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Archived material has been removed to User talk:Sam Blacketer/Archive 1-50 (09:41, 13 March 2007) and to User talk:Sam Blacketer/Archive 51-100 (10:48, 28 April 2007). Sam Blacketer 10:55, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Sysop

I have made you a sysop, per your RFA. Congratulations. Make sure you are familiar with our policies before using your shiny new buttons. Raul654 20:11, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Congrats Sam, a well-deserved promotion. Good luck with your new tools! Majorly (hot!) 20:22, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I have put a general thanks note on my user page, in line with the instruction not to thank RfA voters individually. Sam Blacketer 20:55, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the revert of vandalism on my Sandbox. Cheers. Flowerpotman talk|contribs 22:09, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Thanks for the heads up. He had a half-dozen unreverted changes, so it seemed more recent, and I forgot to check the time. Congratulations on your recent adminship too. --Steve _(Stephen) 22:49, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Vintagekits

From the fact that there have been so many one contrib only "delete" votes and from VK's passion generally, I have no doubt the afd is on some newsgroup. Heigh ho - there is simply no point. But please would you monitor his recent contributions until you get bored. He needs to raise his concerns on a central page or back off editing anything I have ever touched or both. Congratulations on your admin status. - Kittybrewster (talk) 08:12, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

all the stuff was here already, i just linked myself rather than just be a name.

man I was confused, because the live video bit had me there i was trying to make a page, the the live video page went and deleated the names and I was worried, so i out it back up normal —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AskTheTyrant (talk • contribs) 13:49, 29 April 2007 (UTC).

ok got it

ok so someone just added it and here is me thinking it legit lol.

oh well lets hope live video get around to sorceing it eh —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AskTheTyrant (talk • contribs) 13:56, 29 April 2007 (UTC).

Serra Sabancı

I have deleted the article on Serra Sabancı because the only notablity of the subject was as one member of a large board of directors. I don't think this counts as an assertion of notability. Sam Blacketer 16:25, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

I do not agree with your deletion. You say that her only notability is being a member of a large board of directors. What does it mean? Would she be noteworthy if the number of the board members were small enough? She is a board member of Turkey's second largest company. Maybe you "think" wrong, think it over! Articles in wikipedia mostly start small. If you do not know much about her, undo your deletion.CeeGee 16:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

You are welcome to challenge this decision at a deletion review. I don't think that being on the board of a company is an assertion of notability, especially when she inherited the position. Sam Blacketer 16:57, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Tírghrá

Thanks for your comments regarding its reliability. There's also been lengthy discussions here and here regarding its reliability (and the reliabilty of other sources), and what information can be reliably sourced from it. JzG provided an example that showed that the book may be unreliable, but I found clear evidence from the Sutton Project that clearly proved the book was correct and that McKittrick was in fact wrong, and also explained why McKittrick was likely to have got it wrong. A journalist is only as good as his sources and the information he is given, so there's no guarantee he's always right. Every person in the book is on the Republican Roll of Honour, and it stands to reason that the Republican movement is a reliable source as to who its members are/were. The book and other partisan sources aren't being used to source anything controversial to the best of my knowledge (and if they are I'll be happy to find mainstream sources or remove the claims), for example any claims of someone being shot while unarmed are never sourced from a partisan source. Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 18:42, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Mrs Emery

Thanks - I thought that was just random silliness. --SquidSK 11:54, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Genie-soft Page

I’ve created a page with subject: Genie-soft and you have kindly deleted the page. i didn't post it because I work at Genie-soft or something. i posted it because i believe such company should be supported and should be very well knows because it sets an example for other people about determination and well.

This is a third world company with international standards of excellence ... and they have an unprecedented record for being such a company in the Middle East. I've checked other companies' pages on your website, such as Symantec, Acronis, Panda, and others ... and i wrote in the same manner these pages were written. no promotional material was included and it was written in an unbiased way.

Could you please clarify the reason(s) why you deleted the page? Could you also please also check the pages i mentioned above and compare the one i wrote about Genie-soft with them and find if there is any difference between them? Your prompt response is highly appreciated. Ayman bdo 12:37, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your timely response.

Kindly note that one of Genie-soft's backup products (Genie Backup Manager Pro v7.0) was reviewed by PC World magazine on June 21, 2006 and was ranked as one of the top 5 backup utilities world wide. PC World conducted their review with their emphasis being on Price, Design & Usability, Performance & Reliability, and Features.

While GBM Pro v7.0 was ranked one level above EMC Retrospect 7.5 Professional (GBM Pro v7.0 came third and EMC Retrospect 7.5 Pro came fourth), EMC has a huge webpage on your website and Genie-soft doesn't.

A point to highlight here, is that Genie-soft is one of the very few companies in the Middle East that develops its own software products and sells them through the web, and targets the international backup and security markets. Thank you for your time and consideration. Ayman bdo 14:10, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your timely response. Kindly note that one of Genie-soft's backup products (Genie Backup Manager Pro v7.0) was reviewed by PC World magazine on June 21, 2006 and was ranked as one of the top 5 backup utilities world wide. PC World conducted their review with their emphasis being on Price, Design & Usability, Performance & Reliability, and Features.

While GBM Pro v7.0 was ranked one level above EMC Retrospect 7.5 Professional (GBM Pro v7.0 came third and EMC Retrospect 7.5 Pro came fourth), EMC has a huge webpage on your website and Genie-soft doesn't.

A point to highlight here, is that Genie-soft is one of the very few companies in the Middle East that develops its own software products and sells them through the web, and targets the international backup and security markets. Ayman bdo 14:26, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Could you please answer my previouse message? Ayman bdo 06:38, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Jewish

So I guess I should start removing everyone from Jewish categories that aren't notable for being Jewish? 75.3.2.96 19:44, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Your claim is not a fact

I'm sorry but you just made claims that were not based on actual facts, maybe just stuff you wished was facts. You want to totally ignore the Protestant-Catholic issue because you are an Englishman that clearly is very racist towards Irish. 75.3.2.96 19:49, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Bobby Sands

A second edit war is breaking out now, which I'm not involved in obviously. I seem to remember a while ago you made a comment something along the lines of Northern Irish shouldn't be used to describe Irish Republicans as it isn't how they would describe themselves, but I know it wasn't that recent and I'd rather not delve through your contributions to find it. Plus isn't it also true that Irish would refer to someone's ethnic group, and not their nationality? Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 20:35, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Category:Theorized continents

Hi. I do not think my points on the difference between the words were addressed, nor were the reasons for moving adequate. Could you please expand on your reason for closing the debate. Thanks, ☻ Fred|☝ discussion|✍ contributions 17:10, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

3rr

Hey, you should have blocked that editor. See here. He had me blocked a couple of months ago for an innocuous edit on British Isles, and afterwards I realised that it was 4 edits in 28 hours. Got no mercy from admin. I have more or less left WP since. That's why I can't sign, I closed my membership. WP should make no exceptions for anyone, not even Jimbo. Rules are rules. 86.42.176.233 00:52, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

No-one ever "has to be blocked". Blocks are never punitive, just preventive. Having established with Bastun that his conduct was a breach of the rule, which he was previously disputing, ensured that the disruption of Misplaced Pages stopped, and therefore any block would not be appropriate. Of course if he goes back to reverting then a block would be appropriate. Sam Blacketer 08:08, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Page deletion

Why did you delete my page? It was a valid part of Comicopia history, and had been up for at least 4-5 months already. JeffreyABoman 17:38, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

that post was not suppose to be taken as spam..

we are serrious about getting an article what can we do to get this done — Preceding unsigned comment added by Magicswebpage (talk • contribs)

It wasn't taken as spam; I gave a detailed explanation to JeffreyABoman. Your seriousness about trying to get an article is commendable; however, not every subject is going to be suitable for a Misplaced Pages article. As I explained to JeffreyABoman, if you can make a claim for notability and provide references to multiple independent reliable sources making non-trivial mentions of the subject, then the article is suitable for Misplaced Pages. If you can't, then it may well be deleted. Sam Blacketer 19:18, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 April 26#Category:Date of death missing & others

Hello there, I'm slightly confused by your closure of the above, and other connected debates of the 26th. In closing you list the result as 'Repurpose to talk pages and delete' - it's the delete part that causes some surprise. The whole aim of this 'Repurpose' effort is to retain the category but to have it categorise talk pages rather than articles. This is as an alternative to deletion. Could you clarify your intent/meaning?

Cheerio, Xdamr 23:10, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Give me a chance

wow, you deleted my article before I had chance to place my "hangon" tag...... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pmboogie (talk • contribs) 09:51, 5 May 2007 (UTC).

My talk page

Thanks, but no. I'd like it deleted so Google doesn't index it. My user page is fine to stay for the moment however. (Caniago 09:52, 5 May 2007 (UTC))

Castles in France

Following discussion (see here), it has been decided (wrongly in my view, but there you go) that the Category:Castles in France should be renamed Category:Fortified French châteaux. After the initial decision to transfer the contents of Castles in France to Category:Châteaux in France, you used AWB to efficiently transfer all the listed articles, approximately 175 of them. Is there any simple way of now identifying those articles and removing them to the new category, or will someone have to to trawl through masses of articles and identify each one individually? Emeraude 11:48, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand. If the issue is just moving all the articles in one category to a new category, then AWB does that very simply. If the decision is to reverse the merger, then it is more difficult but still possible: If you follow this link you will see all the changes made. Copying the text of the page, stripping out all the extraneous detail other than the names of the pages which were changed, will give a list which can be pasted into AWB. Then set AWB to replace Category:Châteaux in France with the name of the newly demerged category. Sam Blacketer 12:03, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry if I didn't make it clear - it isn't exactly clear to me! What you suggest looked OK at first, but I'm not so sure because I think it would depopulate entirely the Châteaux in France Category.

The issue is to create the new category (Fortified French châteaux) which I can do. Then to get all of the articles that used to be in Castles in France but which are now in Châteaux in France (but not including those that were originally in the latter and which belong there) and recategorise them as Fortified French châteaux. It is not as simple as moving all of one category to another I'm afraid. I could do this by editing the Cats in each individual article, but 175 of them! Just thought there might be some more automatic method. Emeraude 12:55, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Saunders Lewis image

Hi Sam, thanks for the message on my cy.wikipedia talk page. I scanned the image from a small and rather grainy picture (hence its poor quality) in a booklet called Coelcerth Rhyddid, published in 1937 by Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru (the forerunner of today's Plaid Cymru). I'm not aware of any copyright problem or I wouldn't have used it. The photo is unsourced in the booklet. Please consider that we have very few images available for Welsh figures in general and it would be a shame to lose this. I'd appreciate it if you coulc keep me informed of the situation. Best wishes, Anatiomaros. 88.111.242.167 15:11, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

IRC cloak request

I am SamBlacketer on freenode and I would like the cloak wikipedia/SamBlacketer. Thanks. Sam Blacketer 19:38, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Signpost articles

Heya Sam! Would you be willing to release your writings (located at http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-04-23/Robdurbar) for use on wikinews under CC. 2.5? please reply asap thanx symode09

--talk to symode09's or Spread the love! 10:02, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Just to clarify that is the Creative commons Atributation licesnes (not the share alike one, some people get mixed up which one we use, and Symode09 didn't say). Bawolff 11:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Are you going to strike through you false comment?

The comment you made here is totally untrue and has been prove so - are you going to do the decent thing and strike through it?--Vintagekits 17:11, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

You have continued to edit but not replied regarding this issue. If you are going to let it stand as is then that is fine but it just gives me a idea of how you work.--Vintagekits 08:39, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages is not a battleground. Harassing and accusing people who disagree with you is not likely to be a successful strategy with anyone. Sam Blacketer 08:48, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Proposal

Can you take a look here please, and add anything you feel appropriate. Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 23:34, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Will This Work - Do Anything Nice (D.A.N.)?

I rewrote the article to be more like an encyclopedia. Please let me know if this is more acceptable. I promise I am not trying to advertise and I apologize for an issues this may have caused. If you have any tips or advice I would love to hear them. Thanks for the help.

Do Anything Nice (D.A.N.)

was founded in 2001 as the Do Anything Nice club in Verona, NJ at . It was lead by a group of dedicated senior students for several years. In 2005 a Chapter of D.A.N. was opened at Ithaca College (), located in Ithaca, NY, under the direction of first year student, Michael Unis. The charter of D.A.N was amended in 2005 to include the program D.A.N “Nationwide”. October 2006 D.A.N. “Nationwide” was changed to “D.A.N. America” and with the founding of the first ever international D.A.N. chapter located in Florence, Italy at the , "D.A.N. International" was created.

The organization filed Articles of Incorporation and in January 2007, Do Anything Nice (D.A.N.), was officially filed with the State of New York, USA, as a non-profit corporation. On February 10, 2007 “D.A.N. America” and “D.A.N. International”, were united as “D.A.N. Global”. The “D.A.N. International” branch became “The Global Information Center”.

During March 2007 the program, “D.A.N. Kids”, premiered at in Verona, NJ. “D.A.N. Kids” opens “” for the first time ever in the creation of a middle school division.

Links

The official Do Anything Nice (D.A.N.) | International website: http://www.doanythingnice.org

Articles:

Ouch you surely are fast

I was reverting my g12 speedy to put a redirect to Frances Reid, it seems the creator made a typo in the title. Anyway, the copyvio is at the best possible place anyway ;) -- lucasbfr 16:16, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Deletion reason

Hi Sam, i'm the creator for SmartPlanetCMS. Sorry to ask, can i have the reason why this article has been deleted and now in protected status while i already remove all the external link? Other same like article WebHat, IWebex_CMS, TribalCMS and etc is allowed to be published? Thanks. KeithChee 16:57, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Bobby Sands redux

I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall here. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 22:42, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Mr. Blacketer, if you've a problem with how categories are used on Misplaced Pages, please find a proper venue for voicing these concerns. Disrupting the Bobby Sands article to prove a point is not only silly, but reflecting quite poorly on your intended aims. Please see Misplaced Pages:Categorization_of_people#By_gender.2C_religion.2C_race_or_ethnicity.2C_and_sexuality, as well as the category itself, which includes lots of people that are members of the Church but are better known for other things. gaillimh 15:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to chip in here. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 20:17, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

User:Jimmothyjimbo

Hello, could you have a look at this user again I think they just made two deliberately incorrect edits to Henry VIII of England and Oprah Winfrey. Thanks Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 18:40, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

3RR report

Regarding your decision here, you made a mistake in your rational, you said "Miskin's edit there preserved the claim of Ariobarzanes' army being only 700 strong." which is not true, he removed the 700 figure alltoegther, he did not preserve it. Here is the diff, please review it. Furthermore, after I had filed that report, User:Miskin made yet another revert within the 24-hour frame-work, he reinserted the "ambush attack" claim , which had been removed from the page . Now that makes it five clear reverts within 24 hours in violation of WP:3RR which clearly states "An editor must not perform more than three reverts, in whole or in part....revert means undoing the actions of another editor, whether involving the same or different material each time." In light of all this evidence, please re-review your decision. Keep in mind that an opposing editor was blocked for violating 3RR on the same page, so it's expected that the rules to apply to both sides equally, even though I do understand that User:Miskin has a lot of administrator friends who maybe campaigning for him behind the scenes. --Mardavich 05:34, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

I've blocked Miskin for 1 month. It was a partial revert at the very least, and clearly in violation of the spirit. He's been blocked 7 times for disruptive editing on this topic. Enough is enough. ⇒ SWATJester 05:58, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

At 5 AM I was asleep, so unable to respond. I also can't predict what editors will do after the report, which included unambiguously breaking the 3RR. The block history shows a lot of blocks in 2005 and one in 2006, so I still think one month is excessive. Sam Blacketer 09:45, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

I think so too. Judging by user:Merovingian's comments, the block of 28 December 2005 may have been unjustified. This would make a total of only five previous blocks, four of which took place in 2005. Iblardi 11:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Regardless, still highly disruptive. Sam, there is a long, detailed discussion on this going on at WP:AN/I, you may want to weigh in. The 1 month has been dropped down to 1 week, since then, however a statement from you that he has clearly violated the 3RR after the report would be extremely helpful. ⇒ SWATJester 02:22, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Arbitration

A request for arbitration has been opened for a case in which you have been named as a party. See WP:RFAR to offer your statement. ⇒ SWATJester 08:55, 14 May 2007 (UTC)