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Thank you both for your comments. I've added some of my own at the RFC's talk page. [[User:Ultraexactzz|UltraExactZZ]] <sup> [[User_talk:Ultraexactzz|Said]] </sup>~<small> [[Special:Contributions/Ultraexactzz|Did]] </small> 20:43, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Thank you both for your comments. I've added some of my own at the RFC's talk page. [[User:Ultraexactzz|UltraExactZZ]] <sup> [[User_talk:Ultraexactzz|Said]] </sup>~<small> [[Special:Contributions/Ultraexactzz|Did]] </small> 20:43, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

== Setting up ''SecurePoll'' ==

I emailed Tim Starling, who played a key role in setting it up for the AUSC election. He responded that nobody has approached him, and that he hopes we don't want software changes. Where does this leave us? Roger Davies' note at the election talk page suggests that there will be some technical work (does that equal "software changes"?). This is an urgent matter, I think. [[User:Tony1|<font color="darkgreen">'''Tony'''</font >]] [[User talk:Tony1|<font color="darkgreen">(talk)</font >]] 01:53, 27 November 2009 (UTC) PS Have the election monitors and scrutineers been approached/chosen? [[User:Tony1|<font color="darkgreen">'''Tony'''</font >]] [[User talk:Tony1|<font color="darkgreen">(talk)</font >]] 01:55, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

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Hey

Hi! I saw your name at Xeno's RFA, it's nice to see you back. ceranthor 20:38, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, I've been extremely busy as well. Somehow, I've found a way to edit, and work on two articles so profusely that two reached FA. ceranthor 20:44, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, two FA's in addition to the other two I helped with. ceranthor 21:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, I didn't realize that might be considered an attack page. I've heard that phrase used a lot recently in media and commentary. It seemed like a relevant epithet, even if it might have seemed disparaging. - Gilgamesh (talk) 15:23, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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ycdtot/slime and nikelodian

I suspect my article was a good candidate for speedy deletion, however, the point I was trying to make was that the green slime of ycdtot carried seemed to have carried over to nickelodian for a # of years (may still be a nick staple now...haven't kept up), so it is not taken care of by mere reference back to the ycdtot article section on slime. Hope something can be done to fix this.Slarty2 (talk) 20:18, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ford review

Hi Ultra. You were recently working on the Gerald Ford review at FAR. It presently has some delist comments, including one concerning comprehensiveness. Just wondering if you still had plans for it. You can let us know at the review. Cheers, Marskell (talk) 23:41, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GERSIS SOFTWARE article

hello Ultraexactzz!

you have deleted article about GERSIS SOFTWARE company. The argument for deletion was the A7 rule. But GERSIS SOFTWARE is an international company and it is also particitator of charitable program. Could we rework article where we update importance information and then post the article again? thank you in advance!

User_talk:Elena_Baranova 17.09.2009


Thank you for reply! User_talk:Elena_Baranova 17.09.2009

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Speedy deletion question

Hi, I am trying to post and article for The Titan Agency and keep getting a "speedy deletion" message and have made several edits to follow the guidelines but can't seem to get approval. Any suggestions as to why this is? I don't want to be blocked from editing so I am scared to post my revisions. --Blong728 (talk) 20:49, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've pointed this user to WP:AKON, since there is no currently available draft of the article in their user space. -- Blanchardb -MeMyEarsMyMouth- timed 15:45, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hey...I wasn't planning on thanking anyone for voting in my favor until after the matter (to avoid conveying a message that I was "campaigning", but I wanted to thank you for your support. It's been a very rough day with a lot of difficult questions from users trying to poke holes through my request in places I never thought could be criticized, and seeing the first supportive vote of the day made my day much better.  :) Bob the Wikipedian (talkcontribs) 21:55, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Grint block

Oops, my bad. Thanks for notifying me, it's fixed now. - Nunh-huh 00:01, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kai Greene

Sorry - I don't understand why you've gone and deleted this page. He's an IFBB Pro bodybuilder competing at this very moment at Mr Olympia in the U.S. and could be a top 5 contender. 78.86.166.102 (talk)

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hey

Could you take care of this? ceranthor 20:58, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, I saw that as soon as I saved the post. ceranthor 21:06, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category for Baba Faqir Chand

Can you put Baba Faqir Chand under the category of Surat Shabd Yoga? (Bharat Bhushan Bhagat 11:08, 29 September 2009 (UTC))

Sorry

I cut and pasted without double checking and put the original article title in as the redirect. Thanks for noticing the error. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 19:27, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AfD closes

I appreciate you taking on AfD closures but more particularly taking the time to clearly and with relation to the arguments in the debate and policy state the rationale in the closure. Well done. DoubleBlue (talk) 17:00, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not copyrighted.

I wrote the bio on IMDB and I am the copyright holder. I just added it here because it was an empty page.

Please reinstate it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dominic —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdominic (talkcontribs) 20:07, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Our messages crossed; I've already left a note on your talk page. Thanks, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 20:10, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom

Hi, it's been pointed out to me that we're not supposed to post in one another's areas in that discussion. Sorry, I didn't realize. Please do as you see fit -- if you want to just delete my comments, that's fine with me. (Not that you need my approval, I suppose. Just want you to know that I wasn't intentionally invading your space.) -Pete (talk) 23:23, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think we're all square -- thanks for tolerating my error :) -Pete (talk) 03:33, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What allegations?

Rfarb case against whom?[1] If you can make out anyone being guilty of anything noteworthy from his very odd ramblings, please do clarify here. KillerChihuahua?!?Advice 00:26, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see you struck that comment, rendering my question above moot. However, you've asked the filing party to clarify in light of Bishonen 3. How about you clarify in light of, I don't know, some random Rfc you participated in which has no relation to the current case? Do you see the issue here? This case is not related at all to the Rfc which FT2 references. Your call for clarification "in light of" that other unrelated case is... well, it doesn't make any sense. Please feel free to correct me here if you feel I am in error. KillerChihuahua?!?Advice 02:27, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I replied on your talk page. UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 02:42, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Replied there. Off topic; I see you've gotten a barnstar for a difficult Xfd closing; congrats. KillerChihuahua?!?Advice 03:13, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

The Admin's Barnstar
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Water supply and sanitation in Jordan

Re. Water supply and sanitation in Jordan

There was an error in template:main that caused italics to be turned on and not turned off. That has now been fixed, so I've put the article back to the way it was. Hope that's OK; thanks for the temp fix in the meantime! Cheers,  Chzz  ►  14:49, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, you beat me to it :-) The bug was this BTW. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  14:51, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Baba Faqir Chand

Today I made many changes in the article. I have worked on tone and language. It is mild beginning. Please see it and if possible hand it over to somebody for language. Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 02:44, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks dear

You have done a very good work. You have wikified the article to my satisfaction as well. A line or two will be adjusted shortly. Mean while I am giving you a link of Hindi Wikipedia where Ashish Bhatnagar (आशीष भटनागर) had brought a photo of Baba Faqir Chand. Similarly I also pasted one photo of Manavta Mandir after learning the procedure from Bhatnagar.(http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6) I am new on English wiki. If you could help bringing those photos to Baba Faqir Chand.(talk)--B3 06:02, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Photo links for Baba Faqir Chand

This is the best I could do 1.(http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0:Faqir_Chand.jpg)

2.(http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0:Manavta_Mandir_Hoshiarpur.jpg).

The photo at serial number 1 has been taken from (http://www.angelfire.com/realm/bodhisattva/baba_chand.html). The photo at serial number 2 has been taken form the web site of Manavta Mandir that is (http://www.manavtamandir.com/). I do not think there is any copyvio and it should be free as well. I shall search further and inform you. If you give me link to wikipedia gallery where photos are stored I shall make an attempt. Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 14:32, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Portrait and Manavta Mandir

I shall require some time to find out the source of photos. I think you are on line right now. Have a nice time. I shall be back.Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 14:52, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are two now

I have seen the sources and did not find any copyright claim on either of the sites. Hence, I have utilised both the photographs. Please visit the article.Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 17:06, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. On second and very careful visit I could see copy right message. Therefore, I have removed photo of temple.Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 00:42, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Baba Faqir Chand

I have repaired some of the references in Baba Faqir Chand which could not be opened of read properly. Please have a look. Books referred, but without ISBN numbers, are very old (when ISBN numbers were not in vogue in India). Their reprints are not available yet. I think you can verify more references now. Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 14:13, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect Removal

Hi. I'd like to ask for your assistance in removing this redirect from the Through Glass article. The wording "Through the glass" is redirected straight to the Through Glass article. There is a film out with the name Through the glass and thus the redirect is no longer valid. Is there any way you could please assist in removing this redirect? Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 23:09, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

managed to fix it myself :) Amsaim (talk) 00:40, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ultra handshake

You penned it, you said it and you have done it. Superb. It seems Baba Faqir Chand revisited the article. I have given more verifiable references and also deleted some. This article, it seems, is now based on David C. Lane's book which has been quoted frequently. I had to quote it along with other non-verifiable references as well. Please have a look. There was an element of surprise in your message when you said that you had tinkered with Hindi. I have not noticed yet but I shall see your art.--Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 00:34, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Meanwhile I have added more verifiable references (unfortunately in Hindi). Can we invite somebody from 'Hindi-Wikipedia' to verify Hindi sources. I am not sure whether it is time to remove the message displayed on top of the article.--Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 12:11, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have read your valuable contributions. Changes in language are appropriate. Regarding your suggestion Chand grew up in a poor and repressive Brahmin family. At the age of ??, he left home to begin his religious studies., I must say that present version of this line has given me at least one sleepless night. I have read that it was due to strict disposition of his father that he sought relief in God's name. At least that was his stated psychological reason. Someone came to him and said,"My son worships (does Bhakti) a lot.". Faqir, instead of praising, asked him to inquire into sexual life of his son. In his own case Faqir has given three reasons - poverty, fear of father and marriage at a very early age. I think we can keep the present version With a background of poor Brahmin family and a suppressed childhood, he sought relief in the name of God which sounds neutral. Changing language is not problem. Can be changed to '...he sought relief in God's worship (Hindi:Bhakti)'.--Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 00:05, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You had asked me to create articles on prominent followers of Baba Faqir. I have created one i.e. Bhagat Munshi Ram, a stub. In near future I shall create another one.--Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 12:00, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for appropriate warning. The photo is that of my father. I am the owner of this photograph. I provided this photo to publisher of the books mentioned in the article. Out of these five, three books do not mention any copyright. But the photo is same in all the books. The books did not carry any price tag and were distributed free of cost to the followers of Baba Faqir Chand. Please take a decision on the basis of information provided herein.--Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 04:02, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks again for the help. The article is a stub (I added tag just now). My father died on 29 June 1998, but irony is that I am searching for a verifiable source to qoute that fact. Same is the case with his date of birth. My passion is to wikify preaching of Baba Faqir and his life who saved many poor people from gurus and Mahatmas.It iz serius biznis--Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 14:40, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have seen a line on the source cite of Baba Faqir Chand's photo. I qouted it here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Faqir_Chand.jpg) Pl see if is of some use.Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 14:06, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the trouble taken. I am looking for better alternatives.Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 06:46, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Today I have uploaded a photo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bhagat,_M.R1.jpg). I have also sent an e-mail to wikimedia forwarding the same photo. Kindly see if I have followed the procedure. I have removed photos (and frames) of Baba Faqir Chand and Manavta Mandir in order to follow wiki rules. We can wait. Meanwhile you can see Manav Dayal I.C.Sharma. I am going to develop it.Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 02:20, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Today, I have given stub Manavta Mandir. It is for your perusal. Its categories are confusing me.Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 04:16, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I had posted few potos including Bhagat, M.R1.jpg at this link and was kept in category of FAL images. Please see if my usage of the photo is in order.Bhagat.bb (talk)--B3 16:24, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]


deletion of Coromandel International

Please indicate on where we are going wrong as we are trying to incorporate all the historical and current information about the organization which has over 6000 resources and contributing significantly in Indian agricultural sector —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rkchava (talkcontribs) 13:03, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RFA spam

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Non-admin seat on arbcom?

I missed that discussion. Can you point me to it? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 14:43, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: TParis00ap's RFA

Fixed, sorry... in all my three-four years here, I haven't really voted much... wasn't sure if you could just remove your own vote altogether or not. The Ace of Spades(talk) 18:29, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

block is not unblocked

UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence

Thanks for removing the block but the page still seems blocked by my IP address and/or autoblocks. Could you please help?

I am very sorry about not understanding the warnings in time about not removing tags. I never have had this issue. This page is about to be deleted because I am not notable enough to warrant an entry. Though I have made an impact on the scholarship of Maya Deren, with a published website and research published in UC Press Maya Deren and the American Avantgarde ed by the world renowned Bill Nichols, and am on IMDB for experimental work - the niche nature of my work unfortunately is going to make me redundant. Sorry for the little people that work hard to bring quality discussions of film and film artists. I have learned a lot about Wikipedia in 24 hours, and honestly, if this had come up in 2007 it would have been more appropriate and appreciated then two years later, based on incurring the rath of Swedish wikiadmins that thought I ignored them when I removed tags about "name dropping" with verifiable info on film artists I have interviewed.

Thanks for your work, and have a nice day.

You can answer me on mytalk. Now I know how it works. mjsullusMjsullus (talk) 00:04, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Admin assistance needed

Hi. Your admin assistance is needed here please. This article is being IP-edited, and unsourced data is added to the article. I have once reverted such an IP-edit, and added WP:V in my revert edit summary. The ip-edits come right back and add the same unsourced information into the article. As you know, wikipedia does not allow original research, which is exactly what this ip edit is adding. The article has 4 reference, and none of these 4 references confirm the data from the ip-edits. Could you please revert all the ip-edits, and semi-protect the page? Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 11:43, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Did I forget to thank you? ..

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed nearly unanimously with 174 in support, 2 in opposition and 1 neutral votes. Special thanks goes to RegentsPark, Samir and John Carter for their kind nomination and support. I am truly honored by the trust and confidence that the community has placed in me. I thank you for your kind inputs and I will be sincerely looking at the reasons that people opposed me so I can improve in those areas ( including my english ;) ). If you ever need anything please feel free to ask me and I would be happy to help you :). Have a great day ! -- Tinu Cherian - 10:00, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AdF process

Moira Sullivan article is up for deletion, but have tried to fix the problems tagged, and there is new secondary material up, prognosis looks bleak but comments were before new material. Thanks! --Mjsullus (talk) 12:52, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

MFD nomination of User:HarryAlffa/ArbCom

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Thanks

Thank you. Now that I know how. I will check that all these concepts point in the right direction and are explained right. Thanks

Thanks

Thank you. Now that I know how. I will check that all these concepts point in the right direction and are explained right. Thanks Franklin.vp  15:04, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and Help?

Thanks for letting me know that the article Vince Gotera was under consideration of deletion. Yup, that's me, and although I didn't upload the article, I did edit it, but not as extensively as the current tag suggests. If you look at the article's history, you'll see they were all small tweaks: adding the pronunciation, an image, fixing spellings ... stuff like that. What I'm wondering is this: if you were to undo all my tweaks and roll back to the original version, could the "autobiography" tag be removed? And since you're authorized to do that, would you please go ahead? Thanks for your advice and help on this. Ivan Cortege (talk) 17:27, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you again

Many thanks again. You rock. Ivan Cortege (talk) 00:39, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Why do you delete my page? You give CSD#A7 as reason. But, this article is about an ontology, i.e. a computer artefact (written in OWL). Wikipedia:CSD#A7 states: "This criterion applies only to articles about web content and to articles about people, organizations, and individual animals themselves, not to articles about their books, albums, software, or other creative works.". IMHO, the second part of this sentence (the "not" part) applies to my article. Thus the criterion A7 does not hold. --ChristianKnuepfer (talk) 17:01, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I could "evolve" the article together with other people. So I started with two sentences which of course are not enough to indicate that the article is notable. It was my fault that I didn't read enough about the wikipedia guidelines. I had in mind the old picture of wikipedia as a place for building articles step by step by a community. So maybe I'm a bit out-of-date... I will try to collect some information in my userspace and then submit the article again. --ChristianKnuepfer (talk) 18:09, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Query about ACE template

Hi Ultra, thanks for your note on my talk page. I've inserted the template into Kmweber's questions page, which had only individual questions. I'll do the same for Fritz. Chutznik has copied over the original page, not the ACEQuestions template, and answered most of the questions <sigh>. I've alerted the candidate to the problem and suggested a cut-and-paste job into the proper set of questions.

One query: should the intro of the template be trimmed so it no longer contains the full information directed at those asking the questions in the previous stage of the election? It seems to be a diversion now.

For example: Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2009/Candidate_statements/Kmweber/Questions_for_the_candidate.

Thanks. Tony (talk) 13:03, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to participate in SecurePoll feedback and workshop

As you participated in the recent Audit Subcommittee election, or in one of two requests for comment that relate to the use of SecurePoll for elections on this project, you are invited to participate in the SecurePoll feedback and workshop. Your comments, suggestions and observations are welcome.

For the Arbitration Committee,
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Your RFC close

I just wanted to drop by and pay my compliments to you on the close. I don't think there was any objectively correct answer for several of the items, but your reasoning was clear and defensible, which is all we can ask of people asked to rule on applications of our nebulous consensus system. Cheers, Steve Smith (talk) 20:11, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

One aspect of the close has been disputed at the RfC's talk page, so I would question that assessment strongly. I don't think it is "defensible" unless there has been a radical change to the way Wikipedia works. Ncmvocalist (talk) 20:13, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The way consensus "works" is arbitrary and inconsistent. Accordingly, admins asked to close contentious discussions are in a no-win situation, and deserve our thanks when they put as much thought and effort into it as Ultraexactzz did here. Steve Smith (talk) 20:18, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Allow me to clarify: I appreciate the amount of effort Ultraexactzz has obviously put into writing out his rationale and closing the RfC. However, I don't believe it is a 'no win' situation where enough thought was put into it. As I stated at the discussion, if you could produce a similar RfC where such a low percentage (50 odd) was upheld as a consensus to change, my objection would not be so strong. Ncmvocalist (talk) 20:41, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both for your comments. I've added some of my own at the RFC's talk page. UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 20:43, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Setting up SecurePoll

I emailed Tim Starling, who played a key role in setting it up for the AUSC election. He responded that nobody has approached him, and that he hopes we don't want software changes. Where does this leave us? Roger Davies' note at the election talk page suggests that there will be some technical work (does that equal "software changes"?). This is an urgent matter, I think. Tony (talk) 01:53, 27 November 2009 (UTC) PS Have the election monitors and scrutineers been approached/chosen? Tony (talk) 01:55, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]