User talk:Toddst1

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Fooshy Deletion

Hi, you have marked Fooshy for deletion and warned me that I may be banned from editing again for self promotion. As my area of work is Website Development and Content Management, I feel I am in a good position to edit these pages and as such created the Fooshy page.

Although I do have a link to Fooshy, the article was not in any way self promoting - I used terms of the nature "Fooshy Claim" when describing features and I included a link to an external review by a leading authority on Content Management.

Can you tell me why there is still a problem with this article?

Thanks

Bigrbuk (talk) 08:06, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Responded on User_talk:Bigrbuk#Responding_to_your_question_hereToddst1 (talk) 16:59, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

According to WP:Corp - "An organization is generally considered notable if it has been the subject of coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources." As mentioned above - does the review provided by a leading source in Content Management, not count as reliable and independent. It seems it is simply easier to delete an article that has already been deleted before, rather than give it a proper and fair evaluation.

Bigrbuk (talk) 08:25, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Do you understand the difference between WP:Notability and WP:Advert? 13:26, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, and I fail to see the difference between the Fooshy entry and that of many other CMS's already within Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigrbuk (talk • contribs) 13:07, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, I haven't surveyed the other CMs on Wikipedia, but this article appeared to be WP:Advert. WP:OSE won't fix that. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 13:40, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Curious, does one earn some sort of credentials or points for being the first to delete something?

Just curious to the motivation of deleting corporations written in an encyclopedia style being deleted within 60 seconds of being submitted. No one wants to answer my question. Or give me a way of getting a private company entered in properly. I have already read the wikipedia articles. Why is microsoft or amazon or expedia okay when lesser or unknown companies are not?

Jamesoweng (talk) 03:02, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Your questions (the legitimate ones about why your articles have been deleted) have been answered numerous times. As I said before, please read the answers. Additional information about creating articles on companies can be found at WP:Corp.

Regarding the quick deletion of articles. If an article has been speedily deleted once, recreating the article will likely lead to very speedy deletion. Mind you, the only article that you wrote that I deleted was there several months before another editor nominated it for speedy deletion. It should have been deleted long before that.

Toddst1 (talk) 19:07, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

warning

Hey. Just letting you know that I had spoken to an admin about the deletion of the vote, as well as the comments before doing so. I feel like I posted a legitimate explanation on the page. It wasn't a vandalism act. Please assume good faith. I suppose next time, I will have the admin do it for me. Skyler Morgan (talk) 00:59, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Whomever who you talked to gave you bad advice: Removing others' comments is not OK. In fact, you shouldn't remove your comments if you wish to retract them on a page like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zachary Jaydon (2nd nomination). The custom is to strike through your comments Toddst1 (talk) 12:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for that. Do you by chance know how long an AfD takes to be completed? The one on my article has been going on a week, so I just wondered. Thank you. I am just trying to get an idea. I appreciate the advice, and the information. Skyler Morgan (talk) 16:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

It varies. If comments are still being made, things can be extended as in this case. Usually about 5 days unless consensus is reached sooner. Toddst1 (talk) 16:53, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of article Grid5000

Hello, the Grid5000 article that you just deleted looks very similar to these articles :

• GARUDA (Indian)
• D-Grid (German)
• VECC (Calcutta, India)

From the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing#National_Grid_Projects

So I was wondering why you deleted it.

Thanks

Tichadok (talk) 13:13, 22 March 2008 (UTC) Hi Todd, if you want to be consistent, I think you either have to delete the three articles above or undelete the Grid5000 article. Thanks

Thanks for your suggestion for GARUDA . When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to change it. You can edit almost any article on Wikipedia by just following the Edit link at the top of the page. We encourage you to be bold in updating pages, because wikis like ours develop faster when everybody edits. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. You can always preview your edits before you publish them or test them out in your sandbox. If you need additional help, check out our getting started page or ask the friendly folks at the Teahouse. Same goes for D-Grid and VECC. Feel free to take them to AfD.Toddst1 (talk) 15:22, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Tichadok (talk) 14:54, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Could you please undelete the Grid5000 article, if the GARUDA exists for India, then the Grid5000 has to exist for France. The Grid5000 article is written as the same manner as the GARUDA article, that's why I see no reason why you deleted it. Thanks Tichadok (talk) 23:29, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

See WP:OSE. Toddst1 (talk) 12:32, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

George Sowden

Hi, you seem very determined to keep the an article about George Sowden off wikipedia. While I appreciate that the first time it was written, it was possibly not "encyclopedic" in style, the second attempt was a good stub. If you feel that there is no place for George Sowden on Wikipedia, may I ask why you don't remove all the other founding members of the Memphis Group also? It seems to be a very random choice of yours. We have dozens of newspaper and magazine references, as well as awards, recognitions and Museum Exhibits of George Sowden's work to add, and, given a little time, will be happy to add them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drkolos (talk • contribs) 09:42, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

You could also just do a google search for George Sowden and see four pages worth of independent listings on third party, design, related websites and publications. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drkolos (talk • contribs) 09:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

1. No, you are wrong. I do not "seem very determined to keep the an article about George Sowden off wikipedia". I deleted it (once) after it was nominated for speedy deletion by another editor.
2. You are free to nominate all the other founding members of the Memphis Group for speedy deletion if you think their articles fail minimum criteria.
3. Thanks for your suggestion. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to change it. You can edit almost any article on Wikipedia by just following the Edit link at the top of the page. We encourage you to be bold in updating pages, because wikis like ours develop faster when everybody edits. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. You can always preview your edits before you publish them or test them out in your sandbox. If you need additional help, check out our getting started page or ask the friendly folks at the Teahouse.

Toddst1 (talk) 14:49, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Mariani Packing Company

Hi. Please don't take this the wrong way but, I think you may have gone a bit quick on deleting the page that the above talk page related to. I was in the middle of replacing the holdon tag that another user had removed "illegally" and trying to explain to the creator of the article why they needed to make changes for it to not be deleted. I'm asking that you undelete the article and allow it to go to AfD or undelete the article and PROD it instead. For information I have no connection to the article, its creator, or the user that removed the holdon tag. Thank you. Jasynnash2 (talk) 16:09, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't think it was too quick, but I've restored it per your request. Feel free to remove the speedy tag and take it from here. Toddst1 (talk) 16:13, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

• • The whole thing is beginning to look bad actually. I was trying to do a favour because of that user removing the holdon tag but, now the creator of the article is getting vandalism notices about it. Seems really weird. Either way thanks for not taking offense and stuff I guess I'll just wait and see what happens with the weirdness. Jasynnash2 (talk) 16:16, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

It appears Mariani Packing Company is a client of TMD Creative. Advert, username vio, etc. Toddst1 (talk) 16:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh. Pfft.

Sorry! 21655 ^{ωhατ δo γoυ ωαητ?} 16:36, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

My bad and not the only one today. Perhaps it's time for me to hang up the mop for the day. Toddst1 (talk) 18:04, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

RE: User:User: 24.128.42.57

The IP had made several unconstructive contributions before actually being warned. The edit that you're referring to, removing vandalism, is some kind of joke with User:Johnny 5 names, who is indefinitely blocked. The IP and Johnny appeared to be waging some kind of "mafia" war over several articles, see [1]. I thought it best to put an end to their games. GlassCobra 16:45, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah, okay. Not a problem. GlassCobra 16:46, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

TomGreen

I notice you've unblocked TomGreen because of this edit, which was actually a response to this edit. This user has a long history of disruptive edits, which he hides amongst constructive edits. Whenever anyone has tried to take him to task in the past, he has accused them of harrassment (see this for example). If he's not to be blocked, I would like to request that someone keep an eye on him. Thanks 86.147.218.231 (talk) 17:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't know about what you said above, but I don't see any blatantly disruptive behavior after this final warning that you issued. This un-cited fact added to an article about a future album is the only thing that could come close. I feel I made a mistake by blocking him. I have unblocked him and apologized. Both were in order. Toddst1 (talk) 18:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I may owe you an apology myself, as I got the impression you'd unblocked him because of the comment he'd posted on my talk page. As I say, I apologise for getting the wrong impression. The thing that concerns me is that he will be making more disruptive edits, and some of these edits slip beneath the radar, and damage the integrity of this encyclopedia. His disruption can be traced back to at least February 2007, and I feel that he should be monitored in some way to prevent him from doing this. 86.147.218.231 (talk) 18:19, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I realise I sometimes go to the limit of what is permitted, but I am not actually trying to be disruptive at all. Many of my edits are attempts at combating what I see as people having biased personal interests in articles. Thanks for being reasonable. Tom Green (talk) 18:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

In fact, this is sometimes not the case. For examples of this user's disruptive edits, see [2] [3] [4] [5] [6])[7] [8] [9] [10]. 86.147.218.231 (talk) 18:56, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion: Perhaps both of you should chill out a bit. My opinion only. Toddst1 (talk) 18:58, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

That's a good suggestion. He seems to be behaving himself at the moment. I'm happy as long as he continues to do so. 86.147.218.231 (talk) 19:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Deleted article about David Ellsworth

Hello. I'd like to know why exactly the mentioned article (Dr David Ellsworth) have been deleted. Ellsworth is the author of the book "Smith County Justice", which have recently being published on wikileaks. I also linked to the wikileaks article. I also told on Ellsworth' page, why the mentioned book is so important. It emphazises the corruptive judicial system in east texas in the late 70ies. Yes, the book and the author are not well known today, which is because the book have been supressed by texas state authorties (censored!). While many persons may not like what Ellsworth wrote about the texas justice system, it is a fact that these things really happened. So, could you please provide some further detail why you deleted the page? Scip (talk) 19:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I didn't think it asserted his notability per WP:Bio at all which is the reason it was deleted. (having written a book that people didn't like isn't notable) Beyond that, without citations seemed like a hoax. I've restored the article to your user space. You can find it at User:Scip/Dr David Ellsworth. If you can get some WP:Reliable references in it, it should pass WP:BIO. I recommend getting some references in there before you move it back to the mainspace, as it's likely to be re-deleted by someone else otherwise. Let me know if you need help with the move. Good luck. Toddst1 (talk) 19:54, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind response, Toddst1, and for restoring the article to my userspace. I'll rework it (it were not ready anyways) and add sources, if I can find some. One question remains: what if I cannot find reliable sources? Most of the informations I got so far came from the subject (Ellsworth) itself, which seems to violate the mentioned wikipedia policies. Shall I abandon the article in this case then? Scip (talk) 20:45, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

If you can't find sources, then the person truly is not WP:Notable and the article would be considered original research. You would then add the {{db-author}} tag to the article to have it deleted. Give it a shot and see what you can come up with. Good luck. Toddst1 (talk) 20:49, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Ahm - one (hopefully) last question: I took a look into the article of Wolfgang_Hohlbein my favourite author, who is well-known. However, there are no sources referenced in the article. Even the book list doesn't contain ISBN numbers. Ok, I am sure he is of course a notable person just because almost everyone (at least in EU) knows him, but it there seems to be no evidence for this on the article. I'm a little bit confused... Scip (talk) 22:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

No problem. You are right - that article is missing WP:Reliable sources and I've tagged it as such. However, having won awards, the article asserts notability so is not subject to speedy deletion for WP:Notability. It's kind of a technical distinction, I know, but that's how it works. I guess I could have just said WP:OSE. Hope this helps and don't hesitate to ask me or others further questions. You can always put the question on your talk page and add "{{helpme}}" right before your question if I'm not around. Good luck and happy editing. Toddst1 (talk) 23:07, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello Todd, so I now invested a lot of time trying to find sources either about the book or the author. I could not find anything about the latter, but something about the book. It is even mentioned in a wikipedia article (Kim Wozencraft) as well as the author. I am also in contact with a person at the University of Texas at Tyler Library (via mail). She told me the book were not supressed, in fact it is even available in the library. So you are very right, if I had not checked it I would have been sure the book were supressed, which seems not to be the case. However, I am not sure if I have enough sources (I think I don't), perhaps you can take a look at what I got so far. Currently I am trying to get some kind of access to the tyler library, they do indeed have informations both about the book and ellsworth, but on microfilm, which I cannot access from here (I'm located in germany, a trip to texas just for a wikipedia article would really exceed my limits).Scip (talk) 20:41, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, a couple of comments: I think you should focus on why the person or the book is WP:Notable. As you find that, you'll want to cite your source - preferably with a footnote or three. The book listed on Amazon will be considered a spam link.

Just for example, take a look at a similar article about a journalist that I wrote, Carol Leonnig. I think you'll get the idea. You want to find things like awards or where his work was cited. Good luck. Toddst1 (talk) 20:56, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes the page about Carol Leonnig indeed shows how to do it. However, meanwhile I got word that the author I'm trying to get informations about did use a false identity, and - once this fact were revealed - leaved the region. This might be the cause why I seem to be unable to find any references about him but the fact that he just wrote this (and another) book. So I think I'll abandon the idea to write an article about him, it would not be reliable. Thanks again for your efforts to assist me, I learned a lot! Scip (talk) 21:56, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

TomGreen

Unfortunately, your decision is a bad day for common sense. By reversing his block you have given him the green light to do as he wishes. Furthermore, you have also now made a personal attack against me. I was trying to help clear up what I saw - when I checked his edit history this afternoon - to be a long-standing problem which nobody appears to be willing to address. It seems whenever one tries to stand up to the bullies, one comes away with a bloody nose for one's troubles. Well, on your heads be it. It's unsurprising that Wikipedia is seen as such an unreliable source in the press when people such as this are given carte blanche to do what they want (I am a journalist so ought to know). I would request a third opinion, but see little point in it, and I feel I have no choice other than to leave Wikipedia. I cannot be involved with a project that appears to condone this behaviour. Congratulations must go to both yourself and Mr Green for this. Don't bother posting a reply on my talk page, because I won't be here to read it. Goodnight. 86.147.218.231 (talk) 22:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page.Toddst1 (talk) 23:09, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Edits by 86.147.218.231

Hi Todd. I am the user who reported TomGreen to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism yesterday afternoon, and in light of events that seem to have happened after that, I thought I should come here and explain my position. I realise I was a bit over-enthusiastic in reporting him for something quite small really, and you were right to unblock him. I'm pleased to say I'm not responsible for what happened later in the evening. That appears to be down to whoever inherited my IP address (I logged off after posting my report and my IP address changes every time I do that). I'm glad you've removed that attack piece from the talk page. It appears to be attacking all of us (TomGreen, yourself and me - me because I'm not a journalist and my name isn't Derek). I'd like to request the page be deleted and salted if that's possible. I'm also going to get myself a user ID so this sort of thing doesn't happen again. Thanks 86.147.219.12 (talk) 11:09, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for contacting me. I really bear you no malice. Unfortunately, IP talk pages cannot be salted. They would prevent future communication. As far as deleting them to hide history: I would feel better about that if the request came from that IP. I believe you when you say you are the same person, but I don't know that. As an admin, we have to be very careful.

You seem to be a very knowledgeable person about Wikipedia, and I'm sure you could contribute quite a bit. I thoroughly encourage you log in with a named account, but I hope you actively try to steer clear of the kind of conflict you found yesterday.

Good luck. Toddst1 (talk) 13:49, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

RE: This

I only learned a few months ago. :( - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 11:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Cathy Wilkes

Hi there, could you please explain me why you deleted this page? You put r1 code next to it but I checked links twice and all of them were fine. Copyright has not been infringed as my colegue who wrote MKG text is ok with me using it on Wikipedia on her behalf. Ups, right, you could not have known about it, but now when you know can you bring it back? What shall I do? Will you leave it as eg. a stab if I add a citation mark? There is no Cathy Wilkes Article on Wikipedia and it should be as she is a great artist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmvf (talk • contribs) 13:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC) thanks

The article was a blatant copyright infringement of http://www.mk-g.org/index.php?id=383. You copied the entire second paragraph (most of the article) verbatim. Since your colleague has not released copyright to Wikipedia, it must be removed quickly.

If you want use the material, you'll still have to deal with WP:Advert, but here is how you can grant wikipedia the copyright. :We need to verify that you are the real copyright holder and understand the legal implications of putting your copyrighted work on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation has established specific licensing guidelines that we need to follow.

Follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission#For_text. It has all the info you need. Be sure you understand the rights to the text that you will be giving up. Then, you'll be granted what's called "an OTRS ticket" that shows Wikipedia has been granted the rights to the text and then you can post the material verbatim.

We don't accept copyrighted work outside of that process in order to protect the holders of copyright, both from others posting their words on Wikipedia, and from unknowingly signing away their rights.

I hope you understand that refusing all copyrighted work until we have real evidence that it's been released into the GDFL is the best way to make sure we aren't violating anyone's rights.

I encourage you to review WP:COI, WP:Advert, WP:Bio and WP:Reliable before proceeding.

I hope this helps. Toddst1 (talk) 13:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I will do.It helps very much. Sorry if I am messing about - I am beginner here :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmvf (talk • contribs) 14:15, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Detective work

Your post encouraged me to do a bit of detective work and has helped me to uncover some rather interesting facts. Seems I might have inadvertantly been harbouring a drawful of socks. Hopefully my reply will help to clear matters up and sort things out. Thanks Paul20070 (talk) 14:56, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Given the extent of the problem, I've decided to retire. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I shudder to think what may have happened had you not. Cheers Paul20070 (talk) 16:10, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

suggested deletion of Daniel Durnford Kemp page

This page is in no way defamatory as it has been written by the very person in question. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dkemp24 (talk • contribs) 18:15, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Reply on User talk:Dkemp24Toddst1 (talk) 18:17, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

user:Lukeatomic

You've recently blocked him for 3RR, if I revert his edits now then I will be in violation of 3RR, if you take a look at his edits, they are clearly in violation of several policies that I pointed out, so could you revert his last two edits (if you agree with me about them being blatantly unconstructive of course) since I don't want to risk getting blocked too, thanks. The Dominator (talk) 23:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Which article? The editor has gone through quite a few. Toddst1 (talk) 00:12, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

The last two edits, on Bringing Up Buster but that one has already been reverted by a different user, so the only remaining one is Pilot (Arrested Development episode). The Dominator (talk) 00:15, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, these persistent trivia adders are sometimes difficult, because all you can really do is point out the policies that they are violating and hope they'll discuss. Question; is there a warning template I can add to a user's talk page in situations of addition of trivia? The Dominator (talk) 00:23, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

{{uw-trivia}} or {{uw-3rr}} will work, but note they have to be {{subst}}ed, so it would look like {{subst:uw-3rr}} as you type it. Check out Wikipedia:TUSER for the complete list and guidance on where/when to use what. cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 00:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

I am familiar with warning templates and have been using them regularly for months, but for some reason I've never seen {{uw-trivia}}, I've never really browsed through the single level ones before. Thanks. The Dominator (talk) 00:34, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

You should check out WP:TW. It helps with warnings and AIV reports. Toddst1 (talk)

Yeah I've got Twinkle, it's great, I'm still trying to learn to master it, well thanks for your help, happy editing! The Dominator (talk) 01:45, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! You made my day...

Sick and tired of telling these guys to stop their vandalism on wikipedia, and thanks for putting the block on this guy User talk:137.132.3.7.

Dave1185 (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

and you made mine. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 00:13, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Ruby James Deletion

Hi, I am really new to this and I am trying to navigate my way around. The article that I posted was deleted for blatant advertising. I am really not trying to advertise here, but wanted to post more or less a bio of the performer. People kept asking why she wasn't listed here and so I thought I would do that. If I have done it in an improper format, please let me know. I would be happy to redo the article. I copied and pasted the bio because it had a lot of information in it. I had planned on editing it and then was blocked and by the time I was unblocked and got through that process the page was deleted.

Here are the facts:

Performer with 2 E.P.'s "Loaded and Sweet as Sin" First Full-Length Album: Desert Rose Placements: Nu-Line Cinema "The Women"

Let me know if this is acceptable. Aquila Red (talk) 00:46, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

RFA

Thanks for the note, but the odds are slim that I'd get overwhelming support, both because of the enemies I've made who'd come out of the woodwork (User:Everyking has even posted on WR that I ought to be banned) and the schoolmarmish types who dislike my blunt approach. But thanks for the vote of confidence. --Calton | Talk 02:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Univ of Maryland IP troublemakers

Hi Todd- I see you blocked 136.160.138.51 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) - they seem to have moved to 136.160.150.110 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log), now short-term blocked after doing more of the same. Just thought you might want to keep an eye on it. Thanks. Tvoz |talk 04:15, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

*cuts a loud fart* --136.160.154.150 (talk) 20:20, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Please undo deletion of the article Kosmopolis

Hi. I have been hired by the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona in order to upload to Wikipedia all the information related to Kosmopolis. International Literature Fest. I have a permission letter (in Spanish) I will be very happy to provide if requested. I was in the midst of editing the article and you abruptly deleted it without previous notice. ? Olga Sala (talk) 16:47, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Baloney. You had plenty of notice and acknowledged it by adding a {{hangon}} tag to the article after it was tagged as a blatant copyright violation. It would have also been deleted as an WP:Advert. Please stop using Wikipedia for your commercial gain. See the warning on your talk page. Toddst1 (talk) 16:53, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

No commercial gain here (we are talking about a book festival!!). There are many literary festivals in Wikipedia already. This is a major event in Spain organized by the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), which finds it extremely important to make all the info. related to Kosmopolis available to anyone interested. I will be very glad to provide any info or copyright permission if requested. Also, I will be very glad if you can help me and will follow your proper instructions happily. It has taken me a while to write the article and edit it afterwards, right now I feel quite frustrated. Please help. Thanks in advance. Olga Sala (talk) 17:17, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

replying on User talk:Olga Sala Toddst1 (talk) 17:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

137.132.3.7 block

Please double-check your 1 month block on Singapore University's external Internet router. In my opinion, its seems a bit excessive to issue such a block for a single vandalism edit and call it a BLP violation. At the very least, change your block reason to schoolblock before I have to deal with dozens of irate and confused emails on unblock-en-l. Thanks. --  Netsnipe  ►  16:54, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Adjusted to 2 weeks for schoolblock. This is the third block for that IP and the previous one was for 1 weeks. That really doesn't seem excessive to me, but if you feel strongly about it, I will not be offended if you feel you need to adjust it further. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 17:01, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

It wasn't the length or the actual blocking that I found excessive. I meant to say calling a one-off bit of vandalism and then citing WP:BLP as overkill, not to mention potentially confusing to the thousand other students likely to be behind that router. = ) --  Netsnipe  ►  17:11, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Sdrtirs

User:Sdrtirs left 12 messages on my talk page with 12 separate headings, and I replied. User:Sdrtirs has continued leaving messages on my talk page, after I have already acknowledged receiving his deltion notices. If my actions are legitimately considered vandalism, while User:Sdrtirs's are not, then Wikipedia holds deletionists and bots to a far lower level of conduct than contributors. Dekkappai (talk) 18:53, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Note: He has since given me a warning to stop uploading these images, which were uploaded LAST YEAR-- back when Fair Use was considered Fair Use here, if you recall. I have long since ceased uploading images of living persons. Hence, I consider this "Warning" to be in intentional provocation. Dekkappai (talk) 18:57, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

<sarcasm> Annoy a deletionist with a bot? Heaven forbid! </sarcasm> ;) But seriously... Several of these images-- though I've long since given up defending images of living people-- have extenuating explanations, such as retired and jealously guarding privacy, etc. Also some of these images were to film posters, which to my knowledge are still allowed under Fair Use. Is mass-tagging these for speedy deletion really appropriate? Dekkappai (talk) 19:12, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

"Posters, programs, billboards, ads. For critical commentary." This means film posters are only Fair use for discussion of the poster itself, not the film? Then 99.9999999% of the film posters on Wikipedia do not belong here. And neither do I, I'm beginning to suspect. Dekkappai (talk) 19:19, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to be a pain in the posterior, Todd, but I think this edit says a lot... Cheers. Dekkappai (talk) 19:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)