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Any thoughts on these two articles. Cosmetic surgery and Plastic surgery. merge? redirect?--Hu12 (talk) 04:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Carl Stanley McGee was unwarranted

Your deletion of this page makes no sense, as the article is quite notable, has been written about in several Boston and Florida news stories, and it concerns a public official in a matter of public concern. Charles Stanley McGee is a high ranking politician in the Deval Patrick gubernatorial administration (Massachusetts) and has recently been charged with a very serious offense. He is free on several hundred thousand dollars bail money. His case is commented on by Boston radio personalities and is a current events story, NOT a personal attack, as was claimed in the "speedy deletion" message I received just now.

Nothing in the page I wrote could be rightly considered a personal attack. I am an attorney and I am well aware of the legal limitations of my first amendment rights. I know they do not give me carte blanche to expose private individuals to public attention, nor do they allow me to libel anyone. In my article, I have done neither. I have only reported what is available through open source news documents on a public figure in a matter of public concern. Please reinstate my page at once or at least provide a more complete explanation as to what is wrong with the page, as submitted.

Thank you, Levelor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Levelor (talk • contribs) 04:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

I will concede that deletion as an attack page was a misnomer, however - had I found the page via other means, I would have deleted it anyway. The article gave undue weight to the subject's arrest (over half of an article which is suppose to be a biography about a person's entire life). Based on this Arbitration decision, articles about living persons can not be restored or recreated by any editor until they meet biographical article standards. I am willing to email the original text to you so that you can resolve the undue weight issue without having to rewrite the entire article. I suggest leaving out the social commentary and speculation surrounding the arrest & proceedings. --Versageek 05:12, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Dear Versageek - Thank you for replying to me; I received no response from Dethme0w. Yes, I would very much like to have the original text emailed to me so that I may revise it in accordance with wikipedia rules, thank you again.

Since you say the story deals too much with the arrest of Carl Stanley McGee, please compare my accounting of the matter to the page of Charles McGee, a man who's entire stub relates only to his arrest http://en.wikipedia.org/Charles_McGee Charles McGee isn't even a politician, but a minor Republican party activist who was sent to prison for seven months. By contrast, Carl Stanley McGee is a high level political appointee in the employ of the Governor of Massachusetts. He also is facing much more serious charges and will likely serve several years if convicted. Therefore, his story is at least as newsworthy as that of Charles McGee and deserves to be published on Misplaced Pages. I will avoid further speculation and follow the story as it develops.

I would have gladly revised the piece earlier had a reasonable request been made instead of the the unexpected drive-by deletion the minute the story was posted. I honestly don't see how anyone even had a chance to read it and make a reasoned judgment, which makes me think it was a viewpoint based reaction. I will of course revise the piece to comply with all Misplaced Pages rules, however in doing so I must limit the details of Charles Stanley McGee's life to what I can verify through reliable sources. Since so much of what is in the news about Charles Stanley McGee relates to the arrest, that is what I am limited to writing about. I did my best to include biographical information, but as you know I am limited to what I can properly cite. Anything more would be unacceptable conjecture on my part. If what results is a page that focuses too much on the arrest, it should not, ipso facto, take away from the newsworthy value and remove all basis for publication.

Thank you again for your timely reply and I look forward to updating the original article as soon as you can send me a copy.

Levelor (talk) 03:31, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Withdrawn Article For Deletion

I'm withdrawing an article I nominated for deletion as it now appears to have sufficient notability. Is it possible for me to do a non-admin close on it: Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Ahfaz-ur-Rahman? -WarthogDemon 04:59, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Adjustable gastric band talk page discussion

It does look like there is ongoing competitive link ad/removal, but I did add some comments here at Talk:Adjustable_gastric_band#Removed_forum_link, which are a continuation of my earlier post. Would you add anything to the discussion? Flowanda | Talk 02:20, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi,

I would like to ask you information about this page

When i search my blog music-selector on google, this page appears in the first page of google results.

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/music-selector.blogspot.com

Please i understand that my blog has inserted in the blacklist, cause one of my "ex" co-worker editor has abuse with the links inclusion, i apologize for this and i imagine that my blog will not be deleted from blacklist, but it's possibile to remove this page at least. It's not a good image for our music project.

Many thanks in advance Regards Fabio —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.24.68.104 (talk) 16:49, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Please anyone could reply to me??

Thanks Fabio —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.18.71.45 (talk) 09:00, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Register.com deletion

K, as long as it doesn't end up looking like an advert, that's fine. --Rodhullandemu (Talk) 02:55, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Youtube external link undone by XLinkBot

Here is the revert. I think the link I added is quite relevant (videos documenting a practically-dead, little known sign language) and it's not a copyright violation. Maybe I should link to a search page rather than a user page (though this seemed to omit some of the videos), but XLinkBot's cited reason was simply "Youtube.com", which makes me think that it intends to revert any youtube links. What do you think? --91.148.159.4 (talk) 15:28, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Youtube external link undone by XLinkBot 2

Here's another example of the same situation. --91.148.159.4 (talk) 15:36, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

While I can't tell the copyright status of those videos, it's unlikely that someone would go to all that trouble to put such esoteric info online in video format if they didn't have the right to do so. (IMHO).. If, having reviewed the guidelines - you feel a link is still appropriate, you may revert the bot. It won't revert you twice in a row. In this case, I have reverted the bot in both instances. --Versageek 02:44, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I didn't know the bot didn't revert. I don't think there can be a problem with copyright, because the first videos were produced in 1930 by the United States Department of Agriculture for information rather than commercial purposes, and the other one was simply uploaded on Youtube by its creator. In any case, it's kind of strange that the bot automatically reverts all external links to Youtube, when the WP:External Links guideline doesn't prohibit them explicitly. I can see the reason (I suppose many more people upload links to copyrighted MTV clips and stuff like that), but it's still somewhat perplexing for a user to encounter this and not understand what was wrong with his edit. --91.148.159.4 (talk) 20:18, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Linthicum Article link undone

You removed a link to a non-comercial web page operated by North Linthicum, Maryland a community which is a part of Linthicum Maryland which is the topic of the Linthicum Article therefore the link to the page http://mysite.verizon.net/cbladey/northl/northl.html should be restored. Note that I referred to this issue on the Linthicum Article web page talk. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.179.71.51 (talk • contribs)

I see you have reverted the bot, that is ok --Versageek 02:46, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks...

for not deleting Walt Bogdanich. I was worried that perhaps the notability guideline had been amended to say that only winners of the Noble Peace Prize are notable now, and then only if they're dead. Glad to see it's not (yet) the case. --JayHenry (talk) 04:17, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Pankration Section and Link Deletion

You have just deleted an entire section I added on the Pankration page because I had a youtube link on it. 1. The section was very informative on the techniques of pankration give very thorough descriptions on each of them. The ENTIRE section should not be deleted because of a link in it. 2. The youtube link was to a video taken from History Channel Human Weapon show which is very informative to the subject of pankration because it gives a visual description of the techniques. I doubt there is any liscensing issues with this video. I feel like this video is a vital component to my wikipedia edit and if I had the video saved on my computer I wouldve uploaded it, I could only find it on youtube. Please get back to me as soon as you can on this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrr1234 (talk • contribs) 04:24, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

The video contained in that YouTube link is likely a violation of the History Channel's copyright on the Human Weapon show.. If you need to get all of your changes back, without retyping them - you can revert the bot, then remove the youtube link (if you make another edit to the article without removing the link, the bot will revert you again). --Versageek 05:03, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Bug

Something wasn't URL-encoded properly: User_talk:XLinkBot#Simmons. MaxSem 11:31, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

eh

Eh .. your mysql is down, and I can't restart the bots. I am on holiday as well now, so .. err .. good luck, hope to see you back soon. --Dirk Beetstra 18:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Fixed, the box rebooted.. :( --Versageek 22:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I had to repair a handfull of tables last night .. I think everything is now finally back to normal. Those crashes are awful, too bad. --Dirk Beetstra 18:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Your bot is removing legitimate YouTube links

Your bot is removing legitimate YouTube links, such as here. Now that you are aware of this, failure to correct this in the bot constitutes an act of vandalism because:

1. The removal of legitimate links damages the integrity of Misplaced Pages.

2. In the knowledge that this is happening, failure to correct it constitutes a deliberate attempt to damage the integrity of Misplaced Pages, regardless of whatever good you think your bot does elsewhere.

3. Therefore this violates Misplaced Pages: vandalism:

Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Misplaced Pages.

I would be greatful if you could correct this. 88.107.110.247 (talk) 22:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I see this has been handled on WP:AN in my absence. As Beetstra explained, there are several ways for anon users to add links to sites on the revert list, particularly if they are familiar with editing & formatting guidelines. I had some reservations when high traffic sites like You-Tube and Blogspot were placed on the revert list, but after reviewing many of XLinkBot's edits I've seen that bot reversion of "drive-by additions" containing these links by anon & new users is a net plus for the project. --Versageek 16:06, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

unwarranted reversion by XLINKBOT

I refer you to: http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Mousercise

And if anyone else reading this has the ability to do what I could not for the entry, please feel free.

HOWEVER, simple deletions could be considered vandalism, as my addition IS an attempt to add legitimate and meaningful data to the entry...

75.8.35.177 (talk) 23:50, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Please see my reply to the above post. --Versageek 16:06, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Zoor is not illegal or spam

Sir or Madam, please see my website http://zoor.biz, this is the best yellow pages of Pakistan, at least allow me to add link in yellow pages article and commerce and industry articles regarding Pakistan and Karachi, it is 100% relevant believe me my brother or sister. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hasnain.shahab (talk • contribs) 05:24, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't doubt it's a quality directory service for the region, however Misplaced Pages is not a directory or collection of links. I suggest DMOZ for that purpose. --Versageek 15:55, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Regarding that "Toofy" guy.

He just keeps recreating accounts, and vandalising the same pages over and over again. I've seen what he's done on my friend Antandrus's page. Wouldn't it be possible to block that IP from creating any more accounts? Winnifred-Ian-Leonard-Harry-Ellen-Lucy-Marilyn-Ingrid-Nora-Amanda Walter-Ira-Lauren-Lalla (talk) 19:09, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

And he's back again under "Toof en chocolate." Winnifred-Ian-Leonard-Harry-Ellen-Lucy-Marilyn-Ingrid-Nora-Amanda Walter-Ira-Lauren-Lalla (talk) 19:15, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I checked the box that said 'block account creation' and I'm guessing others have done so when blocking his other accounts, however given that he keeps coming back, he's probably using proxies or a dynamic IP address. --Versageek 19:24, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

But is there anything that can be done, if that's what's happening? Winnifred-Ian-Leonard-Harry-Ellen-Lucy-Marilyn-Ingrid-Nora-Amanda Walter-Ira-Lauren-Lalla (talk) 19:27, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Eh heh heh heh Mee fink dat dat toofy guy iz bad newz and mee phinks dat he deserve to be punished eh heh heh heh heh AHHHHHH toofy twicked yoo yoo fot dat it was somwon else but it jus toofy. Eh heh heh heh heh —Preceding unsigned comment added by Toofy hill (talk • contribs) 12:35, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Nah, anyone can tell from your writing who you are. Winnifred-Ian-Leonard-Harry-Ellen-Lucy-Marilyn-Ingrid-Nora-Amanda Walter-Ira-Lauren-Lalla (talk) 22:46, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Reversions

I'm so sorry, I just started using Twinkle to edit pages. I hope i did not cause any inconvenience.Limaye (talk) 04:14, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Author page change revert

Hi Versageek--Earlier today I updated the content of my Wiki page about me as a commercially published scifi author (T. Jackson King). Also, at the bottom where external links were listed, I added a new link to my new author's web page--which is an updated version of the sfwa link already listed. There is new material at this link (a googlepages web page). Reading your post, it seems my sin was to add a Link that appears to be self-promotion. In truth, the Link add was >intended< as an update to what was already present on the T. Jackson King wiki page. I will be updating the data/info on the body text, but not adding the Link until I hear from you whether this is "OK" or not. Thanks for your volunteer work. 65.19.18.211 (talk) 05:54, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

If it's an official site of the author or his publisher, it is usually acceptable. Please read our external links guideline. You may revert the bot if you feel your link meets our guidelines. --Versageek 18:29, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Ourgle

Hi, i added the link www.ourgle.com to the article web search engine because ourgle is an example of the same. Also, this is a shared ip and thus i would be editing from my user account the next time :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.199.114.33 (talk) 16:23, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately, everyone wants to have their favorite site listed as "an example". This often leads to situations which end up reflecting badly on those sites & offending new Misplaced Pages users such as yourself. To avoid this sort of negative interaction, we prefer to use "examples" that are notable enough to have their own Misplaced Pages page. --Versageek 18:01, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the help.

Thank you for ur message, hmm, i have a question, my page "patriotic union of mesopotamia" just got deleted for the lack of proof "as a political party", brother we have a letter from the IECoI (electoral commision of the republic of Iraq) to prove our existence, why did we get deleted? We have more info our page than any other iraqi party + our website is fully functional and everything is working fine unlike the other wiki pages of other iraqi parties whom are either closed now or have never existed.

Mufarij ibn Homam (talk) 00:26, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

proof as a political party.

Thank u for ur reply and im sorry if my messages arent organized, im currently trying to learn more about wikipedia.

Anyway, sir, the party is barely 5 days old. we have no press release yet, but we have arranged some interviews with several newspapers and internet magazines, i can prove that by showing you my mails and letters. Other than that we cant show u prove from any governmental website in Iraq, brother we barely have electricity in baghdad where the central government is, they update once every month. Internet works fine in the north where our party is based and besides from that, my collegue from the ICP' central comitte dr. Mohammed Saleh have had some talks with general secretary mithal alousi (he has his own wiki-page) about forming an coalition without our party for the next election. Thats the only future proof i can provide since that would probably be documented by the media in iraq and europe where most of our members live, but even that i doubt because we are one little party out of more than 200 parties in iraq, since the requirements for being an party only need 500 signatures (in a country of 27 million people). By the time i have that proof our wiki-page would probably be deleted completely.

Mufarij ibn Homam (talk) 00:51, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Just a little reminder

..that you said you'd reply on my user page about doing an article about my band on the wikipedia. Not that I'm impatient or anything. No, no ;-)--The Space Banana (talk) 13:03, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

replied on user's talk page --Versageek 18:26, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank You...

...for taking the time to review a request for speedy deletion I put up on Michael Layton, 2nd Baron Layton and for your decision. Apologies if I went down the wrong route - I'm still fairly new to WP so even though I've been going through the guidelines I'm still prone to the odd mistake. I appreciate your patience, civility and assistance!

Kind Regards, IgorsBrain (talk) 16:22, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

My link got removed even though it was the offical Myspace page to the movie

The link to the Myspace page for Fanboys(2008) is not the offical movie myspace page and is ran by the people who are against the current version of the movie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.37.137.237 (talk) 17:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC)