User talk:King of Hearts/Archive/2011/09

Nomination for deletion of Template:Semi-active

Template:Semi-active has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Kumioko (talk) 22:49, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

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merging of chemfluence with alagappa college of technology !

Hi ! I don't know why the article Chemfluence was merged . Chemfluence is a national level event held at Anna University , Chennai .Here is the official university page about the event: link 1 , link 2 . And with regard to notability here are the pages describing it : newspaper and here . I think these are enough for verifiable sources and more can be provided upon contact . My e-mail id is (Redacted) --Mbapril14 (talk) 16:42, 7 September 2011 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mbapril14 (talk • contribs) 16:38, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

I think these sources are (just barely) enough to pass. You may recreate the article by overwriting the redirect. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:11, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

CSD G4

For your AfD article pages that for the discussions, were deleted, should they get deleted under G4, such as User:Physics is all gnomes/NPP tutorial/Hyro Da Hero? ~~Ebe123~~ (+) ^talk
_Contribs 15:56, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

WP:IAR. Since G4 prevents me from improving Wikipedia by providing instruction to my pupils, I am free to ignore it. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:10, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Hey you! The first admin I could think of!

Could you do me a favor and delete this file? I uploaded it a few months ago under a fair use claim after having not found any free use images of Tondó. One has since surfaced, so not only do we not need the fair use file anymore, it's, to my knowledge, actually against our best interests to have it at all. Green-eyed girl (Talk · Contribs) 00:12, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Looks like it's been done already. Wow, people are fast. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:13, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

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Edit Filter 390

Hey, could you put edit filter 390 back in service, please? Seems the vandal it was meant for is back. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:25, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 06:31, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Trying to understand this edit rationale

"Just because an image is free doesn't mean we get to use it liberally, regardless of how relevant it is in context."

This was you edit summary to remove the image of Michael Jackson from the Simpsons episode.[1]

I am trying to understand what the rationale behind this edit was, as the summary is self-contradictory. If an image is free, it does mean we can use it liberally, especially in the relevant context (EV). The exemption would be for defamatory usage. Could you explain? - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 17:42, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

I was a little curious about this myself. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 23:50, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Sorry if I wasn't clear. Now that I look at it, grammatically the adverb phrase "regardless of how relevant it is in context" could have modified two different words, leading to either my intended interpretation ("use") or yours ("mean"). What I meant was that there was insufficient EV to justify having a picture a Michael Jackson on a Simpsons episode on which he made a minor cameo. If people saw a picture of Michael Jackson on the Main Page, they would think the article would be substantially related to him, not some random TV episode. In any case, I'm glad Howcheng stepped in and added a suitable image. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 16:42, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Makes sense to me. Cheers, ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 14:06, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Actually, it wasn't a minor cameo. He played a huge role, and the entire episode was written just for him. In fact, the majority of the article relates to his involvement. In other words, the image was substantially related to both the episode and the article. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 17:15, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

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Deletion review for Frederick Glaysher

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Frederick Glaysher. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Radon Detection (talk) 22:18, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:Radon_Detection/Frederick_Glaysher

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2010_May_21

Research into the user pages of Wikipedians: Invitation to participate

Greetings,

My name is John-Paul and I am a student with the University of Alberta specializing in Communications and Technology.

I would like to include your Wikipedia user page in a study I am doing about how people present themselves online. I am interested in whether people see themselves in different ways, online and offline. One of the things I am looking at is how contributors to Wikipedia present themselves to each other through their user pages. Would you consider letting me include your user page in my study?

With your consent, I will read and analyze your user page, and ask you five short questions about it that will take about ten to fifteen minutes to answer. I am looking at about twenty user pages belonging to twenty different people. I will be looking at all user pages together, looking for common threads in the way people introduce themselves to other Wikipedians.

I hope that my research will help answer questions about how people collaborate, work together, and share knowledge. If you are open to participating in this study, please reply to this message, on your User Talk page or on mine. I will provide you with a complete description of my research, which you can use to decide if you want to participate.

Thank-you,

John-Paul Mcvea
University of Alberta
jmcvea@ualberta.ca

Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 21:01, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Sure, that's fine with me. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 10:46, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks -- please watch for a short questionnaire, below, with five questions. To be included in my study, please answer the five questions. I appreciate your participation very much. Thanks again. Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 20:31, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Opposites theorem‎

The article Opposites theorem‎ has been proposed for deletion. The proposed-deletion notice added to the article should explain why.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jowa fan (talk • contribs) 03:36, September 24, 2011

You closed it as keep but the AFD message is still in the article

Super Mario War was wisely closed as keep. You updated the talk page, but not the article itself. Isn't their a bot that does that automatically? Or do you have to remove it yourself? Can anyone remove it with a simple article edit, or do you have to use something to remove it from a listing somewhere also? Dream Focus 19:06, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

There's no bot to remove it, but I use an AfD closing script that automatically closes the AfD and makes necessary modifications to the pages affected. However, it appears that this time the script failed (as it occasionally does). -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:08, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Does it fail when its a second nomination? If so, the bot request page would be the place to ask for one that checks for the word "nomination" and then removes everything in the parenthesis, be it 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. Dream Focus 19:30, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

No. The failure appears to be non-deterministic, occurring (I'm guessing) when the server tells the script that the edit was made when in fact it wasn't. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:59, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank-you for agreeing to participate in my study

Thank-you for agreeing to participate in my study, entitled “Online Self-presentation among Wikipedians.” I appreciate it.

As I indicated in my last message, here are five short questions about your user page that I would like you to answer. These will help me to understand your motivations for creating a user page such as yours. Please be as brief or as thorough as you like.

5 QUESTIONS

1. Are you a member of social networks such Facebook or MySpace?

2. In addition to maintaining a user page in Wikipedia, have you also written or edited articles? If so, about how many times?

3. What are the key messages about yourself that you hope to convey with your user page?

4. Have your Wikipedia contributions ever received feedback, such as being edited by others or commented on? Have you received a message from another Wikipedia user? If so, do you think your user page positively or negatively affected what other people said and how they said it?

5. Do you see your “online self” as being different from your “offline self?” Can you elaborate?

Please indicate your answers to these questions on your talk page, or on mine. Please respond by October 1st so that I have time to properly read your responses. If you like, you can email your answers to me instead (jmcvea@ualberta.ca).

Thank you again : )

Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 20:32, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

ADDITONAL INFORMATION

Background

• I am asking you to participate in a research project that is part of my MA degree.

• I am asking you because you have created a user page in Wikipedia that other people can use to learn about you.

Purpose

• My research is about how people present themselves online.

• I will look at how people present themselves when presenting themselves to the Wikipedia community.

Study Procedures

• With your consent, I will analyze the language of your user page and gather basic statistics such as the count of words, the frequency of words, the number of sections, and so on.

• I will also read the text of your user page, looking for elements in common with ads posted by other people. I will note whether you include a picture, or links to other content on the internet.

• I ask you to answer my five questions, above. This will take about ten to fifteen minutes to complete. I will ask you to answer the questions within a week, and send your answers to me.

• Throughout my research, I will adhere to the University of Alberta Standards for the Protection of Human Research Participants, which you can view at http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/gfcpolicymanual/policymanualsection66.cfm

Benefits

• There is no direct benefit to you for participating in this research. You may, however, find it interesting to read my perspective on how you present yourself online.

• I hope that the information I get from doing this study will help understand how technology affects the way people come together into a society.

• There is no reward or compensation for participating in this research.

Risk

• There is no direct risk for participating in this research.

Voluntary Participation

• You are under no obligation to participate in this study. Participation is completely voluntary.

• You can opt out of this study at any time before October 10, 2011, with no penalty. You can ask to have me withdraw any data that I have collected about you. Even if you agree to be in the study, you can change your mind and withdraw.

• If you decline to continue or you wish to withdraw from the study, your information will be removed from the study at your request.

Confidentiality

• This research will be used to support a project that is part of my MA degree.

• A summary of my research will be available on the University of Alberta website.

• Your personally identifiable information will be deleted and digitally shredded as soon as I have finished gathering data about you.

• Data will be kept confidential. Only I will have access to the computer file containing the data. It will be password protected. It will not be sent by email or stored online.

• I will always handle my data in compliance with University of Alberta standards.

• If you would like to receive a copy of my final report, please ask.

Further Information

• If you have any further questions regarding this study, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Stanley Varnhagen, my research advisor for this project. If you have concerns about this study, you may contact the University of Alberta Research Ethics Committee at 780-492-2615. This office has no affiliation with the study investigators.

INDICATING CONSENT

By answering these questions, you indicate your agreement with the following statements:

• That you understand that you have been asked to be in a research study.

• That you have read and received a copy of the Information Sheet, attached below (“Additional Information”).

• That you understand the benefits and risks involved in taking part in this research study.

• That you have had an opportunity to ask questions and discuss this study.

• That you understand that you are free to refuse to participate, or to withdraw from the study at any time, without consequence, and that your information will be withdrawn at your request.

• That the issue of confidentiality been explained to you and that you understand who will have access to your information (see “Additional Information”).

• That you agree to participate.

Thank-you again!

Replied by email. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:06, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Article Incubator/Zola Levitt

hey! thanks for not outright deleting this, which i think would have been a mistake. i did some heavy editing just before you closed it, and was pretty sure that i'd gotten rid of everything that looked like WP:MEMORIAL and included enough sources to show that it meets the gng. since you mentioned in your closing statement that it still looked like a memorial, i wonder if you'd mind, if you have the time, of course, suggesting other things to be clipped out? — alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 04:20, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

The format of the article looks a bit like an obituary. There isn't anything in particular that I would clip out; rather, the article needs to be restructured to look like a regular biography. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:26, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

ok, thanks for your input. i thought i'd done that, and i can't think of anything else to do. i guess i'll ask the biographers to look it over and see what they think.— alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 04:35, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Robert_Jenkin

Hi. I undid your closure of this AFD because it was closed after three days. I was contacted on IRC to help someone start the AFD because they had problems translcuding it into the log. It appears I messed up as well and put it in the wrong log. When I was relisting AFDs this morning, I noticed it and knew it was only a couple days old and relisted it. I should've left a note. Anyway, it's only run for 3 days. I'm going to relist for 7 more days.--v/r - TP 14:19, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Apologies. Whenever I see an orange "relist" banner, I automatically assume it's run for at least 7 days. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 16:30, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Not your fault, it was mine. I should have left a note.--v/r - TP 17:14, 28 September 2011 (UTC)