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Regarding , Toolserver's db server (yarrow) is down at this time, so, the bot probably isn't going to notice right now. SQL 11:05, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh well, it was worth a try! Looks like Tangobot needed the full transclusion, would yours have been OK without? Tangobot not happy with the New Year mind you.... Nancy 11:13, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

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are you the one who undid my userpage??? if i were you, you just deleted the part you want to delete... not undoing it because i did a major edit on my page and there is another user who vandalized my page named Starczamora thanks... i hope its not you... rajalberini talk —Preceding undated comment was added at 07:04, 2 January 2009 (UTC).

Replied Nancy 16:15, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

"Miss Pooja" Article

Nancy,

I am a fan of hers (Miss Pooja) and would like to restore the article contents. Her popularity in India, US, Canada and UK has skyrocketed since the article deletion was discussed about seven months ago (May 2008).

I think restoring it to the main Wiki may be a difficult hurdle to climb, given that she is only primarily covered in ethnic TV/Radio Stations and Newspapers, that are unlikely to be as well known as, say, CNN or New York Times.....

However, it may be easier to do so in one of the less onerous Wiki sites, like WikiPopuli. I am trying to do that here.

Please see if you can temporarily release the deleted article contents for Miss Pooja, at least to me privately.

Regards,

Punjabi music lover (talk) 21:47, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Userfied and notified. Nancy 13:29, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, Nancy. I got it and WikiPopuli Miss Pooja Page is up and running Punjabi music lover (talk) 21:43, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Purley on Thames page

Hi I am a resident of Purley on Thames and wanted to see if we had a page on Misplaced Pages. I searched for it and found that the writer had put hyphens in the name. I created an account and changed this error. You then changed it back. Why? I have lived here most of my life and know that there are no hyphens in the name. Yours sincerely, Andrew Coombes AKA Sooyoo4 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sooyoo4 (talk • contribs) 10:42, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello Sooyoo4. I have no axe to grind over the hyphenation however the article has been called Purley-on-Thames since it was created in 2004 and the text within should not contradict the title. If you think that there is a case for re-naming the article then you should propose it on the talk page so that a discussion can take place and a consensus reached as to whether the move is appropriate. If you do start a discussion I would sugegst that you start with a better argument than "I live here, I know" (I'm paraphrasing obviously) as in the context of Misplaced Pages where verifiability is paramount that will not hold any water so you will need to reference reliable third-party published sources to show that the unhyphenated version is correct. You should also check whether the manual of style has anything to say on the matter - I've done a quick flick through other compound -on-Thames place names and they all appear hyphenated e.g. Henley-on-Thames, Appleford-on-Thames, Sunbury-on-Thames, Walton-on-Thames so it's looking like hyphens are the accepted naming convention. All the best for 2009. Nancy 12:25, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Fly fm - Nottingham Trent University

I have improved the above article which has been put forward for deletion. I hope it now passes noteworthy tests. Thanks. News37 (talk) 19:10, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

The deletion discussion is located here: Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Fly fm - Nottingham Trent University. Please do make your feelings known over there and explain why the article should be kept - you might want to look at our general notability guidelines before commenting so that you know where the bar is set. Cheers & all the best for 2009, Nancy 20:53, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Nancy Blackett (character)

On 3 January, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nancy Blackett (character), 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.

- Dravecky (talk) 23:28, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Question

Dear "Nancy",

I was looking for information on people who, after the second world ar / Holocaust came back to their original hometown. Specifically, is there any information on the few hundred people who came back to Vienna, Austria, after half a million of Vienna's Jews were sent to the concentration camps. I have some knowledge and would be willing to research about the lives of the survivors. I do not know if that would be more appropriate as a novel or what the guidelines would be to be included in the Misplaced Pages as one or several accounts. Steiner71 (talk) 02:19, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Replied and welcomed Nancy 09:21, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

hello again

I understand about that {{}} thing that u don't want me to use that's y i didn't place it again. Well,That's not what i meant... i meant was, who removed the jennlyn mercado pic as my image... I already found out it was not you... thanks... I was formerly user:rajalberini. thanks... oh yeah, I made a copy of my favorite singers page, well, i was the one who beautified her page and I am the one who made many edits on her page.... --EmilinAlbs (talk) 03:18, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

The way to find out is too look in the page history of your user page - you can access this by clicking on the history tab at the top of the page you are interested in. If you do this you will see who removed it (Starczamora) , the date and time they did it (09:14 29 December 2009) and also the reason they did it (rmv jenniylyn photo; it is not the image of the user) - this last bit is why it is really important to always leave an edit summary when you make changes. Hope this helps, kind regards, Nancy 09:30, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks very much for da help--EmilinAlbs (talk) 03:12, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

My trespass on Nancy Blackett (character)

Not a coincidence, as you probably gathered. Perhaps I'll include more on the Collingwoods in Arthur Ransome in due course. --Old Moonraker (talk) 13:27, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

...and not a trespass, the more editors the merrier, just as Nancy would have liked it! Nancy 14:52, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Yo Nancy, gurl, I am Richard Wirkkunen and I am a Indie Label rapper and I had heard about me having a page on wikipedia, and i think it is not fair to give rappers liek UGK and Royce Da 5'9" who are only under ground artists or Ill Bill pages but not a white canadian rapper who sells local albums and has probably done more with his life in one year then you did in 30. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.26.215.233 (talk) 03:53, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Mr. Wirkkunen again, and on top of that I have been featured on the radio, and have recieved coverage in canadian newspapers, i am an artist who deserved the online recongition that his fans were willing to give him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.26.215.233 (talk) 03:56, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

The Sports Development Foundation Scotland

Dear Nancy

I am the founder and one of the Trustees of the above charity can you please undelete the Misplaced Pages page for The Sports Development Foundation Scotland as it is well written and accurate. I have give permission for the logo to be diplayed by Misplaced Pages and givene permission for things to be lifted from our website.

I tried to contact you to tell you my position with SDFS and that the article was correct however being block I could not contact you.

As for the Also See subsection I tried to link the charity too. They were all in Scottish Sport and relevant to the charity's objectives and SDFS may well be able to help them. It was a form of marketing but also relevant to each of the Scottish sports organisation I tried to contact.

I was cutting and pasting the original article back in and have used this article in various bloggs because it was very relevant but the article first appeared on Misplaced Pages.

I would also say that the Misplaced Pages pages for giving copyright could be simplified so that I could have given copyright to Misplaced Pages in a more straightforward way. Such as a one click button to transfer rights. This would have been much easier to follow. I would also like to point out that I understand why the image would have to be deleted but I don't know why you would have to delete the full text page?

If you can't undelete the sports development foundation scotland page can I copy this article from another source and put it back on the wikipedia page. Finally, did you mean properely referenced when you said, "keeping contributions encyclopedic" if it is please let me know and any recommendations for reading and I will read it on wikipedia or else where for propere citations however there was very few changes on the Sports Development Foundation Scotland page?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours truly

David Ballantine David Ballantine (talk) 19:37, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Replied Nancy 09:17, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Restoring Miss Pooja Article or Stub

Nancy,

I believe you are the most recent active admin for the Miss Pooja, a well known Punjabi singer, article. This article was deleted/protected after a quick AfD discussion in May, 2008. I would like to restore it. Please suggest some reasonable steps that, if followed, could convince a reasonable admin to add a simple stub, if not the whole article.

Here are a few quick facts:

1. Google search on "Miss Pooja songs" shows about 2,000 hits
2. YouTube search on "Miss Pooja songs" shows over 1,200 video hits
3. She has recorded and released over 124 albums, listed here. Pretty much all of these can be easily be downloaded or listened to (mostly free) from the Internet. This is very easily verifiable.
4. She has been interviewed with a few TV stations, like BBC/Asianetwork that can be easily referred. A quick YouTube search shows over 30 Miss Pooja Interview videos

I have created a full Miss Pooja article on WikiPopuli. While, that whole article may or may not meet the strictest of the Wiki criteria, however, a short stub that includes above "facts" and a quick link to WikiPopuli page can, IMHO, be easily constructed to satisfy the "err-on-the-side-of-inclusion" Wiki criteria.

Please see if you can express some preliminary thoughts related to the feasibility of the above.

Punjabi music lover (talk) 05:34, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

The Sports Development Foundation Scotland

Hi Nancy,

As the writer of the article and the person that transferred it from the Misplaced Pages page to the Blogg page I give permission and the copyright for wikipedia to use the content on it's page for the Sports Development Foundation Scotland.

David —Preceding unsigned comment added by David Ballantine (talk • contribs) 11:49, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

David, I have asked George for some clarification re exactly what has already been released via the OTRS system. I think he's in a significantly different timezone to us so it might be a while before he gets back to me. To be honest though I really do think that your best course of action would be to just write a new article as what I fear will happen is that you will go through monsterous hassle releasing the text only to find that all or most of it deleted as being promotional. My very best advice to you would be to use an article on a similar organsation as a template - Sport England would be the obvious candidate - and write something similarly pitched original text about SDFS without relying on cut and paste from BlogCatalogue or any other source. Kind regards, Nancy 13:32, 8 January 2009 (UTC)