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Dear Fastily,
You speedy deleted the article Oxwall from wikipedia due to copyright infringement (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://oxwall.org/). I would like to request you, if possible, to provide the exact reason for copyright infringement (was it textual content, or an image). I will be glad to re-write the article if required. But the problem is that I can't seem to find my draft for the article. Will you be able to let me know what exactly was a subject to copyright infringement in the article, and undelete it so that I could make the necessary corrections?
I look forward to your reply.
Thank you in advance.
HookAndEye (talk) 07:32, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Could you recover my text so that I could make the corrections? HookAndEye (talk) 07:54, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- No. For legal reasons, that cannot be done. -FASTILY 00:43, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Larry Bock
Dear Fastily, Mr Larry Bock got UC Berkeley to take down the page in question http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/pagrp/LarryBockinfo.html i respectfully request you restore my page on Larry Bock biography for i am not in any violation of Misplaced Pages rules thank you (frank 00:58, 20 October 2011 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frank.diaz1994 (talk • contribs)
Thank you
Hi Fastily, thanks for the rollback rights. Just tried it out; this should make vandal-thrashing substantially easier. Now I may even beat ClueBot to the revert from time to time. Yunshui (talk) 08:28, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- You're welcome! Thanks for helping to keep Misplaced Pages free of vandalism. Cheers, FASTILY 00:45, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Access to a deleted page
Hi, I understand that you had to delete Zwinky because it was written like an advertisement. My students in the Online Communities class at Cornell University edited this page for a course project. I would like to see what were the contents of the page before it was deleted so I could evaluate their work. Is it possible provide me with access to the contents of the article? I am not contesting the deletion. Thank you. LeshedInstructor (talk) 12:50, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
You deleted an article on "Conscious Business", which was not written by me, but is an important topic in the subject of business sustainability, green business, etc. It really should be included in Misplaced Pages. I linked to the page from my website, as I do with other topics, to educate viewers on such related topics. This is the purpose of Misplaced Pages isn't it? I cannot reference the article now, but I don't remember it being an advertisement, unless it referred viewers to the writer's business in the credits? If so, just delete the business referral, not the content. I work this new field of Conscious Business and encourage the widely recognized subject to be included in Misplaced Pages. Shall I write an article to replace it?
Rusty Elrod HorizonPath Corp. relrod@horizonpath.net 404-502-8853 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.140.197.28 (talk) 13:57, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- No page ever existed at Conscious Business. Are you sure that is the correct title? And please, by all means, feel free to start a new article on this subject matter. -FASTILY 00:50, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Human Revolution
Why was the Human Revolution page deleted? Mollari08 (talk) 14:52, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) User:Fastily/E#G11 (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:24, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Deleted Article: Riordan Clinic
Hello Fastily,
I'm just getting around to asking you about the article you deleted that I wrote about the Riordan Clinic. The reason the article was deleted was given as "clearly doesn't meet WP:Notability (organizations and companies) as there aren't sufficient independent sources to prove notability". While I admit that I hadn't gotten around to adding additional sources, I feel that this article was prematurely deleted. This is especially the case considering other hospital articles listed under in article "List of hospitals in Kansas". For example, the Wesley Medical Center has no more content than I had and has zero references. Labette Health has two references from the same site, less content, and has avoided deletion for over a year. I don't see why my article was removed when these two remain.
I'd like to recreate the article with more content that I've been working on outside of Wiki and with more sources (both official and independent). I feel it's important that people can learn about hospitals in our community and even if the information is brief and to the point it should be available. I understand that incorrect information should be removed, but valid information about any hospital is noteworthy if it helps people get the help they need and I put out what I had available at the time.
Here are a couple examples of why I feel it's notable:
- http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2011/04/riordan-clinic-proposes-intravenous-vitamin-c-for-cancer/
- http://www.doctoryourself.com/cancereviews.html - In this case the clinic is listed as "The Center for the Improvement for Human Functioning". Riordan Clinic is the clinic's new name.
Thanks for your consideration.
If I don't hear back from you in a week or so I'll go ahead and assume it's ok to recreate the article. Otherwise, I'd appreciate it if it could be restored. Thanks.
Sophieammy (talk) 17:18, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) You might want to read WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS ... it's highly probable that the other articles you mention should be deleted as well. This is an encyclopedia of notable topics, and WP:CORP has very strict guideliness for business/organizations. You also need to provide valid third party reliable sources ... neither of the two above appear to meet that requirement. I would also advise that if you work for the organization, WP:COI also kicks in. Misplaced Pages is neither a business/organization directory nor a place to highlight business/org's. Your best chance (as long as you do not have WP:COI is to write a draft in your personal sandbox, and have someone verify it before moving it to articlespace (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:23, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Some copypaste page move deletions
Hi Fastily, Yesterday I tagged two articles as copypaste moves:
- José Tagle, a CP move of Jose Tagle and
- James L. Gordon, a CP move of James Leonard T. Gordon
I tagged them both for copy-paste moves, as the old articles existed for some time; they were both edited under their new titles as well as their old titles. You deleted both of them, but did not do the histmerge that was needed (I realize I used the wrong tag there). Then today, you deleted the redirects that contained the old attribution history and whatever remained of those articles. Can you please restore all the articles and complete the histmerge? Thanks. --Fiftytwo thirty (talk) 02:06, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Archery at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's individual
Any reason why you blanked the page? Intoronto1125TalkContributions 03:40, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Hefnerkerze
Regarding your edit to Hefnerkerze: the content you removed was not "obscured by the redirect". The "R from" templates are designed for use on redirect pages, and category tags work properly on redirect pages as well. Adding a category to a redirect page causes the redirected term to appear in the category page. This is useful if the term is very different from what it redirects to.--Srleffler (talk) 03:50, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Removing categories from redirects
Hi, I noticed you removed some categories from redirects in articles relating to murder cases with the message "Removing content obscured by redirect". I thought it was Misplaced Pages policy to categorise redirects in some cases (I thought if the page focuses on the victim then the categories for the killer would go on the redirect if they were reasonably notable?).
For example I wrote the Murder of Lakhvinder Cheema article and the killer in that case received just as much attention as the victim if not more so therefore should surely remain in various categories (poisoners etc) for the benefit of people navigating through Misplaced Pages via categories? Thanks.--Shakehandsman (talk) 04:06, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- I do hope that now that you have stopped the bot (see below), you are going to revert your indiscriminate removal of categories. (See WP:Categorizing redirects.) – Fayenatic (talk) 09:10, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Old news. This was resolved hours ago. -FASTILY 09:27, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- I apologise, I only looked at Special:Contributions/FSII not realising that you had undone them as Special:Contributions/Fastily. – Fayenatic (talk) 12:22, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Please stop
Redirects Per WP:CAT and WP:REDIRECT, it is fine and appropriate to categorize redirects. You need to immediately stop removing their categories and revert yourself. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:18, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Wait You've even removed redirect categories such as Category:Redirects to sections and Category:Redirects from songs--these are specifically created for redirects. What are you doing? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:19, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- And look at this What was this? I can't imagine what you're doing here. Please respond as soon as possible. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:23, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry To keep on posting here, but I just looked at your contributions and this is a cause for concern. I have posted to WP:AN and you should probably keep all the discussion there. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:26, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Calm down. It was a semi-automated script I wrote to remove non-category content from redirect pages. Obviously, it has some problems. I halted its execution roughly an hour before you started posting to investigate the issues so I'm not exactly sure why you're acting as if it's still running... -FASTILY 04:44, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Okay Please keep this all at WP:AN--what is the purpose of splitting it up? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:53, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Are you authorized to run a bot? If not, you should be reviewing and approving each edit made by your script. You are responsible for every edit made by a script that you choose to run.--Srleffler (talk) 05:29, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Calm down. It was a semi-automated script I wrote to remove non-category content from redirect pages. Obviously, it has some problems. I halted its execution roughly an hour before you started posting to investigate the issues so I'm not exactly sure why you're acting as if it's still running... -FASTILY 04:44, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry To keep on posting here, but I just looked at your contributions and this is a cause for concern. I have posted to WP:AN and you should probably keep all the discussion there. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:26, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- And look at this What was this? I can't imagine what you're doing here. Please respond as soon as possible. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:23, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Note: These edits were not NOT performed by a bot. I was testing a semi-automated (i.e. user assisted) tool I wrote myself. Obviously, there are some problems with it. Presently, I have self-reverted all the edits I made using this tool. If I missed anything, you do not need my permission to revert the edit. Please do not continue to leave me messages about a 'broken bot'. I am aware of the issues at hand and am working to fix them. Thanks, FASTILY 09:36, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily, editing at a rate of 47 edits per minute is not semi-automated, it is a bot. Please seek bot approval if you want to edit at such a rate. –xeno 13:25, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- After you fix the script, are you planning to continue its execution? — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 14:51, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Nope. -FASTILY 19:02, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Function What is the script's purpose? Do you have the code to share? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:22, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Nope. -FASTILY 19:02, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- After you fix the script, are you planning to continue its execution? — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 14:51, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily, editing at a rate of 47 edits per minute is not semi-automated, it is a bot. Please seek bot approval if you want to edit at such a rate. –xeno 13:25, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Based on my reading of the situation, it appears that Fastily was trying out a script that removes categories that don't exist from articles, i.e. if Category:Batman fight scene reenactments involving yodeling were in an article, the script would take it out but leave Category:Batman, which does exist, in place. However two things went wrong. First, it would appear that the script is not yet able to determine existing categories from non-existent ones, and secondly, the throttle appears to have broken. Keep in mind that the script was only running for 15 minutes before it was stopped. Had the throttle been working, we'd be dealing with 90 edits. What is important here is that Fastily realized before anyone else that something was wrong, and reversed the damage. I do agree with the whoever posted in AN thread, however, that in the future this probably should be a task for Fbot. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:59, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Based on Fastily's description above, I think the purpose of this script is to remove content hidden by redirects (except for categories). I wonder why you're not continuing it? If it must be done slowly, so be it. — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 20:47, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Occupy Wall Street image AFD closed as No Consensus
Really? I am gonna need an explanation for that. As the closing admin, could you clarify exactly how you came to that conclusion? It appears to have formed a consensus to keep.--Amadscientist (talk) 08:02, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
That really didn't explain how you saw that as no consensus.--Amadscientist (talk) 21:06, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Could you please take a moment to clarify to me how you determined it to be "No consensus"? Thank you.--Amadscientist (talk) 21:08, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
G4
Just a note, before deleting a page (such as List of important publications in biology) under G4, please be sure to check the deletion log; it may have been restored rather than recreated. In this case, it could have been deduced from the deletion log that the correct thing to do would have been to move it back to the incubator. Cheers, King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 10:38, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, right. I'll keep that in mind. -FASTILY 19:03, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
A wee request for assistance
Hi Fastily,
This is a minor niggle, but it's been bugging me... I recently encountered the article Tongue drums and thought to move it to Tongue drum. That page already exists (it was an empty page), so I made it into a redirect instead, but now I'm frustrated - the page title should definitely be "Tongue drum", per WP:TITLEFORMAT. Any chance you could delete Tongue drum under G6, move Tongue drums there instead and create a redirect from the plural to the singular when you have the time?
Cheers, Yunshui (talk) 10:51, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- I've deleted " Tongue drum". Go ahead and move the page when you're ready. -FASTILY 19:05, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Excellent, thank you for doing that. I shall sleep easier tonight knowing that Misplaced Pages's Tongue drum article is correctly named. The really tragic thing is, I actually will...Yunshui (talk) 21:09, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
y did u delete my page-awesome truth? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Larry Daykin (talk • contribs) 12:00, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
You should really be a bit more careful...
Plip!
...with speedy deletion- in this case, User:JakeInJoisey. You deleted this user page as G8 when it a.) had previous versions to revert to and b.) a short check of the history showed that it was only a typo by the editing user. Remember to check the history when deleting stuff, otherwise you will sooner or later allow vandals to use you to delete valid but vandalized entries. Regards SoWhy 17:59, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Whoops. -FASTILY 19:06, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks
I forgot to detag that thing I moved into userspace. Peridon (talk) 19:13, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing. Cheers, FASTILY 19:13, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Another overly hasty speedy deletion
You speedy deleted Aaron Livesy and Jackson Walsh on the grounds that it duplicated the Jackson Walsh article. It did not duplicate that article, and you deleted it without giving me a chance to discuss it. If anything, it should have been listed for a deletion discussion: its structure was based on the article John Paul McQueen and Craig Dean, which survived a similar deletion attempt although both characters have their own stand-alone articles as well. Although Aaron Livesy and Jackson Walsh was just at the beginning stage (I only created it a few hours ago), the article was well-sourced and as encyclopedic as any of the others in the List of fictional supercouples. I'm asking you to reinstate it and list it for deletion if you still think it shouldn't be here. Exploding Boy (talk) 19:15, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Also, A10 was not even an appropriate criterion for speedying this article; for A10 to apply the article must duplicate an existing topic and not expand upon, detail or improve information within any existing article on the subject, and have a title that is not a plausible redirect. And articles that expand or reorganise an existing ones or that contain referenced, mergeable material should not be deleted under A10. Exploding Boy (talk) 19:25, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- There is nothing that can be said in the article that isn't said in the stand alone articles. All reception that exists or development info can be placed at Aaron Livesy and Jackson Walsh - The storyline information already exists in both of those articles, and has been edited and condensed down. What we do not need is yet another article documenting the fictional lives of these two characters - and basically saying the same development information, just reworded by you.
- Another thing is that this couple have not been documented in reliable sources as a "Supercouple" - they have been relatively popular with viewers of Emmerdale alone, there is no evidence to support a following outside of the serial. So there isn't enough weight behind this topic to jusify a split-off article. Your choice in sources was bad, episode summaries are not saying a thing to do with why these two are notable and why we should grant them an extra article.
- I do not think it is fair that you bring up otherstuff - but if you want to talk about those - a very reputable source discusses John-Paul and Craig as being a supercouple - and there is sources to support that their storyline was partially responsible for a rise in Hollyoaks ratings - which means outsiders came to view the show for those characters. Whether or not that article should have a stand alone article is another story and could be discussed further elsewhere. The list you are refering to that does have links to seperate articles - however they are to do with american soap operas and document such couples dates over the last few decades - where there was a real phenomena in the US to do with supercouples - so some of the articles are justified by the all of the hype they saw during the ratings boom in soap operas. These days they are generally less viewed shows, still popular but they do not experience the same hype and media following - so what these newly created soap opera articles are up against is that there isn't enough weight or notability for a dual articles in addition to the ones that exist. As a result many are deleted via AFD with little support for a keep in light of sourcing and the fact they already have other articles that document every said thing. So I hope that helps explain the reasoning a little better, and it is great that you are keen to edit fictional character articles.RaintheOne 19:51, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hold on, first, why are you responding here? I've asked Fastily to reinstate the article and give it a chance to have a proper deletion discussion. I don't really want to do it all here; it deserves a proper chance to stand on its merits. Briefly, however, it's far better to split long information into a different article. The Jackson character may be gone, but Aaron is a long-running and continuing character. There's no reason not to split this info. Second, it's far better to have information in one article than three. If we have reception and storyline in both Aaron Livesy and Jackson Walsh, that's a problem, and so is only having it at one of those two articles. Third, there is ample evidence to support a following outside the serial--you and Fastily didn't give me a chance to provide it. Plus, a lack of sources isn't a valid reason to speedy delete an hours-old article. Finally, there are sources to support the claim that the Aaron/Jackson storyline was partially responsible for a rise in Emmerdale ratings, just as you claim for Hollyoaks--and I gave at least one. Anyway, as I said, I posted here because I want a response from the person who deleted the article. I'm still waiting. Exploding Boy (talk) 21:47, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- I endorse Raintheone's summary. -FASTILY 00:40, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hold on, first, why are you responding here? I've asked Fastily to reinstate the article and give it a chance to have a proper deletion discussion. I don't really want to do it all here; it deserves a proper chance to stand on its merits. Briefly, however, it's far better to split long information into a different article. The Jackson character may be gone, but Aaron is a long-running and continuing character. There's no reason not to split this info. Second, it's far better to have information in one article than three. If we have reception and storyline in both Aaron Livesy and Jackson Walsh, that's a problem, and so is only having it at one of those two articles. Third, there is ample evidence to support a following outside the serial--you and Fastily didn't give me a chance to provide it. Plus, a lack of sources isn't a valid reason to speedy delete an hours-old article. Finally, there are sources to support the claim that the Aaron/Jackson storyline was partially responsible for a rise in Emmerdale ratings, just as you claim for Hollyoaks--and I gave at least one. Anyway, as I said, I posted here because I want a response from the person who deleted the article. I'm still waiting. Exploding Boy (talk) 21:47, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but that's really not good enough, Fastily. You haven't responded to any of the points regarding your overly hasty speedy deletion: most importantly, I've asserted that your speedy deletion wasn't within the acceptable criteria, and that the deletion reason you chose wasn't appropriate. I don't intend to start a wheel war so I'm not going to undelete, however I do intend to recreate the article, which is still open in my browser. Please list it on Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion if you still believe it should be deleted. There's no reason why we can't wait a few days for other users to have their say. Exploding Boy (talk) 00:57, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily, he recreated the article again. He quoted whole paragraphs of prose left, right and center (Aside from the quote boxes) - using two non free images - using youtube videos as sources and dressing them up as viable ones. Copyvio heaven. Overides an decision made by an admin. I'm not sure if there can be any excuses either - EB's been editing since 2004.RaintheOne 01:47, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but that's really not good enough, Fastily. You haven't responded to any of the points regarding your overly hasty speedy deletion: most importantly, I've asserted that your speedy deletion wasn't within the acceptable criteria, and that the deletion reason you chose wasn't appropriate. I don't intend to start a wheel war so I'm not going to undelete, however I do intend to recreate the article, which is still open in my browser. Please list it on Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion if you still believe it should be deleted. There's no reason why we can't wait a few days for other users to have their say. Exploding Boy (talk) 00:57, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Please be more careful...
...and leave my sandbox alone.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 19, 2011; 19:18 (UTC)
- Um...what are you doing with a broken redirect in your userspace? -FASTILY 19:21, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Well, I, obviously, have my reasons. What are you doing deleting my sandbox again, despite my edit summary explicitly asking to leave it be? Good thing I can undelete it myself; a regular user would have to jump through all kinds of hoops to have it undeleted, and it's not like there aren't previous revisions in that sandbox's history I wouldn't need to come back to one day... How did you find it even? It doesn't end up in any of the maintenance cats, as far as I can tell. If it does, please let me know where; I sure don't want to have to undelete it on the daily basis...—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 19, 2011; 19:25 (UTC)
- User:Yet Another Redirect Cleanup Bot/SkippedRedirects, . Misplaced Pages:Database reports/Broken redirects. In case you didn't know, broken redirects (i.e. red-linked redirects) are subject to speedy deletion under speedy deletion criterion G8. There. I answered your question, so answer mine. Why do you have a broken redirect in your userspace? -FASTILY 19:29, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Surely you meant "please answer mine"? :) I wish those tools were smart enough to exclude the sandboxes... sigh.
- I use my sandbox as a preload template for when I need to create batches of redirects—it speeds up the process. Having a valid redirect in the sandbox would populate the newly created with whatever the target of that redirect is, which, of course, is of no help at all.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 19, 2011; 19:44 (UTC)
- Pre-load template? Could you explain what you mean by that? Do you use a userscript/bot to mass-create redirects or are you manually creating redirects (via copy+paste)? -FASTILY 19:48, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Look, I have neither time nor desire to explain every technical thing; go poke around the documentation on meta if you are really interested. To answer the other part of your question, no, I don't use any automated tools; everything I do is manual. At any rate, the only thing that's important here is remembering that even when a page obviously meets a CSD criteria, it still helps to think whether acting on it makes sense or not. Deleting a user's sandbox (thus making a bunch of its older revisions unavailable to a non-admin user) is just not cool; doing it twice in a row despite being asked not to is just obnoxious. My sandbox is not disrupting anything, and I can't help that the database reports aren't smart enough to distinguish a genuine problem from a user's sandbox set up a certain way for a reason. Please just ignore my sandbox next time you see it. I certainly am not planning to keep that broken redirect there forever; as soon as I am done, it will be replaced with something else. Thank you.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 19, 2011; 20:00 (UTC)
- There's no need to get defensive. I only asked you a few simple questions, which, for the most part, you have ignored. Since you indicated you create redirects manually, I'm assuming you copy and paste. That said, I'll make a few changes to your sandbox to prevent the redirect from showing up to the system as broken while still allowing you access to the page as a 'pre-load template' -FASTILY 20:04, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- People tend to get defensive when one asks questions in a commanding tone and omits "please". As for the change to the sandbox, I had to revert it, because the nowiki/code tags are not stripped out when the page is preloaded. I have, however, placed the redirect between the includeonly tags, which should hide the page from the database maintenance scripts. Unless those scripts are too smart for their own good, that should resolve the problem; if not, I'll try something else. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 19, 2011; 20:17 (UTC)
- There's no need to get defensive. I only asked you a few simple questions, which, for the most part, you have ignored. Since you indicated you create redirects manually, I'm assuming you copy and paste. That said, I'll make a few changes to your sandbox to prevent the redirect from showing up to the system as broken while still allowing you access to the page as a 'pre-load template' -FASTILY 20:04, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Look, I have neither time nor desire to explain every technical thing; go poke around the documentation on meta if you are really interested. To answer the other part of your question, no, I don't use any automated tools; everything I do is manual. At any rate, the only thing that's important here is remembering that even when a page obviously meets a CSD criteria, it still helps to think whether acting on it makes sense or not. Deleting a user's sandbox (thus making a bunch of its older revisions unavailable to a non-admin user) is just not cool; doing it twice in a row despite being asked not to is just obnoxious. My sandbox is not disrupting anything, and I can't help that the database reports aren't smart enough to distinguish a genuine problem from a user's sandbox set up a certain way for a reason. Please just ignore my sandbox next time you see it. I certainly am not planning to keep that broken redirect there forever; as soon as I am done, it will be replaced with something else. Thank you.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 19, 2011; 20:00 (UTC)
- Pre-load template? Could you explain what you mean by that? Do you use a userscript/bot to mass-create redirects or are you manually creating redirects (via copy+paste)? -FASTILY 19:48, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- User:Yet Another Redirect Cleanup Bot/SkippedRedirects, . Misplaced Pages:Database reports/Broken redirects. In case you didn't know, broken redirects (i.e. red-linked redirects) are subject to speedy deletion under speedy deletion criterion G8. There. I answered your question, so answer mine. Why do you have a broken redirect in your userspace? -FASTILY 19:29, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Well, I, obviously, have my reasons. What are you doing deleting my sandbox again, despite my edit summary explicitly asking to leave it be? Good thing I can undelete it myself; a regular user would have to jump through all kinds of hoops to have it undeleted, and it's not like there aren't previous revisions in that sandbox's history I wouldn't need to come back to one day... How did you find it even? It doesn't end up in any of the maintenance cats, as far as I can tell. If it does, please let me know where; I sure don't want to have to undelete it on the daily basis...—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 19, 2011; 19:25 (UTC)
redlinked talkpage
Hi, I might have messed up nominating that page for housekeeping - all I wanted to do was to get rid of the comments page/to do page but we appear to have lost the whole talkpage? Peter Nygård - Off2riorob (talk) 19:58, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Fastily - sorry about that, regards. - Off2riorob (talk) 20:06, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- All good. Cheers, FASTILY 20:07, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Your revert
Hi there. Regarding this revert of yours. I thought I'd fill you in on the full picture. The user that uploaded the image also created the article Jason 'Jonty' Rhodes, which was deleted under WP:CSD#G12. The content of the article had been cut-and-pasted from Jason Rhodes' own Facebook page. If you look at the photos on the Facebook page, and the image uploaded by the user then you'll see that the uploaded file is a cut-and-paste of this Facebook image (all rights of which are reserved by Facebook). Examining the history of the uploaded image also shows that it was tagged for WP:CSD#F4, but that tag was removed by the uploader. It's obviously yet another copyvio by the same user. — Fly by Night (talk) 20:12, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- P.S. It'd be lovely if you could leave an edit history explaining the rational instead of just r. — Fly by Night (talk) 20:12, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Revert? It was not a revert. It was a decline of your speedy (files tagged as non-free are never eligible for deletion under WP:CSD#F9) and the addition of a proper deletion tag. -FASTILY 00:46, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Your mistake
You deleted Time in Portugal, saying A10 "Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic, Time_zones"
But the article had content that is not in the article "Time_zones" as I wrote in the talk page, contesting the deletion proposal. TZ master (talk) 00:36, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- As I responded on that page, no it did not. The representation was different, but the information was the same.
- Additionally, you are creating a large number of pages by copying and pasting from Daylight_saving_time_around_the_world - please stop. While ones like the more in depth article for the UK is one thing, copying and pasting one or two lines to create an article isn't helpful, duplicates existing content and loses all attribution history that's contained in the original. ALL the copy/pastes need to be deleted. If you wish to create such, the Daylight_saving_time_around_the_world article should be SPLIT so not to lose the contributor information. Best, ROBERTMFROMLI | /CN 00:41, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Fastily, you may wish to be aware of this: Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Help_with_numerous_new_pages_being_created_by_copy.2Fpaste_from_another Best, ROBERTMFROMLI | /CN 00:49, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
You Second Mistake
Why was my page List of Lebanese people in Switzerland deleted? The entry on the last is a Swiss citizen of Lebanese ancestry. if you look at the Lits of Lebenanese people, this person was part of a national series on the diaspora. I need to repost this list back on the site immediately.--XLR8TION (talk) 01:42, 20 October 2011 (UTC)