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Hello, Basket of Puppies, and welcome to Misplaced Pages. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Great! Thanks, Moeron! Basket of Puppies 02:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Colorware

Hello, I had recently posted an article on the subject of Colorware. I noticed that you have marked it for deletion and understand your status as an administrator on Misplaced Pages and was wondering what could be added to this article to further show its reasoning for staying on Misplaced Pages. If you could PLEASE contact me as to how I could keep this article from being deleted, would GREATLY appreciate it! I feel that on the basis of this article being deleted for its 'promotional' status is argumentative because my reasons for writing this article was not to promote it but was to create an area of understanding in what the company does as well as its notability in both nationally/internationally recognized magazines and websites. Also I can assure you that this article is not a 'one-edit' type of article that can be found on Misplaced Pages, but rather one that will have continuous changes in which I plan to improve upon for my college class that this has been written for. Please contact me on how this article can be improved upon so that it fits ALL criteria to remain as a Misplaced Pages article. Thank you and best regards! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicogsu (talk • contribs) 03:56, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Article "Brown Aryan Race"

Dear Misplaced Pages user,

I have created this article for more interested history readers to be aware of scholarly thoughts on the topic of Indo-European origins.

It in no way promotes any sort of racism but merely attempts to examine the question of Indo-European origins, and gives an alternative view to the Nordic/Nazi Aryan Race theories.

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Autoconfirm?

{{helpme}} I am just wondering when I might be put into the autoconfirm group? I don't mind having to type in the code in order to edit but just looking forward to when it'll go away. :) Thanks! Basket of Puppies 20:34, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Autoconfirm should be granted shortly to you, after 4 days and 10 edits. I wish there was some way to grant you it, but unfortunately it is impossible. Just hang in there, it should go away soon. NuclearWarfare My work 20:37, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Ahh, good to know. It'll be soon. Thank you, NW!!!! Basket of Puppies 20:39, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello!

Hey, Puppies! I saw your version of Geoff Norcott. The person that tagged it with {{spam}} should have tagged it with {{Fansite}}. So, it really needs to be rewritten to take out the weasel words. I have also made you your own sandbox do you can go there and try out all the cool little gidgets and gadgets that Misplaced Pages has! Follow this link User:Basket of Puppies/sandbox. In it, I have also made an example article to guide you on the format that basic wikipedia articles should follow! If you need help or have questions, I pretty much live here and you can contact me anytime on my here or email mee through my main userpage! Happy editing!--Sallicio 21:30, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Help!

{{helpme}} Sorry to bother you, but I think I've somehow broken the ref list from appearing at Talk:Spontaneous_cerebrospinal_fluid_leak#reflist. Can you help me get it back? Basket of Puppies 18:22, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

 Done - When you try to call a reference for the second time as you did, make sure to include a / at the end of the tag: <ref name="foo"/>. Otherwise the page thinks you're making a new reference, comprised of the entire remainder of the page. It's fixed now, though. Hersfold 18:33, 13 January 2009 (UTC)


Speedy deletion of "Fibrin glue"

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Rollback

Hi. I've fulfilled your request. Please review WP:RBK or ask me for any help. Pedro :  Chat  07:36, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

The Motley Moose

Heh, very appropriate moniker you have there, beautiful puppies. Anyway, I noticed you contributed in the AfD discussion for The Motley Moose. I appreciate your input, but I might have something that will satisfy your desire for more sources. Yesterday, a couple of users who had voted delete went through and dramatically changed the page; here's what it looked like before they did so- http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=The_Motley_Moose&oldid=277928852. If you think that version is also lacking, no problem- I just wanted to bring this to your attention. Thanks again for your input! Ks64q2 (talk) 04:16, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Order of the Black Skull

Hi, I created the page "Order of the Black Skull" that was deleted. It gave your name as a reference for rolling it back. It is a quasi-secret, really more invitation only, fraternity of docs and students form the Caribbean. It was quite challenging to create and it was deleted by a guy who has deleted many, many pages without warning. The grounds for deletion were that it was a club that failed to show its relevance. We have over 10,000 members, were est. in 1978, and have chapters in 21 countries.

Any ideas?

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cup of Asclepius (talk • contribs) 16:43, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Cup! How are you? It's sunny and really beautiful here so I am glad to be alive! So I read the article which you wanted included here in Misplaced Pages. The problem is, as far as I understand it, is this club is so secret that there isn't any independent press about it. If there were a few newspaper articles written about it, a book, an investigative report, etc and those things could be easily references then I think it might be able to pass the "notability test". I think you should read up WP:N for some more info. Sorry I can't be of more help. :( Basket of Puppies 17:20, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

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Page blanking

Please will you not describe removal of a reference as "page blanking" and remove your related warning from my talk page. There is nothing ambiguous about the situation. A link to a private medical office is not a feasible reference, please convince yourself at WP:MEDMOS that self published materials are not valid references. Furthermore a link to a private business constitutes advertisement for the commercial purpose of that site and constitutes spam for that reason. By this nature such links also constitute a conflict of interest. Sources have to be neutral and peer reviewed. They preferably represent broad medical consensus as reflected in secondary sources. There are guidelines. Please read them. The article now almost exclusively sources to Dr. Hains commercial activities, and this has to be removed. This has now been on the associated talk page for sufficient time to be answered in a meaningful way. That one or more editors think the source is such an authority that we can skip or override the sourcing guidelines seems to be a misunderstanding of WP policies. 70.137.153.83 (talk) 00:14, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

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New Waveland Cafe and Clinic

New Waveland Cafe and Clinic is now listed as a good article. Congrats. — LinguistAtLarge • Talk  22:50, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Just in case you haven't had had had had had had had had had had had enough...

I'm hoping to keep the conversation about this article active and avoid the usual fleeing from a topic that takes place after an AfD has closed. There was much talk about merging this article but little agreement on where to merge it to. Therefore I am informing everyone who participated in the debate of the ongoing conversation here in order to bring this matter to a close sometime in our lifetimes. Beeblebrox (talk) 03:02, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Eep! Ok, I'll comment. Thanks for letting me know! :) Basket of Puppies 03:29, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

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Re. Awwwww thanks

It's not a problem. You're the one doing lots of work. :P Lәo(βǃʘʘɱ) 14:04, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

RfC Invitation

Within the past month or so, you appear to have commented on at least one AN/I, RS/N, or BLP/N thread involving the use of the term "Saint Pancake" in the Rachel Corrie article. As of May 24th, 2009, an RfC has been open at Talk:Rachel_Corrie#Request_for_Comments_on_the_inclusion_of_Saint_Pancake for over a week. As editors who have previously commented on at least one aspect of the dispute, your further participation is welcome and encouraged. Jclemens (talk) 23:00, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

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Shin vs. Sin

Hi Basket of Puppies. I noticed that you made an edit to the article Beit Shikma which removed the Shin dot from the Hebrew text. You wrote in the edit summary that it showed a Sin dot, but this is not the case. I have reverted your edit. If you are convinced that you are seeing a Sin dot, please upload a screenshot and send me the link, I'd be interested to know what it looks like; it is possible that some nikud is malformed for some readers who do not have Hebrew fonts like David and Narkisim. Cheers, Ynhockey 04:34, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi again! Thanks for sending the screenshot. It does look awful. I didn't know that Mac users saw it like this. If you have time, please help me diagnose the problem so that I may fix it for all Misplaced Pages readers. I need the following information:
  1. What web browser are you using? Can you try viewing the page in multiple browsers and telling me the results? I'm especially interested in Safari (the native browser), IE and Firefox, however, if you have others like Opera, Google Chrome, etc. that would be great.
  2. Can you please check if you have a font called David? If not, Narkisim? The screenshot looks like David, but there are so many similar fonts that I can't tell for sure.
  3. Can you try to open an office suite or charmap (is there an equivalent on Mac?) and write some words with nikud with the David or Narkisim fonts if you have them? just write a sentence or something. See if it looks proper, then copy&paste to a Misplaced Pages page and save (with the lang-he-n template) and post a link.
If you can do these things, I would be really greatful! And probably any Mac user who understands Hebrew.
Thanks, Ynhockey 21:10, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
It renders fine on all Windows-based browsers I have tried. If this is only a Mac + Firefox problem, I'm wondering if I should add it to the documentation. Do you have any other browsers to test it on? Thanks again, Ynhockey 00:40, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
It would be great if you could fire a BugZilla report, and I will add to it if anything is required. Since I don't have a Mac and you said you didn't have the fonts anyway, maybe this isn't something I can add to, but we'll see. Being anti-Firefox (and pro-Opera ;)), I have never used FF much or filed any bug reports. I will add the documentation to the relevat template on Misplaced Pages. Cheers, Ynhockey 01:28, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

ERPs

I've tried to answer your question at Talk:Event-related potential. Let me know if it's too jargon-y or difficult to follow, rʨanaɢ /contribs 01:41, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Veitshakmah.png

The problem with the image was that you'd tagged it as a nonfree Misplaced Pages screenshot: not sure why you did this, but as a result, it was automatically removed from your talk page because nonfree images aren't allowed on talk pages, and then it was deleted as orphaned because nonfree images must be used in an article. I brought it up at MCQ, where it was agreed that the image fits {{PD-textlogo}}; therefore, I'm restoring it. Please feel free to restore it to your talk page. Nyttend (talk) 23:07, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

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Teva Learning Center

I went to the discussion page, as asked. I responded. I am trying to build this page, but you, or someone, deleted all of the stuff I jsut posted. I don't really understand why... There are plenty of companies that have pages on here. Why is Teva any different? As well, this whole, html/text based communication is really frustrating. Is there another way to pass information on from one to another besides editing pages and hoping that the person sees the message? I'm not a computer programmer and it seems like this site is designed for someone like that, also a frustration. Tevacenter (talk) 18:51, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Replied on their talk page, asking to keep the discussion centralized at the article talk . Basket of Puppies 18:57, 22 July 2009 (UTC)


Orly

Hi - just FYI - the deletion of Orly Taitz is being contested .. Thought you might want to chime in :) Luminifer (talk) 22:00, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Um, why bother keeping a blank section in the article? If people find information they'll add it in. In the meantime it does a disservice to readers, looks ugly, and will make people who see it more inclined to argue for deletion in the AfD. JoshuaZ (talk) 00:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
JoshuaZ, I've replied on your talk page :D Basket of Puppies 01:42, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Caribbean Accreditation Authority for Education in Medicine and other Health Professions

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Dropped a note on the bot owner's talk page indicating that this is very much a false positive. Basket of Puppies 15:05, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

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Copyright issues

Hi, so how's it going? I note however that you've had a few tags ref copyright issues. Do you need any assistance? All the best. Paste Let’s have a chat. 12:41, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Paste! Long time no chat! Regarding these copyright issues, I am completely miffed! I created a new article as a stub with one line or handwritten content. Somehow Corenbot thinks that the one line that I wrote is copyrighted. It's not even close, which is odd. I dropped a note on the bot owner's talk page letting him know that it's issuing false positives. I think it's just a technical glitch. :P Thanks for writing! Basket of Puppies 15:04, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

a whole basket!

...of puppies! How nice!!!! (I'm just one puppy, myself.) KillerChihuahuaAdvice 18:08, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Aren't they adorable? Should we form an association of puppies who edit the wikipedia? Basket of Puppies 19:09, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
A puppy cabal? The idea has merit! KillerChihuahuaAdvice 13:47, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Puppy Cabal! BWAHAHAH! Let's do it! Basket of Puppies 14:23, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
baa..wwWOOF support from the big lovable mut! Surely it is our duty to pawn this site! ;-) — Ched :  ?  05:42, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
pawn the site. *headdesk* Basket of Puppies 13:26, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
This user is a member of the Puppy Cabal.
I LOVE IT! Basket of Puppies 02:57, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Template:Dont Hangon

Hi there. I just noticed you created Template:Dont Hangon and used it and I wanted to ask you to not use the template anymore. It's confusing to new users, unnecessary and makes the process for admins harder because it cannot be automatically removed. Unlike proposed deletion, speedy deletion does not need endorsement or contesting to be used, criteria just need to be met and the admin needs to decide to delete it. Regards SoWhy 18:15, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi, SoWhy. I am SO SORRY! I didn't realize it would be so poorly received. I really just thought there should be a way to endorse a speedy deletion. I am so, so sorry! I feel really horrble. Sorry. :( Basket of Puppies 18:19, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Don't feel bad. The thought was not that bad, it's, well, just not needed. Allow me to explain: I assume you created the template because of the existence of {{prod2}}? Unfortunately, they are two different methods of deletion. Proposed deletion is a way to delete articles without using articles for deletion because the tagger things the deletion is uncontroversial. For this purpose, {{prod2}} serves to indicate that someone else agrees with the reasoning. Speedy deletion on the other hand is separate from AFD and as such, is entirely depending on the reviewing administrator's decision whether the page should be deleted. No matter how many people endorse it, they can still decline the speedy. As such, there is no need to endorse the tagging. On the other hand, the creator might felt more bitten if multiple people ask for the article to be deleted, especially if the tagging was incorrect. Hence I wanted to leave you this message. I can delete the template for you if you like. Instead of endorsing speedy deletions, you could help improving incorrectly tagged articles. For example, I have brought 6 articles to WP:DYK level which were tagged for speedy deletion, using simple Google News searches. :-) Regards SoWhy 18:46, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Templates for deletion nomination of Template:Dont Hangon

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{{Dont Hangon}}

Hello Basket of Puppies. I have gone ahead and speedy deleted this template, since you seem to agree and understand that it wasn't such a good idea. As SoWhy said above, you shouldn't feel bad. Mistakes are made by everyone; you have learned from this and so all is well in the world. WP:BOLD is an important policy—and so what you did was fine. Sometimes, though, it doesn't hurt to get some feedback before doing things. If you would ever like some advice or just an opinion, feel free to ask! Most editors and administrators—including me—will be happy to help in any way we can. ÷seresin 04:53, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

*weak smile* Yes, I understand now. Thanks, Seresin. Basket of Puppies 11:33, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Don't let it get you down. :-) If you need any help, feel free to ask. Regards SoWhy 11:38, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Your RfA

Hi. Unfortunately, I have closed your RfA early per WP:SNOW. Please do not be discouraged, many admins pass on their second attempt and you are likely to do the same if you continue to be an asset to the community. All the best, \ Backslash Forwardslash / (talk) 03:47, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Sigh. I understand. I really thought I had an excellent chance at RfA this time and am sad that it was closed as SNOW so soon after opening. I honestly didn't expect that. I promise to take to heart the rationales for the opposing votes and learn from this. Basket of Puppies 03:52, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
If you have need any help in understanding some adminny stuff, don't hesitate to ask me or any other admin - I'm more than happy to give some assistance where required any most admins would be willing to do the same. \ Backslash Forwardslash / (talk) 03:58, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Request for Admin'

  • Hi, sorry to see that this didn't work out in the way you hoped. However, as the editor that adopted you I feel that I must say that I am pretty surprised that you didn't discuss it with me first as I could have given you some advice that may have helped. If you feel that the adoption process is no longer required then I'll gracefully withdraw and stop watching your progress. All the best. --Paste Let’s have a chat. 08:14, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Jack Herer's death

His death has not yet been verified, with competing sources saying he is still alive in critical condition. Viriditas (talk) 23:55, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

CSD

Just FYI, Lagu Ular Naga, which you tagged as G1 (patent nonsense) was tagged incorrectly; it's not patent nonsense, but an article in a foreign language. I deleted it as A1 instead (not enough context to identify article subject). rʨanaɢ /contribs 01:18, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

How interesting! It did not come up in a foreign font, so I take it that it is a latin-based language? Either way, thanks for the note! Basket of Puppies 01:20, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
I don't know what language it was (maybe one of the Turkic languages), but it definitely looked like language, not just keyboard-mashing. rʨanaɢ /contribs 01:32, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for - no idea where my head was. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 14:23, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

My pleasure! I've been patrolling ANI recently helping to be a wikignome and tie up any loose ends. Basket of Puppies 14:34, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Fairly Notable.

Vietnam Securities Indexes, would be extremely notable in Vietnam. Just a friendly reminder all it has to do to pass csd is claim notability. You may wish to Prod or AFD. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 04:00, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I see that now. Thank you for the note! Basket of Puppies 04:02, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Article does not meet criterion

I declined speedy deletion for Sheikh Nizam Yaquby, since that article fails WP:A7; it obviously credibly asserts importance. Please read or reread our policy Misplaced Pages:Criteria for speedy deletion. — Sebastian 06:46, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Oops, I didn't see the two references at the end of the article. Yes, I agree that it does assert notability, tho it likely fails the WP:N threshold. Basket of Puppies 09:04, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Superduperblah

Thanks, I was about to do that - even got an edit conflict with your notice. :) 98.248.33.198 (talk) 19:56, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Re ANI inform

Thanks for informing 58.69.73.209 about my ANI thread on them, I completely forgot to. --Golbez (talk) 03:42, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

I am happy to help!!! Basket of Puppies 03:53, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
In general, though, leaving a very prominent Procedural note on every ANI thread that you do this for (I see you did it for another one below Golbez' discussion), is about distracting and really not necessary. Thanks in advance! ╟─TreasuryTag►constabulary─╢ 19:09, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
It is distracting and not necessary? I thought it was just the opposite- helpful and useful. I have seen somewhat frustrated and critical comments levied at those who open ANI threads but fail to inform the subjects that they are being discussed. I have been trying to help out these discussions by acting as a sort of clerk and notifying those who have not been. In fact I've received several "thank you" messages. Now I am really confused and can't help but to feel a little bit hurt. Basket of Puppies 19:13, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
I agree that notifying people of threads is courteous, and it's great that you're helping out when others forget to do that. I think you should carry on with that, it's good work. However, I don't think that adding a Procedural note (as you seem to have done at least thirteen times, looking through your history) is helpful or necessary. It distracts people from the substance of the thread. Why do people need to know (need to be told by bolded text) that you, Basket of Puppies, did the notification?
Acting like a clerk is good; clerks don't need to announce and broadcast every time they do everything. They're subtle!
I did not mean to hurt or confuse you; I trust that you have neither problem any more. ╟─TreasuryTag►cabinet─╢ 19:18, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Treasury, I only added it in bold in order to make certain that people know the associated parties have been duly notified. Indeed, I modeled it after an admin who was doing the very same thing. I guess I could change the font, but thought it was maximally useful for the procedural note to be clear and unambiguous that all parties have been notified. I am still a bit confused as to why this is a bad thing. Basket of Puppies 19:21, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
You really, genuinely do NOT need to tell everyone that you've notified. Why do I, reading ANI, need to have the fact that you've (very kindly) told another user that they're mentioned, thrust in my face? It's distracting, I promise.
Could you perhaps just continue the notifying of people, on their talkpages, but stop announcing the fact on the Noticeboard itself? It really would be a help. Thanks. ╟─TreasuryTag►prorogation─╢ 19:25, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Treasury, I am just more confused than before. I have received several "thank-you"s from editors who had forgotten to include this sort of note, but now I am being told that it is disruptive to do so. Also, I did some searching and I found several identical types of notifications that have been placed on ANI such as this and this. I guess what I am saying is that I am rather confused and can't help but to feel a great deal of pressure from you in telling me to immediately stop. Am I in violation of policy? Basket of Puppies 19:31, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Calm down.
Take a deep breath.
Calm down. I don't know if it's your intention, but I'm finding your responses a little disingenuous, not to mention passive-aggressive.
When you are informing/notifying someone, you are doing two things:
  1. You leave a note on their talkpage, saying, "Dear so-and-so, you're on the administrators' noticeboard."
  2. You leave a message on the noticeboard saying, "Procedural note I've informed everyone relevant."
People are thanking you for doing the important bit, which I labelled Number 1 above. I am asking you to stop doing Number 2, because it's a bit smug and a bit distracting; your work with Number 1, however, is very good and should continue.
That's all. You're not in violation of policy, but when another editor makes a reasonable and polite request for you to do something a teeny bit differently, it's normally a good idea to help out and go along. Thanks! ╟─TreasuryTag►inspectorate─╢ 19:36, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
TreasuryTag, I really am not appreciating your most recent message. I am being completely honest in my responses to you and not at all "disingenuous" or "passive-aggressive". Is it really necessary for you to even say those things? Isn't it a violation of WP:AGF? I am sorry, Treasury, but your tone is completely inapproproate. I am a wikignome and just trying to help. I will be requesting administrator assistance on this issue, which really (in my opinion) is not an issue at all. Basket of Puppies 19:39, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

OK; I'm finding you more and more disingenuous, and slightly disruptive now. I'm going to stop this conversation, with one final request that you do not continue posting Procedural notes on noticeboard pages. If you choose to ignore my (originally, at any rate!) polite request, that is your concern. ╟─TreasuryTag►without portfolio─╢ 19:41, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

{{adminhelp}} I am requesting administrator help for the issues presented in this section. I am a wikignome who is just here to help. In this section I feel that TreasuryTag has been ordering me to make changes and has taken to calling me "passive-aggressive", ""disingenuous", "disruptive" and "distracting". I kindly ask that an administrator take a few moments to review this and let me know what to do and if TreasuryTag's statements have crossed the line (as I feel they have). I am only here to help. Basket of Puppies 19:43, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

TreasuryTag's statement—BasketofPuppies has been adding some very prominent and (I find) distracting procedural notes to AN threads, after he has (admittedly helpfully) notified parties that they are mentioned. I don't see that these comments offer any benefit at all, and I find them a little smug and self-serving –
I am also concerned that this user is putting on a disingenuous front (he's oh-so-innocent just a Wikignome), but I'm sorry, it doesn't ring true to me. Wikignomes don't need to broadcast and announce what they do at every oppurtunity; that's why they're called gnomes. If BasketofPuppies would just have heeded my perfectly polite initial comment, we wouldn't need to be in this extremely boring situation. ╟─TreasuryTag►senator─╢ 19:47, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
I am willing to help out with mediation, if both parties are willing. Maybe we could come to a compromise, and sort this out. SparksBoy (talk) 19:49, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
No thanks, I'm fine to wait for an administrator :) ╟─TreasuryTag►First Secretary of State─╢ 19:51, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Yes, perfectly willing to! I really am feeling a bit overwhelmed by this. Please help. Basket of Puppies 19:51, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

All right, both of y'all, quite down for a moment. This is a stupid argument. Basket of Puppies, bear in mind that not everyone may like how you organize things. TreasuryTag, bear in mind that not everyone will organize things how you like, and there is nothing wrong with a procedural note even if it annoys you. Annoying you is not against policy. The main point of a collaborative and voluntary project is to each his own, edit how you like where you like as long as it is not disrupting the process, no matter which one of you it is. No need for blocks, no need for mediation, the two of you need to just take a day away from this conversation and reflect on the points that both of you were making. Step away from the keyboard, or at least go to a different page. Each orange bar that pops up is only going to flame the fire that started from a little spark. K? Keegan (talk) 20:05, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Keegan, I agree! I will be going out and doing some errands for the next few hours. I think I will switch the fonting to the small type when notifying folks of ANI threads. I wish that TT refrained from calling me "disruptive" and the personal statements, but I am totally willing to forgive and forget! Have a great afternoon! :) Basket of Puppies 20:09, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
I stand by absolutely everything that I said, particularly in light of the above comment. I once again stress that my complaint never was about when BoP notifies "folks" of ANI threads; it was about the notices he added on ANI after having done this, particularly the bolding (not the text-size).
I take on board what Keegan has to say about the collaborative nature of the project, and with that in mind, I urge BoP to consider toning down or turning off his procedural notes. True, they don't directly and explicitly violate written policy, but that's irrelevant.
Thanks. ╟─TreasuryTag►inspectorate─╢ 20:13, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Back from my errands now. Reading that TT has said above, that he/she "absolutely" stands by everything he/she said, all I can say is that I am very confused. TT said some things which were very personal in nature and in my opinion really inappropriate. I don't know what to do next other than hope Keegan can help work this out. Please help. Basket of Puppies 22:37, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Why not just do something a little more surreptitious, the way the notes in AFD discussions are done? –xeno 23:27, 29 September 2009 (UTC) (thusly...)
Notified user(s) of discussion. ~~~~
Agreed the small note like above suggested by xeno is the best solution, it seems right to inform everyone that should be and to let the people on ANI know they have been informed, seems to be just a case of how to present it. BritishWatcher (talk) 18:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Never in your life should you take something in a written format personally. TreasuryTag does not. It should be okay from both ends. TreasuryTag, I do not support your point of view in turning off notes. To each their own, as I said, and perhaps a new approach can be made. It is neither here nor their, wander off to the wiki ways and pretend this never happened. Keegan (talk) 04:59, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

RE Tkguy

He was already informed here . Why two notifications?--Crossmr (talk) 04:07, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed he has already been notified after I had done so. However, I immediately corrected my mistake just a minute later. Basket of Puppies 04:10, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

RE Chuck Parsons

Hi, thanks for your information, comments and suggestions. My article was deleted as a "copyright infringement" and I do not believe it was, it was a summary of interviews, reading and other sources in my own words. Obviously I am not ready for posting, but I do not think the reason for deletion was accurate. I guess I will post it in the work area for other members such as yourself to look at. Again thanks and if you have any comments for my draft please feel free to make them. I would like to post a few articles in this genre based on information from friends who were active in the era.DGNW (talk) 06:06, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Stefan Janos

Hi, I hope you don't mind, but I've declined the deletion of Stefan Janos as I consider that silver medal in a world championship meets our requirements under wp:athlete. ϢereSpielChequers 09:54, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Oh my, you are absolutely right! I should have not nominated him for deletion. Thank you for letting me know! Basket of Puppies 16:40, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/Bad_Boys_Blue

Hello, thank you for the information and the nice welcome @ Misplaced Pages! Indeed I'm the representative of Mr. John McInerney as finally we thought it's the highest time to revide some untrue facts or gossip stories concerning the Bad Boys Blue. All the changes I have implementd in the Misplaced Pages Bad Boys Blue page are objective facts, as we just have only one goal - let the fans and people interested in the real history of the group know that truth and those objective facts, not just gossips stories created and written by people who have no idea what Bad Boys Blue are about or are in relation with people who claim to be Bad Boys Blue without having any right to do it. The said people support guys like Kevin McCoy, one of the former members of Bad Boys Blue, who a few days ago posted such a "nice" video at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br1iI8UwcaA Their only goal is to make false impression, to fake the real history of the said group and to damage John McInerney because he has taken legal actions against people (McCoy, Cuming, Barnes) who are trying to perform as the fake group using McInerney's name, voice and original sound recording produced by the original label. And they have done things like this it on Misplaced Pages too. Don't you think it's time to clear the facts if Misplaced Pages claims to be the most objective source of information? One, Herb McCoy was a member of Andrew Thomas' formation named The Real Bad Boys Blue and after he left he never performed as Bad Boys Blue, but under his own name. And as opposed to the said TRBBB formation he was using his own versions of some BBB songs and was singing with his own voice. But it doesn't change a fact that he never had any rights to the group's name and putting a link to his website is needless as he has nothing to do with the true history and career of Bad Boys Blue. He can be treaten just as a cover artist performing in this case some of their well known hits. Two, John McInerney naver proclaimed himself to be called "The Official Bad Boys Blue", this term was created by the people behind Andrew Thomas. I'm repeating - on the basis of the contract signed back in 1993 between Coconut Records (the orignal label of the group) and McInerney/Thomas the name BAD BOYS BLUE have always belonged to John McInerney, so he had no reason to use prefix The Official. From 1984 till present John McInerney is the member of the group BAD BOYS BLUE, he's the lead singer since 1987 and since 1993 he has owned the right to the said name. After Andrew Thomas' death he's the only original member staying alive and the only person in the world having rights to the said name. Also now our lawyers in Russia (becaue the fake group performed most often in there) have done a great work and both names: BAD BOYS BLUE and THE REAL BAD BOYS BLUE have been registered in the territory of RF (Russian Federation) and their only owner is Mr. John McInerney! That means that any other group cannot perform under the said names and of course any other group cannot use Mr. McInerney's voice! Three, I did some little corrections in dates of birth, places of birth of deceased members which previous ones were untrue, also corrected discography section and line up's, it all has been done to provide the most objective and true information. Also cannot understand why information about the forthcoming aniversary album titled "25" has been deleted... it's available everywhere: on the official website - www.badboysblue.eu on the offical message board - www.badboysblue.eu/board on the official myspace - www.myspace.com/originalbadboysblue on the official facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bad-Boys-Blue/33116799449 on the official snowfish - http://snowfish.com/badboysblue/ If needed please let us know, so we can send to the official Misplaced Pages staff some official document confirming our rights cause this is our right to let the people know the truth. We don't change the real history of the group, we wanna make it available for people around the world as for last months they have been feed up with lieds and gossip stories. Thank you! BAD BOYS BLUE —Preceding unsigned comment added by BADBOYS BLUE (talk • contribs) 23:35, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

ANI notice for User:Scribner

I appreciate your zeal, but I actually told Scribner that I would be mentioning him on ANI in my comment on his page. The template wasn't needed, and I'm removing it. Thanks. kmccoy (talk) 05:39, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I see that now. It's interesting, tho! I had gone to Scribner's talk page and head searched for both "ANI" and "administ", in hopes of seeing such a notice. However it didn't dawn on my to check for "noticeboard", as you had wikilinked it. My apologies for it and I fully recognize that you had informed him and that my note was a duplicate of what you had already done. Basket of Puppies 14:42, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
No problem, I can understand that. :) Thanks. kmccoy (talk) 18:36, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

RE: Cabal

Haha, no way! I was actually considering talking to you just a few minutes ago; I saw your name on AN/I and for a second thought it said "Basket of Puppets". But then I thought you would consider me weird if I did that, so I went back to playing guitar. :P This cabal sounds like a genius idea, though! Master of Puppets - Call me MoP! :D 20:34, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

IO2

Why have you marked this page for deletion? It follows formatting guidelines and contains only published information with fully cited sources. Stho002 (talk) 01:58, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

I have marked it for deletion as, well, I can't make heads or tails of it. After looking at it for a few minutes I am completely confused as to what IO2 is and what the article as-written is supposed to convey. Would you like to move it to your userspace and then we can work on it together? Basket of Puppies 02:10, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I contest that as a valid reason to delete it. The article will make sense to some people, and if you took the time to read all the associated links and references, then you would probably begin to understand, but even if you don't, show me where it says that an article has to make sense to anybody and everybody? The important point is that if anyone searches for certain keywords, they will find this article, and it is likely to make sense TO THEM. I cannot explain to you publicly what the intention behind the article is, but I am happy to do so privately by email. So, if the article conforms to policy, please remove the deletion flag. Thanks Stho002 (talk) 02:20, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
My apologies, Stho002, but it's a basic precept that Misplaced Pages can only have articles which are notable, verifiable and backed up by reliable sources. Furthermore, the article should try to come to the standards and guidelines as listed here, which is about how to start a new article and what to avoid. As far as the privacy issue, all I can say is that this is not how Misplaced Pages operates. My apologies, but I must leave the deletion tag in place for now and until the point where the article matures quite a bit. Basket of Puppies 02:33, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
The article is clearly verifiable with reliable sources, and is linked to other already existing articles (e.g., FRST, Landcare Research New Zealand Limited), to provide context. As for notability, well it concerns where a significant amount of public funding by FRST goes, and what the outputs are of that investment. All this info is "conveniently" scattered in the public domain, but I am just trying to summarise it in a straightforward way without the usual dollop of propaganda. So, again I don't see any valid reason to delete. If there are SPECIFIC ways you would like me to change it, then I am listening ... Stho002 (talk) 02:50, 15 October 2009 (UTC)