User talk:Akihabara/Archive/Archive Jan2007

Blake Wampler

Why create an article consisting entirely of a speedy deletion template? It has now been deleted. (aeropagitica) 23:24, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for removing. Next time please check history before accusing. Akihabara 23:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

There was no accusation! I asked a question based upon the edit summary which seemed unusual, creating a page pre-set up for deletion. (aeropagitica) 23:30, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Dead end pages

The alphebatized lists of dead end pages can be found at WP:DEP. Verkhovensky 17:56, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Edit Summary Request

I have noted that you edit without an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. An edit summary is even more important if you delete any text; otherwise, people may think you're being sneaky or even vandalizing. Also, mentioning one change but not another one can be misleading to someone who finds the other one more important; add "and misc." to cover the other change(s). Thanks! -- Kukini 16:30, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

That's fine and well, but please don't forget your edit summaries and maybe consider using the AfD process a bit more than the SD process. Thanks, Kukini 17:03, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Hasty deletion tags

You may care to reconsider a few more of your prodded and speedy tagged articles. One or two (Rie Takada for instance) appear to be notable (she's said to be published in Shojo Comic, which definitely appears notable. though manga's not my thing). I know, I know, after the 17 billionth "Dave Is so Kool And He's S3X1 And My Teecher Sux" article it all starts to blend into one! Cheers, Tonywalton  | Talk 17:08, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of Robert Rayne

Can I ask why you have highlighted Robert Rayne for deletion. I am still trying to discover who wrote a page about my grandfather and why they did it as I research our family tree. Whilst it is accurate, is it not complete and I have not had time to write a fully updated version yet. Regards Jeremy User:Admiral007 21:14 GMT 13/12/06

Hi. I stated my reason when submitting for the AfD. I see you have submitted your opinion there too. If you provide notability and references I will be happy to change my stance. b.t.w. I haven't singled out this article; you will note I have submitted many articles recently so please don't take it the wrong way. Akihabara 22:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

PMO

No problem. I usually check histories of articles before deleting them. There are a few cases where vandalised articles are tagged for speedy deletion. Anyways, keep up the good work! - Aksi_great (talk) 16:17, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

The Devil and Lil'D

It looked to me that context had been added (i.e., identifying it as an episode of a TV show) since the prior deletions. Sorry for the cryptic comment. Given that there are many articles on episodes of TV shows on WP, I think the pending AFD is more appropriate than a speedy deletion. Thanks, NawlinWiki 13:48, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Annie Mae Leonard Mitcham

This section cut and pasted to talkpage from userpage by Tonywalton  | Talk

These are articles that were featured in the newspaper that serves all of Central Georgia:

Macon Telegraph - May 12, 2006 - B

Ready place in the motherhood hall of fame If they ever build a motherhood hall of fame - a Cooperstown of hugs, rocking chairs and sweet potato pie - then Annie Mae Mitcham gets my vote on the first ballot. She raised 11 children, 10 of her own and a nephew she adopted. Nine of her kids earned their college degrees, and one son served his country with a career in the Air Force. For years, Annie Mae washed other people's clothes and cleaned other people's houses to help put biscuits on her own table. After...

Please reconsider your position on this matter. 01:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC)01:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mitchamz (talk • contribs)

Paul J. Gelegotis Memorial Bridge

The article Paul J. Gelegotis Memorial Bridge has been substantially rewritten with multiple nontrivial sources, after your nomination for deletion. Would you please reconsider your position. --Kevin Murray 02:08, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Kevin, thanks for putting work into this. Indeed this now seems like a reasonable encyclopedia article; let me update the nomination. Akihabara 02:33, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Stono Bridge

Hi. It was a pleasure working together on Stono. There is a bit of an edit conflict going on there now. I think that we will reach consensu soon, and then we can make the move. It seems like it is should either be at Stono or Mayback, which is alterantively how it is referenced in documents. The former by the locals and the latter by the State agencies.

--Kevin Murray 04:50, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Prodding

You're right. I should have added cats to the articles. Sometimes the articles are so bad they don't seem to be worth the extra effort. But I'll do better in the future. WVhybrid 04:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Trustees System Service Building

I see that you removed the "notability" tag from this article. I wonder why you think it's a notable building, and whether you can add any references to the article that shows it. As it stands now, I (who don't know the building) have no idea why it's considered notable. --Alvestrand 09:50, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

The article claims it was the highest of its kind when built; that's notable. I don't have a reference though. Googling also showed it seems to be considered a National Historic Landmark. I won't object to your re-adding the tag if you feel it's appropriate. I doubt it would pass an AfD with non-notability as the claim; that's the only reason I removed it. Akihabara 10:20, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Could you add the reference you found to it being a National Historic Landmark? If I prodded the building, it would be for having zero references - such a reference would make me happy to leave it alone. --Alvestrand 23:53, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

It seems you've just added what I found yourself. Akihabara 01:26, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Shōchū

Thank you for your message about Shōchū. I've done a translation of the section you talked about, and made a comment on the talk page. -- Grgcox 23:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Reuben Singh

Please note I have just replaced the Reuben Singh article with the proper 'neutral' version (Sunday Jan 7, 1739 GMT). Compare this with the vandalised edits. There are clearly some IP addresses and usernames that need to be banned. The neutral version should not be prod. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.10.36.158 (talk) 17:40, 7 January 2007 (UTC).

DYK

On January 12, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Toso, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Many thanks for your contributions! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:52, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

the radio stations

Glad to hear from you. I think there were a few other stations you prodded at the same time--maybe you can add them to the AfD--I don't know how to do a group. I simply do not know whether radio stations are intrinsically notable or not, or how to tell in case only some of them are, and I too want to hear it discussed. Since there was a project box at the bottom with all the stations listed, editors are obviously adding them systematically--that's what made me decide to question it. DGG 05:23, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Yes there may be more; let me take a look at what I did yesterday. I was categorizing articles beginning with W that were uncategorized, and after doing 2 or 3 of these and prodding them I stopped, simply because I then noticed there were so many. I thought I'd wait a while and see what happened. There was about forty five beginning with W just for December; so there are likely hundreds added recently. I agree I'd like to see consensus here. Akihabara 05:27, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Often-populated Wikipedia category redirects

Hello! Yes, it never occurred to me that people would find categories from the main index. I cannot think of a way of removing these categories from the index, or even italicising them like #redirects. I think this would require a software change, one that the developers would see as very low priority. A better long-term solution would be for the Wiki software to implement a special sort of category redirect that really worked, and even that is not high priority! - it would be quite a software engineering challenge. Many Wikipedians have been thinking about this for some time, and this is simply the best solution we have currently. Meanwhile don't worry about populating categories that are {{category redirect}}s; the robot handles it all without any problems, and you are not putting anyone to any inconvenience! Your work categorising articles is much appreciated. Best regards, RobertG ♬ talk 16:07, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Wajahat Khan

Hi. I've deprodded this one with a few improvements. The worldwide concerts should be OK against WP:MUSIC even though I've left some only on the talk page. (At first glance, I wasn't sure the Singapore one met WP:V.) --Mereda 10:49, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

That's great, thanks for your effort. Akihabara 22:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your note. I left a reply on my user page. Coinman62 16:15, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Notability Companies

I noticed that you have been working on fine tuning some special guidelines for notability of companies.

I’m trying to understand the value of having these specific inclusion-criteria for companies. If a company gains automatic notability from one of these criteria, how can you populate the article with meaningful information without having credible independent sources? If you don’t have independent sources it will fail on verifiability and/or primary research, and if you have the sources for the information, you’ve proved notability.

So why do you need special criteria for automatic inclusion of these special cases? I may be wrong, but it seems redundant. It’s like wearing a belt with suspenders. --Kevin Murray 00:19, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)

Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)

It has been proposed that the following criteria be removed from this guideline: 1. The commercial organization is listed on ranking indices of important companies produced by well-known and independent publications.3 2. The commercial organization's share price is used to calculate one or more of the major managed stock market indices.4 Note this is not the same as simply being listed on a stock market. Nor is it the same as being included in an index that comprises the entire market. The broader or the more specialized the index, the less notability it establishes for the company.

We are close to evaluating consensus, please join with us in the discussion. --Kevin Murray 04:49, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Active user verification

Hello, Akihabara/Archive. Due to the high number of inactive users at WP:WPNN, we are asking that you verify that you are still an active contributor of the project. To do so, please add an asterisk (*) after your name on WP:WPNN. Users without one by the next issue in 2 weeks will be removed off the list. If you have any questions, please contact me on my talk page. Thanks. Diez2 23:14, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of RepliGo

An article that you have been involved in editing, RepliGo, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/RepliGo. Thank you. --B. Wolterding 14:43, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Ramsey Youth Centre Old Boys F.C.

An article that you have been involved in editing, Ramsey Youth Centre Old Boys F.C., has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ramsey Youth Centre Old Boys F.C.. Thank you. --B. Wolterding 18:05, 5 October 2007 (UTC)