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ArbCom elections' answer
Hi Psychonaut. Could you please have a look at the answer and my opinion i have just provided here? Thanks in advance. -- FayssalF - Wiki me up® 17:24, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Re: Warning: no personal attacks; assume good faith
I have replied on my talk page. --Pixelface (talk) 02:00, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
An Arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Zeraeph-SandyGeorgia/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Zeraeph-SandyGeorgia/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, — Rlevse • Talk • 19:39, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
London Meetup
Hi I posted the suggestion that we should have a London Wikipedia meetup next week here. Would be cool if we could get some people together. I was thinking either a social meet or maybe a collaboration meetup where we bring a selected London article up to GA or even FA status. Poeloq (talk) 00:44, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up about the meetup; sadly, I doubt it's going to be practical for me to come what with the baby and all. :-/ Arkady Rose (talk) 01:06, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Re-scheduled again. See #London Meetup - April 13th below
Penultima
Thanks for changing it to the correct name - I didn't remember the spelling. Poeloq (talk) 16:57, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
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London Meetup - April 13th
Hey Psychonaut. There's been a fair bit of toing and froing with the organisation of this London meetup. We've settled on a central London (Holborn) pub location in the end, rather than your usual Pembury Tavern haunt, and also a lunchtime meet-up. This seems to be attracting more interest, but I hope you and your ferret can make it! and maybe you can help me persuade the other usual suspects to come along!
So Wikipedia:Meetup/London 8 next Sunday lunchtime (April 13th 1pm)
-- Harry Wood (talk) 09:50, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
London Meetups - Sunday May 11th
It was pretty successful, but the ferret wasn't there! We're hoping to have regular meetups in London. The next one is on May 11th Wikipedia:Meetup/London 9. Another Sunday lunch in Holborn. Come along! -- Harry Wood (talk) 11:52, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
- Can I tempt you along to Wikipedia:Meetup/London 10? This Sunday 1p.m.! -- Harry Wood (talk) 00:42, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
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I'm upset at the way the NPA Personality Theory situation was handled. Am I understanding correctly that the justifications were that he was self promoting himself and that his theory was unpopular? Was there even an effort made to understand the theory? I would like to hear a justification based on logic... not on the number of results a google search returned... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aneeley (talk • contribs) 20:25, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
wiki-meetup
Hey, I saw from past records that you attended london wiki-meetup no. 10; if you're interested in attending again we're planning meetup 12 at the moment. Ironholds 16:51, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
AfD
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Proposed deletion of Gnits Standards
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Günther von Kluge
Hi, you removed the portrait of Günther von Kluge from the article. Indeed the picture is of poor quality, sorry about that. I can't deny that. However, you should note that these portraits of famous German soldiers during World War II were often a gift by Adolf Hitler. Some of these portraits have an interesting story. For instance Adolf Galland received two portraits. His first portrait displayed him smoking a cigar. Hitler, a nonsmoker, disproved of this version and had another one made. I will therefore revert your edit because I feel that the portrait has historical value.MisterBee1966 (talk) 09:22, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
- I do not dispute that the painting has historical value and is relevant to the article. However, that is a truly awful photo of the painting, marred as it is by three enormous and intense reflections and two slightly less luminous reflections. The photo is tilted several degrees to the left, and the direction of the photo is nowhere near perpendicular to the plane of the portrait. If this were the only depiction of von Kluge in the article, perhaps some case could be made to keep it as a placeholder until a better one could be found, but as it is there is already a photograph of him in the info box. Leaving that photo in would be akin to leaving in a mostly redundant section on his personal life replete with spelling and grammatical errors. Such substandard works on Wikipedia are always replaced, or removed until they can be replaced. I'm doing the latter in hopes that someone can provide a better photo of the portrait. —Psychonaut (talk) 20:33, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
AfD nomination of Socialist Studies (1983)
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FYI, IP address 71.182.133.24 reverted your removal of the dog names from this article. This IP address has previously reverted my removal of the names as well. --Jtalledo (talk) 14:19, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
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AfD nomination of List of disbarred lawyers
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- Please be more careful in tagging images for copyright/fair use violations. This one was already tagged as being in the public domain. —Psychonaut (talk) 09:50, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
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Unreferenced BLPs
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Hello, This is Very Important
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- I'm not sure it's permitted to simply delete information from a WP:ANI archive. You should probably explain what you are trying to do on WP:ANI to see if this is kosher, or possibly ask for help at WP:RFO if you need personally identifying information expunged. —Psychonaut (talk) 18:31, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
- Actually, I don't have any power to remove or alter information (apart from that which any other user has). Again, if you want to remove personally identifying information from Wikipedia, you need to do so through the WP:RFO process. Go to that page and read through it. You will see that you can contact someone to help you via e-mail or a web form. I can't help you any further as I am not an administrator or bureaucrat. —Psychonaut (talk) 18:50, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
- I assume so. I've never contacted them myself. —Psychonaut (talk) 19:40, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
- Actually, I don't have any power to remove or alter information (apart from that which any other user has). Again, if you want to remove personally identifying information from Wikipedia, you need to do so through the WP:RFO process. Go to that page and read through it. You will see that you can contact someone to help you via e-mail or a web form. I can't help you any further as I am not an administrator or bureaucrat. —Psychonaut (talk) 18:50, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
- Well, in that case, I guess you've made a good faith effort to go through the proper channels. I'd just go ahead and remove the personally identifying information in question. But note that you should remove only those parts of the incident archive which serve to identify you, not the entirety of them. —Psychonaut (talk) 02:33, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
FYI
Bosniak had some not-so-nice things to say about you on his blog, referring to you, among other things, as a "Serbian thug" and a "Serbian extremist". He's indef-blocked and, for all intents and purposes, banned from this project so his references to you on his blog make no difference with regards to anything on Wikipedia anymore but I just thought you'd want to know. Big Bird (talk • contribs) 17:07, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
- <sigh> More names to add to my hall of fame, I guess. He doesn't seem to let the truth get in the way of his stories… I'm not and have never been an administrator (as has been pointed out to him several times already), and also didn't nominate his article for speedy deletion, though I did PROD it as there don't seem to be any third-party references to an incident by its name. Anyway, since his blog is listed in the "External links" section of many articles, this raises a rather interesting conflict of interest which I've reported at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Banned user's blog, used as an external link in articles, now used to incite readers to edit on the banned user's behalf. —Psychonaut (talk) 17:47, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
"Phoinix" AFD
Thank you for the notification. However, I did not create the article; I merely created the page, as a redirect to Phoenix, as unambiguously announced in my edit summary. Perhaps you should adopt a more sophisticated method for deciding whom to notify when you list an article for deletion. Cheers — Dan | talk 23:55, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry; I am using the Twinkle gadget for notifications. I guess it's not as smart as it seems. —Psychonaut (talk) 00:01, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
- You created the initial redirect. Even though somebody else transformed it into a full article later, TW always goes for the page creator. User:Erwin85Bot notifies the editors with most contributions to the article, assuming it gets to it in time. Pcap ping 21:32, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Nomination of E page for deletion
Are you sure you looked at a current version of the article? As far as I can tell it has 12 sources (out of 19) that have nothing to do with me. 8 of these 12 are peer-reviewed scholarly publications (i.e. the best class of sources per WP:RS), as are several of my papers cited. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 00:32, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm not following you!
If you think specific users are promotional only, you're better off reporting them to WP:UAA. Otherwise, I recommend blanking any advertising from their userpage, welcoming them (using the template that warns against promotion and COI) then monitoring them. Cheers. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:41, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
- Some cases are hard to judge. Typically if the username is a company, the company is described in detail on the user's page (usually with contact info or a description of specific products or services for sale), and there are no mainspace edits, then I nominate it for CSD G11. Otherwise I send it to MfD. Regardless whether the accounts are promotional only, WP:NOTWEBHOST doesn't look kindly upon editors whose only action on Wikipedia is to edit their own user page. —Psychonaut (talk) 12:45, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
- I agree. Just wanted to let ya know what I was doing behind ya ... one of them had not edited since 2006, so I removed the advert on their userpage. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:47, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Particular reasons for considering for deletion EP128Emu?
Hello, you wrote: "I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion". What criteria for inclusion do you think of, exactly? I mean, why e.g. C64 or ZX Spectrum emulation software articles are better? Do you think Enterprise is not really a computer or EP128Emu is not really an emulator? greetings, --Szipucsu (talk) 17:42, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
- The criteria in question can be found at Wikipedia:Notability. —Psychonaut (talk) 02:34, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Anyway you should check this to establish third party notability of this software. --Szipucsu (talk) 17:55, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
- Self-published periodicals such as blogs and zines are not generally valid as sources establishing notability for the purposes of Wikipedia. Please see Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Reliable sources. —Psychonaut (talk) 02:36, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
This is not a self published material. Do check it, have somebody translated it from Hungarian before saying things like this. Why do you think it is self published? How do you prove it? You are not thorough enough. greetings, --Szipucsu (talk) 09:33, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Do you think other emulation softwares (eg. C64S) have the criteria EP128Emu doesn't? Or these? --Szipucsu (talk) 09:43, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Another thing: an emulator both for Windows and Linux that can emulate 3 machines... you cannot think seriously what you say or you are not familiar at old computers and their emulators at all. It does prove its notability. I hope you used the emulator for hours (under Linux) before proclaiming your opinion of criteria for inclusion, I hope you tested its debugger for all the 3 machines and you are familiar in how to convert Spectrum or CPC programs into Enterprise platform using the emulator's debugger. --Szipucsu (talk) 09:52, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
May I know who consented to delete the article? And could you please tell me what kind of references have the emulation articles that don't need deletion? I am really interested. (Having deleted the article I cannot look at your answer now.) Anyway, deleting the article wasn't based on an objective opinion. Is any computer less received (certified, maybe I can say) in the base that it is less known than other computers? And therefore its emulator, because nobody writes reference about it just because the exprets don't deal with it for some reason? I think, Wiki's concepts about deletion would be revised. A computer is a computer (except for eg. if I made a computer that were used only by my family) and its emulator is its emulator if works fine. Wikipedia's concept is not objective, I think. Who do you think would publish eg. printed material about a software that has new versions every half a year and the printed material would expire very soon? greetings, --Szipucsu (talk) 20:33, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
How did you decide this fanzine is not notable? Can you read what you wrote above? SELF-PUBLISHED ... zines are not GENERALLY valid as sources establishing notability. You don't care either it's not self-published. Moreover, "they are not GENERALLY valid sources" doesn't mean "they are NEVER valid sources". Now, I can't see any further research about if the zine mentioned is really not a valid source. Is it common on Wikipedia to delete such articles? If it is only 90% that the source is not reliable the remaining 10% is not important? Is it a profound work? Another possibility is that you maliciously mislead me writing what is not really true and zines are always (not "generally") unreliable resources. You also might have mislead me writing you speak Hungarian fairly well because I can't see any information about your knowledge of languages on your user page. I don't understand how people can decide that a source is not reliable if they don't understand the language it is written in. You surely don't do profound work or mislead me. If self-published zines are not generally valid (but according to your sentence they sometimes are!) then not self published zines must be more often valid than not self-published ones. It is not the way to work in Wikipedia to mislead others or not to do profound work enough on examining source materials. I don't want to offend you but you have to see it was not an honest way you proceeded. --Szipucsu (talk) 00:51, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Suggestion
Rather than stuffing the MFD box for ancient pages that aren't really causing much trouble, why not consider just boldly blanking them and/or redirecting them to the users' talk page? –xenotalk 16:48, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
- Ah, that is an option I had not considered. Yes, if I come across any further ones from inactive accounts, I will just blank them. —Psychonaut (talk) 16:58, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
- Cheers - if anyone gives you any grief, just point them my way. –xenotalk 16:59, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
"Delete as nominator" !votes
It's a bit unusual to !vote again in an AfD you have initiated [1] [2] [3]. On the other hand, if you want to withdraw some nomination, it's probably better to strike it out, rather than !vote "keep as nominator" [4] [5], which still leaves the nomination standing, and may give the impression it's a 1-1 !vote on a first look. Pcap ping 23:59, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
- I dunno; I've seen it quite often in the past. Perhaps it's no longer a common practice…? At any rate I'm always providing either new information/arguments or a comment on the other arguments/evidence presented so far when !voting, so I figure it's a helpful novel contribution. —Psychonaut (talk) 08:04, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- But something like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teeworlds can be a problem; your nomination, then one !vote each for delete, redirect, keep - then it looks like your additional !vote swayed the final decision. Marasmusine (talk) 09:37, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Note
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Disambig page
The "new" disambiguation page SIGINT that you created yesterday is essentially a duplicate of the existing disambiguation page Sigint (disambiguation). You might want to consider redirecting. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:08, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- Also, I should note that by removing the existing redirect from SIGINT, you broke links in over 200 other articles. You might not be aware that it is recommended, when usurping an existing title, "that you modify all pages that link to the old title so they will link to the new title." --R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)