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 | Few things in life are as annoying at the {{Talkback}} template. If I leave you a personal message (not a pro forma notification of an image deletion) I probably am watching your talk page and will notice a reply there. If you want to reply here, that's fine too. If you want to simply start a new section and type "I have replied to your message on my talk page," even that is ok. But if you leave this silly template on my talk page, it will be ignored. |
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Request
If you've got the time, do you think you could throw together a Virginia Tech bowl games navbox that we could throw at the bottom of the Tech bowl game articles? You're a lot better at box syntax than I, and I think it'd be a good thing to have to connect all 21 (and counting) Virginia Tech bowl game articles we'll have when I move beyond the keystone article. That, and it'd look really nice on the Featured Topic page one of these days. :) If you're too busy, I can try to tackle it; just let me know. Thanks! JKBrooks85 (talk) 00:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- Done. See {{Virginia Tech bowl games}}. --B (talk) 02:32, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- Looks pretty snazzy. Nice work, and thanks! JKBrooks85 (talk) 04:18, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Oh, I forgot... do you have any pictures that could be used for some of the older bowl game articles? I'll be asking on TSL eventually, I'm sure, but you're the guy on the spot, and if you have any, it'd be really helpful. I think I've got a few of the Insight Bowl, but I'll have to dig for them. JKBrooks85 (talk) 05:37, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- No - didn't have a camera at any bowl other than the CFA bowl in 06. --B (talk) 15:07, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Question
Hi B. I have a question about the way things work around here that I wanted to ask. How long does an article have to be tagged as sounding like a personal essay before it can be deleted (as in the case of the article on John Hick)? I tried to clean up the intro but it is so poorly written that I'm not sure if it can be salvaged. What is typically done in such cases? I am not necessarily interested in rewriting the article myself, but something has to be done about it. Thanks for your help. Kristamaranatha (talk) 02:15, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- Those "maintenance tags" are not a part of the deletion process. Category:Articles lacking sources, for example, goes back three years. Those tags are basically just messages that say "someone else should take care of this problem". I'm going to go ahead and nominate it for deletion. There will be a link to a discussion page at the top once I'm done. See WP:AFD for more information on nominating something for deletion. --B (talk) 02:32, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Whitelist/blacklist issue
Hi - could you comment on this request please. You added the site to the blacklist but there seems to be nothing in the way of logging or other request that I can see. Thanks --Herby 08:05, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- This is obviously a spammy non-notable blog with a very high ad/content ratio. There is a massive effort to spam a particular group of fansites - see User_talk:B/page2#Fansite_spam_investigation for a list of ones I have seen. All of these appear to be owned by the same person/company/whatever. The Tyrod site does not appear related to the rest of these, but I still don't think we should have it here. It doesn't meet our external link policy and actual content is lacking. One of the "articles" is just a link to buy fatheads with an affiliate ID (ie, advertising disguised as an article). One of them is selling "Fire Jim Weaver" t-shirts. (No serious source of Tech information would promote such a thing. Jim Weaver is unquestionably one of the best ADs in the country, TSL trolling notwithstanding.) Three of them are links to youtube videos. This is just a spam site and absolutely should not be permitted here. --B (talk) 15:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot - I've closed it --Herby 16:31, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you
As for staying away from Daedalus, I have no reason to go anywhere near him. I had never heard of him until he started reverting me on those users' talk pages. So long as he leaves me alone there's no reason we should ever come across each other again. -- Zsero (talk) 05:09, 26 February 2008 (UTC)