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Kaltura - need your opinion

I believe that you had once deleted and protected the article Kaltura that I had been trying to get published. I have been speaking with UsaSatsui and per his suggestion in the deletion review for Kaltura, I have created a new page in draft mode and would like for you to review it. UsaSatsui has already reviewed it and beyond a few small changes that he thinks could help, he feels it's in good shape to submit to deletion review again, and hopefully it can be moved out of draft mode. He did however suggest that I run it by one more admin first, so I'm hoping you can help. Please review the draft I created User:Lishkee/Kaltura and let me know. Thank you!!Lishkee (talk) 22:21, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks, I understand and I've already started the deletion review process as well.Lishkee (talk) 08:23, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Why did you delete Delta Tao article?

please state the reason given for deleteing the article. Seems to me that many other companies are listed in this encylopedia. Zarutian (talk) 04:06, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for moving all those orphaned posts to live talk pages! Avb 12:12, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Question

What happened to Misplaced Pages:Protected titles, are we back to templates?--Hu12 (talk) 02:26, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Doctor Steel

Hello, this is maybe the second time I've ever logged on to Misplaced Pages, so I'm not sure if I'm following the correct procedure. Anyway, I found your name from the talk page at the deleted Doctor Steel page. I was curious about why that page was locked. I was told about Dr. Steel by a coworker and wanted to find out more at Misplaced Pages, but it seems Misplaced Pages is silent about this topic? Maxwerx (talk) 21:57, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

The Comedian's Comedian

Just curious as to why the article is protected against creation.76.84.230.183 (talk) 08:24, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

MechQuest Page

Not sure if this is the correct / proper way to go about this, but here we go. Why was the MechQuest article deleted and then protected from creation? All of Artix Entertainment's other main games have pages and MechQuest is mentioned in the main company article, so it can't be permission or something. Care to clue me in? Baseballbaker23 (talk) 03:40, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Edit: Ah, it's more complicated than I had thought. I'll let people who know more about the system here argue over it for me and then add in anything I know once / if it's put back up. Thanks. Baseballbaker23 (talk) 03:58, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Softredirect

Hi. What exactly didn't work about contentSub? It's a defined CSS id, not a hack. — Edokter • Talk • 00:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I know the text was a little too low. However the redirectText class (big font) did work. Do you mind if I put that back? — Edokter • Talk • 00:52, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Kazenga LuaLua

Any chance of unprotecting this page now as hes now listed on the official website here. 19:05, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Reign

Hi. You deleted Reign (role-playing game) under csd a7. a7 states A7 applies only to articles about web content or articles on people and organizations themselves, not articles on their books, albums, software and so on. While it has pdf updates, the game itself is a book. --86.88.18.236 (talk) 22:29, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Violation of 1RR rule on Waterboarding

Please see this edit: and block Black Kite (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) immediately for violating your new 1RR rule. Also, please revert his disruptive edit. (In the alternative, please don't block me for doing it myself if you don't revert it within the next few hours.) Otherwise, you will be endorsing violation of all the new rules and a lot more people will be violating them. Also they're talking about banning me from the article for three months over at WP:ANI, so I think a three-month article ban for Black Kite is appropriate. He has a disruptive editing pattern in the article mainspace and he deserves it. Thank you. Neutral Good (talk) 02:33, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok, since you have set new rules, how does

One might say that Blue Tie has made edits that he knew would be controversial, in order to change the new regime. --Akhilleus (talk) 02:50, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, one might say that, but one would be utterly wrong and in complete violation of WP:AGF. I am not interested in challenging the new regime. On my word of honor that would never enter my head. However, I edited in parts of the article that were not part of the controversy on the talk page and I only asked for citations, I did not change any text. I believe that there are some problems of original research so I asked for cites. This is not a bad thing and does not injure the article. Generally requests for cites should not be reverted anyway.. they should be answered with citations! But when rules have been set down forbidding immediate reverts, then I do not know what to do. Per the rules, I am forbidden from reverting an act that was against the rules. I have no recourse but to bring it to that admin. I should not be condemned or impugned for following the rules -- and for seeking redress of wrongs under those rules. --Blue Tie (talk) 03:16, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Quite frankly, Blue Tie, I don't believe you. Asking for citations when there are none is a fine thing, but in this edit, you slap a {{fact}} tag on a sentence that cites a Washington Post article. You put the tag there because you disagreed with the Post, not because the material lacked citation. That's not what the {{fact}} tag is for, and you should have known that someone was going to disagree with your edit. --Akhilleus (talk) 04:10, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

OK, you do not believe me. I do not know how to convince you. I can see where that edit would seem suspicious, so maybe its impossible for you to assume good faith. Everyone has their limits. However, I believe it is not unreasonable to question a source's correctness. In this case, I do. I have slowly, gradually come to a realization: The term "waterboarding" is not well defined and may not be correctly applied in the popular press. This is such a big problem, that even if I were editing the article all on my own, I do not know if I could get it "right" using press sources. I am not talking about "truth". I am talking about actually presenting the facts correctly. It has me genuinely concerned. This is an abbreviation of my concern, but it is my best answer to your doubt.

Going forward though, take a look at my other edits. They were ALL reverted. But I suspect you cannot find equal fault with them. Such wholesale reverts are simply inappropriate, even in normal circumstances but under the new rules, such mass reverts without discussion should not occur and seeking remedies from authorities is appropriate. Had only that one single edit that you find troubling been reverted, I would not have fought or complained. I would, however, have sought discussion.

Knowing this, I hope you can find yourself assuming good faith again. If you cannot, then you will be unable to edit constructively with me on that page. --Blue Tie (talk) 04:44, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Reprotect Waterboarding

Requesting your assent as the latest admin to deal with this mess: The semi-protect isn't working. Instead of handing out a bunch of blocks, which would only inflame things further, I plan to return the article to full protection. I think the article needs a good long period of full protection so all the parties can discuss things and come to agreement (assuming that's possible). Yea or nea? Raymond Arritt (talk) 03:09, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

If it is protected, it should have a tag that says it is protected because of disputes. I admit I am not paying attention to whether people are edit warring, so if I say I have not noticed any edit warring that does not mean there is none. But is there really a lot? I have not seen it. And ...if the rules laid down by McBride are tried for a while (except for the first unworkable rule) maybe things will work out over time. Seems like they haven't even been given a chance. No enforcement so far. --Blue Tie (talk) 03:21, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Watchlist-notice

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Template_talk%3AWatchlist-notice&diff=183347547&oldid=183345010

Yes, OBVIOUSLY, such a suggestion was some form of disruption or misbehavior. Who ever in their right mind would suggest not advertising a highly controversial process that has half the project in deep discussion? -- Ned Scott 06:09, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about all of that... -- Ned Scott 05:46, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration#Waterboarding

Please see the above link as I have requested arbitration for a dispute that you have provided input on. Feel free to contribute there. Regards, henrik•talk 11:44, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Request for page unprotection

Aliya-Jasmine Sovani (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) I listed this on the page unprotection request page before I realized I should have just come to you, as you were the original protector. I have "adopted" user Jamierush and helped her develop this page over the last few days. I think that notability is now established, and I pretty much made her reference everything. We are prepared to debate and defend notability. Tanthalas39 (talk) 16:35, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Why did you delete Dolls Place article?

I went to update the page that I created and I see that you deleted it. YFTS (talk) 16:59, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Template talk:Archive list

Hi, in case you haven't seen, I've responded to your comments on that talk page. Tra (Talk) 00:09, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Category:Getrag transmissions

I noticed you deleted this on January 5 under CSD:C1 (empty). This original (non-cap) category was created some time in 2005 by User:Sfoskett. A duplicate category, Category:GETRAG transmissions, was created by a user who disputed the non caps (at the same time he was also involved in several copy/paste page moves which also required subsequent repair). In this case, the user simply changed the capitalization of each categorized page from Getrag to GETRAG to populate the new, duplicate category, and although I pointed out our GFDL requirements to him on his talk page, he refused to acknowledge this. I've no idea whether it was the specific user, a bot, or a passing editor who requested deletion, but we now have a three year old category with no attribution to the author who properly created it. Doesn't this require an undeletion/history merge? --DeLarge (talk) 15:28, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:X10

A tag has been placed on Template:X10 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section T1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a template that is divisive and inflammatory.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on ] explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines. MZMcBride (talk) 06:53, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:X10

A tag has been placed on Template:X10 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a really hot template.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) or spin on your head. --MZMcBride (talk) 08:05, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Jason Lytle

I've been asked by a user to make it possible for him to recreate this page (see my talk page for the request). Since you protected it, I thought I'd ask you for your opinion of that idea first. The user suggests that it would be relatively easy for him to demonstrate notability; I'm happy to do whatever would result in a useful and notable page. Please let me know your thoughts, and thanks in advance for your trouble. Accounting4Taste:talk 15:58, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

• I haven't heard from you on this, as far as I know, so I've gone ahead and recreated the page for the user in question. I hope this meets with your approval; if you have any questions or problems, I'm at your service. Accounting4Taste:talk 22:09, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me, and I'm glad you're not bothered. I was the admin who deleted it the last two times, so I guess it's up to me... I'll keep an eye on it. BTW, if it makes a difference, I like the new protection system a lot more than the old one, now that I think I have the hang of it. I don't protect much, but when I want to, it's a lot easier. Thanks. Accounting4Taste:talk 00:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Waterboarding

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, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Waterboarding/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Waterboarding/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Anthøny 16:39, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Convenor

I recreated the article Convenor as a redirect to Chair (official). You had deleted the article as csd r1. Please let me know of you have any questions or concerns about this recreation. Jeepday (talk) 20:21, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:X10

A tag has been placed on Template:X10 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a really hot template.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) or spin on your head. --MZMcBride (talk) 00:50, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Spurious <br/> in <gallery>_in_<gallery>-2008-01-14T04:21:00.000Z">

-- Tim Starling (talk) 04:21, 14 January 2008 (UTC)_in_<gallery>"> _in_<gallery>">

Vanishing

Hi, just addressing something, earlier you undeleted my user talk, which was completely fine. :) I've been busy lately, and some issues have forced me to stay away. In the event that I am completely unavailable, I vanish temporarily to reflect that fact. It's certainly unorthodox and perhaps not the best form, but I prefer it given the possibility, however marginal, at each break that I might not come back. I've undeleted and unprotected my user/talk pages, for now, since I may be available occasionally, but I figured that an explanation to you would be appropriate. I miss being here - I hope that soon I may return in a fuller capacity. Nihiltres 04:11, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Request for clarifications re: recent changes to Template:Buddhism

Howdy MZMcBride -

If you've the time, just due to intellectual curiosity on my part and as a maintainer of Template:Buddhism, I wondering if you could help me understand the changes you recently made to Template:Buddhism (02:58, 15 January 2008). In particular:

• Is Template:! no longer appropriate to use (or perhaps it is simply not needed any more in the context of Template:Buddhism) ?
• What is the benefit of <br/> vs. <br> and is there a benefit to inserting variable spaces between the "br" and the "/"? (I'm an old GML and SGML coder and I simply don't recollect the use of the slash in this context — though this could just be a facet of my increasingly feeble memory.)

Thanks for any help,
Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 08:37, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Amazing & terrific! Thanks so much for taking the time to clearly educate me with such explicit and useful examples! I applaud your skill and kindness. Best wishes, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 19:54, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Paul Addis article

Hi. I see you recently protected the deleted Paul Addis article against re-creation.

I am considering creating a new article about this person. He is certainly notable. I would have no problem creating a well-sourced article that establishes notability and avoids BLP issues. I don't see anything in Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Paul Addis or the deletion log that would prohibit re-creation, and I'm a little confused about the "deprecating protected titles" notation for protection you gave here. Is there something I'm missing? If there is no special reason to salt this article would you kindly unprotect it so I may create an article; or otherwise, point me to where that decision was made so I can review it and decide whether to ask for a review. Thanks, Wikidemo (talk) 17:05, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

DjVu icon

Hi MZMcBride, you recently removed the redirect on Image:DjVu-logo.png. As I mentioned on the image page, I added the redirect so that it works with a template I created for DjVu files. When an external link points to a DjVu, this glyph shows what file type it is. Clicking on the glyph redirects to DjVu, the article explaining the file type. Do you think this is undesirable? Another option would be to create two duplicate images; one with a redirect to work with the template, and one ordinary. Please reply on Image talk:DjVu-logo.png rather than here. Regards, Colin MacLaurin (talk) 09:22, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Maintaining

You've done some good work maintaining the project in the background. Keep it up. Especially the text moves, you did not have to do those, but you did.

		The Invisible Barnstar
		For your work, you sought nothing. But you see, this barnstar seeks you. Mercury at 05:29, 20 January 2008 (UTC) 05:29, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Parser issues on Template:Citation

There seems to be an issue that will arise when Template:Citation is used under the new parser. As you are more knowledgeable about this, would you mind taking a look at the {{editprotected}} request on the bottom of the talk page? Mr.Z-man 08:17, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

List of career achievements by Brett Favre

I was wondering if you would be so kind to remove the creation protection on this page. Now that the Favre's season is over and it seems User:Starwars1955 has left, I would like to try and work on creating this article. It is needed to shorten the Favre article and goes in line with other articles of its type (List of career achievements by Michael Jordan, etc). Thanks!
Gonzo fan2007 05:25, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah I just realized that, thanks for the direction though. Cheers!
Gonzo fan2007 05:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Deletion Review for Alzano Virescit F.C.

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Alzano Virescit F.C.. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. CapPixel (talk) 13:31, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I really think you should see this.

Click here, I wanna reason with you. I think it was a mistake to protect it from recreation. Please discuss on the talk page. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 14:45, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

request of unprotection of Colour Revolt

I am requesting the removal of the protection that the Colour Revolt wikipedia page received. This group is a national touring act from Mississippi. They have a cd out on Tiny Evil, a part of Interscope Records. Recently they have signed with Fat Possum Records and will release their cd nation wide. They have played festivals including Lollapalooza, Purple Door, SXSW, and CMJ. The availability of this page will help better inform the public on news related to this band. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpa514 (talk • contribs) 07:49, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Can you please unprotect the page titled "Adhikari"

I would like to edit this page adding new information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thamey (talk • contribs) 15:28, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Other location about rapid editing and blocking editors

I thought it was you who asked me yesterday whether I'd started, (or if there had been) a community discussion on this matter.

Here's a previous discussion on this particular topic: Wikipedia_talk:Disruptive_editing#Blocking_consensus

That's a start at least. :-)

--Kim Bruning (talk) 18:20, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Deletion Review for Fatass

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Fatass. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 12:40, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:X10

A tag has been placed on Template:X10 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:52, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Infobox image size?

Just out of interest, what happens if you look at an image of 257px on your browser? Salavat (talk) 13:59, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, I found out that it stretches the infobox by 1px, thanks anyway. Salavat (talk) 15:01, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:Click for image

I don't know the procedure, but since I'm the only one that has touched this, can I just delete this now? That was a failed experiment I forgot about -Regards Nv8200p talk 00:42, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. -Nv8200p talk 00:54, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of template:Eksi

Hey,

I don't know if I'm did something wrong when I was making the userbox but from what I see, I and couple other users, namely the ones in Category:Ek$i Sözlük Contributors are using this template, so it's not orphaned. However it's also very likely that I did something wrong so could you help me fixing whatever that is? Regards, Kerem Özcan (talk) 11:47, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes I get that technically nobody seems to be using it right now. Maybe we are using a different template to show that userbox but i couldn't figure out what. If you look at my user page you can see it there. Same goes for, User:Ademkader, User:Deliogul, User:Justin Case, User:Kaygtr, User:Maokan and User:Ont . Or is it another template that we are using? can you please check the sources of our user pages to figure out what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance. Regards, Kerem Özcan (talk) 19:14, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

A-ha! now I see. Thanks for your help. You can now erase it. Regards, Kerem Özcan (talk) 21:30, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Superflat Monogram

You speedy deleted this, but I had already declined the speedy deletion. My rationale was "A7 does not apply to ad campaigns; even if it did, being a campaign of a notable company is a claim of importance". You deleted anyway, in contradiction of policy. Please restore this article or I will take this to WP:DRV. --W.marsh 14:40, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

It will be overturned at DRV... I just thought you might like to skip the red tape. Oh well, apparently not, I'll open the review request. --W.marsh 17:10, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Template:Cnbox

Would you like me to just delete it? I'm the author and the only user, and I think it is orphaned now. No sense in waiting through the whole process. ⇒SWATJester 17:25, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:East Asian Cinema

Hello, you noted on my talk page that this Template is due to be speedy deleted. The reason it is orphaned appears to be because of the incorrect capitalisation of the word "cinema". Another template exists entitled Template:East Asian cinema, with much the same content.

The formatting of the template with the correct title (lower case "c") is insconsistent with other similar templates (e.g. Template:Southeast Asian cinema, Template:South Asian cinema etc), whereas the template with the upper case "c" is consistent with those, which probably explains why it was kept. I will format the lower case "c" template now, to match the others and you can go ahead and delete the upper case "c" template.

Cheers. Gram123 (talk) 15:12, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Protected page of [[Ben Williams (Singer)

Heya there, I was just wondering; why has this page been protected? It would be great if you could UnBlock it somehow? —Preceding unsigned comment added by EnjaBenja (talk • contribs) Protection of the article YouTube Poop

I think this subject deserves it's own article.

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