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Note that if you want to retrospectively alter your signature, retarget a redirect or other really trivial change I don't really care. Hut 8.5 19:28, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Rio declaration

The entire section on principles comes from the Rio declaration on Environment and Development, which is a Wikisource, so could we please reinstate that! Also, could you explain why the Significance section is copy right violation, and suggest how I get round it, I get the feeling I am missing something. Ta --SasiSasi (talk) 20:45, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Deleted all my additions to the Rio Declaration article, saying its all copyright violation. However, the Rio Declaration is a wikisource, so I dont see how quoting the Declaration is a copyright issue. Apart from that he/she is very aggressive.--SasiSasi (talk) 20:56, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Just cut my entire Right to Development article for one minor copy right issue. Just for the record, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights, and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action are not copyrighted, and quoting them is not copy right infringement. Again, needlessly aggressive... --SasiSasi (talk) 21:25, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

User:Tiggerjay

Thanks for your RCP efforts and your recent vandal revert on my page. Tiggerjay (talk) 23:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Pdf Tagging Bot

Hi there Hut 8.5. I would just like to tell you (as you are the one tat requested the bot) that my pdF tagging bot has now been approved and should have its first run tonight. If you have any queries about the bot please leave me a message. If you ever think of any other bots tat would be usefull then I would be happy to take a shot at them :> ·Ãḍď§ђɸŗЄ· ^Talk 06:51, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeh, I will keep running it every now and again (maybe once every 2 weeks) Again thanks for the idea ·Ãḍď§ђɸŗЄ· ^Talk 11:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I would just like to say the run has been completed (in under 20 mins). It managed to tag around about 650 PDF's. If you ever think that the bot should be run again please send me a message and I will. Thanks. ·Ãḍď§ђɸŗЄ· ^Talk 15:57, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Fix bad image list?

Someone goofed up Image:Flacid micropenis2 highres.jpg at the MediaWiki:Bad_image_list. The article name is micropenis, not Micro penis. Any chance you are available to fix the problem. I see you are the last admin to revert there. Thanks, siℓℓy rabbit (talk) 11:37, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! siℓℓy rabbit (talk) 11:41, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Five months of protection is excessive

Let me also call your attention to Chip Berlet. --Marvin Diode (talk) 20:40, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Just a suggestion...

That html comment at the top of your page is kind of encouraging people to do just what it says not to do. I would recommend removing it. Thingg^⊕⊗ 15:39, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Denmark

Hi Hut. Is this still copyvio? Manxruler (talk) 01:18, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem at all. Manxruler (talk) 12:55, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

He deleted your warning too, btw. Manxruler (talk) 13:05, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

OK. Good to know procedure. Thanks. Manxruler (talk) 13:18, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

How about this rewrite? I feel there's also a problem with not crediting the source. Manxruler (talk) 20:25, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree. You can't just copy a text from somewhere and change a dozen or so words. Manxruler (talk) 12:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, couldn't just leave it like that. I'll add some more to it tomorrow. Manxruler (talk) 22:25, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: IP 82.37.24.7

Keeps adding the surname Bhoghal to the Tarkhan page, in effect altering a cited source. I have asked him to discuss it but he won't stop. Is there anthing we can do?--Sikh-history (talk) 08:58, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Shad Helmstetter

Hello, My entry on Dr. Shad Helmstetter was deleted and the message said it was because there was no content. I had been working on the page and when I left there was content. My entry was originally removed because editors thought it was advertising (which was not my intent). They edited a few lines and said they would watch the page. I've changed nothing after their edits so I'm not sure why it's gone. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Seth--Selftalk (talk) 17:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Francine hardaway

Hi
The article about Francine hardaway, which I moved to Francine Hardaway, was only just created, and wasn't following the naming conventions. And while the former is a possible search term, it will still be found even if the redirect is deleted: read the last row in Wikipedia:R#Spellings, misspellings, tenses and capitalizations. And while they are kept for high profile pages like Bill clinton or Winston churchill, I really don't think they are necessary for every biographical article. Patrick stewart or Jens lehmann don't have them, for example.
Cheers, Amalthea (talk) 16:52, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, if those redirects were considered important then it would be easy enough for a bot to create them, but you're right, this way it won't be recreated at the old place. Thanks for your answer & cheers, Amalthea (talk) 17:23, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Flight Training Europe

Thank you for the restoration of the article 'Flight Training Europe'. It never should have been deleted in the first place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.2.98.243 (talk) 09:54, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Re : IP 92.237.53.167

Hi Hut, I have a problem with this fellow on the Tarkhan disimbaguation page. He keeps making changes to a cited source, in this case Sir Dennis Ibbeston, and distorting the quote from the source. I have tried to talk to him but doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? --Sikh-history (talk) 10:32, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Hut. I read your reply regarding this issue. I have checked Denzil Ibbeston's book and the changes made to the tribes made by this fellow are incorrect. The original list is the correct one.--Sikh-history (talk) 12:04, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Asudem

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Asudem. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Sebastian scha. (talk) 10:17, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

SolarWinds deleted for blatant advertising

Hut,

We've had a SolarWinds page up on your site for several months now. On Friday a few edits were made making some regular text, links back to our site. Any reason why the entire page was deleted. It was my understanding that if recent edits added violated your policy, just those edits would be reverted. Am I incorrect? If this is the case, can we get the SolarWinds page reposted. It really is not much different from other vendors that have pages in this space...eg. Cisco Systems, Inc.

Thanks, Heidi —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hfarris1 (talk • contribs) 18:37, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

The information HUT is looking for

You were asking for attribution for Cololnel Navarini

http://www.flwg.us/html/biognavarini.html

This is verifiable and not under copyright protection. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.11.6.39 (talk) 00:52, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Help with new user

I am not quite sure what to do with User:MyNameIsJasonBourne. He insists on doing speedies and other tagging when it is very obvious that he is too inexperienced. I don't know if you can intervene to help convince him to slow down as you previously commented on this on his talk page..--Finalnight (talk) 07:00, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!--Finalnight (talk) 16:24, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

== Hi, meant no harm on the 'Vandalism' of Jeremiah 17:1-4

I'm a newbee at contributing to Wiki, and was looking for a good English to Hebrew translation of the passage especially the part that says 'let not your right hand know what your left hand does, and your father who sees in secret will reward you openly' I was actually demonstrating to a college student the versitility of Wikipedia as an educative and research tool!!! One can never be too sure.... btw if you are aware of such a site feel free to send a link to my talk page, thanks Tc, --Neazcool (talk) 06:34, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Atlantic Hurricane Magazine (Canadian Magazine)

I, Whenaxis, have enclosed that I no longer want to have this article. I confess this magazine is not suitable for Wikipedia due to its lack of notability. Please feel free to delete the article. Thanks, Whenaxis (talk) 23:40, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

IAN WHITECOURT BIO

Please explain why my BIO was deleted ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.135.241.55 (talk) 10:32, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protect

Thankyou! Yes, can you semi-protect my user page please. Thanks. JoshuaD1991 (talk) 17:08, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bosco Stick

Think we could just delete it as a G11? It seems to be rather promotional in tone. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Chirps•Clams•Chowder)} 19:40, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

• I doubt it. There are hardly any sources for Bosco Pizza, so they don't meet WP:CORP. Therefore, I see no reason to keep the page for a non-notable brand from a non-notable company. I'm going to boldly G11 it. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Chirps•Clams•Chowder)} 19:47, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Template:BIA

It's nice that you requested protection for this template from vandalism... But there's one problem... What if I, the creator of the template want to make some changes to the text layout and suppose the address was to change??? How can we work around this??? WIKIVUE Detroit (talk) FRI JUL 18 2008 7:27 PM EDT | 11:27 PM UTC

You protection of MedCab

Excuse me! There was no move vandalism on that page :|. Mww113 (Talk) (Review me!) 20:48, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Template vandalism

I note you've been reverting quite a bit of vandalism to heavily transcluded templates (like {{otheruses}}, 300 uses). When you revert these, could you take the opportunity to protect them as well? A lot of these are basically just open holes waiting to be attacked, and there's very little need to edit any of them in the normal course of things... Shimgray | talk | 19:07, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

I agree. Ajh1492 (talk) 16:49, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the weather template Ajh1492 (talk) 17:58, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Same Vandalism on a number of Templates this morning. I reverted all of them.

Can we get all Language templates protected? There is no need for everyone to be mucking around with a language template.

Here's the list of templates that I undid the Vandalism on:

   * 14:44, 25 July 2008 (hist) (diff) Template:Cichlidae-stub‎  (top)
   * 14:44, 25 July 2008 (hist) (diff) Template:Lang-be‎
   * 14:44, 25 July 2008 (hist) (diff) Template:Lang-ca‎ (top)
   * 14:44, 25 July 2008 (hist) (diff) Template:Lang-la‎ (top)
   * 14:44, 25 July 2008 (hist) (diff) Template:A1 Grand Prix teams‎ (top)
   * 14:44, 25 July 2008 (hist) (diff) Template:Lang-az‎ (top)

Ajh1492 (talk) 15:04, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for locking the language templates down. I agree, he/she could have done more damage than they did. Ought to be a policy for high usage templates (languages, heavily used infoboxes, etc.) to be locked down. Where would be a good place to post such a request?

Ajh1492 (talk) 20:55, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Unnecessary page protection

Just one recent instance of anon IP vandalism does not seem to warrant protection of Template:Star Wars character. Please remove it. --EEMIV (talk) 22:22, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

It's a high risk template transcluded on a number of high profile articles. Note also that it isn't being heavily edited (and you can still edit it). Hut 8.5 10:16, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Polygonzo

I am the creator of the product Polygonzo a stretch toy/puzzle that has been marketed over the past 18 years or so. it is clear that you were dead on when you flagged someone trying to turn it into a malicious attack. is there any way i can identify who tried to do such a nasty thing? please feel free to contact me on my regular email address [redacted Hut 8.5 20:31, 22 July 2008 (UTC)] incidentally, if you go to my web page, www.Royaltypros.com you will see that i am the real deal.

thanks for covering my back as a good Samaritan!

--RoyaltyPro (talk) 22:04, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Christopher Carpenter

Hi. A quick question - why did you change the speedy to a prod on this article ? There's no apparent assertation of notability using WP:POLITICIAN/WP:BIO, so is it simply because the author quotes a few references to say he's notable that it has to go through prod ? CultureDrone (talk) 11:38, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Hmm I see - what about instances where the author states, for example, 'Fred Bloggs has won 23 major awards...', but fails to provide any references or sources as to the awards - does the mere assertation of notability, even if unproven, require a prod rather than a speedy ? CultureDrone (talk) 11:49, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

RS

Can you tell if official newspapers of political organization can be used as RS or not. Is Organiser of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RS? Can this article be used as RS in wikipedia? Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 13:17, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

User page edits

Sorry. I just don't like someone taking my work off without being consulted or why its being taken off in the first place Dickclarkfan1 (talk) 20:59, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Kumite has never been DISPROVEN either. Until such a time, deleting the article is premature. Dickclarkfan1 (talk) 21:09, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Dear Hut, thanks for improving List of the richest people ever. Kindly keep on the good-work and please provide ant input to me, including some references/other sources that you may have. Regards--Bugnot (talk) 20:05, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

List of the richest people ever

Dear Hut: I had not originally created this article but only improved it further. As such, I can't tell you about any differences that I see except the fact that the Wealthy historical figures 2008 and similar previous yearly lists can be updated only annually based on annual-list provided by Forbes (whereas List of the richest people ever can be updated dynamically based on current-info released by other sources) and that this list contains a bit more info, especially about ranking-process and scope. On the Wealthy Historical Figures page too, this list is cited as "the main page of the other lists". Also, this list is limited only to the top-ten (though I'm unsure whether it's any advantage) and the main-list has some additional references, notable-mentions, and external-links. Probably, these lists could be merged but that would need a discussion too. Regards. --Bugnot (talk) 22:42, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Moreover, the top-ten list also includes info such as Age at Death, Original Net Worth as well as other dates not mentioned in the 2008 list.--117.201.66.125 (talk) 18:12, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

GetMyHomesValue.com

I would like to contest the speedy deletion G11 recently placed on my entry. The article was not "blatant advertising" as the speedy deletion suggests. While it was still in the editing stages, the article was being designed as a historical account of the development of GetMyHomesValue.

Also, the company GetMyHomesValue is notable, and therefore my Wikipedia entry should not have been deleted. GetMyHomesValue was awarded by the Central Penn Business Journal as the Emerging Business of the Year in 2006. This month, GetMyHomesValue.com will be named to the Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing privately owned companies in America.

My page was deleted before I was given a chance to fully develop my list of notable references. I would appreciate the opportunity to finish my Wikipedia submission before having it deleted.

Thank you for your consideration. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JonathanBentz (talk • contribs) 21:00, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

template

Hi I'm editing the catalan wikipedia and I have seen that you have edited that template: Template:Railway line header. Do you know how to do to hide railway tables as a default option? Thanks--Vilarrubla (talk) 19:53, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Kotkapura

An IP address keeps editing Kotkapura with pov and advertisements for an astrologer, could you please ban him or protect the page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.112.20.78 (talk) 07:51, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Etana Insurance

Hey there Hut, we're both clearing out CsD right now it seems :-) I was just reading an article from thetimes online that was about Etana, seemed to indicate some notability. What do you think? I'm not overly attached or anything, it was obviously written spammy enough to be an easy G11. I'll watch your page. Cheers, Keeper ǀ 76 19:41, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Looks fine to me - feel free to recreate it. Hut 8.5 19:44, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I tried, but it doesn't work.

Thanks for replying to my questioning. I've tried to discuss this with the person but he does not write anything back to me in the talk page. All he writes is that I'm being POV and then he re-works the article to his liking. I mean, I'm the one that has been working with another user (Selecciones de la Vida) on improving the article, but then this guy comes along and writes everything to his liking. He has deleted my sources and other things that he did not see "correct" in the article. How is that not vandalizing????!!! The IP address has also never helped in creating the article, and yet he comes in there with all the authority he wants and reworks everything to his liking. How is that not vandalizing????!!!! And then you state I'm breaking the Wikipedia rules??? Please help me, I don't understand.--MarshalN20 (talk) 20:11, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. No, I was not aware of the edit rule; yes, now I'm aware. I'll make sure to seek a peaceful solution. Once again, thank you.--MarshalN20 (talk) 20:21, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Protected film templates

Thanks for protecting the film templates I mentioned on AN/I. Could you also protect the redirect at Template:Fy, since it's actually used more than the full name Template:Filmyear. Many thanks. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ^{(talk / cont)} 20:53, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, I see it's already protected. I was misled by the lack of the lock icon on it. Thanks again. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ^{(talk / cont)} 20:55, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

WTC7 Report

No problem. I know it needs a little more work but I don't want edit conflicts since tweaking is your expertise I will let you handle it. I will check back in tonight or tomorrow to see if there are more developments. There is a reaction section for the original report I do not know if the WTC7 reactions belong there. Also a wiki link for Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth is needed. Thanks Edkollin (talk) 14:58, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0

Hi there Hut 8.5,

As a regularly contributing UK Wikipedian, we were wondering if you wanted to contribute to the Oxford bid to host the 2010 Wikimania conference. Please see here for details of how to get involved, we need all the help we can get if we are to put in a compelling bid.

We are also in the process of forming a new UK Wikimedia chapter to replace the soon to be folded old one. If you are interested in helping shape our plans, showing your support or becoming a future member or board member, please head over to the Wikimedia UK v2.0 page and let us know. We plan on holding an election in the next month to find the initial board, who will oversee the process of founding the company and accepting membership applications. They will then call an AGM to formally elect a new board who after obtaining charitable status will start the fund raising, promotion and active support for the UK Wikimedian community for which the chapter is being founded.

You may also wish to attend the next London meet-up if you are located near London at which both of these issues will be discussed. If you can't attend this meetup, you may want to watch Wikipedia:Meetup, for updates on future meets.

We look forward to hearing from you soon!

Thanks for reading.

·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 08:13, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

WP:Chongqing

I stopped adding links to this when it went up for deletion, the comment was simply so that if it was deleted the red links would be known and not left in place. Mrqwerty987 (talk) 19:18, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, my mistake then. thanks for the info and sorry about that —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrqwerty987 (talk • contribs)