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Covergent evolution

Thanks for starting this page. We already have an article on Convergent evolution, so I've redirected Covergent evolution to the existing article.-gadfium 08:29, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

• Greetings - please note that "covergent evolution" is a distinct concept and topic. Can you please revert your redirect? --Tjfulopp 08:32, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

I've looked at your two references. The first doesn't use the word "covergent" at all, but is talking about convergent evolution. The second seems to me to be using "covergent" in the same way as "convergent" - evolution of similar traits independently by different organisms, although in the particular example used, the orb web seems to have a single ancestral form.-gadfium 08:42, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

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Image:Pavol hudak.jpg

Hi. Who is Peter Laučík, and when and where did he release this photo into the public domain? Picaroon (t) 01:18, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of IGO Search

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August 2008

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Thank you, I'll read up some more what constitutes 'minor edit' (normally it's quite subjective, isn't it). (I'll mark this edit as major, hopefully it is OK, even if for me it is very minor.) --Tomas J. Fulopp (talk) 15:27, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

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• No need to welcome me, sir, I've been registered at Wikipedia 5 years before you.
• I have commented on your contribution, namely not explained, evasive, confused deletion of my article, not about your self. I sincerely apologize if the latter was understood in any way.
• You say my article had issues - but you know that I immediately (minutes after you), extensively and more than once asked you to provide reasons, which you kept evading, and finally you let the article be deleted.
• Just out of interest - why have you deleted my comments from your page? I know you have the right to do that, but why did you delete it if you feel you had done the correct action a few hours ago? I would not think it contained any uncivil language. If you think it did, I would appreciate any explanations, so that I learn.
• I must repeat the gist of my complaint and question to you, now on my talk page, which you hopefully won't rush to delete, so that others can objectively judge:

You marked it for speedy deletion, and I was able to evidence you had circumvented the normal Wikipedia manners of dealing with possibly suspect content. I had cited my objections with due links to Wikipedia help pages, in an objective and rational tone. However, your answers have been a) cursory, b) not answering my questions, c) not reflecting on the reasons I have provided, and d) you kept changing reasons for your act and still refused to re-consider. Since you seem to be very knowledgeable and immensely sure about Wikipedia rules, could I hereby ask you to kindly tell me what can a common user like myself to legally (that is within Wikipedia's realm) protest against what have you done to my work today. I mean, what is the next higher instance for complaints of this kind. As a honest Wikipedian, I am sure you will gladly help me. I need to hear from other people who supported your opinion, and from the person who did the ultimate deletion decision. I really hope to come to the root of this issue because acts of suspected self-righteous policing should definitely be properly investigated in the interest of keeping the Wikipedia project sound and alive for the future. (My full posting is in the revisions here.)

• I appreciate your link to WP:DRV; I am acting on that.

--Tomas J. Fulopp (talk) 21:36, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

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I reacted on the 'speedy deletion' nomination mere minutes after it was posted today. I asked the editor, very politely, why this was done. Initially he cited 'blatant advertising', which I questioned, and he changed it to lack of 'notability', which I countered providing objective information about the non-commercial non-governmental nature and superb respectability of the publisher of the service described (mandate of the United Nations, 101 year history as an international research institute, etc.) I also said, citing help sources, that if notability was in question, speedy deletion is the last resort of an editor, and I asked him to reconsider. Afterwards he asked for sources, which I was ready to answer, were the article not already deleted in the meantime. It would have been enough if he changed it to possible deletion, giving me and other people more time, don't you think? --Tomas J. Fulopp (talk) 22:26, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I am not able to find out how to establish who was and how to contact the admin deleter. Can you help a bit more, please? --Tomas J. Fulopp (talk) 22:26, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

As to admin abuse, DRV is not the place to discuss that. WP:ANI is the proper place for that, but you'll need to prove that the deletion was inappropriate. There are far too many people whining about admin abuse to get taken seriously unless you come armed with evidence, not opinion and personal attacks. Note: I am not an admin. Corvus cornix_talk 21:57, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

I am ready to go into that, if only the deleted article could be re-enabled for some period, to allow a proper and full discussion and a consensus to take place. Thanks for any further consideration, based on my points above, you can give this issue. --Tomas J. Fulopp (talk) 22:26, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Civility

Until such time as your messages develop a sense of genuine civility, you will get no answers from me. Mayalld (talk) 22:03, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Please do not accuse me without proof, sir, and let others see what I wrote, to show it was not uncivil, instead of simply deleting it. Thank you! --Tomas J. Fulopp (talk) 22:18, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

The revisions with the deleted text remain available to anybody who cares to look at them. I do not care to look at it any longer. Mayalld (talk) 06:28, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Vacilando

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What you posted at Talk:Human Values should also be posted at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Human_values. -- IRP ☎ 16:31, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

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Hi Kelly, I got that picture from Pavol Hudák himself many years ago when I created a page about him on my website, see http://www.vacilando.org/article/pavol-hudak-jeho-basne I put the name of the person who took the photo on that site and subsequently also when I worked on the Wikipedia article. Tomáš J. Fülöpp 22:16, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

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