User talk:Grahamperrin

Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

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CME[edit]

Hi, regarding your edits to the page CME - this is what we call a "disambiguation page" (or "dab page"), a list of Wikipedia articles with similar or related names. Entries should not be added unless there is already a suitable Wikipedia article to link to. Also, dab pages don't contain references - these would be placed in the article which the entry is linked to. Further information on dab pages is at WP:DAB also at MOS:DAB. Thanks. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:26, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to Redrose64 for steering, I'll pay closer attention next time. Grahamperrin (talk) 19:58, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please: how can I tell why Common_Malware_Enumeration was deleted? For a term (CME) that is, or was, trademarked, I'm puzzled … --Grahamperrin (talk) 20:07, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AFAICT from User:RickK the account that deleted the page "has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it has, or may have, been compromised.". I can't find CME or Malware mentioned at User talk:RickK so is it reasonable to assume that I can go ahead and recreate the page?

Can the deleted page be recovered? --Grahamperrin (talk) 20:13, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Admins who delete a page rarely leave their reasoning on their own talk pages; it's normally notified on the talk page of the user(s) who principally worked on the article, and also recorded in the deletion log. In addition, if the article went through WP:AFD (which is one of the three main ways in which a page can get deleted, see WP:DELETE), there will be a discussion page somewhere, but this is unlikely in this case.

If you click the redlink Common Malware Enumeration you will see: a message like this:

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.

00:22, 28 February 2005 RickK (talk | contribs) deleted "Common Malware Enumeration" ‎ (content was: 'WTF?')

Now RickK may have been acting correctly; his block seems to be because the real RickK has been impersonated - perhaps his password was disclosed. Anyway. Since I'm not an admin, the most that I can see of the deletion log is what you've already seen; this states "content was: 'WTF?'" so I first off, there doesn't seem to have been much in the article - three letters and a punctuation mark. Second, I think that I can assume that this was a WP:SPEEDY deletion (one not requiring much in the way of a prior discussion); criteria WP:CSD G1, WP:CSD G2 or WP:CSD A1 may have applied here.

Personally, I think that you can recreate the article; but to avoid it going the same way as the first, make sure that it's suitable for Wikipedia: see WP:YFA. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:26, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello; good job on ZFS[edit]

Hi there Grahamperrin. I can't figure out how to email you or whatever, so I'll invite you to talk with me, dtm on #mac-zfs on irc.freenode.net. You're doing a good job on the ZFS editing, and I'd like to discuss it further. Thanks!

Smuckola (talk) 20:53, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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