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Welcome

Hello, Just Chilling/Archive 1, and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Deepu Joseph. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Again, welcome! And if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask - Just click here to leave me a message.
thunderboltza.k.a.Deepu_Joseph |TALK

VBN Project

Hey, thanks for your message. Knowing someone is actually interested helps a lot! I'll try to have the stuff for you buy this Sunday; I've not actually written that much to be honest, but I'll tackle it this week sometime.--The Wizard of Magicland 22:38, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I've got the section for you - about 300 words on why its vulnerable and so on. However...the article's down! I figure I'll leave what I've got til the proper one is back up and running? Just give me a shout when you want it!--The Wizard of Magicland 17:10, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Contract bridge

Hi. You might be interested in participating in new Wikipedia:WikiProject Contract bridge. Regards, Duja 10:17, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Anne Frank's cats

You previously contributed to this article (posibly when it was Moortje) but it has been AfDed and I wonder if you'd consider passing comment. Robertsteadman 07:36, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Comments in page

Hi, you shouldn't write comments on any main page (do that on the discussion page). You did this at WP:NNOT. Main pages are for "final" reader content only. However, your comments are appreciated and i'll move them to the discussion page. Welcome to wikipedia! Fresheneesz 20:25, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Tim Crutchfield

Saw the AfD on the Tim Crutchfield page, but it doesn't link to an AfD page? Sandy 22:01, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi - still writing it :-) TerriersFan 22:05, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
It's there now! TerriersFan 22:14, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks ! Sandy 22:17, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

re Redirecting to Biological reproduction

I just fixed the dual redirects. On format issues, consult the Manual Of Style.

ShakespeareFan00 17:49, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that.TerriersFan 19:31, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note

Will work on finding attribution as required, and on getting proper notability for the one page. Areopagiticus 23:41, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good; let me know if you need help. TerriersFan 23:42, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I may need help in getting the notes to show up properly. I didn't manage it with the one that I tried to place, but I'll poke around and ask you in a few days if I can't manage it by looking behind the scenes and seeing how they work. The citation pages are not particularly helpful; I may suggest changes for them when I actually understand the process.Areopagiticus 23:48, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I have fixed the references for you. This press release needs to be loaded up on a website somewhere so that editors can check it - the reference would then need to be to that weblink. HTH. TerriersFan 00:52, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Congrats!

Exceptional Newcomer, awarded to TerriersFan by thunderboltz 03:29, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

-- thunderboltza.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK03:29, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Wow! Thanks! (blush) TerriersFan 04:01, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Taxicab

What talk? Where do taxi cab and social issue belong then, these are significant issues in the US --matador300 01:43, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

It's there now. Naturally, those are important issues that are rightly placed here. For discussion the talk page is the place but if you are able to source some facts or research then in the article is fine. I am sorry about taking it out; I don't like undoing other editors hard work, but I think it does need a revamp. TerriersFan 01:50, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Tesco

They do indeed rent out DVDs. It's another rebranded exercise (like they do with Tesco mobile phones, which is O2) - in this case it's LoveFilm rebranded as Tesco DVD Rental. I've added a ref to the article. --Oscarthecat 22:15, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

That's fine - I should like to thank you for this constructive response. TerriersFan 23:09, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Tesco, Southport

Couldn't believe it when I saw that picture of the Tesco in Southport! Was on a vacation in Liverpool in March and we visited Southport several times, I swear I saw that Tesco everytime we drove into Southport. Well anyways, you have alot of great photographs, very proffesional looking! By the way, congratulations on your award! Decimal10 05:13, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your sentiments - glad you enjoyed the pictures. Hope that you took good memories of the UK back home. TerriersFan 00:24, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Image:Star Collection.jpg

Hello! I had passed your request over to Bhadani (talk · contribs) as I do not hold sysOp privllages. However I noticed that he hasnt taken any action yet. Perhaps it is because it is unnecessary to delete the old version. Is there any particular reason why you need it to be deleted? Waiting for your reply.-- thunderboltza.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK12:03, 4 August 2006 (UTC)~

Because it contains a name and email address that I don't want publicised. They were included by mistake. TerriersFan 19:08, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Nice meeting you. What you exactly want to get deleted? --Bhadani 13:09, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi; simply the first item in the history for this photo. TerriersFan 14:00, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Deleted per request -- Samir धर्म 04:36, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Happy that you finally got this sorted out. :-) -- thunderboltza.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK18:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

NESH from OED

Nesh
[Cognate with early modern Dutch, Dutch regional (West Flemish) nesch, nisch soft (of eggs), damp, sodden, foolish (16th cent.), Gothic hnasqus soft, tender. A connection with Old High German nascon and its cognates in sense ‘to eat dainty food or delicacies’ (see NOSH v.) has been suggested, but seems unlikely.
The further etymology of the word is unclear: it has been suggested that it is related to Sanskrit kiknasa particles of ground grain (of rice), flesh of rice (represented in only one corrupt late Vedic text, with variants caknasa, cikkasa, in context implying an unattested compound pista-cikkasa particle of flour, from which some have posited a Sanskrit root cikk- to hurt) and further with Latvian regional knost, knosit to peck at plumage with the beak, pluck, beat (cf. Latvian knosities to scratch oneself), but the connection between the two is difficult to make, and their joint connection with the Germanic word is not generally accepted.]

A. adj.

1. a. Soft in texture or consistency; yielding easily to pressure or force. In later use chiefly: tender, succulent, juicy.
b. In extended use: soft, not harsh or violent. Obs. rare.
c. Damp, moist, wet, chilly.
2. Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; timid, faint-hearted; lazy, negligent. Now Eng. regional, chiefly north. rare.
3. a. Mild, gentle, kind; inclined to pity, mercy, etc. Obs.
b. Easily yielding to temptation; inclined to lust or wantonness. Obs.
4. a. Delicate, weak, sickly, feeble; unable to endure fatigue, etc.; susceptible (to cold, etc.).
b. Fastidious, squeamish, dainty.

B. n. Usually in collocation with hard.
a. That which is soft; spec. soft ground. Also used (in pl.) of people. Obs.
b. Mild or gentle treatment. Obs.
c. in nesh and hard and variants: under all or any circumstances. Obs.
d. for nesh or hard and variants: = in nesh and hard. Obs.

C. adv. Softly; {dag}gently, mildly (obs.). Also: timidly, feebly.
to die nesh: to give in easily, to give up readily.
Tavilis 11:40, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello -- I notice you removed my attestation to usage of 'nesh' in Shropshire, Manchester and other places. I agree that my observations of this usage (by my mother and by friends in Manchester and Yorkshire) are 'original research' but they are nonetheless true and form part of their ordinary modern-day language. With best wishes, John Warburton 00:09, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Good point and thank you for your interest in this article. I have copied this to the Nesh talk page in the hope that someone can source it. TerriersFan 04:00, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguation style

Hello there,

I've reverted some of your edits to Taxi, and wanted to let you know why. The Manual of Style for Disambiguation Pages lays out what is appropriate for disambiguation pages. Among other things, red links are allowed if it's possible an article could be written on the subject. Additionally, links should not be piped on disambiguation pages. If you have any other quesiton about disambiguation pages, feel free to ask me. -- Natalya 05:20, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I have restablished the headings style as per the example in WP:MOSDP#Longer lists and repeated the small reorganisation e.g. air taxi to transport which seems appropriate and also Taxi (advertising agency) to a more prominent position (I have recently moved this from TAXI so it need to be found easily). I have left the red links as you suggest. I have also removed some exisiting piping.
My apologies for one explanation, piping links is okay when titles of things are being italicized. I should have clarified it before, and will take care of fixing it. The piping section of the MoS lists such exceptions. As for the section headers, the section mentions that for excessively long list, section 2 headers are appropriate; the list of articles at Taxi seems to be verging on that length, but the way you have put it looks nice now, so it should be good. Thanks for helping to clean things up. -- Natalya 20:51, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

YCCC

I agree that it should be discussed and a consensus reached but it does need a review to make sure it covers the whole of the club's history. I think I'll also introduce a captains section as per a few similar articles. Lets hope we can stay in Division One! All the best. --BlackJack | talk page 05:16, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I like the way you've formatted it. It's looking a good article now while nearly all the other counties are still very stubbish. I'm trying to input the early history of each county, creating a separate article if there was a first-class team before the county club. I've done Yorkshire and Sussex and am doing Notts now. Regards. --BlackJack | talk page 13:39, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Taxicabs in Mexico City

Hello TerriersFan,

I would like to contribute to this article section, however I don't know where to start and neither hace the time to do it. Taxicabs in Mexico City is currently a very complex subject. It involves a whole load of political and social issues, ranging from the cost of a Taxicab service licence to the corruption of the authorities and tolerance of 'pirata' taxis. Most information is very hard to source, itself beeing common knowledge among citizens of Mexico City, but commonly unavailable on the media. There are some points that must be covered to make this a moderately good section.

-History of taxicabs (taxicabs in mexico have changed a lot troughout the years and continue to change). -The 'Pirata' taxis -Safety condiderations when boarding a Mexican taxicab. (very important, not every taxicab is safe) -Mexican taxicab fares -The aesthetics of the Mexican taxicab.

On August 18 you deleted a post I made about the tolerance of Mexico City police and the unions who provide legal shields for 'pirata' taxis. You deemed the information as POV and unsourced. Unfortunately it is not a POV, it is a fact that everybody is able to confirm asking almost every person in the city and almost every cabdriver. This information is hard to source, however if you can speak spanish you can check here:

[1] [2] [3]

Also, I added an image of a taxicab in Mexico City, at first sight it might appear a joke. However, modifications to taxicabs are commonplace. In fact, most taxis on the city have some form of aesthetic enhancement.

I am glad that the article whose split you carried out (and I proposed), is getting better every day. Thanks for your continued effort on this article which I believe is relevant for the community.

Please provide some feedback about what I wrote. Also, as you may hace already noticed, my english is far from perfect. I also have very few time to edit, as I am extremely busy at this time so I may delay a bit on my answer. --pptudela 21:23, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

re: 82.198.250.80 - vandalism

Hi TerriersFan. I'm not very active on en-WP anymore, hence the slow response. I haven't had time to review the edits coming from the IP, but if it is extremely excessive, it might be time to contact their ISP. I don't really have much to say beyond that, but good luck in dealing with it. Thanks! --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 10:45, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Developing Leadership Capacities Through Action Inquiry

You wrote: "it should then be quickly closed after just one more comment". The votes for deletion are closed after certain time, not the amount of comments. A suspicious article cannot sit here forever. The total number of comments and discussion time (23 August... 29 aug.... 2 Sept... 10 Sept... 15 Sept...) is enough. The qualified score is 3 keeps against 9 deletes. `'mikka (t) 01:24, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

re Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Derrick Lonsdale (2nd nomination)

Well, it was closed as No Consensus To Delete. There were only three commentors, besides the nominator. If had been closed as Keep that'd be one thing, but as far as I know a No Consensus To Delete can be taken right back to AfD. Thanks for alerting me, though. Herostratus 01:44, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Hirst on Leeds scoreboard

What was the occasion ? There doesn't seem to be anything special about the date. Tintin (talk) 06:52, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Good point; I have clarified this in the article - George Herbert Hirst. TerriersFan 00:29, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Grenada Trades Union Council

Hi TerriersFan. I'm going to move this article back into the Category:Trade unions of Grenada in keeping with the format at Category:Trade unions by country. I realize that there is only one entry for the category, but that will hopefully change as additional Grenada related labour articles are created. Cheers.--Bookandcoffee 00:46, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

OK; thanks for letting me know. TerriersFan 00:48, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading Image:TaxiCab.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}. If you have not already done so, please also include the source of the image. In many cases this will be the website where you found it.

Please specify the copyright information and source on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. P.S. please also add more specific source (i.e. link to website you found that image on). YellowDot 20:36, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Exactly same issue with Image:USACab.JPG YellowDot 20:52, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Image:TaxiCab.jpg was taken from the Russian Wikipedia where it is Изображение:TaxiCab.jpg so the copyright status will be on that page. Also Image:USACab.JPG comes from another Wikipedia with the name Εικόνα:DSCN1386.JPG TerriersFan 22:33, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
First, on general copyrights: {{wikipedia-screenshot}} can only be used if you take screenshot of some Wikipedia page. It can only be used of images of Wikipedia website. It cannot be used on photos of objects. If you copy and image from somewhere, you need to maintain the same copyright status, identify author, and provide link to source so that your claims could be verified.
Second, on USACab: if you go on description page on EL Wikipedia, you will see that it was copied from EN Wikipedia, Image:DSCN1386.JPG. Therefore, I added speedy deletion template to USACab as it is exact duplicate.
Third, on TaxiCab: if you go to Russian description page, you will see that it does not have a copyright tag either. It has a long description that I cannot read or understand. Either case, it should be extremely easy to get a free & clean copy as taxi cabs should be abundant in UK and you (as far I understand) live there. YellowDot 01:39, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Ok, just next time, please save the trouble and add adequate description to images you upload, ok? YellowDot 02:27, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Old Trafford Cricket Ground

In the same site, the directions page clearly refers to the title as above. If you do a Google on "Old Trafford Cricket Ground", it produces several finds. Bear in mind that the upper case is key to this as a full name. I'll await the result of your discussion with interest. All the best. --BlackJack | talk page 14:33, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about the deleting

My brother who is 5 deletes all of my stuff including home work I don;t know how he found out how to delete stuff on here but I am truly Sorry for what he has done! —Preceding unsigned comment added by EmoWiki (talk • contribs)

Duct Tape Wallet

Why did you delete the duct tape wallet article. I was still adding things. If you thought it was bad, why were you too lazy to make it better. Please reply on my talk page. user:eskimospy

I didn't delete it. It was put up for speedy deletion by Danny Lilithborne so I converted it to a redirect to stop it being deleted. It is still there. If you wish to add to it please do so here. TerriersFan 03:21, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank You. eskimospy

Headlessly

Hi! It's an interesting and a bit confusing problem. :) Now The Headless Horseman is the main article and has a link to the DMB page. Is that not good? NCurse work 09:27, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Admin

Hello. I was looking at your contributions and I was wondering if you would let me nominate you to be an administrator. I looked on the administrator list and didn't see you there so I am assuming you are not already one. eskimospy

Litvinenko

  • sorry about that source removal - it wasn't actually (completely) removed but moved further up the page when i cited something from the same article earlier. i think it was a result of confusion as you, me and about 3 others all edited at the same time. thanks for fixing it, know that i too am working in good faith, and congrats on yr work tightening the thing up W guice 21:40, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for this message. I always AGF. TerriersFan 22:23, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Palmer Bus Co.

Hello, and thanks for your note. I deleted this because from the information available, it is a school bus company, of which there are many in Minnesota. The article from which I deleted it does not deal with specialized transportation such as school buses. As I understand Wikipedia policy external links should be few in number, and while I am do not doubt that Palmer is an important company in its field it did not seem particularly relevant or notable to the article's subject. But if you want to discuss it further maybe we could move it to the talk page of the article and see what others think. Thanks. Kablammo 02:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I see you have already posted it to the talk page so I will reply further there. Thank you. Kablammo 02:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Sounds good, thanks. TerriersFan 02:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

thanks

Thank you for the corrections in List_of_Italian_birds —Preceding unsigned comment added by Freegiampi (talk • contribs)

Drmspeedy

Just for future reference: let an administrator remove the speedy tag. Do not do it yourself. An admin was bound to come by and review the article before he/she deleted it. (or kept it) Diez2 01:44, 29 November 2006 (UTC) Just for future reference: let an administrator remove the speedy tag. Do not do it yourself. An admin was bound to come by and review the article before he/she deleted it. (or kept it) Diez2 01:44, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Please study the template which says "If this page does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, or you intend to fix it, please remove this notice". Once I fixed it I was entitled to remove it. Please familiarise yourself with Wikipedia policy before criticising other editors. TerriersFan 01:49, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
On that same template, it says, "do not remove this tag from pages that you have made yourself." Besides, I didn't even use that template.Diez2 01:51, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
The template you used is here. As I informed you above I did not create the page. The page was created by User:Bryser. Please check your facts before throwing crticisms about. TerriersFan 01:55, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

That junior high

Thanks for taking care of it. When I tagged it originally, it just said something to effect of 'we rock! etc' But you were right to remove the tag. Czolgolz 22:36, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Re Clayton Mark

It's fine removing the tag, I was in a hurry and put on a tag that might not have been the most ... discreet and accurate. A MfD might be in order but I'll see about it.

Cheers, Yuser31415@?#&help! 20:54, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Women's Eights Head of the River Race

I notice you nominated this article for deletion - your concern was that it was a non-notable university race.

The WEHoRR is not a University race at all - although many universities do take part. It's actually a national event - and probably the most important head race for women in the UK. It is the women's equivalent to the Head of the River Race. Nearly 300 entries were received in 2006 from clubs all over the UK, and many others from European clubs.

As such, I've removed the "prod" template - it most definitely is notable, however the page was only created a couple of days ago, and is in a very fledgling state. The page now also falls within the almost equally fledgling rowing WikiProject, so hopefully it'll receive some attention soon. Richard B 01:16, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that, Richard. However, the article is badly in need of sourcing and some content to demonstrate notability. TerriersFan 03:16, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

About phobia stubs

Hi TerriersFan, i created myself the stub and realize the same day it didnt met several criteria for stub templates so then i put it for speedy deletion. Sorry for trouble. Frédérick Lacasse 12:28, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

No worries; thanks for the reply. TerriersFan 12:41, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Survival manual

No problem, thanks for the note, makes sense to work on it where you moved it to. I'll try to find some better links to free /public domain manuals.--Pnw.hiker 22:37, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

216.106.185.169 & Vandalism

Hello, Sorry about the previous vandalism from 216.106.185.169 for E-Mail spoofing. We understand this is a serious issue. If you can (I am not sure how it works exactly) please disable 216.106.185.169 from editing wikipedia. This is something one of our employees seems to have done, as this is a place of business we do not need people editing wikipedia at all. Due to the nature of our work we cant just block it as non-filtered internet access is required for employees to do their jobs. So if its at all possible please let us keep viewing wikipedia open but block us from editing (if you can.) If not please suggest what we could do to get in contact with someone that can do this for us. Thank you for your time and have a great night! Dmitry Dovidenko —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.106.185.169 (talk) 08:37, 12 December 2006 (UTC).

Hi, I have requested an editing block. Please get straight back to me if editing continues to be possible. TerriersFan 19:00, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

List of women with very long hair

Thnx for improving the quality of the list page! If you remove a "red link" from the page, please move it to the to-do list on the talk page of the page. Longhairadmirer 17:36, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Neat suggestion, thank you. TerriersFan 21:36, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Brown Deer High School

Hi there; no, that is obviously a perfectly satisfactory stub, and I would not dream of attempting any kind of deletion process. As you say, in its original form it was ripe for {{speedy}}, and now it's not. Great.--Anthony.bradbury 19:53, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Taximeter

Many of the info that I added in the spanish version, and then translate to the english version are form those sites that you delete; mainly from http://www.relojerialeo.com.ar/.

Hi, I don't know Spanish so the link that you refer to doesn't mean anything to me. I am not sure what are the deletions to which you refer. Please give me the diffs and I'll look into them. TerriersFan 01:48, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

High Schools

Hi there; thank you for your comment telling me that High Schools were inherently notable: I was not aware of that. I would be most grateful if you would direct me to the piece of Wiki Policy you are quoting.--Anthony.bradbury 23:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

There is no policy in that two attemts has now failed twice to establish one (a third attempt is underway!). However, what I was quoting was consensus from very many AfDs. Elementary schools do get deleted from time to time but no high school ever has been; they are considered to be significant in the community. The practice that I would recommend when you see one of these empty articles (which appear quite often), and if you don't fancy stubbing it, is to redirect to the school board article (if there is one) or else put a one liner in the locality article and redirect there. HTH. TerriersFan 01:58, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Asian Babes

Hi - Could I ask you to please take a break from editing Asian Babes for about an hour? I'm still editing the article and am running into edit conflicts with you. I'd really appreciate it, thanks.—Chidom talk  02:48, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Not a problem. You might find it helps in such circumstances to put an {{editing}} tag on. TerriersFan 02:51, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
All done for now (and it was longer than an hour, sorry). And thanks for the heads up; I had no idea there was such a thing! Have good days.—Chidom talk  04:12, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

proposed deletion of Guy Grundy

I have removed the {{prod}} tag from Guy Grundy, which you proposed for deletion, because I feel that this article should not be deleted from Wikipedia. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still feel the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{prod}} template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 19:22, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

on deletion of images of children

I am willing to accept your reasoning for removing the children's chess tournament picture from the Chess article, but I would first need to see a formal Wikipedia regulation to that effect. Failing that, I am inclined to restore the image. Regards, Haiduc 16:52, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

It is a question of law not policy; see Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Whilst this Act does not specifically mention images the rules encompass them. Whether this particular image needs a release is a grey area and a matter of interpretation. However, we should play safe and not take the slightest risk of putting the Project at risk for sake of an image. There is, though, a further consideration - these days many parents are (rightly or wrongly) becoming more protective of their children. Posting recognisable images on the Internet, without suitable releases, is not socially responsible. As for reinstating the image unilaterally, that would be a bad move. The way forward is, as you yourself suggested on the talk page, to wait and see if /another/ editor restores it. TerriersFan 00:33, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

WikiThanks
WikiThanks

Thanks for what you've been doing with the Parkton, Maryland and Hereford High School articles. I didn't see the full edit history until now, and your contributions have been impressive; I'm sure the article would have been deleted had you not added what you did. By the way, would it be appropriate to move the page to Hereford High School (I have no experience with school articles). —ShadowHalo 11:38, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

And thanks to you too; its been a joint effort. I spend a lot of time on CAT:CSD rescuing such articles - too many editors knee-jerk to delete bad articles rather than cleaning them up.
I wouldn't want to move the Hereford High School page. There is also a Hereford High School in Hereford, Texas. What is needed (and I'll do it shortly) is to make Hereford High School a DMB page to encourage the production of articles. HTH. TerriersFan 20:01, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Sounds good, thanks for creating that. —ShadowHalo 08:30, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Hanging

Hi, I noticed that you had changed the headings for each country in Hanging. These had been changed to avoid having them in the TOC, as it tends to become quite large. Could you please reconsider, and reply at Talk:Hanging? Thanks, Bjelleklang - talk 06:38, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

File note - this has now been sorted and agreed by keeping the headings but putting the ToC on the right. TerriersFan 03:26, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Ashley treatment

Thank you for fixing up the references in Ashley treatment, I didn't know how to do it properly. Rosemary Amey 01:23, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Not a problem; happy to help. TerriersFan 03:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Sandilands Junior School

An editor has nominated Sandilands Junior School, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sandilands Junior School and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. Jayden54Bot 17:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

AfD Blogging Tories

You have edited the article Blogging Tories. This article is currently being considered for deletion under the wp:afd process. You may contribute to this discussion by commenting here. Thank you." Edivorce 01:39, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

OT Cricket Ground

Given the consensus reached on the basis of the link you provided, I'd appreciate it if you could go ahead and move Old Trafford (cricket ground) to Old Trafford Cricket Ground. The move request has been open far too long. DJR (T) 02:01, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree that this needs to be closed out but it requires an admin since the page has an edit history. The move will be made once an admin decides that there has been sufficient discussion; all Requested Moves are kept under review. TerriersFan 23:52, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I was under the impression you were an admin...? How did you move the pages over redirects initially? DJR (T) 00:01, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
I do need to get round to applying to being an admin since there are a lot of tasks that need sorting but I haven't as yet ... I can move pages over a redirect but in this case there is an edit history so it is a matter of waiting for an admin to turn up I am afraid. TerriersFan 01:11, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

merged taxi articles

Hi Terriers Fan - I agree with your assessment that the NYC taxicab article shared a lot of overlap with the US taxicab article. However, the New York City taxi is something of an icon in its own right. Taxis in Singapore and Hong Kong have specific articles about them. Given the high degree of regulation and uniqueness of NYC taxis, and their status in NYC's transportation mix, it makes sense that NYC taxis have a specific article covering them, too. Also, after merging the NYC taxi article into the US article the result is too lengthy and cumbersome and begs for breaking down the article in sub-articles again.

The best way to resolve the problem of overlap is to edit the content of the articles. The US article should discuss generalized, national issues, while the NYC taxi article should cover issues specific to NYC (of which there are many).

For these reasons I'd kindly ask you to undo the merge and address your legitimate concerns by editing the texts of the two articles. (I have just spent many hours overhauling the Transportation in New York City article in much the same way; yes, it takes time, but the final result is better quality.)

Thanks for your consideration. Momos 19:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Moved to Talk:Taxicabs of the United States for broader discussion

Good Job

Good job cleaning up BTMES. SERSeanCrane 03:50, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. TerriersFan 03:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for cleaning up BTMES. Not quite sure how you know about it or how you found it, but thanks a lot. Bmrbarre 21:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for that. I live in the UK so I know nothing about the school:-) However, my philosophy is that the Project is better served by developing articles rather than deleting them. Therefore, I keep an eye on Speedy Deletions and AfDs to look for articles that can be 'saved'; I do this by researching and sourcing notable connections, to comply with Wikipedia policy - I'm glad that you approve. TerriersFan 03:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. That's a great policy, and the third party edits really help the articles. Thanks again, Bmrbarre 20:43, 22 February 2007 (UTC)


Help

You seem to know a lot about the notability policy and just Wikipedia in general, so could you please help me this one time, or at least give me some advice on how to stick up for my articles. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fred_Swan please. Thanks, Bmrbarre 23:39, 25 February 2007 (UTC) Drop me a note

I have cleaned the article up a bit. Two avenues are needed to ensure that an article is kept:
I have supported the retention of the article since the AfD is premature but long term independent references are the key to an article being kept. Please get back to me if I can help further. TerriersFan 00:32, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thanks for doing what you do. SERSeanCrane 01:32, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you so much for the help. You saved the article, and you got a Barn Star! Sweet! SERSeanCrane suggested that I get adopted, and I was thinking that perhaps you might be interested, or at least be able to tell me what that entails. Bmrbarre 13:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Please consider yourself adopted! Nothing dramatic is involved (you don't need to leave home or anything :-) ) and simply come here if you need help. If you get into scrapes the adopted box on your user page might encourage other editors to speak with me before firing off in your direction. You might also like me to look at draft articles in your user space before launching them on an unsuspecting world! TerriersFan 17:39, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Sweet! Thanks so much. I think I'm going to need this. I just finished my (probably) best article and my only full-length one. It's called Stowe Recreation Path, and I think I did things pretty right. I sourced well, which I've had problems with, and made sure I made it clear that it was notable. If you want to check it out, that would be great. Maybe some suggestions...Bmrbarre 20:09, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

AfD

Thought I'd let you know that someone has nominated an article by your adoptee for deletion. See Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Saint_Monica's_Church. SERSeanCrane 04:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you; that's helpful. TerriersFan 10:51, 28 February 2007 (UTC)


Stowe and AFD

Thank you so much for the tips. I'll have to work on that in the future. Is there an easy way to get the | thing? I have to copy one from another article every time I use one. It's really annoying. Yeah, Saint Monica's Church got nominated, but I think it's going to be kept. It's got a school, it's 120 years old, and it's the largest parish in Vermont: what else do I need? Jeez. Sometimes...oh well. Hopefully it'll be stronger article if it gets kept. Bmrbarre 18:45, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

The '|' is the shifted '\' which in turn is the key immediately to the right of the Shift key. TerriersFan 18:47, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Montgomery High School (Blackpool)

Thank you for your work improving this article. It has allowed me to change my vote to "keep". My dad would be pleased if he had any idea what Wikipedia is! Jules1975 10:12, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

I second that. Excellent work. I changed my vote. --ubiquity 12:54, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. TerriersFan 16:42, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Saint Monica's Church, Barre

Just to let you know - I moved the article to Saint Monica's Church (Barre, Vermont) because article titles should reflect the actual name, with disambiguation in parentheses (as with Montgomery High School (Blackpool), above). I don't really see how parentheses are more "ugly" than a comma. I realize there's variation in current titling for churches in this regard (see Category:Roman Catholic cathedrals of the United States for examples), but Barre isn't a well-known location, and the inclusion of Vermont in the title helps readers grasp the region more quickly. Category:Roman Catholic churches in Iowa, for instance, runs more uniformly toward parentheses. I wasn't trying to step on toes, just reaching for titling uniformity; IMO, St. Monica's Church, Santa Monica tends toward confusion as to whether you're indicating a location or a transliteration. MisfitToys 22:38, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for this. If you still want to move the article please put the point on the talk page and I will abstain and go along with the majority. TerriersFan 00:22, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:Fred Swan Blue Moon.jpg

I think that we could have a problem with the licensing of this image. On reflection this looks as if it was lifted from the specified website which is a definite 'no, no'. I think more information about its providence is needed :-( TerriersFan 02:49, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I know. And I have no clue how to get an image onto the page. I can't find any pictures of him, and his artwork is clearly commercial, so I can't use that. Can I take a picture of one of his prints that hangs on my wall and then use that? Would it be considered my own work?
I am looking into the options but since it was created after 1922 by a living artist I suspect that there is no way to include an image. TerriersFan 22:49, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
On pages like Picasso and Dali, they use the artist's work. How is that possible, then? Bmrbarre 00:03, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
On the Picasso page they use an exemption for pre-1922 art however the Dali image uses a 'fair use' licence which I have just tracked down. After I have added the new licence it would be helpful to add a short analysis of the painting since the fair use applies to an article that includes a 'critical commentary'. HTH. TerriersFan 00:12, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
I was discussing that with SERSeanCrane on the Talk Page. I'm pretty sure that'll work. Thanks. Bmrbarre 13:20, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
And I need some help on redirecting. I created a page entitled Mining in Roman Britain, and I linked a few pages to it, but no one is going to type in Mining in Roman Britain. I mean, come on. So, how can I get people to the article if they type in a different title?
I have created an example redirect page Roman mining. You can see how its done here TerriersFan 22:49, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. That's helpful. Bmrbarre 00:03, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
And as a side note, have you ever seen Bethanie Mattek play (I'm assuming you have)? She got crushed by Williams (I think it was one of the williams sisters...), but I remember the fashion statement. She looked like she had been given 5 minutes to prepare an 80's costume.
I have seen her play on TV but not live. I created the article because I was fascinated by her bizarre dress sense :-) TerriersFan 22:49, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Bmrbarre 15:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:L'Accordéoniste.jpg

L'Accordéoniste did actually have a copyright tag. The image description page was blanked [4] by an anon before you came across it. --Iamunknown 20:16, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for spotting this - I have now sorted things. TerriersFan 02:55, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
No problem. I spotted it because I browse through Category:Articles that include images for deletion at least once daily, and Picasso was definitely a new entry! --Iamunknown 04:09, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Roberson HS

You're probably correct. That book is the same source for the Stonewall Masonic Lodge article. The "first recorded health program" paragraph in roberson HS is verbatim from the book that Blueboar has posted in the AfD (p. 31). Not all of the text in the book is in the article, but what's considered relevant is word-for-word the same, so I believe COPYVIO applies. MSJapan 23:10, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Did you know

Updated DYK query On 10 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chocolate box art, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
Congrats! Now we both have one! Yeah. I see that you fit Fred Swan into the Chocolate box art article. Is that what led you to it? Bmrbarre 02:01, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. You are quite right; I needed a line to justify the fair use on the Blue Moon picture and that led me to fill in the gap. It provided a further incoming link to your article too. I also couldn't have my adoptee having one up over me :-) TerriersFan 18:03, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Schools articles

As requested, comments added on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sarina State High School and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arlington Country Day School. I am sick of attacks on school articles (I had a major battle myself on schools in Northern Ireland) by people who find it easier to complain than to improve the articles. Happy to help any way I can. Ardfern 23:14, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

St Patricks Grammar School, Downpatrick

I have corrected your correction of my deletion. The Incidents piece you added in the school in Downpatrick belongs to Saint Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh and I have moved it there. Ardfern 23:29, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Aaaargh!! Many thanks for spotting and doing that. TerriersFan 23:31, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

The Working Man's Barnstar

The Working Man's Barnstar
Just wanted to award you with The Working Man's Barnstar for helping out on improving Arlington Country Day School article! Cocoma 23:32, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Specialist School/College status

Just a quick one in reference to St Thomas More High School for Boys AfD, being a specialist college doesn't actually mean you're any good at that subject - it's purely a money game. A school decides they're going to be 'specialist' in some subject or other, and then has to raise £150K of sponsorship from local business etc. If they achieve that, the money is matched by the Government for 3 years (£450K!) OK, after 3 years the Govt can turn round and say 'actually, your results in Maths (or whatever) are rubbish, we're taking the status off you', but what school would turn down the cash in the meantime? As an example, my wife used to work at a school which was a specialist Performing Arts college. Their results in that subject were the worst in the school :) EliminatorJR Talk 01:21, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Interesting, thank you. TerriersFan 01:24, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Updated DYK query On 15 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Killing of David Wilkie, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--ALoan (Talk) 14:42, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

St Thomas More High School For Boys

Thanks for your fantastic contributions to St Thomas More High School For Boys. It has turned out to be a very good article. It was just I was called into the school head's office the other day and he asked me all about this article and that the place to go for info was the main website. He was also disappointed about the scandal article previously placed on there but that has been fixed and hopefully will no longer be vandalized. He did ask for it to be deleted but it looks like it's going the other way, and plus there is good reasons not to. Again, thanks for your contributions. Olzone 21:43, 16 March 2007 (UTC) olz06

Thanks, glad you like it! TerriersFan 23:33, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Tireless Contributor

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
I, The Phoenix Enforcer, award you the Tireless Contributions to Park Village Elementary School. The Phoenix Enforcer 00:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)


Please respond on my talk page. thanks!The Phoenix Enforcer 00:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Wow!

Holy cow, congrats on all these awards and dyk's! You're doing great. I'm gonna start calling you butter, 'cause you're on a roll! Just started a new article (after eating there) called Gesine's Confectionary. I proposed it to be on the main page, so you may want to check it out. Bmrbarre 01:13, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

LOL -I'll remember that one! I'll have a better look at it tomorrow but meanwhile I have got the external link working and done some initial tidying.

Trinity Christian High School

Thanks for your efforts at Trinity Christian High School and elsewhere to improve school articles. I have found it remarkably easy to improve articles, especially for high schools, and I find the spate of school AfDs so remarkably frustrating. It's great to have ate least one kindred spirit out there who agrees that these articles should be improved rather than deleted, and has taken the concrete steps to do so. Alansohn 03:36, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, always happy to help. I agree with you about the number of AfDs; I think that these were spurred by the failure of the last schools policy proposal and shows we need to get one through to save time all round. That will require hard compromises on both sides but it is debatable whether the will is there :-( TerriersFan 03:40, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Don't give up on that! It would be such a boon to the community if we could solve this. I'm optimistic that somebody will hit on something acceptable enough to both sides at some point. Would you be interested in allowing all schools through an article on each school district, with subsections for the individual schools? That way, they would be self-standing from their towns, but there would be a place for all of them here. I would support that as a compromise, but I can only speak for myself. --Butseriouslyfolks 05:37, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
For many US schools that would be a way forward provided really notable schools (and there are some :-)) retained their own articles. It wouldn't work for UK schools because Local Education Authorities, the UK equivalent have several times more schools and the articles wouls be too unweildy. Nonetheless it is a good idea for us to buld in. TerriersFan 16:16, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Smile!

Saber girl08 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.


Saber girl08 04:58, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

FNFL

I have the impression that your are surprised by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FNFL (American football), perhaps I should have elaborated : the content of FNFL (American football) was created by User:Leelad93 under FNFL. I deleted this text and replaced it with a redirect to Forces navales françaises libres (this is more the sort of article that I tend to create) ; this action was contested by User:Leelad93, so I moved his text to FNFL (American football) and proposed it for deletion. I am of the same opinion as you regarding the fate of this article. Rama 13:05, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation - it did seem out of character with your other, obviously erudite, contributions. TerriersFan 13:08, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Park Village Elementary School

Thanks for noticing and fixing my error at Talk:Park Village Elementary School. --Ezeu 01:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

HTH. TerriersFan 01:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Recognition

Thanks for the recognition. There are so few of us who are willing to put our nose to the Google grindstone to find sources. Its so much easier to just type one word, "Delete", and walk away. It is so incredibly easy to fins reliable and verifiable sources, especially for high schools. Alansohn 02:51, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Scottsdale Gun Club

Thank you for your help so far on the Scottsdale Gun Club entry. As is probably clearly obvious, I'm new to Wiki. Any of my actions that appear untoward are most certainly not, I'm still learning rules, regulations, policies and procedures here at Wikipedia. My biggest concern is that the entire entry is going to be removed/deleted before I'm capable of meeting compliance. Again, thank you for your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scottsdalegunclub (talk • contribs)

Not a problem but please read the links on your welcome message. There is no imminent danger of your article being deleted but you do need to independently source the facts over the next few days. Please let me know if I can help further. TerriersFan 00:57, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

UK Miner's Strike

Will all due respect my changing of one word of yours was not vandalism but an attempt to make the article less subjective - I think I failed in that but anyway...Vandalism is not something I do. Thanks.Nedtrifle 09:21, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I noticed your new word - excellent choice - you are have a better vocabulary than what I have!Nedtrifle 18:34, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

TY - just hit lucky I guess :-) TerriersFan 00:17, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Notability (people)#Regarding notability of Football (soccer) players

Hi, seeing you have been involved in previous Afd debates on the subject I invite you to contribute to this discussion to clarify certain issues about football player notability. I think clearer guidelines are needed to avoid repeated inappropriate nominations for deletion and time consuming discussions. Cheers! StephP 20:46, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Exeter School

Thank you for tidying it up! :) ADevNull 22:07, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Happy to Help. TerriersFan 22:11, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

James Madison Middle School

Um, a school in California is rated A+ by the state of Florida? That doesn't sound right. Nardman1 23:45, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Aaarghh!! Thanks; I do wish that they would choose more original names for these schools :-) TerriersFan 23:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Tommy Mores

Just wanted to say cheers for reverting the vandalism, that's the main reason my headmaster wanted the article deleted but as long as we revert the vandalism. Btw, how do you even get the IP blocked anyway?Olz06 12:35, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

List the IP at WP:AIV. They usually require 3 prior warnings. However, IIRC the IP is using the same text as previous IP vandals so if you link in with the earlier IPs they will probably block on the next occurrence but, if you don't fancy that, then put on the warning template. TerriersFan 22:30, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Administrator

Almost a year ago, I asked you if you would like for me to nominate you for adminship, you refused and thought you were still to new. Well, it has been a while, and you have made major improvements in your edit count and I would like to ask you again if I could nominate you for adminship. :) --eskimospy(talk) 01:34, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for remembering me - yes, I should be delighted! TerriersFan 01:36, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Okay, I nominated you however, you can confirm that you do indeed wish to become an Administrator here: Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/TerriersFan, there is also a few questions you have to answer--eskimospy(talk) 02:47, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

An interesting thing about dates

I saw you Americanized the dates on the Virginia Tech massacre. Actually, if you wikilink them they will change formatting based on a reader's prefs. I think the default format is American-style (April 16) but I, for example, have mine set to format international style (16 April). Just thought you might like to know. Natalie 03:14, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Great hint; many thanks. TerriersFan 03:15, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Thick and thin

An editor has nominated Thick and thin, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thick and thin and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. —Resurgent insurgent 2007-04-18 11:28Z

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bel Air Middle School (3rd nomination)

Thanks for your kind words at the above AfD and kudos to you on your corresponding efforts at other school articles. It's amazing how much can be found for most schools to satisfy the notability concerns of most editors, especially at the high school level, goven just 10 to 15 minutes. Until we can establish agreement on notability standards for schools, it appears that you and I will be kept quite busy. Alansohn 18:29, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Merge of Oberon Middle School into Jefferson County Public Schools (Colorado)

I really appreciate your merge of the article Oberon Middle School into the Jefferson County Public Schools (Colorado) article, but I wanted to give you a heads-up that I'm going to edit it down to the two relevant at the district level points in it -- the twice-over heart transplant recipient student and its use as a setting for a YA novel, which can be a jumping-off point for other uses of the district's schools in literary and film settings as I track those down. Thanks again for your dedication to improving school articles on Wikipedia! --Oddharmonic 16:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Virginia Tech shooting issue

I noticed you have asked Rooot to not act in a revert war. He appears to be doing this again by taking out large chuncks of the international response and gun control parts of the article while it is still being actively discussed on the talk page. Could you please assess the situation and if appropriate step in? Sad mouse 01:03, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

eg http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Virginia_Tech_massacre&oldid=124475553 http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Virginia_Tech_massacre&oldid=124473811 http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Virginia_Tech_massacre&oldid=124475037

Thank you for drawing this to my attention. The way forward is to keep a tally and if he removes similar material 3 times in any 24 hours place a warning as I did and then for a fourth event take him to WP:AN3. I would normally offer to do this but I'm going to be offline from now for the next 18 hours (sadly, real life has intervened :-)). A couple of points, don't forget to cite the diff for my warning to him here and quote the diffs (these can be found at the top of the pages that you quote} for the reversions rather than the pages themselves. Please let me know if I can help further. TerriersFan 02:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. Sad mouse 16:56, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Oh, also the section was deleted once again by IP 66 45 152 134. I don't know how to check what IP users use, so I won't assume it was Rooot. Sad mouse 17:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Student Society Articles

"student societies need significant secondary sources to justify having their own articles"

Just out of interest why is that the case for student societies? And what are the secondary sources? 87.113.31.241 16:29, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, student societies, as an alternative, have the facility to be merged into the university or student union articles. Secondary sources are sources unconnected, and without interest, for example the BBC, national press etc. who endorse the significance of the society. TerriersFan 21:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Barry

Good job developing that article. Regards, Navou banter 22:21, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. TerriersFan 23:54, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Your RfA

It's closing time. The result is not in question. Congrats! --Butseriouslyfolks 04:09, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Congrats! Real96 07:50, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

A fine congrats from me as well. --Tractorkingsfan 20:27, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Adminship

Congratulations, you are now an administrator! If you haven't already, now is the time look through the Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide and Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me, or at the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. Best wishes, Warofdreams talk 19:19, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. TerriersFan 19:34, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah! When I'm of legal age, I'll drink some champagne for you. ;] No, seriously, major kudos to you. You deserve every bit of the adminship. You've saved my bottom several times, and helped me prevent some bad things from happening, and that alone is grounds for your promotion. I can't say it enough: congrats! Bmrbarre 23:22, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations! Make us all proud. Alansohn 04:23, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations TerriersFan, you now have all the abilities and privileges of an administrator! Just out of curiosity, is the user interface of an administrator account any different of that of a normal account?--eskimospy (talk • contribs • count) 04:41, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

No, virtually the same. The key difference is that between History and Move there are two new tabs; Protect and Delete. TerriersFan 09:05, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Chocolate sandwich

You really saw that as having context? Odd. I was even hesitating towards A1. (BTW, gratz on your RfA). Coren 15:42, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

The speedy procedure is deliberately narrowly defined and should only be used in clear cases. (Thank you). TerriersFan 15:50, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Hywel Gwynfryn

All right. Now you're just confusing the heck out of me.  :-) Where on that page did you read an assertion of notability? There is no claim of applicable secondary source of bio information; and hosting a radio show certainly doesn't go anywhere near the notability criterion and that's the only claim in the article besides a very brief statement of birth and education.

I think you're confusing me with some sort of rabid deletist.  :-) Take a look at my contributions-- if you discount the obvious nonsense, vandals and spam, my CSD either lead to quick deletion or spur/scare the author into making uninformative two-liners into real proto-articles. I don't put CSD tags for the heck of it, and if you disagree with my assessment of applicability, I'd appreciate your telling me why I'm wrong.  :-) Coren 18:41, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

As I state above, the speedy procedure is for clear cases only since there is no opportunity for consensus. In both these cases I think that a Prod would have been a better option. My view is that 'Welsh TV and Radio personality' is sufficient assertion of notability to make a speedy inappropriate (the notability bar is much lower to avoid a speedy than to survive an AfD). Having said that, I agree that the article lacks the necessary secondary sources (my knowledge of Welsh is simply not up to the task of assessing the many Ghits) and notability is marginal which is why I have listed it on AfD and it may well get deleted but that is a different issue. HTH. TerriersFan 19:07, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Fair 'nuf. That's why I was always against admins deleting their own speedies. Having tag and delete done by two different editors makes sure two people get a crack at seeing if the bar is passed or not. Coren 19:30, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Ruwantha Cooray

Hi there. I'm curious as to why you removed the deletion request from Ruwantha Cooray. Even with the new (old) information, it clearly does not pass the notability criteria for athletes. As there are no specific criteria for tennis players (it's on WP:TENNIS's list), that's the best criteria we have here. The fact that most of the substantial contributions to the article have come from User:Ruwantha2006 also points to WP:AUTO. I think it's an open-and-shut case for deletion, but if you think "prod" or AfD would be more appropriate, I'd like to hear your comments. --Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 22:25, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

The speedy delete procedure is deliberately tightly defined since it allows deletion without consensus, and is only for the clearest cases. To avoid speedy deletion the bar is deliberately set much lower than for an AfD. In my view, the article asserts enough notability for the speedy procedure not to be applicable - I know, for example, that some editors consider an ATP ranking enough for notability - even if it fails WP:BIO. By all means Prod or AFD, which this article is not likely to survive, but that is another story. HTH. TerriersFan 22:36, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguation Pages: How do I create them?

I'm currently in need of your guidance and expertise. I have created a new article entitled The Edge of Night, but there is a soap opera article entitled The Edge of Night. How do I create a disambig page to clear all this up? Your help would be much appreciated. Thanks, and best regards, Bmrbarre 20:14, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmm; on reflection I don't like this method, there are too many redirects going to the soap opera; I'm moving it back. TerriersFan 20:41, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
OK, now fixed, go to The Edge of Night and edit the page to see how its done! HTH. TerriersFan 20:51, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Pardon any rudeness, but I meant one of those pages which you go to and it gives you two options, describing each one briefly. That seems like it evens out the emphasis, and doesn't favor the soap opera over my own (yes, I am quite vain). Maybe the way you did it is better...oh well. Thank you so much. You learn something new everyday. Bmrbarre 21:01, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
No problem! Let me explain. It is possible to create a disambiguation page by editing the redirect page that you created. However, it would have caused a row - there were dozens of incoming links for the soap opera so converting the The Edge of Night to a disambiguation page would have meant that dozens of links meant for the soap opera would have gone to the DMB page and would have needed to be reset. I do agree that the method I have chosen gives your page a lower billing but it will save a lot of folks a lot of work and protect you from aggro - my prime purpose :-) HTH. TerriersFan 21:17, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
You're right. Thanks for always having my back. Bmrbarre 13:50, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

I am preparing an article split so I was a bit upset when those pages got deleted. Thanks for userfying it them. Regards, «razorclaw» 18:49, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

محمد جعفر محمد عبدالرحيم آل نمر

You recently deleted this page محمد جعفر محمد عبدالرحيم آل نمر just a few hours after it was listed on Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English. Normally, these pages are reviewed by at least one person who can read the language or otherwise determine the content. I would like to see whether there was any salvageable information in this page before it was deleted. I am unable to access the page's history. Maybe you can explain how I can view the original content, or why you acted so quickly on it or what you thought it contained? Please reply to my talk page. Thanks. Cbdorsett 12:59, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Not only did I not delete it (that was User:Swatjester), I added a 'hangon' suggesting that it /not/ be deleted for the time being. I have userfied it to User:Cbdorsett/Articles needing translation. TerriersFan 16:01, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. It's completely non-notable and properly deleted. It was a pseudo-bio claiming that someone went to a whole bunch of elementary schools and is now an electrical engineering student. It looks like the text was cobbled together by someone who knows Arabic. Cbdorsett 16:14, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
So now we are all happy, I guess. Thank you for your comment.--Anthony.bradbury 16:31, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Steve Rizzono

See my edit on the AFD page. Other editors have not made substantial edits to it. The only person who has made substantial edits are my two accounts. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bearhug Lewis (talk • contribs) 16:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC). I'm not denying that. Rereard what i said. I said that they made the contribution after I added the tag.

Whatever; they have now made edits so you cannot re-add the tag. TerriersFan 16:55, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Reverts and Lyrics

Salve, pal. Thanks for reverting the edits to Spaulding and Barre Town. I appreciate it.

I'm just wondering why you said that you would take out the lyrics. They are actually the words to a poem by Tolkien as listed in the article, so therefore, they should be allowed. I have seen quotes from Tolkien's works before, which is why I included the lyrics to begin with. If you could help clarify this all for my, that would be much appreciated. Thanks much, Bmrbarre 01:35, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I have taken them out pro-tem to remove one possible cause for deletion. The question is - are Tolkien's works out of copyright? I don't think they are and, if not, then you can't quote the lyrics. TerriersFan 01:43, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

re:Socks of JB196

Hmm.. well, assuming good faith, I would assume that he was just another editor, but it does seem unlikely. Since I didn't actually perform the blocks (or CheckUsers) of the other accounts, David Gerard did, I would ask him to CheckUser the accounts to see if they are sockpuppets. You could also block for obvious sockpuppetry, but I would ask David just for the sake of accuracy, we wouldn't want to block a innocent user, would we? :) — The Future 10:37, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Udston mining disaster

Nicely done. Wear this with pride. DarkAudit 22:34, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

For performance above and beyond the call of duty in saving the Udston mining disaster article, I hereby bestow the Rescue From Deletion Award. Well done! -- DarkAudit 22:34, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Wow! Thanks! TerriersFan 22:35, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Congrats! Another one, which you certainly deserve. Bmrbarre 23:22, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Disappearance of Madeleine McCann

Could you please explain why you replaced a high quality image of Madeleine McCann with a low quality one. Thank you. --Absolut1966 01:18, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Of course; your image carried no licence. TerriersFan 01:22, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you.--Absolut1966 01:34, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Madeleine McCann

I have reverted myself for now. But in that case the reference should come after the full stop, not behind the names. Or the reference pertains to the two names, which would mean that Sousa remains uncited for the moment. AecisBrievenbus 21:53, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Or was the BBC's "'No evidence' for Algarve arrest" reference (currently ref 21) intended to refer to the press conference? In that case, copying the ref might be appropriate. AecisBrievenbus 21:55, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks; I am thinking how it can be done better. Yes, the ref refers to the press conference. TerriersFan 22:00, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Missing White Woman Syndrome

As much as I'd love to live in a realm full of teddy bears and gumdrop ponies as you apparently do, I use Wikipedia to report the cold, dark facts of planet earth.

First off, the majority of the discussion on “Missing White Woman Syndrome” in the McCann article points in favor of leaving MWWS as it is. I don’t know where you’re getting your statistics.

Like a doctor, a writer for an encyclopedia cannot let his personal feelings get in the way of his work, or else there will be room for mistakes. This is okay, you are still learning.

I know it’s difficult to see the coverage of McCann’s abduction simply as a result of media capitalism and “Euro(white)-centrism.” Perhaps we can leave MWWS in the article, but note that it is just speculation (we’ll need a notable source that says this, of course.) -MM 5/16/07

I went back to the article and someone already replaced the MWWS link. Looks like there’s a war between people who believe in MWWS and people who don’t/refuse to accept it.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.114.238.196 (talk • contribs)

Talk Page

Wow! Your talk page is getting super long, you might want to consider archiving your talk page. This is just a suggestion though.--Eskimospy 00:12, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Good idea - I will. TerriersFan 01:07, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
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