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Altering Winter Magic Page

Dear Matt

I have removed the line about "not to be missed". Do you see any other problems with the entry? It is accurate. It is the Blue Mountains largest annual event with 40,000 people and Sydney's main ABC radio station (equivalent of your BBC) broadcasting it live. It is also an event run by community with little help from business or Council. It succeeds largely in spite of them. Thanks

Warren Ross Directory Winter Magic 2005-7 Katoomba —Preceding unsigned comment added by Katoombawarren (talk • contribs) 22:18, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Warren. The main problem with the article is that it lacks reliable, verifiable sources, which is definitely a problem when it contains statements like "The Winter Magic Festival is the Blue Mountains highest profile and most anticipated annual event". We have a policy called 'No original research' which says that we can't publish original research or original thought. If you could find some sources for statements like this which are independent of you or the festival that would be fantastic, and may help persuade people that it shouldn't be deleted. You may face quite a bit of scrutiny because of our conflict of interest guidelines. Best of luck and happy editing. — Matt Eason ^{(Talk • Contribs)} 10:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Matt

I was experimenting with different fonts and colors in my user preferences and had not realized I had left my real name in place of my user name. Although I was even more surprised to learn that clicking on it had no effect, I was delighted to have finally found an answer to a question I had posted well over three years ago about how to keep from being stalked or having your user or talk page vandalized so easily. Here by accident I have discovered a method by which if another user truly has something of value to say that they have to go to a little bit more trouble than a vandal might be willing or able to go to in order to communicate a message. Thanks for your request. I will give it as much time as possible for consideration prior to my next post, however, in the mean time I plan to present this information to the Village Pump as a proposal to help all users protect themselves from being stalked and vandalized. Thanks again for your post. --Taxa 13:39, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Sedo Add being Deleted

Hi Matt,

My add for Sedo.com keeps getting deleted. I eliminated any advertising text and kept it very basic. Please let me know why this keeps occurring if all I have is an About, History and Fact section. There isn't any "fluff" statements included at all.

Thanks,

Tiffany (sedo161) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sedo161 (talk • contribs) 21:44, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Tiffany. Ads and promotional material of any kind have no place in Wikipedia (the policy for this is at WP:NOTADVERTISING). Our FAQ for businesses answers questions on creating and editing articles on businesses you are closely involved with. You may also want to read our conflict of interest guidelines and notability guidelines for corporations. — Matt Eason ^{(Talk • Contribs)} 23:04, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

lastpit.com

i have added some published sources to the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lastpit (talk • contribs) 04:24, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Flatlander (band)

Hello:

I write to inquire as to what the issue with the article is. This article is about a significant, notable band which meets the critereon which have been promulgated. I have read them. There is no spam, nor promotion included in this article. This article is no different from many other articles concerning independant bands/artists.

Please advise,

dickeymcc —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dickeymcc (talk • contribs) 16:58, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Replied at User talk:Dickeymcc — Matt Eason ^{(Talk • Contribs)} 17:10, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

You have got to be kidding! "Encyclopeadic?" This article meets the critereon promulgated. What in the article suggests a "tone" of promotion which other articles about bands lack? In order to be promotional, something must be self-serving. Further, archive.org is a third party source. I can list other third party sources if you like. Seven Days newspaper is one. The Radiator (radio station) is another. There is no way you could have exhausted a search of all third party sources in the short time between my posting and your tag. If you believe you can give a good reason/argument for its removal, please do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dickeymcc (talk • contribs) 17:32, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

I just cited sources to you. And, yes, if you dispute the verifiability, go "look it up." Prove me wrong. The booking email address which you dub promotional was included because the template for my article was cut and pasted from another band's article which you folks arbitrarily deemed appropriate. They had a booking address on their article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dickeymcc (talk • contribs) 18:00, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

The article meets as many requirements as many other articles about bands on this encyclopedia. There are third-party sources and the information is verifiable. Do not subscribe to double standards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dickeymcc (talk • contribs) 14:03, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

You keep saying that, but have not yet provided them. If other articles are in the same state, they should be deleted too. justinfr (talk) 14:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Took the words right out of my fingers. I don't know how we can make this any clearer: if you have sources that prove that your band satisfies at least one of the criteria at WP:MUSIC, then provide a specific citation in each instance, otherwise the article, whatever name you create it under, will keep being deleted. The fact that similar articles still exist is irrelevant; we know that other stuff exists, and the only reason that bad articles still exist is because we haven't got round to dealing with them yet, not because they have merit. — Matt Eason ^{(Talk • Contribs)} 23:45, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

WP:ONUS

I think you meant to link to WP:BURDEN :) justinfr (talk) 18:08, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

That's the one! My wiki-fu is weak... — Matt Eason ^{(Talk • Contribs)} 18:11, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

O rosa bella

Is this change to O Rosa Bella a correct application of the capitalisation rules on WP? No-one in the outside world expects to see it with capitals (like O Rosa Luxembourg!), and the text of the song would not be capitalised! Bob aka Linuxlad (talk) 20:11, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

I've no idea - it was capitalised in the lead sentence and it's common for capitalisation to be wrong in new article titles ("John Smith" created as "John smith", for example) so I assumed it was a mistake. Certainly for modern songs our convention is capitals for most words (A Hard Day's Night (song), for example), but I don't know what the guideline is for older compositions. I'll have a dig around later, but if other publications capitalise it as O rosa bella then we should too. My bad — Matt Eason ^{(Talk • Contribs)} 20:48, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Well I think the other nine Renaissance Chansons we've so far got listed, (mainly by me tho!) capitalise in the way the outside world normally writes them... Bob aka Linuxlad (talk) 22:15, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Two People....

I think the tune that you spoke about with the lyrics 'Two people...' is Minnie Ripperton- 'Inside my love.' The previously mentioned house tune sampled this. I'm guessing it was from The Mid Seventies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.109.186.203 (talk) 22:28, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Ajax link

Hey, I know this is really trivial but thanks for removing that "linkless bullet," that was my fault; I forgot to remove the actual bullet point. Good to know there's always someone on Wikipedia to cover up my mistakes. :) — ^FatalError 02:15, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

No problem! — Matt Eason ^{(Talk • Contribs)} 10:35, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

PGP sig.

Hi, you left me something called a "PGP signature" at the refdesk, and I was wondering if you could explain to me what exactly that is (I'm extremely curious, and can't seem to understand the wikipages for them, thanks!) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Asdflkjasdflkjasdflkjasdfl (talk • contribs) 03:24, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi there. It's a way to verify that the file you've downloaded is identical to the one that was intended - I guess it's possible for your country to filter binaries as well as web pages, but I'm not sure how likely this is. Tor have a how-to on how to use it to verify the package, but if that's blocked in your country too I've copied it to http://pastebin.ca/1434862. If you can't do that, then you could calculate the SHA1 hash of the file with a program like HashCalc. The hash should be c557b052addccb1fe63d8c059454691fe2eebc0f. That's calculated from my version of the file, so you'll have to trust that I haven't modified the file before uploading it (I haven't!) — Matt Eason ^{(Talk • Contribs)} 11:50, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

ARC

hi! i wanted to ask you if you could take some more photos of the "Primeval ARC" from the surrey university please? i love the show and i wanted to rebuild an virtual ARC for fans of the show. but i need more references. i would highly appreciate it. if you are going to do so send me the images to my email. thank you. kind regards, --Rex92 (talk) 19:59, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

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