File:HillerFlyingPlatform.jpg? The nominee's rationale was rather questionable to me, since the only unfree component, the dummy, seems like it would fall into the de minimis category given that only the head and hands are visible. — Huntster (t @ c) 19:17, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
- Before I answer that question, could you please answer a question for me? What is the museum's policy on reusing/licensing photos of exhibits? -FASTILY (TALK) 07:42, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
- Don't know, and cannot find any relevant information on the Hiller Museum website. Perhaps this should have been asked of the uploader, User:RadioFan, or at least raised in general before simply deleting it. Given that the nomination was challenged at PUF and an issue raised, this should not have been deleted without further input or discussion, per existing processing instructions. — Huntster (t @ c) 08:59, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
- Then the deletion was fully justified. The purpose and scope of PUF is to ascertain the copyright status of media files. If this cannot be done in certainty, the discussion defaults to delete, irrespective of the number keep !votes. Bear in mind that the vast majority of museums copyright their exhibits and thereby effectively place their displays under the category of Non-free 3D works of art. While yes, it is true that this particular exhibit was composed of utilitarian objects, it is not the objects themselves that are subject to copyright, but rather the unique and 'artful' manner in which they are arranged. To put this in perspective, consider a sculpture that is composed solely of pieces of scrap metal. While yes, the pieces of metal are utilitarian objects (i.e. trash), the sculpture is still under copyright due to the sculptor having arranged these pieces of metal to create the final display. That said, I will not be restoring this file unless you, or some other editor can provide concrete evidence that User:RadioFan is entitled to publish this photo under the terms of the CC-BY-SA-3.0 license. Until then, this photo is at best, a derivative work missing evidence of permission. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:50, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- Don't know, and cannot find any relevant information on the Hiller Museum website. Perhaps this should have been asked of the uploader, User:RadioFan, or at least raised in general before simply deleting it. Given that the nomination was challenged at PUF and an issue raised, this should not have been deleted without further input or discussion, per existing processing instructions. — Huntster (t @ c) 08:59, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
We usually do not delete user talk pages. Please restore it. Thank you. →Στc. 21:22, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Request for comment: Template:more plot
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 February 21#Template:More plot is closed as keep by you. However, these issues are still discussed in Template talk:More plot. Please join in discussion for more consensus. --George Ho (talk) 01:48, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Please restore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crayton,_Jr.
Please restore the page, and let me know what the concerns are so that I may address them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KungFuJosh (talk • contribs) 02:27, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
- This could help: George Crayton, Jr. (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). --George Ho (talk) 02:34, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
My RFA
Thanks for your input. TucsonDavidU.S.A. 08:12, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: George Crayton, Jr.
Hello Fastily. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of George Crayton, Jr., a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7. Thank you. ϢereSpielChequers 10:29, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Kalidterreism
I happened to notice that you deleted the aforementioned article due to vandalism. This is rather unfortunate, as it denotes a legitimate political system/form of government, and thus deserves a Wikipedia article about it. I wish to recreate the page, and have it protected again vandalism. It is essential that there be an article about the subject; as it is a notable political topic and is listed as a form of government on the government article. --UkrainianAmerican (talk) 00:50, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)If it is a legitimate subject and deserves an article, then you are welcome to write one but the version Fastily deleted was not that article. Part of it said After seeing the "fuck ups" by there own president kwon of three leaders of the International Rebals of the World decent to get some boats and head in the "middle of But fuck no ware" and start a generation of Internationals who would live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and not be part of any other "fucken country.". This was pure "trollz and lulz" vandalism. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:24, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Please restore File:Uwfseal.jpg
Can you please restore File:Uwfseal.jpg? It was mistakenly removed from University of West Florida where it belongs in the infobox. Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 02:52, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- Already done by User:Explicit -FASTILY (TALK) 06:51, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- Am I right that three mistakes weere made here? (1) at the time the image was nominated as "orphaned fair use"[57], it was actually in use[58], (2) when it was deleted[59] it was still in use[60] and (3) a bot then removed the link to the file from University of West Florida[61]. Apart from human errors, to me it seems unfortunate that if a file is deleted as "unused" links to it should then be removed by a bot. Thincat (talk) 10:45, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- Actually, when File:Uwfseal.jpg was nominated it really was not in use; it had been replaced by File:Uwf seal.png (which is on Commons, probably-falsely claimed as "own work" and licensed CC-BY-SA-3.0). But you are correct that by the time it was deleted the article had been reverted so it was in use again.
- As for the bot, I suppose it isn't caring why the file was deleted, it just removes files deleted for any reason. It may be worthwhile to suggest on the bot operator's talk page that it check for F5 in the deletion log and complain somewhere instead of removing the uses if any (mainspace) uses are found. Anomie⚔ 16:48, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for the correction. After commenting here I had gone to User_talk:Carnildo#Removing_links_to_files_deleted_as_orphaned. Thincat (talk) 17:11, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- Am I right that three mistakes weere made here? (1) at the time the image was nominated as "orphaned fair use"[57], it was actually in use[58], (2) when it was deleted[59] it was still in use[60] and (3) a bot then removed the link to the file from University of West Florida[61]. Apart from human errors, to me it seems unfortunate that if a file is deleted as "unused" links to it should then be removed by a bot. Thincat (talk) 10:45, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
File:Wendy Richard Bill Treacher Pauline Fowler Arthur Fowler BBC.jpg
- File:Wendy Richard Bill Treacher Pauline Fowler Arthur Fowler BBC.jpg (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Does this file meet all WP:NFCC if it were used in Pauline Fowler#Marriage to Arthur? --George Ho (talk) 06:53, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- Only if this is a scene that cannot be adequately described by words, and if omission of such an image would be completely detrimental to a reader's understanding of the section. I believe you are familiar with this TV show and have worked extensively on it's related articles, so it's probably more reasonable for you to be considering these questions. Just remember, that if this image are challenged at FfD, you should be able to respond with a set of reasonable, policy-supported arguments. So here's my advice - try coming up with defensive arguments now. If you're having difficulty coming up with reasons to keep this image with respect to WP:NFCC, then it's probably best that I not restore them. Let me know what you think. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:36, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Bharti Foundation
I wish to recreate the Bharti Foundation page. You can check after sometime whether or not it confirms to wiki guidelines. Boolyme बूलीमी Chat बोलो!! 19:22, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Please restore File:IR100_Award.jpg or let me know how to initiate an appeal...
Hi Fastily - I am wanting to appeal the removal of IR100 Award.jpg from the Dacom article. You use the code F7: Violates non-free content criterion #1, meaning:
- No free equivalent. Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available, or could be created, that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose. Where possible, non-free content is transformed into free material instead of using a fair-use defense, or replaced with a freer alternative if one of acceptable quality is available; "acceptable quality" means a quality sufficient to serve the encyclopedic purpose. (As a quick test, before adding non-free content requiring a rationale, ask yourself: "Can this non-free content be replaced by a free version that has the same effect?" and "Could the subject be adequately conveyed by properly sourced text without using the non-free content at all?" If the answer to either is yes, the non-free content probably does not meet this criterion.)
The issue with this image is two fold, which was covered in the file's talk page: There is no substitute - it was a private award ceremony, that had an official photographer taking the picture, which was subsequently used in the company's press release about the award. The recipient, Daniel Hochman, has since died. The only reference to the award I could find is the company's own statements and press releases from the time the award was given. The significants of the award is that a major musuem of Science and Industry recognized Dacom and it's fax system as a major innovation - the first digital, sub-minute fax machine printing on plain paper. That technology, developed by Dancom, became the foundation for all subsequent fax machines produced.
The point of the photograph is that it provides a reference for the claim. It cannot be replaced, there is no available free equivalent and there is no other "sourced text" that can provide an alternative. Without the photo, the claim cannot be supported - without the claim, the significance of the subject is greatly diminished. This machine was the first of all modern fax machines - and was recognized by the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry as a breakthrough technology.
The other major factor in allowing this image fall under the promotional and publicity categories:
- Promotional material - for an image freely provided to promote an item, as in a promotional photo in a press packet.
- "Fair use on Wikipedia only applies if it is not possible to replace such promotional image with a free image.
- Publicity photos - for publicity photographs of people or events, such as headshots or posed shots, from a press kit. See Wikipedia:Publicity photos.
- Fair use on Wikipedia only applies if it is not possible to replace such publicity image with a free image.
It seems to me that this photo is covered by both of these rules - and is certainly not replaceable. This was covered in the discussion that went on for over two weeks, with a few comments bringing up points that were addressed. I don't understand where the conclusion came from to delete the image - it wasn't reflected in the discussion.
Please restore the image, or at least open it up for review and more discussion. Thanks, Ellis408 (talk) 20:03, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Infobox castrum
Please revise your closure at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 March 5#Template:Infobox castrum. Since I nominated the template for deletion, the result cannot be said to be unanimous. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:21, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
File:Patperry.jpg tagging
I'm confused why you tagged this image di-no permission. The uploader's name does match the claimed originator, and he does make a plausible statement that he took the photo himself. DMacks (talk) 05:30, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- Look closely at the image. The slightly blurred grain suggests that it was scanned in from a newspaper/magazine. You don't get that effect when digitizing photos developed from film. -FASTILY (TALK) 05:37, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- Good point. I have a lot of crappy actual photos from that era that don't look much better in real life. But I also haven't tried scanning them to see if they give high-definition faithful reproduction of the graininess vs the blurry grain like here. And the metadata isn't helpful either:( Oh well, maybe the long-inactive uploader (User:Johnmaxmena) will return and give a definitive answer on the source. DMacks (talk) 05:49, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Please can you block this IP 76.67.104.57, it's the IP adress of Fry1989. Thanks SanglierT (talk) 07:10, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, I confirmed, he learn nothing, he used same process in all language version, how it's possible to blocked in all? SanglierT (talk) 09:44, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
- Are you proposing a global block? That would be m:SRG, I think. Note that I have not at all paid any attention to the user's action or to the reasons to block him here, so my comment here should neither be seen as support nor as oppose for any actions taken against him. --Stefan2 (talk) 14:41, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Yes i'd propose a global blocking, he used a new IP adress on en.wikipedia 70.31.112.140. He definitly learn nothing about heraldic but he think this point of vue his right! SanglierT (talk) 06:51, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2012 March 6#File:Mini-Comet on 75 map.jpg: it says that you deleted this as F8 but the file doesn't seem to be on Commons and it was deleted by a bot from the article where it was used: [62]. A mistake? --Stefan2 (talk) 13:57, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
vandalism closure
Saw your comment/closure regarding my complaint on the admin noticeboard recommending AIV. I did not go there, because I did not consider talk page attacks and sockpuppetry to be strictly vandalism. Are those typically falling under that umbrella? Gaijin42 (talk) 19:06, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- Generally, most admins will block for such offenses (granted that the user has been sufficiently warned) at WP:AIV -FASTILY (TALK) 20:56, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
The Legend of Korra
The page you deleted today "The Legend of Korra" I've moved "The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra" to "The Legend of Korra" as the series has been renamed. - Alec2011 (talk) 00:53, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Now this is odd
What is one of your talk page archives doing in Category:Brand name food products? I looked at the templates transcluded there and nothing jumped out. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:38, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- Fixed. The missing colon prefix is usually the culprit. Killiondude (talk) 02:51, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
TPS
(talk page stalker) - regarding [63], maybe try a / if no good? I've never used Cluebot myself, but User:ClueBot_III#How to archive your page says "For example, if I were archiving User talk:Cobi, I would set it to User talk:Cobi/Archives/" Begoon talk 21:43, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
File:HungerGamesPoster.jpg
Hello. I believe you may have made a mistake in deleting this file. You said you deleted it because (F5: Unused non-free media file for more than 7 days) but the file was being used in the article when you deleted it. For An Angel (talk) 02:21, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
epguides deletion
epguides was recently deleted because of G11. I totally agree-- it was a lousy article. But it was also linked to Template:Epguides so I wonder if it is worth reinstatment.
Full disclosure: I am one of the founders of epguides, but I did not write the article. I'm not all that concerned we don't have a page any more, but there are similar sites with pages: TVRecaps.com, The_TV_IV (full of references to itself), TV Tome.
I don't want to come off as petty-- I fine with or without the page.
Fuddle (talk) 02:31, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, I think I'd rather not restore that article, because it doesn't appear to meet our standards and probably wouldn't survive an AfD. If you like, you're welcome to create a new page. -FASTILY (TALK) 05:55, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I didn't know that this was being considered for deletion. Can I have access to it temporarily, please, to see if I need to transfer anything from it back into her main article? Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 06:19, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- I have appended the text of the deleted page below. Click here to view it.
-FASTILY (TALK) 06:21, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
I am confused...
Hi Fastily, I am a bit confused with what you have done to my page... It has G8 mark on it. And I do not understand why.
Could you please explain :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Azbukva (talk • contribs) 09:43, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- Link the page in question. It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:39, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Hoaxer?
Hi Fastily. You may recall your comment here regarding the persona 'Kraisit Agnew', which has been repeatedly deleted. Seems there is a determined effort to promote this apparent hoax. Is an SPI necessary or can more immediate action be taken to stop this disruption? You may also remember my previous request on this topic. Best. RashersTierney (talk) 10:20, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- Looking at the deleted history of that article, I'm not seeing evidence of blatant socking. At any rate, you've taken the appropriate action by warning User:Lifeofmagnificent. If they continue to introduce hoaxes, please let me know and I'll block them. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:03, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- OK. Thanks for reply. RashersTierney (talk) 22:25, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Yes that file is on Commons but if you delete the local file before the license is fixed on Commons it may be hard for non-admins to see what the correct license is. And the {{Spoken article entry}} is even worse to correct. So perhaps you could not delete files like that before the information is corrected on Commons? --MGA73 (talk) 15:29, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- Oh great... I suppose I'll get started on manually fixing them. Thanks for the note. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:06, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
deleted page Dabgarwad Massacre
04:49, 13 March 2012 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted page Dabgarwad Massacre (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/209792/) The page is actually a supreme court judgement's citation. www.indiankanoon.org does not own copyright on it. It is merely reprinting citation. If quotations from citation is a copyright violation then i can easily write it in my own words. Please let me know. --Unbiasedpov (talk) 15:29, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
EFC Africa
EFC Africa - This wasn't "my" page, and I'm not interested in this or any other sport, but I believe it was a mistake to delete the page. I believed that then, and more so now. The article regarded a very popular sport in South Africa, and, despite that popularity, there is no representation on Wikipedia for anyone seeking further information. The artcile was deleted, from what I can recall of the discussion, due to its not being "notable" enough. I was reminded to voice my objection to its deletion by this article, which, surely, identifies the topic as at least "notable:"
http://www.sport24.co.za/OtherSport/EFC-AFRICA-smashes-TV-ratings-20120315
Thanks for the review. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Briantw (talk • contribs) 12:45, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- EFC Africa was a redirect page to Extreme Fighting Championship Africa. I don't believe I'm the admin you're looking for. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:04, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- So, you deleted just the redirect page? Thanks - I'll take it up with User:Black Kite.briantw (talk) 11:32, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Please restore this page. She has two records that sold over a million copies (Romance no Kamisama has 1.75 million units sold, THE BEST “Love Winters” sold 2.4 million) and multiple mentions of her and her music across the project. It should have never been prodded.—Ryulong (竜龙) 06:35, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- Already done by User:Tiptoety -FASTILY (TALK) 08:39, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
While working on orphan talk pages, I noticed that you deleted both of these articles as redirects to non-existant pages. Can you review the deletions? Upon looking at the article history of SAP implementation, 65.91.151.194 made a test edit that made it look like a bad redirect. Thanks. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:45, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Minako Hamano
Hi, could I get a copy of the article I wrote on Minako Hamano? I need the info for another project. See below. Thanks.
00:24, 18 February 2010 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted page Minako Hamano (Expired PROD, concern was: No interviews or biographies available to expand/source the article) Pkeets (talk) 15:16, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Request for pemissions/confirmed
Hi, You questioned about the copyrights of the pictures I wanted to upload in a certain wikipedia article. Those are my photos which I myself took. Photos of cityskape, skylines, historical buildings, human activities etc of my city. I am new to wikipedia. What's the difference between uploading directly to wikipedia and by wikimedia commons?? I am willing to share my photos all over the world, but in wikimedia commons it is said that anyone can use it commercially. I am not that interested in commercial use of my photos unless they formally ask permission to me first. So am I supposed to ulpoad it directly to wikipedia (not wikiemdia commons?). sorry for my stupid question I am so confused here in wikipedia, so many new things
Harimaumacan (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:52, 16 March 2012 (UTC).
- If you don't want to allow your photos for commercial use, then they are not acceptable on Wikipedia either. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:48, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Request for deletion review
Hi Fastily
I noticed you deleted the page for "microcinema" claiming (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://mubi.com/garage/projects/9)
However, it appears that, in fact, the Garage Digital page on mubi copied its text from the wikipedia entry, not the other way around. Compare the following archive.org snapshots:
From 2009 - the entry for "microcinema" at that time http://web.archive.org/web/20091214135907/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcinema
From 2010 - the former site for Garage Digital http://web.archive.org/web/20100706185248/http://mubi.com/garage/projects/9
It appears that Garage didn't post their text until after the middle of 2010, at which point it had already been in existence on wikipedia.
It's an understandable mistake, but it appears that this deletion shouldn't have happened. Could you un-do it?
Best, --Visualpleasure (talk) 02:38, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Deletion review for File:Reg Cox.jpg
An editor has asked for a deletion review of File:Reg Cox.jpg. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. George Ho (talk) 03:09, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily, we're all wondering why you restored these images. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject EastEnders#Deletion review for File:Reg Cox.jpg for discussion and confusion! –anemoneprojectors– 14:15, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- Never mind, the discussion was there, just hidden and I didn't see it. George Ho is the person I need to speak to. –anemoneprojectors– 14:18, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
--George Ho (talk) 22:35, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Article undeletion request.
Dear Fastily. This is my first article, so I have a lot to learn about wikipedia. Hopefully you can help me with any advice on how to rectify this situation.
I think my article Ben Parcell was deleted unfairly and did not constitute any copyrighted material. I have explicit permission to use the information taken from the Biography section of the Facebook section from the artist. http://www.facebook.com/benparcellmusic/info under the creative commons license.
The reference you linked (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.yorkshirecoastradio.com/undiscovered.php) which contains some material of the biography is copied from the original biography and was used a link to importance of the musician that he had been played on commercial radio and not a citation to the primary biography. I would like you to restore the page and I will add the reference http://www.facebook.com/benparcellmusic/info which will avoid any copyright issues.
Thanks Acousticscene (talk) 13:22, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- In that case, please send an email to 'permissions-en@wikimedia.org', telling them exactly what you told me. Be sure to specify the copyright status of the text and/or show that you have permission to use this text on Wikipedia. Once the email you send has been reviewed by our OTRS team, the page will be automatically restored. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:34, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Page deletion!?!
You deleted the page that I didn't requested to delete: User:SimonOrJ/Userboxes Is there any way to restore this page? Thank You. --"SimonOrJ"(U/T/C) 21:51, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Request
Can you please process the list of categories listed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual#Ready for deletion? Thank you! — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 23:22, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Holly Landers
Why did you delete the article I wrote on Holly Landers? I completely rewrote the article after another person complained that it was copied from another site. Yonas44 (talk) 02:02, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, I see, the page was restored before. Restored Thanks for letting me know -FASTILY (TALK) 02:06, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Request for deletion review
Hi, Fastily! I've not been participating very actively or frequently, but I noticed the deletion of File:Carly-Fiorina-signature.png. I believe I corrected the tag for that file, after the discussion at PUF. Unless I'm misreading the comments, it looks like consensus supported keeping the file. Is there any chance you could take another look? Sorry for the delay in bringing this up... Thanks! jæs (talk) 06:45, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, yes, you're correct. I should not have deleted that file. However, there is one small problem that needs to be addressed before I restore the file. Could you please list the source (URL, ideally) of the signature? The current link in the file's description page is dead and I'm not allowed to restore files without verifiable source information. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:12, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Request for deletion review.
Fastily,
You recently closed a deletion discussion of several bookcover photos which I uploaded. [65]
You deleted the photos although every one of them was accompanied by newspaper articles, direct quotes to those news articles, and
in-line citations to those news articles. This critical commentary existed for each and every photo. As such, all of these photos met the WP:NFC#UUI "critical commentary" standard.
I pointed this fact out repeatedly in the discussion. Also, if you look at the article where these photos were placed, you will see exactly what I mean. [66]
Each and every photo correlated to extensive critical commentary, from sources such as The New York Times, Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Time Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, Library Journal...the list goes on and on.
Could you review this matter when you get a chance, and re-consider the deletion? I would greatly appreciate it, and thank you for your time. Below is the list of photos.
File:LIVE RR LittleBook.jpg
File:Leibowitz.jpg
File:Roomftd.jpg
File:Farm&m.jpg
File:Be a road.jpg
File:Butlerian.jpg
Thanks again,
Nelsondenis248 (talk) 06:14, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily's deletion summary for all of them reads "textbook violation of WP:NFCC" and that's exactly what it looks like: photos of lots of books in a list of books, which is identical to WP:NFC#UUI §2 on discographies. --Stefan2 (talk) 14:30, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- I understand that is your view but at FFD Nelsondenis248 has given a contrary view of the way policy should be applied by quoting the same policy document as yourself. Do you think the policy-based consensus of the discussions was "delete"? It does not look like that to me. Thincat (talk) 16:40, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- I also noticed that User:Fastily deleted all six photos, in just one minute of time. It is highly unlikely that he read the article [67], or read all the critical commentary in that article, or even read the deletion discussion itself.
- I understand that is your view but at FFD Nelsondenis248 has given a contrary view of the way policy should be applied by quoting the same policy document as yourself. Do you think the policy-based consensus of the discussions was "delete"? It does not look like that to me. Thincat (talk) 16:40, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- I find this disturbing since I spent hours locating those photos, uploading them, and writing the critical commentary. Now I'm wasting more hours in these deletion discussions. I may go to WP:DRV, I may go to WP:AN/I, but it is all very tedious and disappointing. Nelsondenis248 (talk) 09:14, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- See WP:NFCC#3a: the number of non-free images should be kept as small as possible. --Stefan2 (talk) 13:59, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Hi, can't help but notice this discussion. I've been working in the image venue long before I became an administrator—and I've been one for nearly two and a half years—so I thought I'd chip in as I was uninvolved in this discussion. Fastily's deletions were spot on. What the first point of WP:NFCI requires is that the cover art itself be subject to critical commentary to merit its inclusion. This wouldn't apply if the covers were being used in the infobox of the articles about the books themselves, but that wasn't the case here.
- And for the record, deleting six images in one minute can be done by opening the images in multiple tabs, clicking the delete button and switching to the next tab seconds later. Being an administrator, I think it's safe to assume that Fastily read the discussion in its entirety. — ξxplicit 07:46, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for your helpful comments. For myself, I am not so much questioning the deletion as the way the FFD was closed. We were told "The result of the discussion was: Delete" and I do not think this was a supportable conclusion. I understand Fastily deleted on NFCC grounds, outside the discussion, triggering Anomiebot's message. However, those not familiar with FFD will have no way of understanding this and an explanation would have been helpful. I accept your remark "the cover art itself be subject to critical commentary to merit its inclusion" reperesents consensus at FFD but, of course, that is not what WP:NFC says which is "Cover art from various items, for visual identification only in the context of critical commentary of that item (not for identification without critical commentary)." It is commentary on the covered item that is (wrongly) being referred to. There is no reasonable way to take the sentence as meaning that the "item" and the "cover art" are the same thing. So again, people do not understand that the policy has been worded wrongly, and explanation (such as you have given) is helpful. Thincat (talk) 10:10, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- I agree with your sentiment that Fastily should have left a closing rationale on the FFD page as the discussion doesn't seem like a clear 'delete' result, and doing so can help any users who come across the discussion in the future. As for WP:NFC, I actually never felt the wording may cause confusion up until now. Your concern is a valid one, and bringing it up on WT:NFC may encourage the rewording of that section. — ξxplicit 03:39, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- Stefan2 stated on March 13 (please see above) that Fastily's deletion summary for all of them reads "textbook violation of WP:NFCC." But I did not see this deletion summary by Fastily, or any mention of WP:NFCC in the entire deletion discussion. I found this confusing. Nelsondenis248 (talk) 01:54, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
- To see the deletion summary, you need to click on the red file names above or on the files for deletion page, or you can search at Special:Log/Fastily. I agree that this message isn't very visible. I should maybe have provided a direct link to the WP:NFCC page, but WP:NFCC is also transcluded at WP:NFC to which I did provide a link. --Stefan2 (talk) 19:10, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
- Stefan2 stated on March 13 (please see above) that Fastily's deletion summary for all of them reads "textbook violation of WP:NFCC." But I did not see this deletion summary by Fastily, or any mention of WP:NFCC in the entire deletion discussion. I found this confusing. Nelsondenis248 (talk) 01:54, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
- I agree with your sentiment that Fastily should have left a closing rationale on the FFD page as the discussion doesn't seem like a clear 'delete' result, and doing so can help any users who come across the discussion in the future. As for WP:NFC, I actually never felt the wording may cause confusion up until now. Your concern is a valid one, and bringing it up on WT:NFC may encourage the rewording of that section. — ξxplicit 03:39, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for your helpful comments. For myself, I am not so much questioning the deletion as the way the FFD was closed. We were told "The result of the discussion was: Delete" and I do not think this was a supportable conclusion. I understand Fastily deleted on NFCC grounds, outside the discussion, triggering Anomiebot's message. However, those not familiar with FFD will have no way of understanding this and an explanation would have been helpful. I accept your remark "the cover art itself be subject to critical commentary to merit its inclusion" reperesents consensus at FFD but, of course, that is not what WP:NFC says which is "Cover art from various items, for visual identification only in the context of critical commentary of that item (not for identification without critical commentary)." It is commentary on the covered item that is (wrongly) being referred to. There is no reasonable way to take the sentence as meaning that the "item" and the "cover art" are the same thing. So again, people do not understand that the policy has been worded wrongly, and explanation (such as you have given) is helpful. Thincat (talk) 10:10, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- See WP:NFCC#3a: the number of non-free images should be kept as small as possible. --Stefan2 (talk) 13:59, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- I find this disturbing since I spent hours locating those photos, uploading them, and writing the critical commentary. Now I'm wasting more hours in these deletion discussions. I may go to WP:DRV, I may go to WP:AN/I, but it is all very tedious and disappointing. Nelsondenis248 (talk) 09:14, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily! Could you please restore the template and subst it to Wikipedia:Requested articles/Sports, before deleting again. Thanks! Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talkabout my edits? 11:27, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Aaron the Alien
Hi
You recently 'speedily' deleted my page Aaron the Alien. This is a book that i am writing and was looking to get registered with yourselves. I have since read through your guidelines and realise that this not acceptable until it becomes a notable book, I apologize, I didn't realise.
The reason why i write to you is the reason states for deletion was due to a hoax. This is not a hoax i am the author my name is Jon Jones and my colloquial name is Jon-Jon. (I am on Facebook - Jon Jones (Jon-Jon)- and there is a Facebook page for my book - Aaron the Alien (linked to me Jon Jones Jon-Jon). Could you please explain why it has been classed as a hoax, I appreciate i may be misunderstanding your terminology in the word 'hoax' but I would appreciate clarification.
Thanks
Jon Jones (Jon-Jon)
Imperial Stormchaser (talk) 14:33, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi . my page was just deleted I was coming back with three magazine refences and this . can I have the page back or ? http://www.allmusic.com/album/1013-fists-and-a-mouthful-r268506 sorry Im not better at creating right just yet CombatMarshmallow (talk) 00:04, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
File:Shadi.com AhmediSeparate.JPG
Hi Fastily. You've deleted this image. This was a non-free image for no.1 marriage portal in India to show how this Ahmadiyya community is now being treated as a separate religious group in India. I request you to please restore it. Hindustanilanguage (talk) 08:19, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Rollback
Hi, please, consider again my request for rollback. --glossologist (talk) 09:15, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Unity Movement
Deleted my article. Deleted talk for the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yuri Kozharov
Your edit to User:Fastily
Hi, please do not add PROD's on userpages. This is considered disruptive and may eventually lead to a block. Jarkeld (talk) 12:04, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- Is there another way to make a moderator read talk before deletion? How am I supposed to resurrect the article? Yuri Kozharov
- You can ask the deleting admin to userfy the article so you can work on it some more before perhaps submitting it for AfC. Jarkeld (talk) 12:14, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- Is there another way to make a moderator read talk before deletion? How am I supposed to resurrect the article? Yuri Kozharov
- You can ask the deleting admin to userfy the article so you can work on it some more before perhaps submitting it for AfC. Jarkeld (talk) 12:14, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- There's a billion ways to proceed. However, before you do so, you need to reflect on the reasons behind the deletion, namely that there were zero third party reliable sources on the article. Proposing the deleting admin's userpage was a rather ridiculous thing to do - and was purely an attack. You also need to read the deletion process, because the deleting admin merely AGREED with someone else who had tagged it for deletion after reading the article and its talkpage. If you want to create a WP:USERSPACEDRAFT, do so - but read WP:FIRSTARTICLE and make sure it meets all of Wikipedia's requirements. I have even read the article and its talkpage, and 100% agree with the deletion (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:19, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- It had one reliable source in talk. I don't care what you or some other mod agree on, this is not a democratic voting process, we're not electing a mayor. Criterias must be met and they were not met. Is there another way to make a moderator read talk before deletion? How am I supposed to resurrect the article? Yuri Kozharov
Hello, will you restore this page please? I know it had an in-progress (or something) template on it but I did not think that inactivity of a month would allow it to be deleted, unless someone else tagged it for deletion. Eventually, we were going to rework the page a bit, and I was using this as a sandbox, it is even referenced on the talk page. I have a dynamic IP and all of the 64.85.xxxx edits to that page were me. I'll be sure to remove the in-progress template once it is restored so as to avoid any further confusion. Thanks, --64.85.214.174 (talk) 17:29, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- Could you please create an account to edit? I'll restore the deleted page as a userspace draft where you can work on it. This sandbox really does not belong as a subpage of a mainspace talk page. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:31, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- Even if I had an account, it was wholly within the guidelines to use a talkspace draft to make collaborative proposals to changes in an article, and link to that subpage in the actual discussion on the talk page. The other 3 talkspace drafts were moved to mainspace a few weeks ago (actually these are lists, not articles, but whatever). I have not had too much time to work on this one, and there was no urgent need to finish it. I don't see what good it does to have pages like Help:Talkspace draft if someone else disagrees with that and deletes the page as "uncontroversial". It is frustrating to have instructions say one thing, and then something else happens. Please reconsider. Thanks, (Dynamic IP, will change when I log off.) --64.85.214.132 (talk) 12:54, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
- I have taken this to WP:REFUND for wider review. Best of luck in the future. --64.85.214.118 (talk) 11:43, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- Declined there - your selective wordsmithing is pretty bad. Best of luck in your future (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:47, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- Apologies are at Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#Talk:List_of_Negro_league_baseball_players.2Ftest. One for BWIlikins, and one for you Mr. Fastily. Tea for everyone! Happy St. Patrick's Day. --64.85.214.118 (talk) 12:47, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- Declined there - your selective wordsmithing is pretty bad. Best of luck in your future (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:47, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- I have taken this to WP:REFUND for wider review. Best of luck in the future. --64.85.214.118 (talk) 11:43, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- Even if I had an account, it was wholly within the guidelines to use a talkspace draft to make collaborative proposals to changes in an article, and link to that subpage in the actual discussion on the talk page. The other 3 talkspace drafts were moved to mainspace a few weeks ago (actually these are lists, not articles, but whatever). I have not had too much time to work on this one, and there was no urgent need to finish it. I don't see what good it does to have pages like Help:Talkspace draft if someone else disagrees with that and deletes the page as "uncontroversial". It is frustrating to have instructions say one thing, and then something else happens. Please reconsider. Thanks, (Dynamic IP, will change when I log off.) --64.85.214.132 (talk) 12:54, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
I've taken this to WP:AN. I know you've had some drama there recently, Fastily, and I want to make it clear that I don't think your deletion was poor, just that I think you should have restored it when asked. Jenks24 (talk) 02:13, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Universiteti i Prishtinës
Hello! Could you please unprotect and delete (per WP:CSD#G6) Universiteti i Prishtinës and Talk:Universiteti i Prishtinës? — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 12:26, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- Done for Universiteti i Prishtinës, but the talk page seems to be under discussion at RfD. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:36, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks! — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 22:42, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Deletion
Hi, I've restored Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Peer review as I don't see a reason to delete it, especially by G7 (which doesn't apply here). Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 15:37, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- Facepalm Thanks for letting me know -FASTILY (TALK) 22:32, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- No worries, it happens. Sort of like how I had a typo in the section title. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:27, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Other WP 1.0 G6 candidates
Hi,
Yesterday evening you deleted a couple of pages (e.g. Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Plants articles by quality statistics) that I had requested for speedy deletion under criterion G6. I have identified another 10 very similar pages that seem to have been erroneously generated at some time by the WP 1.0 bot. I have listed these at User:Boissière/G6list. Are you willing/able to get rid of these as well or would you prefer a formal G6 request for each one? Boissière (talk) 22:45, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
My page
Hi. look I'm from colombia, I use very much wikipedia in englis but I have mypage in Wikipedia in spanish for this redirect ami page. I will thanks taht not deleted thanks you!!--Furious Corpse (talk) 01:22, 19 March 2012 (UTC)Furious Corpse
- I've soft-redirected your local userpages to your userpages on es.wikipedia. For future reference, interwiki redirects formatted with the "#REDIRECT [[]]" syntax appear to the mediawiki software as broken because the target of the redirect doesn't exist locally. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:19, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily! Recently you deleted Tau (2π) per G6 to make place for a move of Twice pi. However as Tau (2π) is (for some reason) on the title blacklist, only admins can move the "Twice pi" there. Could you please do the move? Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talkabout my edits? 02:42, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- As requestor of the deletion/move-reversion, I second the request. Talkpage discussions are ongoing, so it's unlikely to remain at the blacklisted name forever. --Cybercobra (talk) 02:44, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
template:JFA player
Please restore, substitute, then delete, not just delete. 174.56.57.138 (talk) 05:19, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Debu Chaudhuri Talk page
This page had a wikiproject India Tag. If you deleted it because as the author of this article I am not required to quality asses the article then I can understand but please do understand that there is a huge backlog (approx 11000) of articles that have not been marked as quality assessed in this project so I thought in the spirit of things I would rather mark the article as assessed. Regards Wikishagnik (talk) 06:16, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- Apparently such tags are only suitable for articles which are in the mainspace. You can re-add the tag once the article has been approved by the AfC process. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:27, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Restoration request
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&page=File%3AHappy_Happy_Happy.jpg
Can you please restore "File:Happy Happy Happy.jpg" so that I can move it to Commons? --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 23:10, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- Er, why? I trust you're aware that this file was deleted per community discussion here. I'm not convinced this should be restored, but you're welcome to try. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:17, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- I aware of the deletion discussion. I wish to move the image to Commons. I feel that the image has some value as an educational visual concerning anti-ROC sentiment, and J.J. Chin is a part of San Francisco pop culture. I hate to see such an image, especially a free image, go to waste. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 02:31, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- If you disagree with this deletion after a unanimous deletion discussion, you should bring it up at deletion review. However, attempting to adminshop as you did here is considered attempting to game the system. Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 15:46, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- I aware of the deletion discussion. I wish to move the image to Commons. I feel that the image has some value as an educational visual concerning anti-ROC sentiment, and J.J. Chin is a part of San Francisco pop culture. I hate to see such an image, especially a free image, go to waste. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 02:31, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
I see you restored this. The editor again added the file to Ahmadiyya where he is trying to use it as a reference/illustration for some 'growing trend' that he thinks it proves. Isn't this clearly a misuse of an unfree file? Dougweller (talk) 06:49, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- I don't think so. I've pointed at the growing trend (however unfortunate it may be) of treating this community as a distinct religious group. Does quoting a leading matrimonial site of a country not highlight this fact? Hindustanilanguage (talk) 07:27, 19 March 2012 (UTC).
- No, it doesn't as that is your interpretation, thus original research, and it's not a legitimate reason to use a nonfree image either. Dougweller (talk) 09:25, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- Ok, Dougweller, this is your view. What I said is my view. Let us take the views of some of our esteemed friends like Fastily. Hindustanilanguage (talk) 09:47, 19 March 2012 (UTC).
- I'll be honest here, I don't think this file is appropriate for Ahmadiyya. Using this file in Ahmadiyya violates multiple criteria of the Wikipedia non-free content criteria, namely #1 (could probably be replaced by a free file and #8 (as a file that isn't obviously contextually significant to the article in question). I'm sorry Hindustanilanguage, but I have to agree with Dougweller here; this file doesn't really seem appropriate in that article. -FASTILY (TALK) 10:39, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- Ok, Dougweller, this is your view. What I said is my view. Let us take the views of some of our esteemed friends like Fastily. Hindustanilanguage (talk) 09:47, 19 March 2012 (UTC).
- No, it doesn't as that is your interpretation, thus original research, and it's not a legitimate reason to use a nonfree image either. Dougweller (talk) 09:25, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
April Masini
According to the reason the April Masini article was deleted, I should have not created the article (it was up for deletion before) but after my initial contest to have the page undeleted I was able to work on it under "User: GMHayes4/April Masini." I checked all the references, and had the page reviewed by multiple Wikipedia editors. I moved the page to stand alone because all of the references are verifiable, and the language on the page is objective. I do not understand why I can not recreate the page, especially when I was given permission to do so with the "Userfied" version. Can I rename the page? It is also not showing up in "My Contributions" which is disconcerting, given the hours I've put into making the article a good one. Now, I don't even have the ability to retrieve the information that was deleted. All of my information is gone; the formatting, the references... Do I have to start over? What should I do now? Please leave me a response here or on my talk page. I really appreciate it. Thanks! page stalkers are welcome to help me as well because I really need your input -THANK YOU- GMHayes (talk) 15:09, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- Looks like this is resolved at talk:April Masini. Rich Farmbrough, 19:29, 20 March 2012 (UTC).
Deletion review for File:Happy Happy Happy.jpg
An editor has asked for a deletion review of File:Happy Happy Happy.jpg. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 19:08, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition
Hi,
You deleted my page "Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition" for reason G12. I have revised the content and have authorization from the site you accused me of plagiarizing from (acceleratemichigan.org). What do I do to move forward with getting the page up and running?
Thanks,
Paige — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pkolesar (talk • contribs) 15:04, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) See WP:COPYRIGHT and WP:OTRS (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 21:15, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Article Deletion
Hello,
My "Galena Biopharma" article was deleted due to copyright infringement. Is there a way to restore the article in my user space so that I can make the proper edits so that it will no longer be a copyright infringement? Any help you could give me would be much appreciated. Thanks! Louphatton (talk) 20:01, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) No - copyrighted text cannot be kept around whatsoever - even as a WP:USERSPACEDRAFT. You're better off starting from TRUE scratch on that one (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 21:15, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Deletion Arkan (metal)
Hi ! Can you explain me what was wrong with this article ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkan_(metal) Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Evilcampbell (talk • contribs) 14:43, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
- The band doesnt meet the criteria laid out at WP:BAND and so the page was deleted. ☮Soap☮ 21:21, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Can you explain how you came to the decision to delete this image? Magog the Ogre (talk) 22:00, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
- Probably not, as he's left the project due to constant harassment. Sven Manguard Wha? 22:53, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Request for deletion review
Hi, Fastily! I've not been participating very actively or frequently, but I noticed the deletion of File:Carly-Fiorina-signature.png. I believe I corrected the tag for that file, after the discussion at PUF. Unless I'm misreading the comments, it looks like consensus supported keeping the file. Is there any chance you could take another look? Sorry for the delay in bringing this up... Thanks! jæs (talk) 06:45, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, yes, you're correct. I should not have deleted that file. However, there is one small problem that needs to be addressed before I restore the file. Could you please list the source (URL, ideally) of the signature? The current link in the file's description page is dead and I'm not allowed to restore files without verifiable source information. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:12, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Eric Burroughs photo
I see that you're responsible for having deleted the graphic file File:Burroughs-Eric.jpg. This file was provided by his son and literary heir, and the requisite permission form was filled out. The address permissions-en@wikimedia.org bounced, but the alternative address permissions-commons@wikimedia.org worked fine. So — please look into this, find the permission form, and restore the photo. If you have a problem doing this for whatever reason, let me know. Thanks. Carrite (talk) 21:28, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
- DELETION REVIEW NOTICE: This is just to let you know that I've taken this to DRV, since you're apparently on a wikibreak. No hard feelings. Carrite (talk) 21:55, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
- Did you remember to tag the image with {{OTRS pending}}? If not, the image is usually deleted after a week. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:47, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
- Deletion review is here.Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 March 22 Edinburgh Wanderer 17:51, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
- Did you remember to tag the image with {{OTRS pending}}? If not, the image is usually deleted after a week. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:47, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
- DELETION REVIEW NOTICE: This is just to let you know that I've taken this to DRV, since you're apparently on a wikibreak. No hard feelings. Carrite (talk) 21:55, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
This guy has got me to where I'm crying cause he's stressing me out! He won't back off me and now he's taking my rights away from me and I want to report him but I can't find where that is or anything I can't take this anymore Fastily please delete all my uploads. I can't take this anymore. Please help me. Swifty*talkcontribs 16:58, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily is no longer around. if you need to report something and have tried to dicuss take to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents17:59, 23 March 2012 (UTC)Edinburgh Wanderer
Logo deleted
Bobby chauhan (talk) 06:12, 23 March 2012 (UTC) Dear Sir, I have created a page called 'Gobar Times' on wikipedia. I work for the organization 'Centre for Science and Environment' and Gobar Times is a magazine published by them for children. Gobar Times also runs a programme called 'Green Schools Programme'. I have written about this on the wiki page under the Green Schools Programme section. Now the Programme has a logo. I had uploaded this logo with the intent to insert it on the wiki page.
I got a message saying the logo has been 'considered for speedy deletion... due to unknown copyright status' can you please help? this is the official logo which we have been using for years. Please guide me as to how i can use it. Thanks. Bobby chauhan (talk) 06:14, 23 March 2012 (UTC) Exact name of the file is File:GSP-logo.gif
- See the image use policy and WP:OTRS (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 15:30, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Commit access
Done. MER-C 02:28, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Mike Dalton / Mattias Clement
I would like to start that article but i saw you deleted one that was already made i would like to improve it if you can restore it an dell me what exactly you want to be better to let the article stay online.--Nakurio (talk) 07:52, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
- I don't see articles under those names separately ... can you be more specific? Probably best to do it at WP:REFUND to ensure more eyes (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 15:45, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
- I have advised him to do that. The page in question was Mike Dalton (wrestler). It was deleted as a blp so would need to be put into his userspace.Edinburgh Wanderer 16:26, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Company Page Deleted
Please tell us why our company page is deleted but rest of the LMS providers company pages are there...
Viren Kapadia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gyrussystems (talk • contribs) 13:52, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
- You've been updated on your usertalk, and unfortunately blocked for promotional username (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 15:41, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
G6 of My Family's Got Guts
Hi. I'm curious and confused as to why this article was deleted under G6. The show is notable, and it is not satisfactorily covered at Guts (TV series). RJaguar3 | u | t 17:10, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
- He just deleted the redirect, not the article itself. The redirect seems like a sensible thing to have around, though, given the title's non-standard capitalization, so I restored it just now. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:37, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
- It had been turned down at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion [68].Edinburgh Wanderer 19:48, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Break
I'm burnt out and tired of the way I've recently been treated. I have literally spent countless hours of my time carefully reviewing and deleting hundreds of pages daily for years and I'm rewarded with spurious trips to AN/ANI over frivolous claims that could have been easily resolved through talk page discussion. The worst part about these trips, is that editors who I've disagreed with in the past, or editors whose pages I have deleted, appear at these threads and bring up their pet beef with me (mostly disagreements about appropriate admin actions I have taken), effectively dragging out these hurtful and aimless discussions for weeks. I'm not claiming to be infallible here, like everyone else, I'm human and I make mistakes, which I'm more than happy to correct and own up to. However, as of late, I feel that every time a mistake I make finds itself in the public eye, I am demonized and purported to be a malicious, ignorant person when that just simply isn't true. It's really quite disappointing. I realize that working in CSD/FfD/PuF/TfD doesn't make one popular, but someone has got to do this grody job, and I'm willing to make that sacrifice if it will ultimately lead to the betterment of Wikipedia, a project I love. I do have my limits, which I've finally found, and not a moment too late. With that said, I'm going to be taking a break from Wikipedia for awhile. I plan on returning in the future, when I'm feeling up to the pressure and responsibilities I have chosen to take on around here, and when I have more time in real life. Best wishes to you all, FASTILY (TALK) 10:30, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- For what it's worth, I think you do a great job (and a thankless task), so don't be gone too long
- Happysailor (Talk) 10:33, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
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- That's no good at all. Your talk page is on my watchlist, because I've posted here. I don't know where the impression comes from that you do anything except large amounts of good work. I've never seen that, and you've never failed to help me if I've asked. So, if you make some mistakes because people who do more things make more mistakes, I'm struggling to make any sort of indictment out of that. You fix your errors.
- Do come back, after you're refreshed - someone will need to catch up with the backlogs… The voices and opinions you're upset by are not a majority, just noisier than the rest of us. Begoon talk 10:41, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- Don't let the bastards grind you down, as the saying goes. Breaks are good, don't give up the mop, that's not necessary or called for. As Happysailor says, don't be gone too long, this is a thankless job but someone's got to do it - that's one of the main things that keeps me going. Seriously, too many good editors and Admins are burning out/leaving recently, it worries me. Dougweller (talk) 13:13, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- I hope you do not let all this get you down too much, especially when WP means a lot to you (as it does to me). Please, when you return, always give a deletion rationale and please always participate in sensible discussions on your talk page. Here is an instance which has just been archived (User_talk:Fastily/Archive_5#Request_for_deletion_review., I am unable to link to it, it is secion 590 and a search string is File:LIVE RR LittleBook.jpg) where your involvement would have been helpful (necessary, in my opinion). I had been keeping an eye on this so that I could read your response. I know there have been unreasonable pile-ons and that some of the people objecting to proper deletions of yours have been abusive. We can sympathise with you here. However, there are things you could do (and which have been suggested to you on past occasions) which would improve the general situation. Best wishes. Thincat (talk) 13:46, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- I saw this coming for a few weeks, and it's a terrible tragedy for the project. That being said, I see how you're treated, and my disgust with some of the actions of the community (including on this page and at AN/ANI) is one of the reasons I've slashed my activity on the project from about 40 hours a week to something closer to 4. I'd say "come back soon", but really, it probably isn't worth the stress. Come back if and when you feel like it. The file namespace was broken despite our best efforts, it'll be much more broken without you around. Sven Manguard Wha? 15:27, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- I hope you recover quickly from this nasty period. I really appreciate your work and the advice you have given me. It makes clear that something has to be done about the frivolous claims at AN and elsewhere, like rejections or early closings. Night of the Big Wind talk 16:02, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
- You have to change perspective, and think of it as amusing that someone will chime in because you crossed swords with them several years ago, or merely because their existence is predicated on hanging around noticeboards telling people what to do. Also recognise that these people will be there when there's a substantive issue and when there's not. It is a shame because when there is something that needs addressing the babble of the rabble makes it much harder to find a way to improve the way we work. Rich Farmbrough, 19:21, 20 March 2012 (UTC).
- I haven't followed WP:AN or WP:ANI at all and I don't look at this talk page every day, but I think that you do a very good job. You seem to be deleting hundreds of files everyday and of course there might be some errors once in a while, although you don't seem to make very many. I sometimes get complaints on my own talk page when I FfD files because of WP:NFCC or PUF them because of Commons:COM:FOP and I guess that you get the same kind of complaints after deleting such files. I hope that you will be feeling better soon. --Stefan2 (talk) 02:00, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
- I can only repeat what the others have said -- your work was incredible and the project will lose a lot the day you leave. Nolelover Talk·Contribs 03:33, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
- You'd probably have less trouble if your user name was User:Carefully. It's all in the presentation, you've got a baaaaaaad name for one who does mass cleanup deletions. Carrite (talk) 21:39, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
- The page User:Carefully that you mentioned contains sensitive personal information (home phone number, mobile phone number) about someone associated with Westwood School (not to be mixed up with Westwood School). --Stefan2 (talk) 22:02, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
- Carrite that was unnecessary. Sven Manguard Wha? 22:19, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
- The page User:Carefully that you mentioned contains sensitive personal information (home phone number, mobile phone number) about someone associated with Westwood School (not to be mixed up with Westwood School). --Stefan2 (talk) 22:02, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
The Resilient Barnstar
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The Resilient Barnstar | |
| In light of recent discussion at ANI of alleged conduct issues, I, Whenaxis, hereby award you, Fastily, with The Resilient Barnstar in hopes that you will return to Wikipedia having learned from the criticism that you have coped with. With over 50,000 edits and an avid editor since January 2008, I commemorate your contributions to Wikipedia. Regards, Whenaxis (contribs) DR goes to Wikimania! 23:35, 27 March 2012 (UTC) |
Please restore deleted page so issue can be addressed
Fastily,
You deleted the Technical Architecture page on Wikipedia. I am NOT the author. My interest in restoring this is that I am a Technical Architect and have a hard time explaining to people what Tehcnical Architecture is about. This page had very helpful content. I understand your concerns for deleting it as you discovered some G12 copyright infringement. If you can please restore the page in a workspace or someplace that I can access, I'd like to work on addressing the issues so the page will meet the necessary standards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Technical_architecture
Asks: - Can you please restore the page somewhere where it can be edited - Please specify the sections of the page where copyright infringement was noticed - Can you please provide the history of the page so I can contact the original author and contributors to work with them?
Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Intel81 (talk • contribs) 20:08, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily is inactive right now. I suggest you take your request to Wikipedia:Deletion review if you wish to pursue this. Theoldsparkle (talk) 18:30, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of page "Intershop Communications" for lack of notability
Hi,
I was reading in the German wikipedia, switched to the English one and saw that the article I wanted to read was deleted. As I had previously not been familiar with the deletion process, I looked it up. The page was deleted for "No indication of notability". I would object on two arguments:
1) a) "When evaluating the notability of organizations or products, please consider whether they have had any significant or demonstrable effects on culture, society, entertainment, athletics, economies, history, literature, science, or education." Intershop (then called NetConsult) in 1994 created arguably the first e-commerce software available (see Online shopping) and continued to be one of the leading software developers for this early time of the market (cf. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/NetConsult's+INTERSHOP+Online+Virtual+Storefront+Software+to+be...-a018936058) b) "A company, corporation, organization, school, team, religion, group, product, or service is notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in secondary sources. Such sources must be reliable, and independent of the subject." Independent coverage (over the last 13 years) does exist: http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/handel-dienstleister/new-economy-veteran-intershop-strebt-nach-neuer-groesse/3477040.html, http://www.faz.net/aktuell/finanzen/aktien/new-economy-intershop-ein-verblassender-schatten-der-vergangenheit-141633.html, http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/new-economy-der-entzauberte-mythos-115512.html, ... and many more
Intershop has also been notorious for its New Economy bubble - being one of the prime examples for it in Germany (company value rose to 11 billion USD in 2000 only to fall to penny stock levels in very short time, see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuer_Markt ). So it even is interesting from a historical point of view (even used in schools: http://www.schulportal-thueringen.de/web/guest/media/detail?tspi=1195). see also http://www.insead.edu/v1/projects/cgep/Research/Industrystudies/Computer/Intershop.pdf, http://dimetic.dime-eu.org/dimetic_files/Buenstorf%20Fornahl%20JEE%20Intershop.pdf, http://books.google.de/books?id=nbSNQFjAgTkC&pg=PA353&lpg=PA353&dq=intershop+%22new+economy%22&source=bl&ots=dICjmRO0po&sig=vhKmsOkZsTevDMrHL7Wvsjp9-Qc&hl=de&sa=X&ei=JcN0T5OSFYiPswbplsDSDQ&ved=0CGkQ6AEwCDgo#v=onepage&q=intershop%20%22new%20economy%22&f=false, http://books.google.de/books?id=nbSNQFjAgTkC&pg=PA353&lpg=PA353&dq=intershop+%22new+economy%22&source=bl&ots=dICjmRO0po&sig=vhKmsOkZsTevDMrHL7Wvsjp9-Qc&hl=de&sa=X&ei=JcN0T5OSFYiPswbplsDSDQ&ved=0CGkQ6AEwCDgo#v=onepage&q=intershop%20%22new%20economy%22&f=false
2) Other, very similar, pages for companies with much less significance still exist. For example, see Demandware, a company from the same segment, with about the same revenue, and with the same founder. Compared to the German article on Intershop (to which the English one was probably very similar before deletion), it has even less depth. And most of the sources are in fact quoting articles from the local paper rephrasing press-releases by the company or its customers.
I think this should be enough reason for undeletion. Should I post a Request for Undeletion? Can you undelete it directly?
I suppose the article itself lacks quality (the German one does), but that is another matter.
Regards,
TvF — Preceding unsigned comment added by TvF (talk • contribs) 20:28, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily is inactive right now. I suggest you take your request to Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion if you wish to pursue this. Theoldsparkle (talk) 18:30, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks; I will do that - TvF — Preceding unsigned comment added by TvF (talk • contribs) 18:49, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
MDRC article page was deleted. Requesting undeletion.
The MDRC artcle page was deleted on the basis of "unambiguous advertising". We are a non-profit that offers nothing for sale, and does not seek contributions from the public. Since we can no longer see the article, I'm not sure what you might have objected to. The original article was basically an account of our history and areas of work. I am not the author of the page, and don't know if it was edited or changed from the last time I looked at it - which would have been quite some time ago. If the article can be resotored, and you can indicate what you found objectionalble we will edit the material to address those concerns. MDRC has played a prominent role in the evaluation of anti-poverty programs in the US over the last 40 years and is mentioned in several other Wikipedia articles. The article about it serves a useful infomative purpose.
Bradford Petrie petrie@mdrc.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bmnpetrie (talk • contribs) 18:15, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- User has already posted a request at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion about this. Theoldsparkle (talk) 18:30, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
RESTORE MY PAGE
Dumaka Francis Ifeanyi 23:17, 30 March 2012 (UTC)RESTORE MY PAGE. IT WAS DELETED BECAUSE IT EXPIRED AND BECAUSE I HAVE NOT PLAYED A PROFFESSIONAL LEAGUE BUT I HAVE PLAYED SEVERAL PROFFESSIONAL LEAGUE. SO RESTORE MY PAGE PLEASE. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alacrityawareness (talk • contribs)
- (talk page stalker) Fastily has been inactive for weeks, which page are you referring to ? Mlpearc (powwow) 23:27, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- I presume this one Dumaka Francis Ifeanyi.Edinburgh Wanderer 23:42, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
- The page was deleted because the subject fails the requirement of notability in which the template about the page being deleted links to
Wikipedia:Notability/General notability guideline. You can request that the page be un-deleted here: Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion which will have a more favorable response than SHOUTING and demanding that an Admin that's not active at this time do something. Mlpearc (powwow) 01:59, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
- The page was deleted because the subject fails the requirement of notability in which the template about the page being deleted links to
deletion of Solan wikipedia page
Dear sir/ma'am
I respect your rules and regulations and I know that your decision of removing this page was not wrong, but being the resident of the city Solan I used the government PDF to put extra info to Solan wikipedia, which is not worng. I just used the data for the information only, as the data was in figures so it could not be edited or changed. that is why I exactly use the same data.kindle roll back the page as it is very inportant for our city, lot of people use the page for information, and if still you think that the data was not ment for wikipedia then you can delete the particular data from the page, leaving rest of the wikipedia of Solan city as such
Looking forward for your positive action
Regards Garconlevis (talk) 10:03, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
- The message on your talk page suggests that you copied a lot of information from the PDF file, which would appear to be a copyright violation and thus not OK. --Stefan2 (talk) 12:07, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of "Munay-ki" page?
Hi Fastily -
Some time back I found the Wikipedia page on "Munay-ki" - I was interested because several of my friends had gone through this initiation and were asking me to do the same. I thought it was a little fishy, and wanted to see something besides the "5 star reviews". The Wikipedia page seemed to have the only information that raised issues - well, the only one that raised issues about the rites that I could find on the web, and even if it lacked the "third party references" (was that what you called the problem?), it was valuable to me. Tonight I went back looking for it, and it's gone!
I wish there was a way to keep information like this available, even if it's not as well referenced as we'd like. Once a page is deleted, is there a way to find it in some sort of archives?
Many thanks!
Happy trails, Stuartdole (talk) 06:04, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily is inactive right now. Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion is probably the best place for help with this. Theoldsparkle (talk) 15:07, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Please delete Template:NASA
Hi, Fastily. You closed the TfD for Template:NASA as delete back on March 11. I have now replaced all transclusions of the template with {{Include-NASA}} on the corresponding articles. Could you go ahead and delete Template:NASA? Thanks! —hike395 (talk) 19:11, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily is inactive right now. I suggest you ask about this at the TFD talk page. Theoldsparkle (talk) 15:10, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Hasty deletion
Hello Fastily. Could you please read this and tell me why the photo was deleted? I would like it back please. -SusanLesch (talk) 15:54, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
- The same question was also asked at User talk:Fastily/Archive 5#File:First Avenue-7th St Entry.jpg. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:07, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you Stefan2. Since Fastily is inactive who will undo his actions? -SusanLesch (talk) 17:31, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- Any admin can. I will try to add this to my to do list. --Guerillero | My Talk 17:33, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- OK. I am in no hurry. The principle of this deletion was wrong and it could affect hundreds of other uploads. If you can fix it, much obliged. -SusanLesch (talk) 19:19, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- Any admin can. I will try to add this to my to do list. --Guerillero | My Talk 17:33, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you Stefan2. Since Fastily is inactive who will undo his actions? -SusanLesch (talk) 17:31, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of three photos
Could you please tell me why three photos were deleted? Callelinea (talk) 19:04, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily has been in-active. the file pages should have templates on them with the reasons for deletion and links within those templates going into more detail of the reasons. Mlpearc (powwow) 23:50, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
United States Education Program: Wiki-Project Management -- Interview Request
Hello Fastily,
I am a student of Michigan State University working under Dr. Obar on an exploration of the Wikipedia adminship process. Thank you for volunteering to be a part of our project; we are glad that you have expressed interest in participating in our interviews of Wikipedia admins. I apologize for the lateness of this message, but if you are still willing to join in our work, please email me using Wikipedia's email function so that we can contact you formally.
Vert3x (talk) 14:58, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of Darren Meenan Page
Hi Fastily,
I was interested in creating a page for a player called Darren Meenan but then I noticed you deleted an article called that already on the 5th of September 2011. I am wondering do you mind if I recreated that page or is there a reason why it was deleted ?
Please Reply
Thanks Kilcock123 (talk) 17:10, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) "Fails WP:ATHLETE as has never played in a fully pro league and youth caps do not confer notability" (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:55, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
- User:Fastily is inactive at the moment. The article at Darren Meenan was deleted by prod, so I believe Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion is the place to request that it be restored, if you want to go that route. You're also free to create a new article. However, if the original reason for deletion still applies -- that is, if Darren Meenan doesn't meet the qualifications at WP:ATHLETE -- the new or restored article may still be proposed for deletion. Theoldsparkle (talk) 19:56, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
FutureOS
Can http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/FutureOS be used as a template/copyed here? I think it's not biased and it's pretty complete. I ask before so it doesn't gets erased after copying it (wasted work).bufalo_1973 (talk) 09:15, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
- What licence applies to the text on that website? I can't find any licence statement. --Stefan2 (talk) 11:32, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Dispute resolution survey
 Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello Fastily. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click HERE to participate. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 00:38, 6 April 2012 (UTC) |
EOS2007_0617_020ii.jpg
Hi there
You have deleted the file EOS2007_0617_020ii.jpg
Unfortunately I am not very good with Wikipedia however the photo was uploaded and owned by myself. As the picture was already up I did not know how to change that fact.
As a result i have uploaded it again with the correct details (I hope) this time)
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drgrew (talk • contribs) 06:29, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Fastily. Last September you deleted Category:Companies listed on the BM&F Bovespa. At the same time, Template:BM&F Bovespa categorizes articles automatically into this category. Any suggestion what should be the best solution to do? Thank you. Beagel (talk) 09:46, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Keith Russell Judd
Could you undelete Keith Russell Judd? With new sources, I am now confident he meets the criteria for notability.--William S. Saturn (talk) 20:30, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily is inactive. Would be best to post to Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion as was deleted by prod.Edinburgh Wanderer 16:57, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
- I requested it be deleted in the first place.--William S. Saturn (talk) 21:07, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily isn't here and is unlikely to be for some time if at all. Therefore he cant do it. You need an admin therefore Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion is the appropriate place to get one. Just a little advice you don't have to take it.Edinburgh Wanderer 21:11, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
- I requested it be deleted in the first place.--William S. Saturn (talk) 21:07, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily is inactive. Would be best to post to Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion as was deleted by prod.Edinburgh Wanderer 16:57, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
Regarding the Restoration of the London Vale Wikipedia Page
Hello,
I am a professional model and actress who began working professionally at the age of four in numerous national advertising campaigns. You can find proof of Warner Brother's feature film and FOX series credits dating back to 1995 on IMDb. I took some time off to study my craft further, pursuing an education in acting and art at Columbia University in 2002, and the University of Notre Dame and London's Globe Theatre from 2004-2008, and have been working as such full-time since 2008. Please see the link to below to the cover of Notre Dame magazine, which contains an article regarding my recent projects. My modeling work has been published nationally in 2010 in US Weekly Magazine, also linked below, in which I was featured in a two-page advertisement spread for Verizon Wireless and the movie Inception wearing a couture gown by the Walter Collection. I have also been featured in an eight page editorial in Swoop magazine Fall 2011 and another two page article on a Los Angeles fashion show I walked in is featured in the Spring 2012 issue of the same magazine. I am represented by The Gage Group and Betwixt Talent in Los Angeles as an actress, and Elysium Agency as a model, all professional agencies based in Los Angeles. My full portfolio is available on my website at www.LondonVale.com, and my acting credits can be checked on the IMDb. You can view my full acting reel and resume at LACasting and Breakdown Express. My acting reel is also available on my website. Please let me know if you'd like to request to view full versions of the films in which I've acted. I would appreciate it if you could kindly restore my Wikipedia page, as the information posted on my page is correct and there is sufficient information to support that fact.
Best,
London Vale www.LondonVale.com
http://onlinedigitalpublishing.com/publication/?i=104007 http://magazine.nd.edu/news/29452-london-unveiled/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1944865/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=415351642295&set=a.139376957295.107549.117276227295&type=1&theater http://www.topnews.in/london-vale-and-steve-jones-2011-artivist-awards-ceremony-arrivals-2342245 http://www.flickr.com/photos/michelleblumenfeld/4218063785/ http://scottnaide.smugmug.com/Fashion/OC-Weekly-Summer-Soiree-Bikini/17810918_Wrjs5n/3/1361277873_6VFgfJ5 http://amissive.com/2011/02/london-vale/ http://jeantsai.com/darkroom/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=london+vale http://www.theloveliestday.com/2010/02/pure-beauty.html http://www.julieorser.com/new/playback.html http://www.thebindsthattieus.com/ http://www.trailerfan.com/movie/the_gunrunner_billy_kane/cast-and-crew http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/03b74818a6/the-f-list-episode-2-networking
108.233.77.175 (talk) 21:50, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily is currently inactive, so you'll have to see a different administrator.--Jasper Deng (talk) 21:56, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
- It was deleted by WP:Prod so the best place to post would be Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion.Edinburgh Wanderer 22:09, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Since you blocked me
Perhaps you may like to see just what you blocked me over, and how blanket blocks without looking into the details, or not allowing a person atleast 5 minutes to respond to an AN/U in his own defence, is wrong. Fry1989 eh? 20:06, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
- And what WP:BATTLE behavior will get you: User_talk:Fry1989#April_2012. Toddst1 (talk) 20:14, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
- Just for your information, Fastily is inactive on Wikipedia for the moment (although he seems to be active on Commons). He might not see your message. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:20, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
- That's fine by me. Fastily blocked me without even allowing me 5 minutes to respond to the AN/U that Alarbus started on me. He didn't look into the details, and did a blanket block of a whole month just for edit warring on a single article. If he had looked into the details, he would have seen that I already posted 3 valid sources on the talk page, and now have 14 of them. He also wasn't aware that Alarbus had wiki-stalked my edits for two weeks prior, undoing everything I worked on. He blocked the wrong person, and whether he sees this now, or later, isn't my concern. The point is made, and I'm moving on. Fry1989 eh? 22:58, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
- Just for your information, Fastily is inactive on Wikipedia for the moment (although he seems to be active on Commons). He might not see your message. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:20, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of "Warwick Student Cinema"
Hi Fastily, I noticed you deleted the article "Warwick Student Cinema" for being too advert-y - I have no qualms with that, I can see your point, from what I remember of it! But I was just wondering if there is any way I can recover the text of the article so I can edit it to make it not advert-y, rather then having to re-write it from scratch with no point of reference? Thanks. 109.149.190.198 (talk) 16:48, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily has retired (temporarily), so I think this request should be served by a different admin who's active.--Jasper Deng (talk) 16:50, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
- Do I need to find another admin or will one eventually see this? I'm not too familiar with how all this works. Thanks. 109.149.190.198 (talk) 15:20, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Mednafen
Hi. Mednafen (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) was deleted as an expired PROD. An undeletion request is currently being discussed at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion#Mednafen, and I wondered if you (or anyone else reading this) would please care to comment there. Thanks. -- Trevj (talk) 09:11, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Wais Barakzai
I want to create article about Wais Barakzai (https://www.facebook.com/BaRaKzAi.N) who has more then 57,000 supporters but i don't know why the article get delete?
please let me know — Preceding unsigned comment added by Waisbarakzai (talk • contribs) 09:15, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) First, you cannot write an autobiography, and second, you're not notable. This is not Facebook - it's an encyclopedia (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 09:21, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
House of Magic UK
Hi Fastily,
I'm the owner of House of Magic UK and I noticed you deleted the page on it. You stated the reasons being it 'is a shop and a business, not a museum' whilst that is true it is partly a shop, it also has many other features.
House of Magic UK for instance is one of only five remaining bricks and mortar stores left in the country. The business also has lectures by the top magicians from around the world. It also provides courses and tuition on how to learn magic either as a hobby or a profession.
There aren't many places like this left in the world let alone the UK, a traditional magic store so it's a shame you felt the need to delete it 'because it's a shop' when in fact it is so much more.
Regards,
Stu Owner House of Magic UK — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.121.187 (talk) 15:04, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Fastily has not been active for some time. My thought of your query just by reading you question, the page was most likely deleted because it did not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. One problem that I'm sure you have is a Conflict of interest since you admit being the owner. Hope this helps. Cheers Mlpearc (powwow) 18:51, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Deleted Page: Sekolah Kebangsaan Bukit Sekilau
Dear Fastily,
This communique is regarding Deleted Page: Sekolah Kebangsaan Bukit Sekilau <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Epeefleche#Deleted_Page:_Sekolah_Kebangsaan_Bukit_Sekilau>. I was directed to you by Epeefleche. In any case, please feel free to go ahead and delete the page in question if that is what Wikipedia policy requires. By the way, this is the first time I have been charged with plagiarizing my own work. Have a nice day. Bluesguy62 (talk) 16:15, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily is no longer at this project. Consider going back to Epeefleche for guidance. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:44, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Deletion of "Warwick Student Cinema"
Hi Fastily, I noticed you deleted the article "Warwick Student Cinema" for being too advert-y - I have no qualms with that, I can see your point, from what I remember of it! But I was just wondering if there is any way I can recover the text of the article so I can edit it to make it not advert-y, rather then having to re-write it from scratch with no point of reference? Thanks. 109.149.190.198 (talk) 16:48, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily has retired (temporarily), so I think this request should be served by a different admin who's active.--Jasper Deng (talk) 16:50, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
- Do I need to find another admin or will one eventually see this? I'm not too familiar with how all this works. Thanks. 109.149.190.198 (talk) 15:20, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Mednafen
Hi. Mednafen (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) was deleted as an expired PROD. An undeletion request is currently being discussed at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion#Mednafen, and I wondered if you (or anyone else reading this) would please care to comment there. Thanks. -- Trevj (talk) 09:11, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Wais Barakzai
I want to create article about Wais Barakzai (https://www.facebook.com/BaRaKzAi.N) who has more then 57,000 supporters but i don't know why the article get delete?
please let me know — Preceding unsigned comment added by Waisbarakzai (talk • contribs) 09:15, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) First, you cannot write an autobiography, and second, you're not notable. This is not Facebook - it's an encyclopedia (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 09:21, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
House of Magic UK
Hi Fastily,
I'm the owner of House of Magic UK and I noticed you deleted the page on it. You stated the reasons being it 'is a shop and a business, not a museum' whilst that is true it is partly a shop, it also has many other features.
House of Magic UK for instance is one of only five remaining bricks and mortar stores left in the country. The business also has lectures by the top magicians from around the world. It also provides courses and tuition on how to learn magic either as a hobby or a profession.
There aren't many places like this left in the world let alone the UK, a traditional magic store so it's a shame you felt the need to delete it 'because it's a shop' when in fact it is so much more.
Regards,
Stu Owner House of Magic UK — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.121.187 (talk) 15:04, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Fastily has not been active for some time. My thought of your query just by reading you question, the page was most likely deleted because it did not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. One problem that I'm sure you have is a Conflict of interest since you admit being the owner. Hope this helps. Cheers Mlpearc (powwow) 18:51, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Duhamel.jpg
Hi, am planning to upload again the file Duhamel.jpg linked by the article Division of labour. You removed it on 20th of January because of lack of licensing information. It is a scan from a document dating back to the XVIIIth century. I am not too familiar with what kind of licensing information I need to put on, but I guess I'll find out. Vincent Lextrait (talk) 12:59, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
- I've uploaded the image with proper tags on Wikimedia Common. It does not seem sufficient, when I go to Division of Labour and try to access reference 4 (the image), I get a blank page saying that the image is indeed on Wikimedia Common, but it was removed from en.wikipedia.org. I guess somethings needs to be done there, I have no idea what. Can you help? Thanks. Vincent Lextrait (talk) 06:25, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Deleted Page: Sekolah Kebangsaan Bukit Sekilau
Dear Fastily,
This communique is regarding Deleted Page: Sekolah Kebangsaan Bukit Sekilau <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Epeefleche#Deleted_Page:_Sekolah_Kebangsaan_Bukit_Sekilau>. I was directed to you by Epeefleche. In any case, please feel free to go ahead and delete the page in question if that is what Wikipedia policy requires. By the way, this is the first time I have been charged with plagiarizing my own work. Have a nice day. Bluesguy62 (talk) 16:15, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily is no longer at this project. Consider going back to Epeefleche for guidance. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:44, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Deleted Page "Oh No! Oh My!"
Still not understanding the reason for this deletion - might help me if I'm missing something. What does it take for a musical artist or group to be above the "Notability" line? Reach me anytime at joelmichaelcoffman@gmail.com - not a veteran Wikipedia mod, but this was one of my resource pages to keep tabs on this band. Thanks in advance! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.78.168.143 (talk) 19:55, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
I just New Pages Patrolled the above page. Then I noticed that last month you deleted a page by the same name, under G7.[69] Is there any problem with the page having been recreated? Thanks. --MelanieN (talk) 21:20, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Discussion at ANI
please take a look here thanks-- ÐℬigXЯaɣ 19:21, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Brazilian vandal
Hi there FASTILY, VASCO here,
this anon "user" (please see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:177.0.204.119#April_2012), also known as User:Bruno corinthiano, has returned to active following his three-month block. Time for a bigger one :) ?
Attentively, happy week - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 14:56, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Deleted Page "Oh No! Oh My!"
Still not understanding the reason for this deletion - might help me if I'm missing something. What does it take for a musical artist or group to be above the "Notability" line? Reach me anytime at joelmichaelcoffman@gmail.com - not a veteran Wikipedia mod, but this was one of my resource pages to keep tabs on this band. Thanks in advance! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.78.168.143 (talk) 19:55, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Retired
I've had quite some time to think about it, and I have decided to end my involvement with the English Wikipedia. Over the past few weeks, I have been considering how I have been rewarded for my work, reading AN/ANI, and keeping up with the latest news. It has definitely taken me all too long to arrive at an inevitable conclusion: this amazing project is also home to a community that belittles and harasses its own members for the most idiotic and childish reasons (e.g. grudges, boredom, amusement, sport, dirty politics).
The problem here, is not with the WMF, site rules, or individual editors, but with the contagious witch-hunt mentality of the community. I know, it's easy, and perhaps even fun to ostracize and single an editor out, seduce the masses with promises of drama, and freely harass and attack that poor soul without fear of retribution. During such times, and even in general, we have a tendency to focus on the negative and overlook the positive; stellar contributions are rewarded with silence, and mistakes, regardless of how minute or well-intentioned, are met with aggressive complaints and/or trips to AN/ANI.
The thing most people fail to understand is that there is a real person reading all these insults on the other side. Throughout my tenure here, I have seen countless editors, from IPs to Admins, to Arbs, say things or insult others in ways that they would dare not in real life. Such has only become more apparent to me during my break from Wikipedia. I have been actively watching, no, desperately reading and watching various talk pages, discussion boards, and noticeboards, searching for something to wholly prove me wrong. I have not been met with success in my search. Given the current state of things, I believe that Wikipedia is going to destroy itself through mob-mentality and infighting. This project is ill, very ill, and I fear for its future.
Ironically, for the longest time, I've always wondered why so many of our established and valued contributors continuously departed the project at an ever increasing rate. Regrettably, I understand fully now, and really do sympathize with the departed. Don't get me wrong here though, I have thoroughly enjoyed the last four years I have committed to this project. I've decided to retire now, because down the road, when I look back, I wish to remember editing Wikipedia as positive experience, lest any more negative experiences I might encounter should outweigh the good. When I joined Wikipedia back in 2008, the atmosphere was so much more welcoming and collegial. I can only hope, for the benefit of the encyclopedia, that we will one day make a return to the open, relaxed, and supportive environment that was once an integral part of Wikipedia. Until then, Wikipedia is a place I cannot be.
Best Wishes and Good Luck to you all, FASTILY (TALK) 07:36, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- It's very disappointing to see you go. I am sorry for what has happened to you, with ridiculous AN/I threads opened against you for tiny mistakes. When the encyclopedia returns "open, relaxed, and supportive environment that was once an integral part of Wikipedia" please come back. Best, Bmusician 09:41, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
"Given the current state of things, I believe that Wikipedia is going to destroy itself through mob-mentality and infighting. This project is ill, very ill, and I fear for its future."
I agreee with this completely. Essentially every well-known user that has left the project for the last 6+ years has said essentially the same thing. When will the community listen and decide to change? 64.40.57.37 (talk) 10:15, 18 April 2012 (UTC)- I admire your willpower. I very much want to follow you out the door, I find Wikipedia to be disgusting at this point, but I keep coming back. I'm unhappy here, but can't leave. I hope you find something more enjoyable to spend your time doing. Have a good life, dude. Sven Manguard Wha? 14:45, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry to see you go.Best of luck in your future, it was a pleasure. Mlpearc (powwow) 22:15, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- We've lost another fine editor, goodbye Fastily and good luck! It was a pleasure being your coachee, I'm sorry I wasn't more active! :( —James (Talk • Contribs) • 6:52pm • 08:52, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily literally tought me more about this project then any other editor, and was/is, by far, the best images admin there ever will be. Good luck Fastily, perhaps our paths will cross again.--SKATER Is Back 14:27, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
- Yet another user driven off. Come back some time, and good luck on Commons. Rich Farmbrough, 04:28, 6 May 2012 (UTC).(Using some automation)
- Though we have never interacted, but I have seen your work here on Wikipedia. You were a good faith editor and it is really disappointing to see an editor like you leave. Best of luck though for your future projects.
--Inlandmamba (talk to me) 13:58, 13 May 2012 (UTC)- Fastily, please try to contemplate this: WP brings a lot of stress, which breaks many devoted editors after a few years. Many of them did not try to evade this, but instead were sticking to conflicts. WP is vast and you know areas where it rewards more (helping others, etc.). Try to return and move there, changing your editing style, avoiding anything that brings negative emotions. Materialscientist (talk) 04:41, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
- Though we have never interacted, but I have seen your work here on Wikipedia. You were a good faith editor and it is really disappointing to see an editor like you leave. Best of luck though for your future projects.
- We've lost another fine editor, goodbye Fastily and good luck! It was a pleasure being your coachee, I'm sorry I wasn't more active! :( —James (Talk • Contribs) • 6:52pm • 08:52, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry to see you go.Best of luck in your future, it was a pleasure. Mlpearc (powwow) 22:15, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- I admire your willpower. I very much want to follow you out the door, I find Wikipedia to be disgusting at this point, but I keep coming back. I'm unhappy here, but can't leave. I hope you find something more enjoyable to spend your time doing. Have a good life, dude. Sven Manguard Wha? 14:45, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Note
- Come back when you feel like Fastily. I agree you've been burned out with the way things have gone and I wholly agree with that. Come back soon. Soviet King : Talk or Yell 09:09, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- ^This. Best wishes, and good luck. UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 12:15, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- I hope you reconsider. You are very much appreciated as an admin, far more than you may know. Doc talk 13:49, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- I was so happy when I saw you pass me on WP:LOGACTIONS because I thought I was seeing the next generation of admins step up. Hoping to see you back here in the future. MBisanz talk 15:39, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- I agree with what you said 200% percent, incredibly i for one have engaged in that "so brave behind your keyboard" attitude more than i would have liked. All the best in the real world Fast, keep it up :) --Vasco Amaral (talk) 16:56, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- Very sorry to see you go.Edinburgh Wanderer 23:01, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- I've missed you already. If you're half as dedicated to future endeavors as you were to this project, you'll find much success. I will always miss your purple. -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 19:06, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
- Echo the thoughts and sentiments of all above - you will be sorely missed. Good luck in all your future endeavors, and please remember how immensely grateful everyone who contributes to this project is to you. I hope that some of the keyboard warriors will learn from this, but unfortunately I have my doubts. Acather96 (talk) 20:17, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
- Well I'm sorry to see you go, as well. I certainly hope you'll come back and at least make a few edits, but you've got to do what's best for you. ☮Soap☮ 23:32, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
- Hope you return someday. -- Ϫ 06:22, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
- I don't recall any interaction with you but I have noticed your prolific number of edits. I too have tried retirement but the project is too addictive and too important to walk away from. Please come back, even if it is in a low key manner. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 21:17, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| It's so sad to see you go. You were one committed editor to wikipedia and handled files selections at high speeds. I consider you one of my wikifriends. Here's a barnstar for all of your contributions with you. I agree that Wikipedia's mentality is declining and we are losing more editors than we are gaining. That also includes admins and bereaucrats. Eventually we will run out and Wikipedia will crash. I would appreciate it before you go if you could your name in my friends list. —cyberpower ChatOffline 09:50, 18 April 2012 (UTC) |
Precious
recommendations
Thank you for your contributions! Thank you for speaking up for a welcoming and collegial atmosphere, for an open, relaxed, and supportive environment. - Wishing I had known you sooner, and hoping for you to return, to work on those goals, treating editors as living people, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:17, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
One fighter for human rights returned after leaving twice, one formerly blocked editor returned to history, there is hope, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:04, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
A year ago, you were the 98th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, which I changed to br'erly style. A year ago, I saw the greatest award I know, - now a link on top of my user. I miss its creator, I miss you, and I put "Letting go of the past" on top of my talk, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:16, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
Precious and missed
Two years ago, you were the 98th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, still missed, with less hope, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:00, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Sorry to see you go
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Sorry to see you go |
| It is very sad to see you go. I think that you have been doing a very good job with image deletion and I hope that you will consider returning at some point. Your contributions to the project have been very valuable. Stefan2 (talk) 12:45, 18 April 2012 (UTC) |
Fascinating
You may find this interesting.—cyberpower ChatLimited Access 12:51, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Godspeed
All the best Fastily, and thanks for all the fish. Of course, there's always an angle about which this place can be destroyed. And interactions with others can be mayhem, or worse. In any case, you will be missed, and I mean that. I've been thankful for the support of a few Wikipedians in my "real" life and have been surprised by the love and generosity I've experienced. Maybe it's down to who you mix with or where you mix, but I've been determined to work on articles, etc and that's been refreshing. Any way, as a fellow Wikipedian, I wish you nothing but the best, may your rainbows be bright and sparkly. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:04, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Special Barnstar |
| Thanks for all your hard work at Wikipedia. I was always used to your bright signature at various places at Wikipedia, and as far as I know, that sig won't appear for a while. I agree that this place has some really big problems, that will hopefully be fixed. If (or when) those are fixed, your purple sig might just appear again. Again, thanks for all your work, and best wishes. Thekillerpenguin (talk) 21:05, 18 April 2012 (UTC) |
Just a notice, I will be moving this to my userspace as it has proven to be very helpful over the past couple years. Sorry to see you leave like this, good luck with your future endeavors. Eagles 24/7 (C) 21:15, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- Why not into normal Wikipedia template space - it's awesome, and documented. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 22:46, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- Good idea, Done. Now at Template:RfA query (RfA Notice was too similar to Template:RfA notice). Not too sure about the name though. Eagles 24/7 (C) 23:41, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- Good idea,
Pleasure working with you
I'm sorry to see you have decided to go: whether the community realises it or not this is a big loss. Whenever a long-serving and hardworking user such as yourself feels it is time to leave, Wikipedia becomes weaker. I too fear for this great project, but I hope you'll eventually return. Cloudbound (talk) 21:20, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
- You've always been one of the good ones, Fastily, and it was always good to see you involved in a discussion or other matter that I was working with. I understand you leaving and wish you well, though you'll be missed. If you ever need anything shoot me an email from Wikipedia. -- Atama頭 23:23, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Rights Award
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Slakr's Rights Award For your work in dealing with requests for user rights (and the "special" people we've both had to deal with in the past), I hereby award you a genuine copy of the United States Bill of Rights. Be careful with it, as it's kind of old, and the museum totally doesn't know I gave it to you. :P Keep up the great work. =) Cheers, --slakr\ talk / 02:26, 20 April 2012 (UTC) |
- I was on an awardbox binge and already had this one planned for you. Now I come to find you're retiring? WTF? To hell with that nonsense. If I have to deal with some of these people, then I see no reason why you get to avoid them. :P ;) But in all reality, take whatever time you need, and I really hope you stick around. I think a lot of us have just gotten busy in real life, and, well, on-wiki we tend to wallow around in the areas where most of the proverbial "scum" and bitterness tends to accumulate (or, at the very least, where the emotions and overall tempers run the highest). Needless to say, it can seem like, over time, everyone's always a total dick (simply because that's all we might end up seeing, depending on our haunts), but I don't think that's true for the wiki as a whole. It's like if you were to hang out in a police station all day, you'd start thinking the entire country has turned to savage insanity, even though that's not really the case. Your mileage may vary, though. :P *shrug*. Cheers =) --slakr\ talk / 02:26, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
You did some good work.
You did some good work. We'll miss you. bobrayner (talk) 12:32, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
You deleted Template:MoveToCommons
Now I am adding {{MoveToCommons}} but they are red linked. Please let me know what should it redirect to. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 21:02, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
You deleted Rex_D'Souza
HE is a winner of a popular reality show.. Need his page.. What to do??? ~ deepakchhabriansit@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.215.41.9 (talk) 12:16, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
- Pssssst, not sure if you noticed, but Fastily has retired. So I pretty much doubt he will be replying to your question any time soon. It may be worth seeking advice at the help desk, see if anyone there can help. Wesley☀Mouse 12:43, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
- This is an article about someone who came third in a talent contest in 2005, and never did anything famous since. The article has been deleted for two years. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 13:10, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Never fear
Fastily is still working at Commons. I hope he's able to work there to good effect. Carrite (talk) 04:25, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Great admin
Very sorry to see you go. I have admired your work as an admin and been pleasantly surprised on more than one occasion at the speed with which you dealt with pages I'd tagged for deletion. Good luck with whatever new project(s) you undertake! —danhash (talk) 13:25, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Sorry to see you go
I may be a little late, but I would like to thank you for all the work you did around Wikipedia, especially CSD and file deletion. I hope in the future you do come back, as a lot of Wikipedians do miss you. Godspeed to you on all of your future endeavors and wish you success. -- Luke (Talk) 01:59, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Fbot5 source code
Is it possible to access Fbot5 source code? (from Wikipedia:Bot_requests) Bulwersator (talk) 08:04, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
- You'd probably have better luck asking at commons:User talk:Fastily. Anomie⚔ 16:37, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Strongest Football Nations by Elo Ratings
Hello,
I am a football fan and have used the "Strongest Football Nations by Elo Ratings" from time to time to check on the progress of certain national teams. It seems to be deleted from Wiki, which is a terrible shame. I was curious to what has gone wrong with the page?
With kind regards,
FaasWilkes — Preceding unsigned comment added by FaasWilkes (talk • contribs) 11:08, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
- You did, of course, notice that this editor has retired and is not active on Wikipedia anymore? (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:13, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
- Why are you contacting Fastily? User:Scottywong deleted the page. The page was deleted because there was a clear consensus to do so on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Strongest football nations by Elo Ratings. What do you want to do next? →Bmusician 11:23, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
- Jeez, give the guy a break. So what if he posted on the wrong page? @Faas I just had a quick look around and World Football Elo Ratings seems to list the top 60 nations by current Elo Rating (as well as some historical ratings) – is that the sort of thing you were looking for? Jenks24 (talk) 12:23, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
- Why are you contacting Fastily? User:Scottywong deleted the page. The page was deleted because there was a clear consensus to do so on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Strongest football nations by Elo Ratings. What do you want to do next? →Bmusician 11:23, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Tomáš Bagi
Can you undelete the article of Tomáš Bagi as he made his pro debut with ŠK Slovan Bratislava on 17 April 2010 - source -SLOVAN BRATISLAVA VS. PETRŽALKA 1 - 1 17.04.2010, soccerway.com]. IQual (talk) 10:14, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
- Fastiyly has retired, so no longer is responding here. I have restored the article pointing to this discussion. Please update the article shortly. If you need longer I can move the article into your userspace until it is ready to be released again. Let me know. Agathoclea (talk) 10:01, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Roland Szabó (Slovak footballer)
Hi. Can you undelete the article of Slovak footballer Roland Szabó as he made his pro debut with AS Trenčín on 22 October 2011 - source -RUŽOMBEROK VS. TRENČÍN 1 - 1 22.10.2011, soccerway.com. IQual (talk) 08:35, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily cannot undelete the article as he is retired, is no longer an admin, and is no longer active on Wikipedia. It was deleted because there was a consensus to do so at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roland Szabó; and all further re-creations of the page (that are identical to the deleted version, and do not address the reasons for which the material was deleted) can be speedily deleted. If you can prove that the article does not fail WP:GNG and WP:NFOOTBALL, go ahead and re-create it. Otherwise go to WP:DRV. →Bmusician 12:01, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
- IMO an undeletion is preferable to a re-creation if there is an article history. in this case the last deletion was by User:JamesBWatson who also locked the article for recreation, which is why I am hesitant to do the undelete myself. DRV is overkill though if the reason for the deletion has fallen away. My recommendation is to inform WP:Football and if thy can confirm the state of affairs then I am happy to undelete. Agathoclea (talk) 12:24, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
- I agree with Agathoclea that DRV is overkill, to be avoided if the issue can be settled without that. If notability can be established then I would have no problem with it being undeleted, though what GiantSnowman says makes it seem doubtful that he is notable. The deleted article contained so little information that it would not be a lot of trouble to re-create it. Agathoclea, you don't have to be hesitant to do the undeletion because I protected it. If notability can be established I will be perfectly happy for it to be restored by any administrator. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:55, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
- Note - based on the information at hand and the overwelming sense that this player isn't notable, then if it is re-created, I will be looking to take it back to AfD. GiantSnowman 12:58, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
- Interesting case, my reading is that in the absence of other reasons one is automatically deemed notable under NFOOTBALL. Which means that with his first pro appearance the reason for the AFD was void. As a result the following two deletions (No 3 and 4) did not really qualify as G4 but that was hardly noticable for the deleting admin as the article recreation did not make that obvious. Personally I would like to see a definete answer on GiantSnowman's claim of non-notability one way or another. So maybe we should go down the route of an AFD on a recreated article? Anyway I am hoping that a few more people from WP:Football will drop by. Apart from that, IQual if instead of posting here please alert the good people at WP:Football of any article you think should be recreated/undeleted and they can give a preliminary yes or no. Agathoclea (talk) 15:42, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
- NFOOTBALL is just a guide, an indication of players who play at a level sufficient enough for them to meet GNG - and so we are seeing more & more AfDs of players who technically meet NFOOTBALL thanks to 1 or 2 appearances, but who fail GNG, and they are being deleted. Please feel free to recreate and take to AfD for community consensus. GiantSnowman 17:23, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
- I have unprotected the article, but will not recreate. Any recreator should be advised of the above. Agathoclea (talk) 11:02, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
2015, Inc.
Hello! A small question - why is 2015, Inc. page deleted?! 2015 has very important role in video game history. How can I see the page's history at least? I can try to update the article, if it is flawed. As I read from admin's post about Bagi, there is possibility to ask it to be added to userspace? Thanks, lew — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lewuz (talk • contribs) 11:49, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily is retired. Please take it to WP:DELETION REVIEW.—cyberpower ChatOffline 12:33, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
Photo usage
Hi, Sorry to see you retired from wikipedia. But maybe you still read this page so I wanted to let you know I've been working on a small game built around animal quizzes and I've used one of your pictures.
I found your picture here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Silkworms3000px.jpg
And I attributed the picture like this: Fastily at en.wikipedia with this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fastily and also added a link to the license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
I hope you're happy with it, please let me know if this is not the case. You can find the game here: http://apps.facebook.com/animalalbum Or through here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/AnimalAlbum/156339584490672
Kind regards, Garfunkel Jansen (talk) 09:17, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
P.S. Thanks for taking the picture and making it available.
- You would have more luck getting his attention at commons:User talk:Fastily—cyberpower ChatOffline 14:26, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
You may not read this, but just in case you ever stop by...
| “ | The problem here, is not with the WMF, site rules, or individual editors, but with the contagious witch-hunt mentality of the community. I know, it's easy, and perhaps even fun to ostracize and single an editor out, seduce the masses with promises of drama, and freely harass and attack that poor soul without fear of retribution. During such times, and even in general, we have a tendency to focus on the negative and overlook the positive; stellar contributions are rewarded with silence, and mistakes, regardless of how minute or well-intentioned, are met with aggressive complaints and/or trips to AN/ANI.
The thing most people fail to understand is that there is a real person reading all these insults on the other side. Throughout my tenure here, I have seen countless editors, from IPs to Admins, to Arbs, say things or insult others in ways that they would dare not in real life. Such has only become more apparent to me during my break from Wikipedia. I have been actively watching, no, desperately reading and watching various talk pages, discussion boards, and noticeboards, searching for something to wholly prove me wrong. I have not been met with success in my search. Given the current state of things, I believe that Wikipedia is going to destroy itself through mob-mentality and infighting. This project is ill, very ill, and I fear for its future. |
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It is rather ironic. You're someone who I'm not sure I've ever been in agreement with elsewhere, and yet you have articulated so eloquently the very same dismay that I've felt for so long. Wikipedia is an amazing project with some amazing people chiseling away at it, but behind the veil of an intellectual nexus lies a toxic environment where one's spirit can so easily be shattered for the most insignificant of infractions. Bureaucracy has overtaken reason, good faith has vanished in the midst of a gang mentality, and a callous disregard for the feelings of others has all too often been justified by calling it simple "honesty".
It's a shame to lose an editor as principled as yourself, but I understand why you have chosen to leave. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that I appreciate all you've done for Wikipedia over the years. A good thing may seem small in the grand scheme of things, but collectively they comprise something truly extraordinary. Good luck in all your future endeavours, Fastily. =) Master&Expert (Talk) 03:17, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Nomination of Bloons for deletion
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Michal Šulla
Hi! Can you undeleted article about Slovak goalkeeper Michal Šulla. He made his professional debut for Spartak Myjava against 1. FC Tatran Prešov on 1 September 2012, Myjava win 2 - 0. Thanks, 17:26, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
- Fastily is no longer active on this project. Please ask another admin. Sven Manguard Wha? 15:28, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
The Olive Branch: A Dispute Resolution Newsletter (Issue #1)
Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page.
In this issue:
- Background: A brief overview of the DR ecosystem.
- Research: The most recent DR data
- Survey results: Highlights from Steven Zhang's April 2012 survey
- Activity analysis: Where DR happened, broken down by the top DR forums
- DR Noticeboard comparison: How the newest DR forum has progressed between May and August
- Discussion update: Checking up on the Wikiquette Assistance close debate
- Proposal: It's time to close the Geopolitical, ethnic, and religious conflicts noticeboard. Agree or disagree?
--The Olive Branch 19:02, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
I have added you to Missing Wikipedians
Just to let you know (I am supposed to - this is what it says). Ottawahitech (talk) 14:44, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
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Sysop @ testwiki
Hi, just reminding you that I gave you back the sysop rights on testwiki as you requested. Please don't forget to finish the promised cleanup ;) Petrb (talk) 15:19, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
- Tell him at Commons, he doesn't check this page anymore. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:43, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
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- Perhaps someone should tell the user at Wikimedia Commons, he doesn't check here anyway. Happy Holidays to all, TBrandley 00:16, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
Done. I've left a message on his commons talk page. — Oli OR Pyfan! 01:47, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
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Nomination of DJ Prostyle for deletion
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Farewell
I am extremely sorry to hear that you have already left Wikipedia. I hope you reconsider your retirement and comeback to Wikipedia. Meanwhile, I would like to wish you all of the best in your future endeavors. I bid you a very fond farewell. With the most sincerest regards, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 05:40, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
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Goodbye, Robot!
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For the attention of any talk page stalkers that are administrators
Some time ago, Fastily deleted a page called Dynomite. Dynomite is the name of a top twenty US instrumental. If the deleted content refers to that, please restore it to User:Launchballer/Dynomite. Thank you.--Launchballer 12:53, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
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Useless Post?
Back in the day, you deleted Talk:23d Fighter Squadron because it was (at the time) a talk page for a deleted article. Looks like this article was caught up in a polite discussion about whether the page should be titled 23d Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Squadron or 23d Fighter Squadron (USAF). I don't know if the weighty issue of the article's name was discussed on the old talk page, but I have restored the talk page for the current name of the article. The rules say I have to tell you, so if you're lurking -- I told you.
If any of the visitors to this page know how to restore deleted material from the old page, it would be helpful. --Lineagegeek (talk) 22:33, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
FYI
Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#Wild_Games_Studio. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:21, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
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- Jackmcbarn: It was in use until Simple Pickup was deleted by Ronhjones. Ronhjones, I recommend deleting that image.--Launchballer 23:59, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:Banjo-Tooie N64 Screenshot3.jpg
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 14:12, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Willian Arão
You deleted Willian Arão (expired prod) however the page was recreated when the player became notable, but the edit history wasn't merged. Can you do this? Thanks, Nfitz (talk) 14:08, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Welcome Back?
I saw your latest edit, and if you're coming back let me be the first to welcome you back! --Church Talk 21:00, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks! On a limited basis yes, but mainly so I help with transferring files to Commons :) -FASTILY 22:47, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
Talkback
Message added 16:25, 8 December 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
— Revi 16:25, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
Some images
Hey Fastily, I also left a note about this over on Commons, but wanted got cover all my bases and/or be redundant... Anyway, if you could take a look at this user's images they've been uploading I think they all might be copyright violations/incorrectly formatted/etc. Not sure quite what to do so am hoping you could take a look at their images for me - maybe I'm wrong and they really *did* take all those pictures etc... Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 08:45, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
Asaphoidea
When I was about to create the article Asaphoidea, I noticed you had previously deleted the article before. Please explain why you did this on my talk page. Below is my draft for the article:
{{Taxobox
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Trilobite|Trilobita]]
| ordo = [[Asaphida]]
| superfamilia = '''''Asaphoidea'''''
}}
'''''Asaphoidea''''' is a superfamily in the order [[Asaphida]]. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trilobites.info/ordasaphida.htm |title=''Order Asaphida'' |accessdate=December 24, 2014}}</ref>.
===References===
{{Reflist}}
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What do you think of it? If I create the article with the information above, will you delete it? Please reply on my talk page. Gug01 (talk) 16:36, 24 December 2014 (UTC) Gug 01
- I resigned from my admin position quite some time ago, so I literally know as much as you do. If I had to guess, I'd say it was a broken redirect. Feel free to recreate it. -FASTILY 10:15, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
Kostia Vlastos By SEM caricature
Dear Fastily,
I have noticed that you deleted the file of the caricature of Kostia Vlasto by SEM. I think I had enough information in the file description to proove that the caricature is in the Public Domain.
Could you, Please, explain me the reason that the file was deleted ?
Many thanks Actia Nicopolis (talk) 00:07, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
- Link the image in question, it's unclear what you're referring to -FASTILY 21:11, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
File:Kostia_Vlasto_by_SEM.jpg Direct link — Preceding unsigned comment added by Actia Nicopolis (talk • contribs) 10:54, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
The above file has been delted and the following message appeared in the article
Removing "Kostia_Vlasto_by_SEM.jpg", it has been deleted from Commons by Fastily because: No license since 4 February 2015: you may re-upload the file, but please include a license tag.)
Many thanks again for your time Actia Nicopolis (talk) 10:47, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
- It looks like you're right! File restored and description page updated. Sorry for the inconvenience -FASTILY 09:22, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Hit & run
Hey fastily, I see you popped-in for a quick RfA vote, it was nice to see your nick again, hope all is well. Cheers, Mlpearc (open channel) 14:41, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Mlpearc! I've been great, it's good to hear from you :) -FASTILY 09:22, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Copyfree
The article Copyfree has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Not notable, apparently an expanded former #REDIRECT (no undeletion)
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Be..anyone (talk) 16:10, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
- De-prodded as it's undergone AfD before. Not sure it would survive another one in its current state, though. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:23, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
- Welcome back, btw --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:25, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
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