User talk:Mallanox/archive2

Hi, Mallanox, I just wanted to thank you for your support on my RfA, which was successful with a final tally of 61/0/2. I'm honoured you found my judgment sound and hope my conduct as an administrator will also exhibit sound judgment. If you have any comments about my use of the tools I would be glad to hear from you on my talk page. Thanks again! Heimstern Läufer 08:17, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Mallanox! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply

I fixed the approval bug from last night.

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The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue IV - March 1, 2007 Monthly Challenge: Find 5 editors to LGBT articles and invite them to the project! Check out our recruitment tips if you need them. Good luck! Project News With such rapid development of the project, it was decided that a Coordinator was needed to ensure all the fiddly maintenence was kept up. Elections were held and Dev920 (talk · contribs) has been elected Coordinator for the next three months. She said "I am honoured and proud to be at the helm of such a fantastic WikiProject and look forward to our future". Congratulations Dev! The assessment system continues to be a great success, we have tagged over 5200 articles! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system. Jumpaclass is proving to be quite successful! The winner at the end of the year gets to pick the January collaboration, so sign up and get going! Or challenge another user to see how far you can jump a stub! A new Community department has been set up to foster community amongst our members. It mostly acts as other WikiProjects' Outreach department, but also has a Quilt to which every member is entitled to add a square containing anything of their choice. The peer review is not getting much custom - please notice you can cross-list other peer reviews from different projects that also fall within our scope. Many people still seem to be unaware that the Deletion sorting subpage exists for XfDs to be listed: please use and watch that page instead of issuing "alerts" for ordinary AfDs on the project talkpage. WP:LGBT successfully gave all 105 LGBT infoboxless films infoboxes, so a big thank you to everyone who participated. A new template, LGBT, has been created for articles which are becoming to cluttered with infoboxes. Thanks to WJBscribe and SatyrTN for creating it. A very basic resources page has been started. Please add to it as you come across useful sites. A promotional poster for the project has been created: http://wplgbt.tripod.com/Wikipedianeedsyou.doc (you have to directly cut and paste the url, or it won't let you download it). Please distribute anywhere and everywhere you desire, such as gay libraries, cybercafes, community centres and so on. Also, please let Dev920 know where you have put it up, so she can keep track of our coverage. An LGBT Publications Taskforce has been proposed. Please sign up here if you are interested in being involved. An LGBT WikiProject has been set up on the Spanish Wikipedia! Set up by Raystorm, it has already gained six members and is developing an assessment system. If you speak any Spanish, please consider going up and lending a hand if you can! Article News An LGBT article, DYK this month. Congratulations to Haiduc , who wrote the article. Another article, DYK this month. Congratulations to Raystorm , who wrote the article. And another article, George Cecil Ives, made it to the front page DYKs this month. Congratulations to Zefrog, who wrote the article. Member News Our membership continues to expand. 55 new users have joined the Wikiproject: Philippebeaudette, FrankCostanza, AmberAlert1713, A.Z., Fluffball70 , . Please make them feel welcome! To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please drop me a line. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Dev920 know.

Apology

I sincerely apologize for AfDing Ghastly's Ghastly Comic without checking for notability. If that were done, I would have not done the AfD, and everyone would be happy. - A Link to the Past (talk) 21:17, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comment (now archived) I deal with documents in Icelandic language on a daily basis, including those written in Icelandic on an English keyboard. Never have I seen eth transliterated as anything other than d. I will sort accordingly. -Freekee 02:30, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue V - April 3, 2007 Monthly Challenge: Article News Three articles were promoted to Andrew Van De Kamp (2007-03-30). Congratulations to Gran2 and Dev920 (twice!) respectively for all their hard work! Three new articles appeared on the Classification of transsexuals (2007-03-02), Steve Stanton (2007-03-08) and Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus (2007-03-23), started by Lwollert, Yksin and MusicMen , respectively. David's user page . Project News There is now the beginning of a list of core topics to possibly be included in the Wikipedia 1.0 release. Your suggestions are welcome; there may be many core LGBT topics still missing. We have a list of people categorized as LGBT whose articles need to be checked for reliable sourcing. This effort is necessary and urgent, to comply with Wikipedia's policy on living persons. Please take a few moments to source one article; if you've got time, do another. the project's banner, about 1,400 articles. These have been completed, though SatyrBot will make periodic runs through the cats to find any new entries. Thanks Satyr! The number of articles within our project's spectrum (6,667 currently) should now be relatively stable and only grow with article creation. However, if you find a category that should be included, please let SatyrTN know so it can be included in the bots runs. Work is underway to improve the LGBT Portal. Please add any good quality (free) photos you come across on LGBT articles to the gallery here. Also if anyone would like to volunteer to help in maintaining the portal, please make yourselves known on the Portal's talkpage. If you see any deletion discussions related to LGBT topics, please remember to add them to the deletion sorting board . Thanks! Member News Our membership continues to expand. 22 new users have joined the WikiProject: SUIT, Mentality, Nukleoptra, LeaHazel, lindleyle, Justin Eiler, Bylandl, Brent Calderwood, PC78, Gekedo, polymathematics, Coryarlo, Ziji, mcgarymi . Please make them feel welcome! To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please drop me a line. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Dev920 know.

SatyrBot 05:13, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:StS you should not copy userbox material onto your userpage, thus I have put your sourced userboxes into subpages.

• User:Mallanox/music
• User:Mallanox/book
• User:Mallanox/sci-fi
• User:Mallanox/comics

Now you have your userpage in Wikipedians who read Sci-fi, before the includeonly code was stopping it. -PatPeter 19:03, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please alert me directly on my talk page if you notice anything else. — coelacan — 00:10, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The CFD is probably going to be speedy closed now, but I should let you know that even when you have a "vested interest" in something like a user category, you are allowed and encouraged to say anything you want regarding keeping or deleting. It's not a bad idea to mention that you're in the category, but once you've done that you can make your case as you would at any other time. It's not

WP:COI. — coelacan — 04:34, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply

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All right. That's enough people in the category who have agreed with this, so I'll do it; the fastest way will be for me to just make the new category and then move everyone over to it. — coelacan — 00:34, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Really? I don't think i've been doing it purposely. I guess we have similar tastes in article editing. If it somehow persists, get back to me. :) Andrzejbanas 04:54, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I had to remove your original support vote, because it was there before the voting actually began. Sorry! And thanks! =) — coelacan — 00:18, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, this message is kind of late. I rented Night of the Ninja at an old, indepedent video store by my old house in San Diego. I'll be back down there in a couple months so I'll try and get some more info from the VHS box. If you can find any more information on it, that would be great. Since there is hardly any info on it anywhere, I'm theorizing that it's a "compilation" of 2 or 3 older martial arts films edited together to appear as a single film. It would be interesting to find out which films those are if my theory is correct. Best. -Meilander 4/8/07

Thanks for your help with this. - Kleinzach 01:44, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, You have shown through your contributions that you're a fan of the 1980s movie "Vision Quest". I created an article on actor Frank Jasper who played the villian, Brian Shute, in the movie. I've also included information about what Dr. Jasper is doing now. Many people have wondered through Wikipedia and Imdb whatever happened to him, and I've tried to put this information out there for everyone. Unfortunately, some people think the article should be deleted for whatever reason. If you loved the movie as much as I did, please go to this link and voice your support before the article is deleted. Thanks a lot. I would appreciate your support very much.

Mister Jinxy 20:10, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Mallanox! Just wanted to thank you for withdrawing your nomination for deletion, and to offer to chat further if you would like. (Or perhaps you have heard as much from me as you can stand!) At any rate, wanted to drop you a line. — scribblingwoman 00:09, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

[To answer your possibly rheotrical questions at the start of your nomination, yes, the nominator has ultimate control if they wish to end the debate early, it's their name on the starting line. There is nothing to stop someone else from picking up the nomination and running with it, which I see you've done. Mallanox 23:00, 12 April 2007 (UTC)][reply]

That situation is completely wrong and should change. What it does is give the nominator the right to void other users' contributions. It is absurd, it ignores consensus. It can change, and it must change. Honbicot 19:59, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your kind words. =) While I'm here I'm going to be a picky jerk! The commenter above has a good point. If you withdraw your nomination, that doesn't close the XFD unless everyone else was !voting to keep. And in that case only, it's a

Well, you live and learn. Is there somewhere I can read up on this as it's part of wikilore that I was previously unaware of and as you rightfully say I've seen happen before. Mallanox 23:43, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The relevant thing I could find right now is

Hey Mallanox. Thanks for supporting my unsuccessful RFA this week. I hope to keep helping and improving Wikipedia alongside you. See you around RCP. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@(Lets go Yankees!) 01:28, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Mallanox--Nomination added. It's all yours. =) Nishkid64 21:09, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you , but feel these are different cases and require more clarification. The reason I have put a delete tag on those films is that they are highly speculative in nature and cannot be verified by any film website or web search.

Sashank Mavayya This film is totally specuative and not was made by a new user who has gone on a rampage and created 5-6 articles about films which are not planned or in the pipline. Please take a look at this [1] to get a background on the issue.

Regarding

Untitled Sangeeth Sivan Project this thing falls in the same category and the same creator. He made the article when another of his speculative articles Killer (hindi film) was tagged with delete. --Deepak D'Souza (talk • contribs) 13:30, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I made a spelling and a formatting fix to your user page. It's probably not really my business to do such things, but some RFA voters seem to care about things like userpage formatting and userboxes. (Actually, I think objections like that are rather stupid.)

Good luck on the RFA. I'm going to check your contributions and voice my opinion. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 15:42, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've reverted your removal of a speedy delete tag on article Sashank Mavayya. The creator Sc4900 (talk · contribs) was blocked after a discussion at WP:ANI.

The articles created by the user are-

• Kaal 2
• Kabhie Jeene
• Sashank
• Killer (hindi film)
• The Time Machine (hindi film)
• Untitled Sangeeth Sivan Project
• Sashank Mavayya
• Shashank (hero)

All of which are clear hoaxes and are tagged as such. Some ended up on AfD, but theres no real need for that since its been established they are obvious hoaxes.

Regards,xC | ☎ 18:47, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies. As per

WP:HOAX, hoax articles are not speedy deletion candidates. In this case, its clear they are hoaxes, so IMO they could be considered vandalism, but anyhow. Sorry for the unneccessary removal. Best regards,xC | ☎ 19:00, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply

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Yes, that page doesn't seem to load properly with headings in the link. If you'd go to

WP:ANI

and search for the term (Ctrl+F if you're on Windows) Sc4900, you'll find the thread.

Hope that helps. Regards,xC | ☎ 06:25, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I expanded the Adtran article, and removed the speedy tag from it. In general, if a company's shares are traded on a stock market, there is a very good chance that references can be found to demonstrate that the company is notable, even if the article's creator has not included them. --Eastmain 01:26, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

12 hours and still no 'crat. That sucks, but hey...you'll be promoted...in a few minutes/hours/days? :P Anyway, congratulations Mallanox. Best of luck as an admin. If you ever need any help, you know where to contact me. =) Nishkid64 (talk) 19:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help and guidance. Hopefully I've not been too much of a chore! I hope congratulations aren't premature and they decide not to promote me after all, I'm not going to assume anything until someone tells me it's over! Mallanox 19:22, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have made you a sysop, per your RFA. Congratulations. Make sure you are familiar with our policies before using your shiny new buttons. Raul654 20:11, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on the adminship. And if I was disruptive or incivil toward you in the RFA, or if I disrupted the process, I apologize for that. Looking back, it wasn't the right forum for me to debate Kelly Martin in her views. (The proper forum for that would have been

/dev/null.) --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 21:03, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply

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I saw your response to my recent request for a speedy delete of the article titled The Stiz which I have subsequently moved to Steven Laverty. In attempting to find some mention of this person to move the article beyond the stub stage, the only connection I could find between a Steven "The Stiz" Laverty and The Irish News was this Google hit: http://www.irishnews.com/access/archivesearch/issue.asp?selDay=20&selMonth=3&selYear=2006&cat=621 which shows only a few articles authored about life as a 15-yr old in N. Ireland. Based on this, I respectively ask you to reconsider the case for speedy delete. Or is this more properly an AFD discussion? Regards, BierHerr 20:35, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks for clarifying the distinction! - BierHerr 22:52, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please restore Wayne Memorial Hospital (Pennsylvania) check its Talk page for reasoning

I did rewrite it ! if you checked the website you'd realize its notcopy and pasted

The

What's the article? Also, please sign your comments with ~~~~. John Reaves (talk) 21:36, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I restored it. That's a pretty disruptive signature, you should consider changing it back to blue. John Reaves (talk) 21:40, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter - SPECIAL ELECTION EDITION

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue VI - May 2, 2007 Monthly Challenge: Stand for Deputy Coordinator or support some candidates after May 5... Article News Featured Article Candidate . Project News A taskforce dealing with LGBT publications has been proposed. If you are interested in getting involved, consider signing up at the projects' page. Our core topics list is looking good. It's still a bit slim on LGBT history articles, non-American LGBT media, and important LGBT biographies. Do you have suggestions? David Shankbone has done an amazing job taking photographs of LGBT celebrities. Thanks David! People interested in collaborating with him and setting up a photography taskforce should contact him or drop a note at the project's talkpage . The LGBT Portal still needs a bit of love and attention :-). Again, any good quality (free) photos you come across on LGBT articles can be added to the gallery here. Volunteers to help out with the Portal are extremely welcome- make yourselves known on the Portal's talkpage. Updates to the current news items are helpful. Deputy coordinator elections WikiProject LGBT studies is looking for new Deputy Coordinators to help out with various essential tasks in organising the project. To nominate yourself or contribute to the discussion, please go to: Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies/Coordinator/May 2007. The deadline for nominations is May 5 and the elections will last a week after that. Candidates so far are: SatyrTN, Raystorm and Fireplace. The elections will be pretty simple- everyone just endorses their favourite candidate(s). The three with the most votes at the end of the week are the new deputy coordinators, who will assist Dev920 in keeping the project running. Member News Our membership continues to expand. 22 new users have joined the WikiProject (bringing our total membership to 182): OsteopathicFreak, smccoy12345, and Alexlovesme. Also Rebecca who rejoins us having previously been a member as Ambi . Please make them feel welcome! To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, just ask Dev920. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let her know.

This month's project newsletter (hand delivered as SatyrTN and Dev920 are away). Best wishes, WjBscribe 03:47, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

db'd when I did it...... Now I know. Postcard Cathy 22:40, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS No need to delete the part where I put it into the May list of uncategorized pages just making more work! Postcard Cathy 22:42, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there - I noticed you closed the discussion as "no consensus" (which I'm perfectly happy with, given the way the discussion went) but you left a notice on the category talk page saying the decision was "keep". I must admit that I didn't think the two were synonymous, as "keep" suggests a positive decision to keep as opposed to "keeping as it is because there was no agreement to do otherwise". But maybe I misunderstood the nuances of CfD! Regards,

no problem - I did wonder, but didn't want to change the tag without checking (WP:COI and all that jazz). As I said, I think it's the right result in the circumstances, so you won't be hearing any complaints from me about your first CfD closing. I've been talking with Johnbod, the other main participant in the discussion, and (apart from thanking each other for the civil tone of the discussion, unlike some CfDs recently) we've agreed that

Bencherlite 23:34, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply

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Actually I want it undeleted. I accidentally left a db-u1 tag on there while testing a script. When it was deleted, I lost over 50 script tests and over 200 edits. The version I have on there is an out dated backup list. Can you undelete it or know someone who can? Regards, R⇦T⇨C 22:08, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Regards, R⇦T⇨C 22:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I thought one of the perks of clearing the last prod for a date was the satisfaction of also deleting the cat! I feel cheated! ;) --Steve _(Stephen) ^talk 23:57, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You declined my nomination of Vivian Owens for speedy deletion, saying in your edit summary that the article made a claim of notability. I am not really disagreeing, but I am uncertain as to where the claim is in the article. I am hoping that, as a more experienced user, you can give me a small pointer in this area of Wikipedia policy. BassoProfundo 00:44, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. You recently declined my request for the speedy deletion of the White Paper Co. article. According to your edit summary, your reason for declining the request was that the notability of the company was asserted when the notability was never doubted. The problem with the article is that it is obviously written like an ad. Following your declining of my request, another editor tagged it for several problems. Please explain why you refused to delete the article, and I will gladly accept your decision. Thank you. Yours truly, Boricuaeddie^{Talk • Contribs • Spread the love!} 01:14, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Thank you for replying to my comments above on my

Spread the love! 21:56, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply

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Spread the love! has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove

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Smile at others by copying this message and posting it on their talk page, along with a friendly message.

Work Transfer 14:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

THANKS DUDE!!! Work Transfer 01:51, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help ([2], [3])! --Kralizec! (talk) 13:44, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, I just don't get it. EVERY major contributor to that article is a JB196 sock as shown on the talk page, using open proxies to get around his ban. You are enabling one of Wikipedia's worst vandals. See his Long Term Abuse report at

I apologize. Just frustrating to deal with him constantly (If you look over at

Check User, in the IP Check section, he's used up about 10 open proxies and 60 sockpuppet accounts blocked in the last week. It's whack-a-mole on a large scale. SirFozzie 23:13, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply

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Should I post it on MfD? Report it to AN/I? What would be most appropriate, in your view? Thanks! Vassyana 05:17, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Your deletion summary says "Speedy declined, notability asserted." Did you click a wrong button accidentally on that one? --badlydrawnjeff talk 19:17, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I did indeed! Thanks for letting me know, Mallanox 20:52, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is that an implicit decline on the speedy request?--NapoliRoma 01:37, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For saving the

Please restore the topic "Psychogenic disease" which you have deleted. This is a perfectly valid category of disease, and by deleting it you have left ten pages of dead wiki links in other topics. Thanks, Ralphyde 16:28, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks. Ralphyde 02:11, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not arguing with the removal of the speedy tag, but I am a bit puzzled by the admonishment in the edit summary. As far as I'm aware, I'm not psychic, so I have no way of knowing when or if an A1/A3 speedyable article is going to be expanded, whether it was created a minute ago or a month ago. Please elaborate. Thanks. --Finngall ^talk 02:50, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Point taken, but it's hard to avoid biting newbies given that 95% of the articles I speedy-tag are first contributions by new accounts and most of the rest are almost as new. Good faith edits are exceedingly rare in this crop, and the speedy deletion criteria mostly don't take good faith into account. I faithfully notify users about tagged articles--I've been the first contributor to hundreds of user talk pages--and I try to be very patient when replying to the "Wah! You deleted my article!" messages I get regularly.

It works both ways...we certainly need to be inclusive and welcoming, but it would be nice if we could get more new editors to RTFM before posting. --Finngall ^talk 22:32, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The

try typing "white cross" or "white cross drug" into the search box, it does not find this page. i think it should be removed still but i wont revert back to my changes, ill let you decide. this information could perhaps be added to the page it redirects to or to another article it relates to, i dont think it is information is valuable enough to have its own article though, thats why i think it should be deleted. With your justification, should we create a page naming every single slang term relating to Amphetamine's and redirect to the main article? i think this is would be pointless and a waste of time. thanks for your concern Slowbro 13:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey i got your message, ok sure you have persuaded me haha! Slowbro 10:06, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]