I have archived my various VfD-related talk page discussions on this page. This includes general discussions of VfD policy and mechanics. Closing VfD discussionseditGood evening. Thanks for helping to close the old VfD discussions. I just edit-conflicted with one you were doing tonight. I'm going to move to a different day-page so we don't bump again. When I was there, I noticed that you're using the format {{Template:Vfd top}} to close the discussions. For several technical reasons, we've been strongly encouraged to use {{subst:vfd top}} instead of leaving the templates as dynamic transclusions. If I can also offer a tip, someone recently created {{subst:vt}} and {{subst:vb}} as shortcuts. They insert the same top and bottom templates but cut out a few keystrokes. Have a good evening. Rossami (talk) 20:31, 15 July 2005 (UTC) Hi BD2412! I have now closed Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Xinjiao (with a delete result), and moved your article into the main article namespace to replace it as requested. Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:37, 19 July 2005 (UTC) new vfdeditThe prior VFD that you voted at ended with no consensus, a new VFD has been opened at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Historical persecution by Muslims. ~~~~ 18:53, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
KidroneditThanks for finishing the VfD; I was too sleepy to do it properly. DS 02:36, 5 August 2005 (UTC) Please reconsidereditPlease reconsider your vote on the two live Motorhead singles up for VfD, Roda and I have spent the last two months putting up the the Motorhead discography (see Motorhead page), I'm now working on going through Lemmy's biography for anecdotes relating to recordings, I know all the singles are a bit thin, but they're too young to die, I urge you to change to keep. Alf 12:59, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
Atromeroptic Law vfdeditThank you for voting to delete this entry! Hfwd 05:32, 17 August 2005 (UTC) Florida laweditWho knew I would ever see so much discussion about Fla. law on WP? Soon to be deleted it appears, but WP's for Decency and its VfD as well as TfD FloridaDecencyLaw have some interesting chat on the topic. NoSeptember 12:09, 17 August 2005 (UTC) My two cents...edit
Two Good ArmseditJust to let you know, re the Two Good Arms vfd - I did a bit more research, and the song was written in 1977, about Sacco and Vanzetti, and not by them. It most definitely isn't in public domain. DS 12:09, 21 August 2005 (UTC) Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Bush Sydney J. UK Optometrist/Researcher/Inventor: Introduced Cardioretinometry December 2002.editPlease revisit the discussion. Uncle G 12:06:34, 2005-08-24 (UTC) ImpressiveeditI've managed to show up to vote on this despite having just survived a hurricane, and having neither electricity nor a working telephone. I'm posting this vote telekinetically, by sheer force of will. That's impressive - can you show me how to do that? -- Francs2000 | Talk
Screwed up voting.editOk, I want advice. Look at the description of the voting processes at Wikipedia:Conlangs/Votes and the opposition raised at Wikipedia talk:Conlangs/Votes. Calling anything that comes out of that voting process a "consensus" is going to be a joke, but voting's started already. What should I do? I've thought about tacking a "The results of this straw poll may be regarded as illegitimate/irrelvant due to the method of counting votes" type message into the voting page, and about putting it on RfC, but... I respect you a lot, and was wondering if you could help me figure out what to do about this. The Literate Engineer 18:35, 29 August 2005 (UTC) Fiona VolpeeditThanks for the heads up. Perhaps against the grain, I decided it's better to delete rather than to merge at Thunderball. The information is already there (even has its own paragraph IIRC). I'm at an impasse with James Bond characters. I'm not sure what to do anymore for the more minor characters such as Volpe and even more main characters such as Halle Berry's character from Die Another Day, which has its own stub/article. If you have an opinion on this, please let me know. K1Bond007 21:22, August 31, 2005 (UTC) FrisbeetarianismeditOkay, but I still don't think Frisbeetarianism is encyclopedia-worthy. It's just a joke. --Angr/tɔk tə mi 12:55, 8 September 2005 (UTC) Thanks, it looks alot better now. I was thinking of reopening the RfD due to the vote, but the way it is now, I think it deserves to stay. That article before was just so horrendous that I assumed it was beyond even an expand tag. Karmafist 02:24, 10 September 2005 (UTC) Speedy deletioneditBD- Yes, that article (Turnip head) probably was speedied (and a good thing, too.) I believe I made a mistake of some sort listing it, though, what exactly did I do wrong? Thanks, Paul 05:54, 13 September 2005 (UTC) Articles for deletion/Alleged causes of Hurricane KatrinaeditThanks for your work on this, I don't know where it would be without it. --Apyule 04:41, 14 September 2005 (UTC) These theories were even discussed in an article in Time magazine (issue of September 12th). --Hullbr3ach 10:52, 14 September 2005 (UTC) AFD participationeditI'm curious, as one of the top AFD participants (and a self-confessed nut). Can you name others of the top 10? Dragons flight 06:22, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
Your summary on the talk page is correct, with respect to my votes anyway. Thanks for letting me know. Mindmatrix 13:02, 18 September 2005 (UTC) Yes, that's what I said. Well done on summarising a very messy vote! Dlyons493 18:50, 18 September 2005 (UTC) Just a small Having allowed the VfU to run its full 5 days, less a few hours, I've undeleted the whole lot of these. For my reasoning, see VfU: basically, the fact that some people did not comment individually leads me to interpret their comments as blanket on the whole AfD, coupled with the numerics means we'll just have to try again. Which is unfortunate, because of your sterling service to the previous debates. -Splashtalk 00:16, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
LidixeditHmmmm. These are always tricky situations. What happens in a user space obviously gets way more leeway than what happens in the article space. I've pointed stuff like this out to people quite a few times and no one's cared to do anything about it, even though that article was VfDed a long time ago (oh what a hassle that guy was, I can tell you). As long as there's no incoming links to it from articles, I'm often inclined to ignore this sort of thing and fight the good fight in the article space. If the user never contributes anything else to wikipedia, maybe he'll be removed (and don't think there's a firm policy on these sorts of things), and if he becomes a regular contributor then having a blurb on one's band isn't far removed from personal information that users routinely put on their userpages, though it does seem kind of abusive. I think this band may have been VfDed over a year ago, though I can find no record of it. I guess I'd recommend taking it to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion, though it being a new thing I don't know how much traffic it gets. Other than cast a delete vote there, there's not much I can do. Let me know what you decide, though. -R. fiend 20:25, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
Heads upeditThanks for the heads up concerning bushhitler! How did the bar go? -----Keetoowah 18:46, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
BD, d - 1 brenneman 2 kertrats 3 clw 4 johntex 5 gamaliel 6 mikka k - 1 hoover 2 oojah 3 eliot 4 bbx 5 grue 6 salvag redirect don't delete - 1 mgm But it's not a vote, it's a discussion. And if we examine the arguments presented, the outcome is different. But any admin who closed this as "delete" would have had that closure reversed quick smart, I think. I've seen a few of these in the last few days, where every "delete - no media coverage, no google hits, no alexa" is cancelled by a "keep - notable, but I've go no evidence of that." Does this bother you at all?
Jewish SmurfseditGood point! Israel has all the communist Jews (kibbutzs) anyway. Maybe the red Papa Smurf (Soviets) and the capitalist Gargamel (US) are fighting for Smurfs' souls. I also don't think anyone has mentioned that the first Smurf was created only a few years after the Suez crisis.... Another thing is that the idea of Jews as poisonous mushrooms was an element in Anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda, but I'm not sure where that fits in. Tfine80 05:46, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your vote on the category deletioneditI saw you voted on the category deletion for Category:Ecclesastical Government. I also have nominated the article about David Even Pedley for deletion that was created by Johnski in an attempt to further POV push DOM. If you would, please consider voting for its deletion. Davidpdx 04:35, 18 October 2005 (UTC) Can Al-Zubair ibn Abd al-Muttalib stayeditHi, I've modified AFD:Al-Zubair with facts and references. It would be nice if you can spare some time to read it, and hopefully to reconsider its deletion (or make some comments on my talk page). -- Goldie (tell me) 22:07, 22 October 2005 (UTC) MD/MFDeditYour move seems to have broken the page? Please check if you should move any subpages as well, and please inform the guy that has a bot to update it daily. Radiant_>|< 01:26, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Newsweek's listseditI have taken a position opposed to yours in Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Newsweek’s_List_of_Top_High_Schools_(2003), and would appreciate your response. Dragons flight 22:31, 11 November 2005 (UTC) Nice idea regarding Joe Burke - now certainly a worthy subject. Cheers. PJM 12:17, 15 November 2005 (UTC) Lesson planeditI can't speak for Florida (I'm an Albertan), but in the Canadian provinces, and I imagine in most or all of the states, all that is required is that teachers follow the syllabus. And even that may not be sacrosanct as far as timing is concerned. For instance, in Social Studies, grade four teachers are required to teach units on the geography of Alberta, lives of Albertans in other times, and a unique cultural group in Alberta (ie, Hutterites, Native Albertans). Teachers will typically follow the order set in the curriculum, not because they must but simply because it is very convenient to do so, and may make more sense in terms of concepts provided in one unit which are transferred to another. It is not even necessary to teach the units the school board provides if you have an effective alternate route to providing the same skills and concepts. In my classroom, for instance, I ran a full-scale, fully featured simulation economy. This meant that I did not have to teach the unit on money, because my students learned by practice how to count and make change and so on. And in actuality, they learned more than the objectives required by curriculum - they also learned how to calculate interest, how to calculate taxes (they had to pay income tax), how to write cheques, and more. Not bad for 9 - 10 year olds. Bottom line: lesson plans are what teachers write for each 30 - 60 minute period, unit plans are the broader-scope plans written for a period of weeks or months. Some administrators want to see and approve unit plans, but that is a decision left up to individual schools here. Hope this answers your question. Cheers! Denni ☯ 02:16, 17 November 2005 (UTC) Too late to reconsider, but I agree. Joyous | Talk 02:45, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
UntrihexiumeditI encourage you to revisit the Untrihexium vote. The original nomination failed to make clear that this isn't an actual element. It's a theoretical postulate, and in light of the article's math mistake it's an insignificant postulate. Regards, Durova 03:29, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
One dollar Federal Reserve NoteeditI noticed the deletion debate here has fizzled somewhat, but I made some changes to the articles that may further illustrate the points I had been trying to make. Please take a look and let me know what you think. Paul 23:01, 5 December 2005 (UTC) ThankseditThanks for fixing my AfD. Sorry to have messed up and made extra work for you. Zora 03:39, 7 December 2005 (UTC) This non-notable band has been nominated by its own members and needs deletion. I would be most grateful for your help at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DRUB--File Éireann 18:53, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I was in the middle of writing something when you deleted my article. Why don't you wait a few minutes before automatically assuming that I was just putting in only an external link.--Azathar 06:18, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Request for speedy deletioneditHi BD2412, I see that you seem to be online. Could you please do User:Freakofnurture a favor and delete the page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freakofnurture? The explanation is written on the page. Thanks. Shawnc 22:47, 9 December 2005 (UTC) AssignmenteditGood luck, and please delete this page(User:Prodego/spelling) for me. Prodego talk 22:51, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Gore v. Harris (Harris II)editPlease contribute to the discussion. (I'm not asking you to take on the task of writing the article. ☺) Uncle G 03:29, 14 December 2005 (UTC) QuestioneditIt doesn't really matter, since you're an admin now, and I completely trust your judgment. But when you closed a somewhat heated no consensus AFD, did you catch any flak for it? Just curious, since I've heard conflicting views on what types of AFDs admins can close, and because I saw the AFD while looking at a 2nd nomination of the article in question. Ral315 (talk) 17:09, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
...from HelleditYou are pretty much condemned to comment on this one. ☺ Uncle G 01:17, 22 December 2005 (UTC) See [1]. Thanks. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 20:50, Dec. 24, 2005
Charge of sockpuppetry in John BambenekeditIn the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Bambenek, the editor at 12.203.38.138 (talk · contribs), who is defending the article, has accused Perardi (talk · contribs), who nominated the article for deletion, of vandalizing the article while not signed in. He claims to have found prove in other venues that Perardi uses the IP address used to commit the vandalism. As an administrator not previously involved in this discussion, could take a look at it and see if any action is required? -- Dalbury(Talk) 15:47, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
RIAA safeeditBless you, my son. :) Should have figured that there was a legit article under the correct spelling. - Lucky 6.9 01:06, 4 January 2006 (UTC) Cassandra Claire - an AfD you closed back in the dayeditI would much appreciate if you could look into Talk:Cassandra Claire and apply your experience and judgment. - Haukur 19:54, 4 January 2006 (UTC) Is there a reason you didn't nn-band speedy tag it? I didn't see a claim to notability in there, and normally I'd tag it, but I defer when it's you ;) RasputinAXP talk contribs 04:10, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Question/Request about a possible SPAM articleeditSo I was looking around at new pages and I came across Stacks poker which reads so painfully like an ad that I am fighting the impuls to AfD it right now. I still might when it is not 3 am and I am thinking more clearly, but in the mean time I know you work on a lot of the wiki fixup projects and I have a memory of seeing one about fighting spam and thought that you might be able to point me that way. I figured that they might have some good ideas about how to deal with these sorts of article. Or am I over thinking this and should I just AfD it now? Dalf | Talk 10:48, 10 January 2006 (UTC) Clean upeditBD, another editor left a welcome message for a brand new user User:Debtguy on his otherwise non-existent user page, instead of his talk page. I did a page move so that the welcome message is now on the talk page where it should be, along with the history. However, that left the user page as a redirect to the talk page. I deleted the redirect code (thereby blanking the user page). Now instead of a red link, this user has a blanked user page with my two actions in the history. It would be much neater if some nice administrator would delete the blank user page and return this guy to his original status... -- DS1953 talk 05:07, 12 January 2006 (UTC) Lagniappe/ PotpourrieditI've no objection to making it a redirect... in fact I added dab links to Lagniappe and Potpourri... but it's sort of a mess with that slash-space, isn't it? What is it, a subpage of Lagniappe named " Potpourri" with a leading space? Not a rhetorical question: for article titles with slashes in them do we just use the slash and pretend we're not making a subpage? Dpbsmith (talk) 14:41, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Science fiction WesternseditHi. I noticed your vote on the science fiction Western category at CfD, and thought you might also be interested in the AfD that has been filed for the Science fiction Western article. (The nominator seems to hold that the genre does not exist.) Thanks for your time. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:28, 15 January 2006 (UTC) Hi there, I noticed that you were active, so I was wondering if you could take a look at Dave Ward (originally at Dave ward, but that was speedied), regarding a nn-bio. The creator reverted away the speedy tags 4 times on me. Also, what is the quickest way to get admin action on something like this? Many thanks — TheKMantalk 20:44, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
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