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A request

Hello

Hi, I am from SHOUT! Marketing ... I want to know why SHOUT Magazine UK, could do an article of his magazine. And us are DELETED??

Thanks and regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by GonzaloGomezRufino (talk • contribs) 23:05, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

I've responded at your talk page.--SPhilbrickT 00:25, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

SHM-CD

What are you doing messing with SHM-CD page? You have no knowledge of SHM-CD. I live in Japan and know much more about it than you. Don't mess with things you don't understand. That's typical of you liberals impossing your opinions just because you don't like something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.134.244.230 (talk) 12:37, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Do you understand how PROD works? Someone proposes deletion for a legitimate reason, in this case, not meeting the standards of notability. The notice is left up for seven days, during which time anyone can say it shouldn't be deleted, and the PROD notice could be removed. No one did.

As a suggestion for going forward, if you think the information belongs in Misplaced Pages, consider adding a section to the CD article. If it survives, and grows to be big enough, it could then be split off as a separate article.--SPhilbrickT 13:39, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Life Guru

Hello...

you kindly removed the article: Life Guru - Discovery Health Channel, sighting the reason notability.

Whose notability are you refering to as an excuse for removal?

This 15 episode discovery health channel T.V series created in association with Endemol was presented to wikipedia with all information acurate and correct.

If you are not capable of doing the required research to verify this then please request someone else do it.

How about a call to Discovery health UK, or to one of the near million viewers that watched it?

Put the page back up please. I have no desire to work out how the hell to use wikipedia but suggest that those who claim authority do delate pages at will have to do some kind of basic research course first.

thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.211.114.37 (talk) 05:39, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Are you User:Alcroft? I'll be happy to provide more information, including how to recover the draft article so it can be improved, but I'd like to make sure you are watching. (If you don't sign in using your user ID, I cannot be sure who just posted; I'm only guessing.)--SPhilbrickT 12:49, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Knox Academy

That all seems to be working great. Thanks ever so much Drivenapart (talk) 16:40, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Re: Edcucation, Experience or Talent by Malkam Dior

I wasn't quite sure it fit that specific criteria, but I should have checked first. So sorry about that. I would prefer to use an Afd nomination, but again, it's hard to classify the article in any of the categories provided. Friginator (talk) 18:01, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

No problem. I doubt it can be salvaged, but a lot of work went into that draft (although I suspect it is a copy page of a school report.) I think it is worth going through the deletion discussion.--SPhilbrickT 18:06, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

All right then, I've just opened a deletion discussion here. I decided to list it under "Society topics", as that seems to apply here, even if it doesn't (in my own opinion) fall under any specific category as an article. Friginator (talk) 18:28, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll weigh in.--SPhilbrickT 19:01, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

I wrote up a deletion reason, but looks like I'm too late.--SPhilbrickT 19:12, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

PRODs

Hi, I've noticed you've been deleting quite a few articles proposed for deletion, but you seem to be deleting them before they've had their seven days. They shouldn't be deleted (unless, of course, they're eligible for speedy, in which case one should select the relevant criterion) until at least seven days after the time they were proposed for deletion in UTC. For example, Green Brook Hockey Club was tagged at 07:14 (UTC), 7 December 2010, which means it shouldn't be deleted until 07:14 (UTC) on the 14th, which is about 5 and a half hours from now. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:56, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

E. J. Williams

I see that you deleted a former member of the Manitoba parliament under an CSD:A7. I've never seen that before - for unsuccessful candidates, maybe, but not for elected politicians. if you were concerned about it being a long term unreferenced BLP, well that isn't a csd criteria yet and we are working on the backlog. Please reconsider what A7 should really be used for - it seems that the nominator was a bit overly enthusiastic. RegardsThe-Pope (talk) 09:20, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough. I don't think we should have unreferenced bios, but that isn't yet the current policy (regarding old bios).I'll restore it.--SPhilbrickT 20:00, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, can you please undelete the talk page too. Regards, The-Pope (talk) 14:30, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Done. Sorry about that, I should have thought of that myself.--SPhilbrickT 18:58, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of Mankato building.

I was going to make it 'notable'. Joseph507357 (talk) 19:21, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Are you seriously arguing that a list of three items, none of which were referenced, the tallest of which was 137 feet, is really a notable list? 137 feet wouldn't make the top 40 in DC, which is notorious for not having many tall buildings. You are welcome to make a case, but I suggest you do so in a user subpage (ask if you don't know how), so it can be discussed, and not immediately deleted.--SPhilbrickT 19:55, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

American spelling.

Hi Sphilbrick. Based on the info on your user page, I am assuming you can help with my query. I was reading the article bungalow and noticed that 'storey' (meaning a floor in a building) was spelt without an 'e'. I was about to correct this when I noticed the article was written in American English (neighbor not neighbour). Is 'story' a spelling mistake or not? Also is there any quick way to correct multiple spelling errors or do I have to painstakingly correct each one? Regards--Ykraps (talk) 10:15, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

"Story" is the American English spelling. I'm familiar with many English/Am English differences, but this is one I hadn't known. Is it "storey" in British English? If so that would explain something, because I was involved in editing a bio in which the person's last name was "Storey".

If you need to make multiple changes, there's an option in user preferences to add an editing toolbar. I think that has the ability make multiple changes at once. I say I think, because I'm in IE at the moment, where it isn't available, so I can't tell you exactly how it works. I will be home Friday, if my cryptic comment isn't sufficient, ask again and I'll give you more details.--SPhilbrickT 18:47, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing that up. I too was not aware of that difference between our two languages. In British English 'story' is a narrative whereas 'storey' is the space between floors. Surnames are typically Storrie or Storey but as with all names, the owner decides the spelling. Yours--Ykraps (talk) 23:43, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

A suggestion

You directed Whysosirius (talk · contribs) (at their talk) to WP:OTRS for verifying permission to use images, but that page isn't really organized to be helpful to end-users, it's more to explain what the team is for other people who do administrative work here. For people who just want to donate material the easiest page for them is generally Misplaced Pages:Donating copyrighted materials. If the users already know what they're doing ahead of time and just need to know where to send the information they could also be directed straight to WP:CONSENT. Cheers! VernoWhitney (talk) 13:22, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Guttman

Good morning, SPhilbrick: I last got a message from you on 12/8, when you said you would try to check out my changes to the article on Howard M. Guttman. Have you had a chance to do that? If not, when do you think you will be able to? Thank you, Dale Corey Dalecorey (talk) 14:42, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm on a business trip with limited ability to work in Misplaced Pages at the moment. I may get some time this evening, but I cannot promise that. I will be back online Friday, sorry for the delay, but I will try to respond then.--SPhilbrickT 18:50, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

I understand. Thank you, Dale — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dalecorey (talk • contribs) 16:08, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

I've worked on cleaning it up a bit. Still mulling over whether it is ready, as it still sounds overly promotional. --SPhilbrickT 18:58, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

My main concern is that it still reads too much like a PR piece. You have a number of references, but most are first party sources. Please read Notability and see the emphasis on third party sources.

You do have some. The Leadership Excellence reference is third party, but it is a blog. Blogs are disallowed in some instance,s allowed in others, but rarely considered high quality references. I didn't check out the Harvard Management interview, but it should qualify. However, one quality source may not be good enough.

The good news is that some exist. You include a Time Magazine interview in one section, but you haven't used it as a reference. It is here and if incorporated, could qualify as a good third party reference.

In short, you have a lot of material which comes from Guttman, but we want to see discussions of Guttman and his ideas authored by others. --SPhilbrickT 20:29, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

About deletion of article of Harshad Gune

Hi , i am mailing you regarding deletion of my article about Mr Harshad Gune. It was tagged because it said does not indicate how or why the subject of the article is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia.

Well i would like to say that Mr Harshad Gune is one of the board members of Open Source Initiative which has wikiepdia page. Here is the link Open Source Initiative and all the board members who are listed there have a wiki page about them . Hence i went ahead and created a wiki page for Mr. Harshad Gune.

So please let me know whether wiki article about Mr Harshad Gune would be accepted or not, so that i can again write a wiki page about him accordingly.

Waiting for your reply

Regards

Ronnaber — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ronnaber (talk • contribs) 16:56, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm on a business trip with limited ability to work in Misplaced Pages at the moment. I may get some time this evening, but I cannot promise that. I will be back online Friday, sorry for the delay, but I will try to respond then.--SPhilbrickT 18:51, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

First a minor comment, added just because it has been confusing to some readers. When a page is deleted with a notation that "which does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject", sometimes the reaction is "what do you mean the person isn't significant?" However, the key word often is "indicate". The person might be quite significant in their field, but perhaps the page didn't show the evidence. Please take a look at Notability, in particular, the statement: "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Now check out the page for another board member Danese Cooper, and notice the multiple references to reliable sources. Compare that to the Harshad Gune page, which didn't even mention that he was a board member, and has very few references, none of which are in general publications. --SPhilbrickT 13:46, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

CydeBot's Author

I noticed you asked CydeBot's author a question about PRODs and CSDs. Unfortunately, I think he has left wikipedia, so maybe you will want to ask a different administrator about the CAT:SD.

(As a new page patroller/vandal reverter, I see a LOT of these things, so I can understand why somebody could be surprised about how many there are ;) .) Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:42, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I was a bit worried when I saw how old the most recent comment was, but I thought I'd give it a try. On to Plan B.--SPhilbrickT 19:57, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Walt Dropo

Hello. I was hoping you could do be a favor regarding the Walt Dropo article. Recently the article was updated to indicate that he died yesterday. I reverted the IP who updated the article since he/she did not provide a source and I could find nothing indicating the death. When I asked the IP for a source (see User talk:24.61.153.165), he/she said that he/she was related to Dropo and heard through the family that he passed on last night. Could you help me watch the article to see if it is updated again, and also watch to see if the Hartford Courant or another source publishes something confirming that he died? I would greatly appreciate it. –Grondemar 22:21, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

I just watchlisted it. However, I'm heading to Madison Square Garden early tomorrow, so won't be able to watch it during the day.--SPhilbrickT 22:26, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

No problem, thanks! I figure that if it is true, something will come out of either UConn or the Courant sooner rather than later. Have fun at MSG, should be exciting! –Grondemar 22:57, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Just FYI, the Courant confirmed that Walt Dropo died: . I restored the IP's edits and added the source. –Grondemar 02:56, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Am I being too hard?

Hello Sphilbrick. I have been helping out at RFF and came across this article. It has already received some feedback here but I can't say I concur with the reviewer's comments. I agree the article is notable but it doesn't sound neutral, contains peacock language and has no independent sources. I still consider myself to be a bit of a 'newbie' and don't want to tread on anybody's toes so if you have any advice regarding the best way to approach this issue, I would appreciate it. Or if you feel I am being unnecessarily harsh, I would be just as happy to hear that. Regards--Ykraps (talk) 11:42, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

I'll take a look; however, I am running out for the day, so cannot until tomorrow.--SPhilbrickT 12:12, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Took a quick look, I agree it is problematic. Will try to respond shortly.--SPhilbrickT 15:37, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

I have some concerns about the wording in the lede. I made some edits, further discussion is on the article talk page.--SPhilbrickT 17:39, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Yoxi Misplaced Pages page

Dear Sphilibrick:

I would like to create a page for a new company called "Yoxi"--they are gaining some notoriety (see here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/13/DDAE1GOBO6.DTL) so I want to have some presence on Misplaced Pages for those who hear about us and search. However, being new to Misplaced Pages, I understand my previous entry was overly promotional and was deleted by you. I would like to try again while eliminating any descriptive adjectives, facebook/twitter mentions, etc. As they say in Dragnet, "just the facts" -- please let me know if I may proceed, and thank you.

Ballark (talk) 14:08, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm in a meeting at the moment, will try to respond when I get out.--SPhilbrickT 14:09, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Re: Bot editing question

I guess it's just that Cyde is using generic code. I can't see why checking eligibility would be a problem, at least not technically. If you have an idea on how to check eligibility I would happen to have a look at coding a replacement bot, then we can turn Cyde's off somehow. Regards, - Jarry1250  18:50, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

I haven't done any work with bots, so I don't even know how to look at the code. However, based upon its operation, it appears to update once a day, just after midnight UTC, and add a list of files who prod expiration date is the current day. So for example, in a little over 4 hours, it will be 22 December, and the bot will add to the template all articles with a Prod expiration date of 22 December. My simple-minded suggestion is to change the code so that it adds all the Prods expiring on 21 Dec.

In general, at 12:01 dd.mm.yyyy it currently adds prods with an expiration date of dd.mm.yyyy. I would change it to those expiring on dd-1.mm.yyyy.

In other words, instead of listing prods expiring today, it lists those expiring yesterday. The only tricky issue might be ensuring that dates at the end of a month or end of a year work OK.

If this were implemented, there would be one day where none where added, but from then on, it would add one days worth of articles to the queue. It would mean that articles would go seven days and a few hours before deletion, but that's fine.--SPhilbrickT 19:48, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Well that would sure be easy, but easier if we had Cyde's help. Would take like 5 seconds to alter his code appropriately, I'm sure :) Best leave him to see if he can get back to you. - Jarry1250  20:20, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

NP. It's not exactly urgent. Happy to wait to see if Cyde responds.--SPhilbrickT 20:26, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Guttman

Dear Sphilbrick:

Your last comments about my article on Howard M. Guttman were very helpful. As a result, I made numerous changes. I removed the reference to the Leadership Excellence blog and replaced it with a link to the magazine's Web site, which provides its most recent list of Excellence 100 Thought Leaders, including Mr. Guttman.

I also added a number of citations of articles written by others to which Mr. Guttman, as a respected thinker in the field, was asked to contribute.

I cited the TIME magazine article, which was not an interview of Mr. Guttman but a description of his work with CEO Paul Michaels and his top team at Mars, Incorporated.

I included a list of the many organizations and institutions who have asked Mr. Guttman to speak before their members.

Finally, I referenced several interviews of senior executives who commented on Mr. Guttman's ideas and how they have put them to use in their organizations.

I hope the addition of these people talking about Mr. Guttman's ideas adds more credibility and neutrality to the article.

Thank you, Dale Dalecorey (talk) 21:45, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Much improved. --SPhilbrickT 21:57, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Dear Sphilbrick:

I was so happy to see that you think the Howard M. Guttman article is much improved by the most recent changes. What are the next steps? Can you remove the issues listed at the top? Do I need to request additional feedback from other reviewers? What should I do now? Best, Dale Dalecorey (talk) 16:47, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

I'll try to take a look at it later today, but I'm heading to a potential record setting basketball game, so I may not get to it until tomorrow.--SPhilbrickT 18:15, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

I still have some concerns, will respond in more detail soon.--SPhilbrickT 15:59, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Yoxi

Hi Sphilbrick,

I would like to make another page for Yoxi, can you give me the ok to do that? Did you receive my earlier message?

Kind regards, Ballark — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ballark (talk • contribs) 15:49, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I promised to look at it a couple days ago, and got distracted. I'll look at it now.--SPhilbrickT 16:01, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Yoxi has potential for an article, but the first attempt came across as too promotional. Whether fair or unfair, it was also hampered by not following Manual of Style guidelines, for examle, sections heading styles and references.

My suggestion: read Referencing for beginners and Manual of Style, then start a draft article in a user subpage. Such as User:Ballark/Yoxi

The SF Chronicle reference is very helpful. It may not be enough, so if there are other independent soruces, it would help a lot.

When you have a draft, post to Requests for feedback, or poke me, or both.--SPhilbrickT 16:12, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Ecological Urbanism

Would the "Ecological Urbanism" article be ok now? Thanks for your help!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cuttingedgethinking (talk • contribs) 17:36, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Much better. Still could use some work, but you've addressed the copyright issue.--SPhilbrickT 17:57, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Your help was amazing! Thank you so much!!!--Cuttingedgethinking (talk) 18:12, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Please, can you help me again? The "Ecological Urbanism" article has been nominated for deletion again and I do not understand what is going on. It is my first time trying to edit an article on wikipedia and it seems that some people have a very destructive intention instead of a constructive one. Could you do something about it, please?--Cuttingedgethinking (talk) 19:45, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Wow! You amaze me with your willingness to help! I am sure that it is because of editors like you that Misplaced Pages keeps on working and growing. Thank you very much!!! I am fully aware I do not know much about how to edit here but I do have a passion for ecology related issues and I believe we need more information on the topic to be available to people around the world. I will do my best to talk the other user helping me to build this article and together with other people willing to help we will address the issues you mention, ok? Thanks once again! I am really thankful!!!--Cuttingedgethinking (talk) 21:20, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Please note I am adding some advice to your talk page, so you don't have to keep watching this page. Let me know if you don't see it.--SPhilbrickT 21:33, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

BTW, I spend a lot of time helping out at Requests for feedback. Nine out of ten times I offer suggestions, I get no response, not even a disagreement. So when someone actually responds, I am motivated to help.--SPhilbrickT 21:35, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

I am learning a lot from you, thanks!--Cuttingedgethinking (talk) 22:59, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi there! Do you think the article is ok now??? PS: Happy Holidays!!!--138.251.242.166 (talk) 12:52, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

It is coming along nicely. The AfD nomination will run seven days, at this point, the only clear opinion is "keep" so unless some deletionists show up, I think it should survive. If for some reason it doesn't, poke me and I'll help you take the next steps.

You still have some embedded urls, those are no longer acceptable in articles. I'll look into some of them later to day and fix them if you do not.--SPhilbrickT 13:38, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

You are amazingly helpful! Thanks for everything!!!--138.251.242.166 (talk) 15:59, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Corey

If it was the women's UConn game, it was definitely record breaking. Hope you enjoyed it. Will wait to hear back. Dale Dalecorey (talk) 20:39, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it was. Sorry I'm not looking at your article, helping someone else at the moment, will look at it soon. Anyone who knows about the UConn record deserves my full attention:)--SPhilbrickT 20:42, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Responded at your talk page.--SPhilbrickT 23:24, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Yoxi re-do

Hi Sphilbrick,

Thank you very much for your feedback on Yoxi. I read the guidelines, and made the post as factual as I could, shortening it as much as possible, and adding as many hyperlinks in the method described on Wiki. Please let me know if this meets with your (and Misplaced Pages's) approval. And thank you for bearing with me, this being my forst post onto Misplaced Pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ballark (talk • contribs) 03:21, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'm not finding it. I create a page for you at User:Ballark/Yoxi, but you haven't edit there, and I see no other evidence of edits.--SPhilbrickT 16:17, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Oh wait, now I see it. You didn't take my advice. I did it for you. It has along way to go. but I placed it in a location less likely to get deleted so quickly User:Ballark/Yoxi.--SPhilbrickT 16:22, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi again Sphilbrick, I went ahead and read (many times) the reference info page and while I feel I'm close I still can't seem to get it right. I edited the page in the area you created: http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Ballark/Yoxi -- can you have a look and let me know where I may have slipped. I used the codes they told me to, so I'm perplexed as to what is the hold up. I also trimmed the post way down to be very bare bones. Can you please send me any feedback you may have? Thanks a million for all you guidance. <ballark>

Kolowrat portrait

The uploaded picture File:Johann Kolowrat.jpg is an early 19th century print. I'm 99% certain that it belongs to a genre of portraits of Napoleonic era (1792-1815) generals made in the same or following generation. If I could find the artist and date, I would provide that data. The website that I linked to does indeed have the picture, but I should have provided the entire path which is, http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/html/kolowrat.html. There are already scores of these prints on wikipedia. Here's another example of an image that was not uploaded by me: File:Général Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor.jpg. There is no background information yet it is in the Commons. While we are on the subject, I have come across images on wikipedia that I suspect are not in the public domain. Here's an example, File:Battle of the Bridge of Arcole.jpg of a map that was placed by someone else in an article largely written by me. I create my own maps for wikipedia articles and intended to replace the image eventually. Djmaschek (talk) 03:29, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

I responded at your talk page on the first issue; I proposed the "Battle" image for deletion, which I understand is the process to either delete it or confirm the proper license.--SPhilbrickT 16:13, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

I saw your note at my talk page. I edited File:Johann Kolowrat.jpg and changed the license tag to PD-old, Author to unknown, and Permissions to Early to mid-19th Century print. There is a commons tag that I left alone because I don't understand it. The person who put the map in the Arcole article seems like an OK guy and I'm sure it was an honest mistake. Copyright law is pretty confusing according to the articles that I've read about it. Djmaschek (talk) 23:53, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

NANOCOAT

Dear Sphilbrick,

It appears that both my NANOCOAT wikipedia page and my username (IPM2) have been deleted by your patrol;

1: Copyright infringement that is mentioned to justify NANOCOAT Text deletion refers to my own original text that can be found of course in several websites, including CORDIS from the European Commission who funds this project that I coordinate, and other sites that have copied this abstract for their own database (as BIOINFOBANK); should I ask for a copyright of my own original text !!?? I have also added the website links of the companies involved in the project as partners, if this is not allowed of course I can delete these links!

2: Username IPM2 is the acronym of my company name: International Project Management, Plating & Materials, the NANOCOAT project coordinator; if I should use my own name (Pascal NEGRE) no problem, just let me know !

Thanks to help me reactivate this page, as the European Commission herself wants us to disseminate about this project and its future technical outcomes, through media such as your Misplaced Pages !!

Best regards

Pascal NEGRE IPM², Nanocoat project coordinator —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.120.200.45 (talk) 09:20, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

I see that another admin blocked IPM@ as a user name. This is because we do not allow promotional usernames. See Misplaced Pages:Username policy. You are encouraged to register another name.

Nanocoat was deleted because it was a copyright violation. You might find it odd that we would delete material you have written but the policy does make sense.

First, some people are under the mistaken impression that one can give permission for material to be used only by Misplaced Pages. This isn't the case. Once text is added to Misplaced Pages (and not deleted as a copyright violation) it can be used by anyone (with proper attribution). It can be used anywhere, for education use, or to make a buck, and you no longer have the ability to stop them from using the material. In an extreme situation, if you were writing the text on a contract, expecting to be paid, you might find that the client can simply copy the text from Misplaced Pages, and not have to pay you. So one of the reasons we are careful is for your protection. Even if that isn't an issue, you might not have the authority to grant a license to Misplaced Pages. I've written papers for journals, and I have to ask permission to quote myself. If you write text for another entity, you may well have given them the copyright. You cannot then use that same text in Misplaced Pages without getting their permission. I don't know what exact arrangement exists between you and the organization that published the material, but we start with the assumption that the organization controls the copyright, and you have to provide us with evidence of permission if you wish to use it in Misplaced Pages.

In addition, we allow people to edit Misplaced Pages anonymously. We do not ask for evidence that you are who you say you are, so we cannot just accept at face value that you are the original author of the words. Again, this is for your benefit.

It may be that an article on Nanocoat is appropriate for Misplaced Pages (but it is of no interest to us that the European Commission wants such an article. Misplaced Pages is the sole judge of what belongs on Misplaced Pages. If you'd like to try again, I suggest you create a new user name, then start an article in a user subpage (let me know if you want to know how to do that.) If you want to use words existing in another site, or a close paraphrase of those words, we have to arrange for permission. It would be easier if the context was rewritten, but if you want to use a close paraphrasing, let me know and I'll let you know what steps are required.

For an article to survive, it will have to show evidence of Notability, substantial coverage in reliable sources independent of you and the project. Hope this helps, please ask if you have any additional questions.--SPhilbrickT 16:11, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks =)

Thanks for replying so quickly to my question! Cilibinarii (talk) 15:03, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Dale

Thanks for the detailed comments. I will go back to the drawing board and try to incorporate them. I hope you have a very happy holiday! Dale Dalecorey (talk) 15:29, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Yoxi

Sphilbrick, saw your re-post of Yoxi. But you said it still has "a long way to go"--can you elaborate? It was flagged first for being promotional--but then I trimmed it to being strictly factual. Then it was flagged for being not notable, yet I included hyperlinks to stories in Slashfood, Mashable and TheSan Francisco Chronicle. GOOD magazine is a content partner. Our first competition featured three very well known judges. What am I missing? Thank you again for your help and for your patience.

Ballark Ballark (talk) 19:20, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Every one of your references was a bare link, not formed as a proper reference. SeeReferencing for beginners. (I trust you see I have saved your content, and moved it to a place where you can work on it in peace?) By the way, "factual" is not the opposite of "promotional". An article can be 100% facts, and still not qualify, if it is judged that the main point of the article is to promote something, rather than serve as a neutral summary of what independent sources say about the subject.--SPhilbrickT 20:23, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

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About Waku Games article

Hi, just to check with you how can I make an article about the Waku Games Network without crashing the Misplaced Pages terms & conditions. The company name is Elogix Uruguay and it is the network owner. How can I confirm and trust the article (and futures articles).

Thank your for your time and help (and Merry Christmas!).

Eduardo.- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elogixuy (talk • contribs) 22:19, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Will respond tomorrow.(if I don't remind me - there's 35 people at the house so not a good time for clear thinking--SPhilbrickT 22:34, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Boris Wiedenfeld

Hello, I was looking forward to read the article on musician Boris Wiedenfeld only to find a note saying you've deleted it as of last December 4. I'm not looking for an explanation for the deletion but rather to know if there's any way I could read that article now.Rosa 04:53, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Placed a copy at your talk page --SPhilbrickT 14:24, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you.Rosa 20:46, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Message moved from user page

Hi I created that article about Jeanne DiFrancesco last week and the article got deleted. It was about my boss and she wanted to me to make it for her. I didn't know what I did wrong. Let me know what I need to do that will make it easier for the future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mes5285 (talk • contribs)

I'll look into it and respond shortly.--SPhilbrickT 14:40, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

RedSpotGames

Thanks for your feedback on my G4 nomination of this article. I have now moved it to AFD. duffbeerforme (talk)

No problem. I see you are offering to help the editor improve the article. Kudos!--SPhilbrickT 15:47, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your outside view.

I am working on all my articles, but as you know most wiki contributors come here on their free time. I don't have time to participate in an AFD discussion, I can however beef up secondary references for all the articles. The problem with secondary references is that they lack the information needed to be referenced, for example Play-Asia and NCSX are strong secondary references but they won't have the release date. If you are more active i'd appreacide you discussing for me in the afd while I expand my articles in a more wikifiable way. It is very demotivating working on something which might get deleted.

Targeted articles include Senile Team ngdevteam sturmwind.

Thanks & Regards Billy--Cube b3 (talk) 15:07, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Please see reply, I didn't know if wiki what automatically inform you, to me replying on my wall.--Cube b3 (talk) 15:43, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

The Invisible Barnstar

And thanks for fulfilling my deletion request. -Verapar (talk) 21:40, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

RedSpotGames

Thanks for your comment at User talk:JamesBWatson#RedSpotGames. I have now answered it there. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:33, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

AFAIK

I would like to inquire what "housekeeping" reason supported the CSD G6 deletion of the page? Looking at the history, it was tagged DB "no page", which is basically A3. But the page was a WP:Soft Redirect prior to the tagging. And soft redirects are expressly not subject to A# deletions. So that should not be the reason for it's deletion. But I can think of no other housekeeping reason for deletion a valid, functional soft redirect. - TexasAndroid (talk) 18:38, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Doesn't seem like a page we need, but I don't feel strongly enough about it so I restored it.--SPhilbrickT 19:17, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Sowa_Rigpa

Hi, i've posted texts taken from from www.indianmedicine.nic.in (http://indianmedicine.nic.in/index2.asp?slid=143&sublinkid=82&lang=1)about sowa rigpa. this website is free of copyright view the copyright policy here (http://indianmedicine.nic.in/index1.asp?lang=1&linkid=6&lid=24). Siddhadreams (talk) 10:40, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Sorry about that, and thanks for bringing it to my attention. I've copied the copyright notice to the article talk page, which may help forestall future actions.--SPhilbrickT 12:23, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank You! Siddhadreams (talk) 06:28, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Re: James Herbert Leach

Thank you for looking at James Herbert Leach. Does the Leach bio deserve to be fleshed out further such as "Creighton Abrams" or "John Bahnsen", or is this brief entry appropriate?

Re: John Bahnsen, I would like to edit this entry to a more acceptable standard. Any recommendations? Thank you Fvhayden (talk) 16:41, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

It's a nice start, and I wanted to review it when I had the time it deserved. I will try to look at it this evening, if I don't I will be out of town for a couple days. I will try this evening, if you don't see anything, leave me a reminder Friday.--SPhilbrickT 16:52, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

That was fast!

Thanks for the U1 deletes. 28bytes (talk) 18:31, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

No problem. I got an iPad for Christmas, I leave it on my desk when working at home, and find it easy to delete U1s. For most deletes, I want to check to see that the editor has been notified; with a U1 it is easy, so i can do it on the IPad quickly.--SPhilbrickT 18:42, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

iPad

Congrats on the iPad. How do you like it so far? I love mine, but the bandwidth runs out too quickly. A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 18:46, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm happy with it so far, but haven't done a lot with it. I'm reading a book on it, and using it to supplement my WP work. It's nice for multi-tasking; sitting on the couch, half watching TV and catching up on email or checking something out. I haven't taken it out of the house yet, so haven't had a chance to see how it works off my network. I did try to access one of my maps in Google, and it failed, so I'm disappointed in that, although maybe I'm doing something wrong. Nice screen image, but haven't used it for a movie yet. BTW, Happy New Year.--SPhilbrickT 18:54, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Happy new year to you, too. Yeah, I love being able to sit on the couch and surf the internet on decent sized screen. BTW, I don't know if you're into classic gaming, but this accessory is pretty cool. A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 17:50, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Quick Kill

Not exactly sure what you were trying to do, but the result was a redirect that led back to itself. I doubt that was your intention, please try to fix the issue. --Leivick (talk) 19:06, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Correct, not my intention, will look at it right away.--SPhilbrickT 19:29, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Not quite sure what happened. Working with editor to resolve.--SPhilbrickT 19:44, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Jan Sophus Jansen article submission

Dear Sphilbrick,

I received your feedback and appreciate your insights. I did find a Misplaced Pages article on the song "Yon Yonson" (the phonetic spelling of the name), so I thought that I would tailor this new article to highlight the probable author and subject of the song.

I've shorten the article, eliminating many of the ancestral information with the goal of providing a brief summary of who Jan Jansen was with respect to the song.

After you have a chance to review the changes, I will look for your feedback. I know I still need to figure out how to enter and link the references.

Best regards,

BrickyardSS (talk) 22:42, 3 January 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrickyardSS (talk • contribs) 22:35, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Seek & Destroy page move

I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know you should not have preformed the deletion/pagemove of Seek & Destroy (Metallica song) to Seek & Destroy. By doing so you separated the talk pages of the two articles, as well as deleted a page history that was required to be kept since Seek & Destroy had been merged into another article. That was noted in the page history as well as the talk page's history, so you know where to look in the future. Generally if you aren't sure what you are doing, don't do page moves that involve deletion, particularly if you are separating the talk page and article. It can be very hard (or even impossible, if a page restoration is preformed as well) to fix mistakes made in that process. See Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard#Weird stuff going on at Seek & Destroy (Metallica song). Thanks, Prodego 23:27, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Quick Kill is an example of breaking the page history in an unfixable way, such I mentioned above. Perhaps it can be recovered from cached versions. I'll see what I can do. If you could refrain from deleting pages and moving other pages on top of them, that would perhaps be a good idea. Prodego 23:33, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Happily I was able to fix Quick Kill, unhappily it was only by checking every diff manually to see which page it should have been on. What happened with Quick Kill is that you (I believe unintentionally) ended up preforming a history merge between the diambig page that was at Quick Kill, and the page for the APS - Quick Kill active protection system. After a history merge the page history contains entries from both pages history, and there is no way to separate which page each edit was made to except by looking at each revision and guessing. This will always happen when you restore a page when a page already exists on top of it. For both Quick Kill and Seek & Destroy you ended up separating the talk page and its article. When pages are moved the talk page should be moved with them, which does not happen automatically if the target page has to be deleted. I've fixed this for both pages as well. For WDDZ (AM). First step is going to be to look at the history of both pages, and both their talk pages. If the destination page has a substantial history, you should check several things. Make sure the page being moved isn't and was never (check the first history revision) a fork or cut and paste of the destination page. If it is a cut and paste a history merge (and likely a messy one) must be preformed. On WDDZ (AM) there is only one revision in the history, and no revisions on the talk page. So we are good to make a move. Step 2 is to delete the destination page and its talk page. The link to delete and move is nice, but I wouldn't suggest using it because then you will have to move the talk page separately. After deleting both pages, move the remaining page and its talk page to the new name. If you get confused at any point it will always be fairly easy to ask for help and to undo everything done unless you restore a page when there is another page at the same title. As long you avoid doing that, you should be fairly safe. Prodego 00:15, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

If the destination page has a substantial history it likely shouldn't be being deleted by CSD anyway. Prodego 00:16, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

I appreciate the detailed explanation. It hasn't totally sunk in, but as I have some real life work to do, I'll leave it, and return to it, and make sure I follow it before proceeding. Thanks.--SPhilbrickT 00:43, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Template

Hi Sphilbrick,

Thank you for the information but I am a novice and would appreciate a little more help. I was hoping to incorporate the info box on to my draft. would that be possible or do I have to rewrite the whole think again?

EC — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leader9091 (talk • contribs) 03:02, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm out of town until Thursday. If you don't hear from me by Friday, prod me again, and I'll set up an infobox for you (and look at the article) - it can be added, it doesn't require a rewrite.--SPhilbrickT 17:22, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

I responded at your talk page. There's more to do, but I've outlined a start.--SPhilbrickT 16:05, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Geocoordinates

Hi! This is just to let you know I've replied to you on my talk page. -- The Anome (talk) 19:24, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Senile Team

I have removed primary references, and tried to substitute them with notable secondary references from Kotaku. Please have the AFD tag removed :) --Cube b3 (talk)

I don't have the authority to remove an AD tag. With very rare exceptions, once an article is submitted to AfD, it goes through the seven day process, and then action is taken based upon the consensus of the respondents. In some cases, such as this one,t he time is extended. The good news is that all !votes are "Keep" so far. (Cross-posted to your talk page.)--SPhilbrickT 17:14, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Yoxi re-re-do

Hi again Sphilbrick, I went ahead and read (many times) the reference info page and while I feel I'm close I still can't seem to get it right. I edited the page in the area you created: http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Ballark/Yoxi -- can you have a look and let me know where I may have slipped. I used the codes they told me to, so I'm perplexed as to what is the hold up. I also trimmed the post way down to be very bare bones. Can you please send me any feedback you may have? Thanks a million for all you guidance. <ballark> Ballark (talk) 02:03, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Don't feel bad, refs are tricky. Until you get used to them, then they are easy, but until then, they can be tough. BTW, if you look at the code now to see what I have done, be aware I'm using a relatively new approach called WP:LDR citation style. Many editors haven't yet heard of it, but I think it makes the editable screen cleaner, so I like it. You sort of had four refs, but I think there was a duplicate, if I excised anything in error, let me know , and I'll fix it and or help you so you can learn. I trust you understands the draft still has a ways to go, but at least it now has some references.(Cross-posted to your talk page.)--SPhilbrickT 19:06, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

deleted article "How Strategy Shapes Structure"

Hi Sphilbrick,

The article you have deleted "How Strategy Shapes Structure" is a published article by the same authors of Blue Ocean Strategy - Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne - published September 2009 by Harvard Business Press. I am an Institute Executive Fellow who work with both Kim and Mauborgne at the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute in France. There is nothing promotional about the wikipedia article you have deleted, just an update on the latest thinking on Blue Ocean Strategy. Please re-insert the article at your earliest convenience to benefit your readers who want to know more but do not wish to obtain and read the entire published article "How Strategy Shapes Structure".

Regards, Katrina LING Institute Executive Fellow INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute Tel: +33 (0)1 60 71 2591 Europe Campus - Boulevard de Constance 77305 Fontainebleau - France We invite you to visit our website www.blueoceanstrategy.com which has the latest updates on Blue Ocean Strategy from around the world. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Surfdachsie (talk • contribs) 10:51, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm unable to do so at the moment, but will will try to do so over the next couple days. Please don't hesitate to remind me if you do not hear a response by tomorrow evening.--SPhilbrickT 14:31, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Done--SPhilbrickT 22:56, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Thought you might like to know

Hi! I just came across Jeremiah Palecek which you deleted as a copyvio of http://wikibin.org/articles/jeremiah-palecek.html. While Wikibin is only licensed under the GFDL and so would normally be a copyright violation, all of their content is taken from deleted Misplaced Pages pages. Because of this, articles copied from there are usually G4 targets, or if they have been improved and are no longer G4-able then their history can be restored to provide attribution and avoid the copyvio problem. VernoWhitney (talk) 18:35, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I usually check the license, but I don't recall this one, so not sure what my thought process was. I'll look into this further over the weekend.--SPhilbrickT 19:29, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Jan Sophus Jansen: recent edit

Dear Sphilbrick, I had made some modifications to the Jan Sophus Jansen page I was working on, and was wondering if you've had a chance to review it? The modifications were basically:

* Made the page more of a biography of Jan Jansen (eliminating much of the ancestral references)
* Added hyper-links to other Misplaced Pages pages (including the "Yon Yonson" page)

I believe he is noteworthy due to the fact that he is the probable author and subject of a fairly well known American folk song (simple as it may be). He is also (phonitically) named in:

* Kurt Vonegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" novel
* Calvin Klein's "Altered Stated" perfume commercial
* The Canadian band "The Dave Howard Singers" feature him in their cover song.
* The children's band "Ralph's World" feature him in one of their songs
* The video game "Psychonauts" reference him in their video game
* Numurous children's song books tell the "Jan Jansen" story

Please let me know what else might be required for submission. I will then work on getting the "Manual of Style" perfected.

Best regards,

-Mark — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrickyardSS (talk • contribs) 22:55, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

I will look at it tomorrow after work.--SPhilbrickT 02:18, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure whether you've read anything else on my talk page - no reason to expect you to, but I had a number of requests, and I'm doing them in order. I've finished the others, and will look at Jansen soon, but probably won't get to it this evening, sorry. --SPhilbrickT 01:43, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

David Chung

Hello Sphilbrick,

Where can I find the revised version? I can't wait to see it.

Elise — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leader9091 (talk • contribs) 01:23, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

SPhilbrick,

I found it. Let me see what I can do now. Thank you! ECLeader9091 (talk) 01:35, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Jan Sophus Jansen

Dear Sphilbrick, I've added in-line citation references to the Jan Sophus Jansen page. When you get a chance, please review it to determine if it meets Misplaced Pages's "Manual of Style" Thank you, BrickyardSS (talk) 05:47, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

G7

I'm missing something ... Yeah, and me too.

Nothing's ever simple, is it! Over time, Jackytar has uploaded a large number of non-free images to Commons and en:WP, marking them as "own work". I put "fair-use" on some of them, and created "fair-use" copies of others. Zscout370 has been making free-use .svg versions. Thus, I've been adding G7 to the non-free ones I uploaded. Seems I've been sloppy, and also added G7 to some of those uploaded by Jackytar. I guess they need a different tag. (The one that says "this non-free image has been superceeded by a free-use version". Thanks eagle-eyes. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 03:39, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Aspartame Controversy

Have I been blocked? I can post to the sandbox but not to the Aspartame_Controversy page? Arydberg (talk) 18:12, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Deletion question

my article HANDVO was deleted wrongfully. what can i do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.98.84.15 (talk) 17:03, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

There is a process called Misplaced Pages:Deletion review, but it would be a waste of everyone's time. You'd be better off reading WP:N. You need references. Youtube dos not count.--SPhilbrickT 18:54, 10 January 2011 (UTC)