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captureka deletion
Dear mister, you deleted link to Captureka software under screeshot term. I ask why you do not delete other third party tools mentioned there also? Even it can be treated as advetising it is not because others have chance to be citated.
Be so good and do not discriminate others!
Ondrej Spilka, Capture developer. [email protected] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.185.2.247 (talk) 16:26, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
- Could you provide a link to the page in question? It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:23, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
- I added link to Captureka! in third-party tools in page:Screenshot
- You deleted [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ondrejspilka (talk • contribs) 10:49, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Okay, Microsoft_OneNote reffered in the same article is not User:Fastily/E#G11?
Huu guys, you have a bit mess in your own rules... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.177.105.145 (talk) 14:14, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
File:10th Street View.jpg
Per the discussion of the image at Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_files/2011_September_19#File:10th_Street_View.jpg the copyright holder Jim Clark of MTFA Architecture sent an e-mail to [email protected] on Monday, September 26th. I asked in that discussion how I could prompt for a case number to be provided within the given time frame and received no answer. Please review this image deletion as I believe it was made in error, and as I believe I communicated each step of the process in a timely manner and in good faith. I was copied on the e-mail sent by the copyright holder and can forward it as needed.-Markeer 12:59, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
- I looked at the OTRS ticket, and while Mr. Clark did send an email, he did not specify a license that the file should be licensed under. I cannot restore the file without that information. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:22, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for for the reply. I've sent a note to Mr. Clark requesting that he provide that information to [email protected]. I'm assuming that the image can be restored once the licence information has been provided, but if I will need to re-up the image, please let me know. -Markeer 14:58, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
- Great! Let me know once he has sent that email so I can search for it in the OTRS database. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:14, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
- The copyright holder sent the corrected e-mail as of 8:30am EST, ticket number 2011092610013436. Please take a moment to look at it when you get a chance (and if it's correct please restore the image). Thank you very much for your attention to this matter, and my apologies for the incorrect licence e-mail that was originally sent. I imagine it's not uncommon, but must be very frustrating for you.-Markeer 13:39, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- Excellent. Found the email, file restored with the appropriate templates. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:32, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- The copyright holder sent the corrected e-mail as of 8:30am EST, ticket number 2011092610013436. Please take a moment to look at it when you get a chance (and if it's correct please restore the image). Thank you very much for your attention to this matter, and my apologies for the incorrect licence e-mail that was originally sent. I imagine it's not uncommon, but must be very frustrating for you.-Markeer 13:39, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- Great! Let me know once he has sent that email so I can search for it in the OTRS database. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:14, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for for the reply. I've sent a note to Mr. Clark requesting that he provide that information to [email protected]. I'm assuming that the image can be restored once the licence information has been provided, but if I will need to re-up the image, please let me know. -Markeer 14:58, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Did you forget about the move?
When you deleted the NJT templates a few minutes ago that I put up, did you forget to make the move? I normally don't post on talk pages quickly, but these templates have 100+ transclusions and they are all broken until they're moved. — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 01:16, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- Done by myself (forgot that once they were deleted I could do that), for the sake of expediency. (should I run for RfA?)— Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 01:22, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- Lol, I don't move pages after deleting titles, since editors requesting the moves often have special reasons requesting the moves. Run for admin? You feeling ready? :P -FASTILY (TALK) 05:57, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'm willing to take on the responsibilities of adminship, but I don't want to be thrown out right away at RfA. And I understand your way of thinking when it comes to templates, but I'm probably not the first one who was surprised by it. — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 21:16, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- Lol, I don't move pages after deleting titles, since editors requesting the moves often have special reasons requesting the moves. Run for admin? You feeling ready? :P -FASTILY (TALK) 05:57, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Beedbox page deleted
Hello Fastily,
I've just received an email saying that you have deleted our Wikipedia page concerning our Free software project community. I don't really understand why you did so...
"G11. Unambiguous advertising or promotion" "Note: An article about a company or a product which describes its subject from a neutral point of view does not qualify for this criterion. "
Our project is not even a product or supported by a company, it is just a free software (free and Opensource) for Debian (Like the project Freedombox). We had a neutral point of view and just describing the project. It is in fact the translation of the french article.
So I don't understand this action. Can you explain me the reasons please.
Thank you !
Edit: Oh, it seems that ThatPeskyCommoner asks to delete the project page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dudumomo (talk • contribs) 08:37, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Stale, but I feel I should mention it.
Hi Fastily, I just came across this 3RR discussion that ended with you blocking Gise-354x (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for a week. I just wanted to ask you to review your actions as AFAICT there were only two reverts made by the user, meaning that 3RR could not have been broken: here is their first addition (not a revert) and then one revert followed by a second. I'm not overly bothered about it, I just don't like to see newbies being harassed unfairly by experienced editors and then blocked for a week when they didn't really break the rules. Cheers SmartSE (talk) 13:33, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- I did not block the user in question for a WP:3RR violation; I blocked them for disruptive editing. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:26, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
looking for past AfD discussion
Re "08:23, 27 September 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Talk:Mozart: Violin Sonatas" (G8: Redirect to a deleted or non-existent page)":
A current !vote at Wikipedia talk:Notability (music)#Delete "Every album by notable musician gets own article" guideline? requests an example of a problematic article, and this discussion might serve - but I don't know where to locate it now. Thanks. Milkunderwood (talk) 17:27, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- Note that the deleted article itself is not wanted, only the AfD !vote discussion, explaining the reasons for deletion. Milkunderwood (talk) 19:20, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- It's not clear what you're referring to. Are you asking for the deleted text of Talk:Mozart: Violin Sonatas K. 301, 304, 376 & 526 to be returned, or are you asking for the deleted text of Talk:Mozart: Violin Sonatas (consisting of a single edit - the creation of a redirect by you) to be returned? -FASTILY (TALK) 20:29, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- I think this Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mozart: Violin Sonatas K. 301, 304, 376 & 526 may be the page that the user is looking for. Monty845 20:32, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- It's not clear what you're referring to. Are you asking for the deleted text of Talk:Mozart: Violin Sonatas K. 301, 304, 376 & 526 to be returned, or are you asking for the deleted text of Talk:Mozart: Violin Sonatas (consisting of a single edit - the creation of a redirect by you) to be returned? -FASTILY (TALK) 20:29, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
No, I was the one who recommended the deletion of the original article - I want only a pointer to the AfD !vote discussion as to why it should be deleted, because the same reasoning is pertinent in a different discussion. I do not need either the deleted Mozart article itself, nor its talk page. Milkunderwood (talk) 23:19, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Yes, sorry - Monty845 did point to exactly what I need -- thanks very much. Milkunderwood (talk) 23:26, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Quick question regarding block
Regarding your block of User:194.81.222.173, I'm curious why you blocked the IP. The IP was adding promotional information regarding a theater company to a few articles, but hadn't edited since I had given them a final warning earlier this morning. In addition, you blocked them for persistent vandalism, but it's more of an issue of spam/promotion. Is there a related matter I've missed? --Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 20:44, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- Old Moonraker gave them a level 3 warning (which can be considered as a final warning). From what I can see, the IP continued their disruptive editing in spite of Old Moonraker's warning. If the block reason bothers you, I can easily amend it. If you want the IP to be unblocked, contact them and have them agree to some sort of unblock conditions in which they do not edit as they have been. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:49, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- No that's fine, I was simply wondering if I was missing some additional socking or vandalism related to this IP. --Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 20:53, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Please restore article Jux
On Saturday, October 1, I wrote to the original deleter, requesting to restore and revise the article. See Talk:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:King_of_Hearts#Restore_and_revise_Jux_article
I did not revise quickly enough and you deleted it again. Please restore, and I'll edit asap. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ted.metcalfe (talk) 22:43, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- Apparently a lot of people got confused and thought that I forgot to delete the article when closing the AfD, not noticing that I had deleted it and then subsequently restored it. Anyways, I've userfied the article to User:Ted.metcalfe/Jux, where you can have as much time as you want to work on it before moving it back. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:52, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Verizon vandal
Just FYI, in re your edit here, the Verizon vandal is known to make edits that wouldn't be described as normal vandalism, like this. Usually their modus operandi is adding completely useless wikilinks to articles as well as making junk lists of random items on their own talk page. See User:AussieLegend/Project 04 for more details. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:11, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, I see. Thanks for the tip. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 02:43, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
190.161.134.66
May I suggest for clarification pruposes that you indicate in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring that you blocked User:190.161.134.66 and not RepublicanJacobite (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Thank you for your efforts.--Racerx11 (talk) 01:00, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry, nevermind. I now see (Result: Reporter blocked) in the heading. I spend very little time on boards like this so that is probably why I failed to see the result report earlier.--Racerx11 (talk) 02:29, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you
For this. --John (talk) 03:56, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- You're welcome. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 03:58, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
This user's talk page seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth wiki! Could you please find it and restore it to its correct location? Thanks. — This, that, and the other (talk) 04:51, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- Found it :P -FASTILY (TALK) 06:20, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Um, I was still editing the page and removing the direct quotes. 2 minutes is not enough time to create a wiki and then re-create it in my own words. Which is actually unrealistic. It was my first article and I was reading the guidelines as I was posting and POOF.... Deleted. That's like being given a foreign language book and and after 2 mins the book is taken and you are reprimanded for not knowing the language. ;) Ranger187 (talk) 05:47, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
PRR Deletion
Forgive me for the multiple messages. I was editing the PRR page and it was swiftly deleted. I realized why and was correcting it, and it looks like you deleted the page.
I removed all the direct links and direct wording and was hoping you could re-enable the page. This is all confusing to me so I hope I am going about this correctly!
Thanks.
Ranger187 (talk) 06:08, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
I realized about the G12, and right as I was fixing it, the page was deleted. That's why I'm perplexed. ;) Am I not allowed to go back and correct it since it's deleted? Ranger187 (talk) 06:24, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- Then go ahead and resubmit the article. If your cleaned version does not include copied text, then it will not be deleted. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:28, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your replies and help. Appreciated. Ranger187 (talk) 06:30, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
HumanSigma Deletion
Dear Fastly; you have deleted page "HumanSigma" that was created by me. Please note that it was NOT an advertisement. HumanSigma is a new Management concept that has been developed by a marketing research firm and I do NOT see any issues in mentioning name of the firm in the article. If you have objections then check page “Six sigma”. It is written in same lines where the opening line itself mentions about the company that started it. Do we then say that page Six Sigma is advertisement for Motorola? Why was HumanSigma tagged as an “advertisement”?
Please reinstate the page as you have erroneously deleted it. AKS (talk) 10:40, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) You might want to see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS and User:Fastily/E#G11. Acather96 (talk) 15:55, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks but I am at loss. How is WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS related to our discussion? Also, once again G11 does NOT apply as this is NOT advertising. If we were to go by the simple mention of a company name (as criteria) then almost all the pages I have created should be deleted and majority of Wikipedia pages should not exist. It is a fact that the company mentioned (don’t remember the name) came up with the concept and it is only fair that the viewers get to know where the Management concept originated from. Once again citing Six Sigma - please read that page as well. Please reinstate the page. AKS (talk) 17:31, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- I placed the original deletion tag. It's a management concept developed and being promoted by Gallup Consulting. I presume it's commercial promotion, because they intend to earn money showing people how to apply it, but even non-commercial promotion is equally forbidden: anything can be promoted. . The article is a copy of their web page [2]. Had I realized it, I would of course have deleted it on that basis, since that makes it a copyright violation, which we can not publish without permission of the copyright owner, Even if they were to give us permission according to our licensing, which is highly unlikely, the tone would continue to be unsuitable. The unsuitability of the tone is indicated by the fact that one of the references is in fact to an interview with them published on ŭsines Week, [3] --but listed in the article as "HumanSigma News". (The article, though ostensibly published in a third party source, seems based entirely on their public relations and therefore not a reliable source for notability, though it would be for describing the product),
- It is quite possible that a Wikipedia article van be written on this subject, if there are good truly 3rd party references, which there may be. To quote from some of my standard advice: As a general rule, a suitable page will be best written by someone without Conflict of Interest; it's not impossible to do it properly with a conflict of interest or as a paid press agent, but it's relatively more difficult: you are automatically thinking in terms of what the subject wishes to communicate to the public, but an uninvolved person will think in terms of what the public might wish to know. If you think you can do it right according to our guidelines, do so, but expect the article to be carefully checked for objectivity.
- Let me add that I consider the Six Sigma article a not very good one, with parts written almost entirely in management jargon, and a section devoted to what I can only call linkspam. But it does contain a suitable discussion of how the concept has been viewed by outsiders in section 7, and a relatively understandable & objective discussion of the basis for the method in section 4, and an extensive list of appropriate reliable sources. We have great difficulty getting good articles on management topics. There are too few uninvolved people here competent and interested DGG ( talk ) 21:30, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Hungarian-Romanian war
Thank you for reacting so fast and protecting the page for a limited period of time. I hope I can convince everybody to get back to talking in this time. However, I would like to ask your assistance in another matter as well. There is another user that is insulting me. I have already warned him about this, but warnings seem to make him go on with even more determination. Could you please advice me on how to proceed? Octavian8 (talk) 16:11, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- What's the user's name and could you link the diffs where they insult you? Also, it may be appropriate to initiate a discussion regarding this user's actions at WP:ANI -FASTILY (TALK) 21:45, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- I am surprised that the article became protected, especially, since several neutral (not Romanian or Hungarian authors/publishers) references were removed before the protection. In my opinion, user Octavian8 became the tyrant of the article by deleting any (even sourced) claims that were not approved by him [4]. He made his own "rules" [5] which he tries to enforce [6] on other editors. This is clearly against the spirit of Wikipedia (cf. Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules and Wikipedia:Be_bold). He treats this article as his own and he wants to maintain a firm control over it. His rhetoric that "we should reach an agreement before changing the article" is just a bluff that he uses to justify the deletion of sourced claims that he does not like. What he really wants is that every change should be approved by him first (and of course he will not approve sentences that do not agree with his point of view). His "rules" and behavior (e.g., asking for the protection) are ways of gaming the system, so his POV could remain dominant in the article. For the record: I am absolutely not against reaching agreements and making consensuses, but I am against his total control over the article, namely, that he wants to decide what can be included and what cannot. An example of his obsession with his POV is the very first sentence of the article (in the lead). It was pointed out by several editors [7] that it was a POV and many alternative variants were proposed. However, user Octavian8 keeps rewriting his own POV sentence, no matter if it is unacceptable to many editors and he was not able to point out any problems with the suggested alternative variants. In fact, he did not even take the time to point out his problems with them, he just deleted them saying that "there was no consensus before the edit". The way user Octavian8 tries to control the article is against its improvement and makes the article very unbalanced. Furthermore, he does not only delete any modifications that were not certified by him, but he keeps deleting the "neutrality is disputed" tag, as well. Koertefa (talk) 09:09, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Non-free logo's -Vs- typefaces, individual words, slogans, or simple geometric shapes
I would like to ask your opinion and/or the policy regarding the "cut off point" between non-free logo's and typefaces, individual words, slogans, or simple geometric shapes. I find myself in a grey area on this subject and cannot seem to find a definition to clear it up. Example= File:VWorkApp-logo-transparent.png. Thanx Mlpearc Public (Talk) 17:38, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- Check this out: Commons:Commons:Threshold of originality. It describes common cases. Feel free to ask me if anything is unclear or confusing. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:47, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Another block evasion... how 'bout a semi-protect?
Hi Fastily,
I noticed you did a quick blok of an unknown IP, concerning the article on Mike Skinner (musician). An unknown editor is hell-bent on adding the word 'tender', concerning Mike Skinner's age. Before Skinner had his own article, an edit war was fought out on the article on The Streets, from February 22 'til March 5. On March 21, Wikipedian Mad Hatter decided to expand the article on Skinner himself. On March 31, you guessed it, the editor found its new article. Since then, there have been innumerous edits and reverts with that IP-hopping troll. I haven't been very active on Wikipedia lately, but this has been bugging me for so long now, is it possible you put a semi-protection on it? Maybe then I'll get some rest and focus on my studies. Thanks!
Kind regards, --Soetermans. T / C 17:45, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Hope that helps. FASTILY (TALK) 19:05, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Moto53's userpages.
Hi Fastily,
I notice that you've denied the speedy deletion tags I placed on a number of these pages. That's fine; I'll traipse through the usual PROD-creator removes without comment-AfD discussion-relisting-final deletion three weeks later routine; but I'm curious as to your reasoning that WP:G3 didn't apply to these. To my mind, they totally fit the bill of "blatant and obvious misinformation":
- User:Moto53/Holy One in which Dore's Samson Slay's a Lion is described as an illustration from 2008 and the article describes Jacob I (born 1996) as establishing an Israeli monarchy.
- User:Moto53/Monarchs covering Jacob I's reign (from 2015 onwards).
- User:Moto53/MDW describing the 2012 military campaign, with a helpful photo from 2013.
- User:Moto53/Goltsmanite the minority of language of the Goltsmanites - who? Presumably they're descendants of King Jacob Goltsman, described above...
The User:Moto53/Israel/IRF one, fair enough; I assumed they were a real organisation at first, so it's not an obvious hoax...
Anyhow, I'd be interested to know why you think these don't meet G3; they seemed clear-cut to me. It's hard to convey this in writing without sounding sarcastic, but this isn't intended as a criticism of your decision; just curiosity. Cheers, Yunshui (talk) 18:29, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- FYI, I've nominated them all at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Moto53 user pages. I've never done an MfD before; if you get a chance to look over it and check it's correct, I'd appreciate it. Cheers, Yunshui (talk) 18:49, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- Looks fine to me. Thanks for doing that. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 19:02, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
U1
Well, _I_ could have done that, I was just giving it another week to see if it could be saved. :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:58, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- True I suppose, but I thought I'd save you the trouble ;) -FASTILY (TALK) 19:01, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
ABOUT THE DELETION OF VERTICLE HOLLOW
DEAR Fastily i am working on wikipedia project for the above mentioned subject. since i have selected this subject i cant that right now in this situation. so i have to recreate this page so plz kindly tell me what should i do?[[user:Gajanandc.mechGajanandc.mech (talk) 19:22, 4 October 2011 (UTC)]]
- (talk page stalker) This might be a little faster, try here: Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles Mlpearc powwow 19:42, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
hey i didnt get u. i want to recreate the same page so kindly tell me the procedure for that user: Gajanandc.mechGajanandc.mech (talk) 09:04, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Ben Gurion Airport
Hello, I want to share with you a situation that have been happening about three weeks between me and the three users who simply want to destroy the article. Edit wars are started with me and I And I do not deny that I resume and i know that its really wrong.The user Karparhos are change wrong things on the article and do not gives some proof or add a website link that strengthens my claim. Every week he changes his mind and change or delete airlines or destinations, or add them seasonal operating (and those airlines do not operate seasonal flights to Tel Aviv)Like example: Air Canada, Air Malta, Azerbaijan Airlines, Travel Service, Air Sinai and more.When I provide evidence, He ignores, delete, and say I'm wrong though I enclose a proof of that show I'm right. For Example: Delta Air Lines;Delta decided to suspend the route between Atlanta-Tel Aviv for winter 2011-2012 and resumes the route in summer 2012. i add a proof but he ignored. Another example, Air Sinai ends her flights between Cairo to Tel Aviv But resumes her route last year,he ignored from my proof again... Another example, the user RadioFan,Decided in a very creative way that ther there are airports in Nazareth, Tiberias, Jerusalem (Closed), Dead Sea and Acre. As an Israeli citizen, I can say that these places ther are no airports. He decided that the airline Arkia operates flights from Ben Gurion and delete all international destinations. He brought proof of who is described in general the most tourist destinations in Israel And that's very nice to be arguing with me about it. --Assaf050 (talk) 20:00, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- User warned. Let me know if he makes another revert to the article. Hope that helps. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:50, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much!!!--Assaf050 (talk) 23:29, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Key Lime Air
You recently blocked User talk:24.41.37.3 for 31 hours and he/she has now returned and added the same text dump to Key Lime Air that has been added by a number of IPS of which 24.41.37.4 is the most recent. I have protected the article but as I have reverted the text dumps a number of times over the months I was just looking for a second opinion, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 20:17, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- Looks fine to me. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 21:52, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 22:47, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Ummm... What gives? Where was the article moved to?--intelatiColloquium 20:44, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- Same question. I can't find where the KC Union Station article was moved, or any stations on the Missouri River Runner (Amtrak) Route. Bhockey10 (talk) 21:11, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Restored Could have sworn there was a {{db-move}}tag on the page. Sorry about that. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:54, 4 October 2011 (UTC)- And check your Deletion log. there's about 15 Stations in Missouri with the same rational. :/ Thanks!--intelatiColloquium 21:55, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- Done too. I think I got them all. Let me know if I didn't. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:08, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- At a glance, I think the problem might have been that Template:S-line/Amtrak right/Missouri River Runner was tagged with
{{db-move}}(and noinclude tags weren't put around it) and that was then transcluded onto all those articles. Jenks24 (talk) 22:20, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- And check your Deletion log. there's about 15 Stations in Missouri with the same rational. :/ Thanks!--intelatiColloquium 21:55, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Do you think we should delete Jon Nelson (guitarist)? It is poorly sourced. Spidey665 00:17, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Prod it or nominate it at WP:AFD -FASTILY (TALK) 01:45, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
This Week magazine cover Sept 24 1939.jpg
Very surprised. I thought I had furnished that information. Guess not. I have the image on my hard drive, but that doesn't help when it comes to identifying the source. Can you kindly send me the source information that was included with the original upload? Then I will be able to take care of the rationale. Thank you so much. GeorgeLouis (talk) 01:12, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- For the record, this file was not deleted as no-source. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:49, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Well, whatever . . . Somebody has returned the file, and it is now back in the article. Thank you. GeorgeLouis (talk) 06:54, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Admin's Barnstar |
| No one mops up the floor like you do Noformation Talk 05:28, 5 October 2011 (UTC) |
- Aw thanks :) I really do appreciate it! All the best, FASTILY (TALK) 08:49, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
File:Sderotchilddrawing.jpg, again
Ähem, Fastily, history seems be repeating[8].
After Gilabrand had — somewhat inadvertently — removed[9] the image from Sderot on September 14, I had readded it with his consent on September 20[10]; so it was again in use. Nevertheless it was delinked[11] by bot on September 27, as you had deleted it that day[12]. Following our talk[13], you had it undeleted and I had re-added it to the article[14] the same day. Though there was some IP-initiated edit-warring[15] on October 2 and 3, it did not involve the image in question, which was in place from September 27 to October 5, when — despite being in use — it was deleted again and delinked[16] from the article.
As this is the 2nd time this image was deleted and delinked while being in use exactly in the article for which its fair-use is being claimed, I wonder what systemic error might be the cause for that. May be the reason was that the "not-in-use" tag hadn't been removed from the image file after being again in use? At least I didn't feel authorized to remove that tag as I'm not an admin on :en. --Túrelio (talk) 07:05, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fixed For the record, anyone is free to remove not-in-use tags. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 08:48, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Kuramo Foundation
The article on kuramo foundation was deleted by you. I read and edited this article to make sure it was not advertising or promotional. Please I need you to give me reasons why you think this article was advertising. Also if the article was actually advertising, how do i get the article sent to me, so that i can re-edit it to meet Wikipedia policy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chuksemeka (talk • contribs) 10:54, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Youngman deletion
Hi,
You recently deleted my entry for Youngman for unambiguous copyright. I work for Youngman's management and have permission from Youngman (Simon Smith), management (Jon [email protected]) and the record label (Digital Soundboy) to use this material. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philclark86 (talk • contribs) 11:03, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Grouptime
You deleted my article on "Grouptime" because of G12. The article was written with my own words and I cannot see any copyright infringement. Please advise.
Kind regards TStepan — Preceding unsigned comment added by TStepan (talk • contribs) 11:06, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Could you help me with User:Timeport101/Verax_NMS
Hello Fastily, Could you give me some feedback on my article (it's about network monitoring software User:Timeport101/Verax_NMS). I'm writing it since almost 6 months. It was my first wiki article and I made some mistakes. Last time I moved it form my user space without waiting for review and I was punished for that (it won't happen again). Could you help me ? --Timeport101 (talk) 11:24, 5 October 2011 (UTC) Timeport101 (talk) 11:09, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Looks pretty good to me. Nice work! If you're interested, go here to solicit more feedback. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:28, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Look at this
Look at this Here. Now I'm pissed. JamesAlan1986 *talk 13:02, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
User(s) blocked. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:31, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Okay. Sorry I went at them but I don't think I said anything that was wrong. I just was ticked off. JamesAlan1986 *talk 02:12, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Ben Gurion Airport
Hi Fastily
Firstly I have a problem with Assaf050 user at Ben Gurion Airport page. Because he vandalize Ben Gurion Airport page. He also removed every users contributions like RadioFan and Snoozlepet. We don't want to argue with him, but he vandalize Wikipedia. We can't stop him.
Thank you
Karparthos (talk) 16:25, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fully protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. If you haven't yet tried discussing with this user on the talk page of the article, please do so. Otherwise, you may wish to consider disupte resolution or the dispute resolution noticeboard. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:33, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
I do not ignore the things of users. I have attached proof that they are wrong, THERE ARE no airports in the Dead Sea, Tiberias and the other places that you put there (without Haifa,Ovda) and that's a fact.I do not lie, you ignored my proof and you deleted them.
--Assaf050 (talk) 07:52, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Jolene Andersen
What was missing from Jolene Andersen wiki? I feel she is notable and connected to several wikipedia pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrdiko (talk • contribs) 19:52, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Y
Hello. I wasn't given a chance to respond to the speedy nominations before both of these articles were deleted (I wasn't even notified in the case of PokerView). Both of these are notable (PokerView.com is the first webcam poker website and has been mentioned in many magazines and books and rankings and Greener Living Soap Nuts were funded by the Dragons as the first in Canada, and one of the most popular in North America). If anything, these should have been tagged for deletion and not speedy deleted so that I could have had time to improve the article or make the necessary edits. Could you please have another look? I put a lot of time and effort into researching and writing both articles. Thank you so much. Alexandra Adotrde (talk) 20:36, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- I won't restore them outright, but I will userfy them for you so you can work on them. How does that sound? -FASTILY (TALK) 22:37, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'm so sorry for the delay in responding; I had a pretty nasty flu. Yes, please userfy them so I can work on them some more before re-posting. Thank you so much, Fastily! Alexandra Adotrde (talk) 12:55, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Travis d'Arnaud Page Deletion
Thanks a lot for the very speedy delete! Have already moved the incorrectly spelled article to that location and have begun working on it! Cheers! Es0terick (talk) 22:38, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- You're welcome. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 22:58, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
File:UEA Shield.PNG restored
Hey Fastily, just to let you know, I've undone your deletion of this image. Someone came in the IRC help channel asking about it, and it looks like the image was in use at the time it was deleted. It seems like the tag was valid at the time it was placed, but the image wasn't put into the article until a couple days later. If there's still any problems, please let me know. Thanks. Hersfold (t/a/c) 00:57, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- No worries, thanks for letting me know. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 02:51, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Deleted File:AdFontesAcademy Falcon logo r.jpg" (F5: Unused non-free media file for more than 7 days)
Not sure why you did this. It is/was used in Ad Fontes Academy.
I reloaded it. Please do not remove it again.
Thank you. --CCeducator (talk) 03:30, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Hoax photos
Thanks for deleting Sons of Wizardry. I thought I'd tag it for a second opinion before summarily deleting it myself. I can't find out how to tag the photos at Commons for deletion. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:26, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- You're welcome :) I've nominated the files for deletion at commons. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 08:33, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
CKD Galbraith
Hello, I was looking at the CKD Galbraith article yesterday. Why was this deleted so quickly? Could you please restore the article, so that it may evolve into something more encyclopedic? I don't think it was particularly an Advert like, but rather more of a 'stub' of which there are many articles. Thanks Hackbinary (talk) 18:13, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello, you have again, deleted CKD Galbraith's article. You did not address any of the points that I raised. I will be forced to instigate the complaint procedures against your deletionist ways if you do not offer greater explainations to your actions. I appreciate that you are attempting to keep the quality of contributed articles up. I would ask you to allow new articles sufficient time to develop. I am now watching your actions, and this article in particular. Hackbinary (talk) 22:31, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
I have now seen that you have deleted User:GMcQ page. This is wholey inappropriate, and contrary to ways, and philosophy, of wikipedia. Wikipedia has due process, and you have not adhered to the review process. Please explain your actions. I am now lodging complaints against you. Hackbinary (talk) 22:31, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 22:46, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- I see that you have now visited your page. I am asking for you to undelete the articles and the user who created them in the first place, and to allow time for them to evolve. Hackbinary (talk) 22:48, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- Odd. Before even giving me a chance to respond, you threaten me with "complaint procedures" and now you expect me to help you? Oh please. Try asking again, nicely. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:36, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- I see that you have now visited your page. I am asking for you to undelete the articles and the user who created them in the first place, and to allow time for them to evolve. Hackbinary (talk) 22:48, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Boston University International Affairs Association
Hi, you deleted outright the wikipedia page for the BU International Affairs Association under the grounds that it was not notable enough to merit a wikipedia page. There was nothing factually incorrect with the page and it is a well-known organization, both in the United States and internationally. Many people put in a lot of work into building the page over many years, and the creators waited until they thought it was notable enough to create a wikipedia page. I've dealt with moderators and administrators for quite a while and came to solutions in the past. Could you please explain your decision to delete the page? What is notable to you may be very different to me, or other people out there.
Thanks. WLP
miraDry
Hi, you deleted the page for miraDry, which is a new medical treatment for hyperhidrosis. It's a procedure that uses microwave tech to essentially zap the sweat glands in a targeted area and kill them, thus reducing the amount of sweat coming from the area. The article made no advertising claims of any kind and I tried to be as technical on the mechanics of the procedure as I could cross referencing them to other wiki pages. I provided several references other than the companies website for additional information. I don't want to simply undo your deletion, so I have requested the page be created from the category here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Applied_arts_and_sciences/Medicine#Medical_devices_.2F_tests but I am hoping you could reconsider and undo the deletion. The treatment is something that is permanent, unlike botox as it's done once and then you're done, unlike botox which has to be used every few months, as well as, there is no surgery involved as in ETS. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mghurston (talk • contribs) 17:00, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Louis Capital Markets (LP)
Hi Fastly,
You deleted the page I made about Louis Capital Markets (LP) and wondered why? I thought my tone was neutral and think that they're notable enough to be on here, plus I don't have any affiliation to them so not sure what rules I've broken? But it is my first time making a Wiki page. Could you give me feedback on what I need to do in order to have it put back up?
Thanks,
H — Preceding unsigned comment added by Htalbot84 (talk • contribs) 13:25, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
I requested a history merge at this article that you declined. Did I somehow make a mistake? The user built the article at their userpage up to this point, copied it to mainspace, the blanked their userpage. Did I miss something? This is my first history merge request so I could certainly be wrong but I think you made a mistake. OlYellerTalktome 12:30, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- I see. The earlier versions of the article at User:Peter Hartmann aren't of the upmost quality but I suppose I can merge them if you really want... -FASTILY (TALK) 22:30, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, I really want. The article's author either has a WP:COI or WP:REALNAME issue and the article itself is full of unlicensed, copyrighted photos. Before I take the time to check every bit of information, I'd like it to be all in the same place instead of having to point at two locations. OlYellerTalktome 13:11, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Much thanks. OlYellerTalktome 00:03, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
UCSB College of Letters and Science
I saw that you deleted our page for copyright infringement. Since I wrote the original web page from which the info was copied (although I did not make the Wikipedia entry), I'd like to reinstate the page so that it conforms to guidelines. I got a message that I should contact you first so here I am. Is there any problem with my adding new content and changing it slightly so it does not violate any guidelines? Or can you restore the page and I can then edit to suit requirements? if that is a possibility, it would mean I don't have to start building a whole page as a novice. Thanks. Ellandess (talk) 19:31, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Could you link the page in question? If you're referring to [17], I didn't delete it. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:35, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
This is what appeared on the page: 10:23, 2 October 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "UCSB College of Letters & Science" (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.college.ucsb.edu/about/academic-departments) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ellandess (talk • contribs)
- I see. Please refer to User:Fastily/E#G12 -FASTILY (TALK) 23:36, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Yes, I get the reason for the deletion. But what I am asking is if you can restore it and I will then edit it. I have no experience with Wikipedia and I am afraid that I will do something wrong and you will delete my work again. Even the "getting started" pages say to edit first before you write your own articles. I am asking for help, please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ellandess (talk • contribs) 16:45, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'm afraid not. For legal reasons, I cannot, and will not return any text deleted as a copyright violation. Sorry, FASTILY (TALK) 21:22, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Since you PRODed this article...
...You might want to jump in here. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 03:22, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'll add input as necessary. Thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Request for clarification
Hey mate. You recently speedily deleted Power outages in Malaysia as a duplication of List of power outages. The creation of that article, however, arose as a result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1996 Malaysia blackout. All of the articles that were merged into this new article you've also deleted, effectively overturning the decision of the Afd. Please review? Regards, Nightw 10:49, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Please restore Power outages in Malaysia
The page Power outages in Malaysia was created as the result of a request for deletion discussion that merged three separate power outages pages. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1996 Malaysia blackout for that discussion. Please restore it, as it contains material which is otherwise unduplicated. Edward Vielmetti (talk) 12:02, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- Restored Thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:07, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- Could you please also restore the talk page? Nightw 02:33, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- Done King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:53, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! Nightw 02:56, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- Could you please also restore the talk page? Nightw 02:33, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Query - why "Gerard (Gerry) Sarnat" modified 6 October at 1243 isn't satisfactory/published?
Thank you for clueing me in copyrightwise 5 October. In response to the G12 notice and after educating myself, today I added and updated and rephrased information, attributed and linked to Cal Arts and acknowledge their permission in my Dareyl User talk (photo could not be reproduced below). If satisfactory, why not showing up on Wikipedia now? If unsatisfactory, what more do I need to do to publish this piece on Dr. Sarnat? Let me know if you can't access my full revisions Much appreciated, Dareyl Dareyl (talk) 15:27, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Gerard Sarnat is a poet, physician, executive, academic and social activist. Gerry has used the penname Gesundheit Sarnatzky, based on a persona created in his first book of poetry, 2010's HOMELESS CHRONICLES from Abraham to Burning Man. The nom de plume derives from great-great grandparents, shtetl lowlifes, Nahum and Yente Sarnatzky, and Jacob Ben Isaac Gesundheit, the High Rabbi of Warsaw. To update and paraphrase the bio from HOMELESS publisher California Institute of Arts and Letters' website http://www.calartsandletters.org/homeless-chronicles/ with permission, during 2008 Sarnat was published in over sixty journals and anthologies and received recognition domestically and internationally. In 2009 Gerry first edited literary periodicals. In 2010 HOMELESS CHRONICLES was sold in bookstores, on Amazon, etc.; he was invited to perform radio interviews and readings that are available as NPR and iTunes podcasts and do workshops in Israel. In 2010-11, Sarnat’s work was critiqued by senior Los Angeles School poet William Mohr, whom Gerry studies with on a regular basis. Currently Sarnat is drafting the manuscript for his second book, Disputes, which will be published by Pessoa Press in 2012. Gerard graduated from Harvard College in 1967 and received his MD from Stanford Medical School in 1972. He is a board-certified in Internal Medicine, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He has been a CEO and chief medical officer for national healthcare companies and a Stanford Medical School professor. For forty years, Gerry has worked in and set up clinics for the disenfranchised. He has chaired community organizations and served on international non-profit boards. Sarnat is a father of three, grandfather of two, and has been married since 1969. Visit gerardsarnat.com. Dareyl (talk) 15:27, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Responding to "meaningless" description of Amsterdam Declaration Article receiving PROD, resulting in deletion
Responding to "meaningless" description of Article receiving PROD, resulting in deletion
Orig. Article: Amsterdam Declaration
Questions: In what manner does the article satisfy the conditions for "meaningless" to be an accurate description? Logically the allegation is tenuous. Proof of a negative is impossible in every field.
Secondly, a point of manners. When a party is new to a craft, and the overall "community" claims to encourage participation by newcomers, the character of the words used was questionable. At minimum, it requires an individual in an editorial capacity to take the writer to task on points, instead of making statements that border on od hominem.
The tone raises a question of ideological grounds might underlie the PROD.
This is one further reason for criticism to be tempered in the context of deletion directives.
A moderation of tone is indeed most incumbent if that editor motions for deletion. Next, I thought this to be an article crafting process where one could make it a work in progress, adding and refining over time.
Yes it (you say it ought not even be considered an 'article') detours into too many subtopics for the length and citations extant.
By no means was it in final form--nor is any Wiki really in such a terminal/fixed status.
Lastly, in what particular points does the article fail? How is its significance unclear?
As a next step, I request you restore the article from deletion. Upon notice, I will set to curing some of the defects you've decried while setting about shoring up citations, adding to significance and factual discussion, including the addition of links.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter,
Maercus1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maercus1 (talk • contribs) 18:28, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Pario article deletion
Hello Fastily,
I am writing in regards to your recent deletion of the article on Pario. In the interest of full disclosure, Pario is a product developed by my company and I personally played a large role in the creation of both the product and the Wikipedia article. Having said that, I did try to write the article from a neutral point of view, although I do appreciate that neutrality is difficult to achieve from someone so close to the subject as myself. Taken to the extreme, one could argue that it is impossible for any human to achieve total neutrality on any topic of which he or she possesses enough familiarity to write intelligently...
Regardless, you specifically cited G11 (blatant advertisement) for on-sight deletion, and your user page clearly states that this criterion is measured by an article's own merit and not by its comparison to other articles. While I respect the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia, I do feel that there is a certain amount of bias towards inclusion of articles for established, well-known products in this space. From everything I have deduced from the Wikipedia policies, it would appear that the ultimate cause for deletion of the Pario article was that its contents were not verifiable by enough reliable, third-party sources. If you would indulge me for a moment of comparison, I used Wavemaker as a basis for the article on Pario. Like Wavemaker, the article for Pario was not much more than a brief description and a list of features. It is true that Wavemaker does appear to have a more substantial collection of third-party references than Pario had, but if you start clicking through the links you will find: a couple of the links do not work; a few of them read like press releases (as did ours); none of them are academic; and the two product reviews (arguably the references with the most substance) don't provide much more than a cursory validation that the product exists and does what the Wikipedia article states. This to me seems to violate the notion that an article should represent "fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources" (Wikipedia:NPOV), and leads me to the seemingly inescapable conclusion that articles for Wavemaker and other similar products are allowed simply because they are more well-known.
Please note also that we hadn't even entertained the thought of writing a Wikipedia article for Pario until it was removed from the List of rapid application development tools article, with the citation that external links did not belong in the list. It just seems kind of unusual that a RAD tool like Pario can exist, but it effectively cannot be mentioned anywhere on Wikipedia --- neither in its own article, nor even in an article that contains a list of known RAD tools. This doesn't really seem to embody the spirit of Wikipedia to me, but then I could be wrong.
I am looking for any guidance you can provide in helping me understand what could have been different about the Pario page to warrant its retention. Could it be as simple as a product review? Your candid feedback is appreciated.
Geoffspeicher (talk) 19:51, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 and User:Fastily/E#G4. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:10, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- Regarding G4, the previously deleted article was for a completely unrelated topic that happened to share the same name. Does G4 imply that the article name "Pario" is off limits for any future use? Can you please also clarify whether we have any options at all for including an external link to Pario in an article/list as appropriate or if we are completely SOL on Wikipedia until such time as some third party comes along to write a NPOV article with a link to a product review. Geoffspeicher (talk) 12:50, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
I need my page for "Brainware" back
Our Wikipedia entry for "Brainware" was deleted for coming off as too "promotional." I'm willing to make edits as needed, but I need the page restored as quickly as possible. Please let me know how this can be done. Thank you.
Robert Zoch, Public Relations Brainware [email protected] 703-948-5831 — Preceding unsigned comment added by RobertZBrainware (talk • contribs) 20:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
History merge
I don't think this accomplished the desired "history merge". You've blanked the page, deleting all useful content that had been developed there. How do I fix this? WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 21:08, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- Forgot to finish it :P Thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:11, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank You!!
Hello Fastily! I just wanna say thank you so much for protecting List of The World God Only Knows chapters and Nvidia PureVideo pages. Now anon can't vandalize these pages anymore, so we're very happy about it. Thank You!! (Wonjoon0330 (talk) 21:28, 6 October 2011 (UTC))
- You're very welcome. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 22:47, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Deleted Shapeways Page
Hi there,
You have Deleted the Shapeways page at the request of Night of the Big Wind talk 19:10, 6 October 2011 (UTC) under Section G11
I request that you reinstate as I am still working on refining the article.
The article had several references from reputable publications around the world proving the validity of the article.
Could you please undelete.
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cadjockey (talk • contribs) 04:20, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Deleted Captureka
Dear Fastily,
you deleted Captureka article and then you deleted a message about deletion in this forum too. Please recover Captureka article. It has to be listed in Screenshot article in third-party tools as other are. So if others are allowed to be mentioned I suppose such an article can not be treated as G11 (advertising). If you have a problem with possible advertising, please consider that other tools are also listed in wikipedia and those articles are not treated as advertising. So have to be treated Captureka. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ondrejspilka (talk • contribs) 06:15, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Ok, so please delete all other advertising in Screenshot third-party section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.177.105.145 (talk) 09:34, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Article protection
I request that you revert the latest changes ([18] & [19]) by User:YMB29 on Battle of Tali-Ihantala article which erased several references and cited sources and replaced it with his own information without discussing such issues on the talk page. - Wanderer602 (talk) 05:42, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- So you are asking for the page to be reverted to your version, where you deleted or misrepresented sourced information...
- My latest edits were meant to be a compromise, but I guess you just want to keep alternative views that you don't like out. -YMB29 (talk) 06:29, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- And I only removed information, including what I added also, that is out of scope for the article (the article's intro is not the place to review the surrender issue in detail). -YMB29 (talk) 06:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Here you are mistaken. I'm waiting for the admins to reach their decision. However what you did was to erase several sources which directly contradicted as to what the comments you were using - in intro alone and further into the text. Furthermore you erased several dubious tags without actually providing any answers even though they were linked to ongoing discussion on the talk page, and you erased several fact (quote) tags as well which you had so far not provided any replies for. Before your edits the last paragraph contained multitude of references and citations - after your cleansing it contains in essence only Soviet or Russian sources as you erased all references which contradicted your POV, it is not a compromise but instead it is pushing biased POV into the article. Had you only edited the page i would most likely had no complaints or requests for revert but instead you erased all references which contradicted your POV. - Wanderer602 (talk) 07:00, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- So adding a POV you don't like is "pushing biased POV."
- The view you support is there. I did not removed it... What I removed from the last paragraph was your manipulation of the sourced text I added, such as your OR claim about "not widely supported." Like I said in the edit summary, each paragraph (first and last in that section) contains one of the two opposing views.
- As far as tags go, you can't put [citation needed] tags next to statements that are sourced; that tag is for unsourced statements (maybe you are confusing it with the quotation tag). You have not provided a reason why the sourced information is dubious, besides your complaint that the source is "unreliable and fringe." You are lucky not to be blocked, so if I were you I would not be complaining... -YMB29 (talk) 07:49, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- The reason is the way you are using Baryshnikov's claims. He states that certain claim is part of 'Finnish historiography', then you see similar statement in non Finnish book and jump to conclusion that the book must follow Finnish historiography, however that is OR, nothing else (could be synthesis too actually). Second you have authors statement that he had help with Finnish sources yet he is still stating a couple of lines later that his usage of both Finnish and Russian sources is limited, yet you again jump to conclusion that he is using solely Finnish sources, again that is nothing else than OR. In the chapter in question he author reaches similar conclusions as the Finnish researchers have and again you immediately state that he is using Finnish conclusions, which - again - is nothing else than your OR. And also it is not polite to lie, you did remove most of the references in the last paragraph leaving only those supporting your POV and erased everything that contradicted it, yet you are blaming me for removing verified sources. What Baryshnikov states is not dubious, it is only how you are using because so far you used it to provide your OR or used it as basis of your own synthesis. - Wanderer602 (talk) 11:01, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- How many times can I tell you that just because an author is not Finnish and uses a lot of non-Finnish sources in his book, does not mean he is not influenced by Finnish sources on certain views. Based on that you claim that Baryshnikov is wrong, which is original research. The author's use of Finnish language sources is limited, but as said in the preface, he got help with translations and understanding of the Finnish views. Furthermore, he lists English language books by Finnish authors that he used. So your claim that his conclusions are not based on Finnish views is incorrect. Also I did say - According to the views expressed in Finnish literature and some sources outside of Finland..., so I don't know why you are complaining...
- Like I said I did remove your manipulations of sourced text (your OR from the end, synthesis about the Stavka order). The part about advancing to Helsinki was already mentioned before and should not be in the paragraph that is for the non-Finnish view. You were misusing it to make it look like Baryshnikov is overlooking evidence by Finnish historians when in fact he is directly addressing it.
- Also, I don't think this is the right place to be talking about the article. -YMB29 (talk) 15:08, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Actually you are just admitting that your claim is original synthesis (ie. original research) by you - in essence: Baryshnikov (a certain viewpoint is Finnish) + Lunde (comes to same conclusion as Finns) = YMB29 (Lunde is clearly influenced by the Finns). I thank you for your candidness. Also there is nothing supporting your claim that Lunde conclusions would be influenced by Finnish views that is 100% your own OR and nothing else. - Wanderer602 (talk) 16:02, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- No it is you who inserts OR into the article: (Baryshnikov writes that views about a Finnish victory come from Finnish historiography) + (Lunde has the same view but is not Finnish) = (Baryshnikov is wrong [your edit: however contrary to the Baryshnikov's claim several non Finnish historians also hold contradictory views to the one held by Baryshnikov...]). -YMB29 (talk) 17:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- What you are missing is that i had actually added references to that statement (granted a later on) so it was not OR, several non-Finnish authors have expressed views which contradict what Baryshnikov states. Unless you can establish a source which proves that those non-Finnish authors used Finnish conclusions without making their own conclusion (regardless if they reach the same conclusion or not) you have nothing but OR. - Wanderer602 (talk) 17:54, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Again you are making the claim in the article, so you have to find a source which specifically says that Baryshnikov is wrong since authors like Lunde don't base their conclusions on Finnish sources. You can put as much references as you want, but if the sources don't explicitly say what you are inserting it is OR. -YMB29 (talk) 21:15, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Actually, no i do not. The claim that Lunde was following Finnish historiography was yours based on Baryshnikov to begin with. Which is nothing than OR and/or original synthesis. I'm not stating where or how Lunde came up with his conclusions that is totally your doing and your OR, nothing else. - Wanderer602 (talk) 07:07, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- The quoted sentence above that you inserted into the article says otherwise... -YMB29 (talk) 16:36, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- And how exactly? Lunde (for example, he wasn't alone) contradicts Baryshnikov while clearly being non-Finnish and only evidence of Lunde's conclusions being based on Finnish sources or being influenced by Finnish sources are your original synthesis and/or original research. - Wanderer602 (talk) 18:09, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- What you just said is obvious original research... Or do you have a source that analyzes Lunde like that? -YMB29 (talk) 14:42, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- Which exactly, only claims related to Lunde have been made by you - which places the proof of burden on you as well - and so far all of those have been either original research or original synthesis (or both of them). Furthermore Lunde's work was published in 2011 which makes it impossible for Baryshnikov (works publishes in 2002 & 2006) to refer to him or to analyze his conclusions in any way. - Wanderer602 (talk) 14:58, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- If no OR by you can you give me the source which explicitly sates that: however contrary to the Baryshnikov's claim several non Finnish historians also hold contradictory views to the one held by Baryshnikov... This is not your personal conclusion and you do have a source, right? -YMB29 (talk) 22:30, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- Wrong there again, what can be found are several sources (non-Finnish) which contradict what Baryshnikov states. That is mere statement of facts nothing else supported by several sources. - Wanderer602 (talk) 05:08, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- If no OR by you can you give me the source which explicitly sates that: however contrary to the Baryshnikov's claim several non Finnish historians also hold contradictory views to the one held by Baryshnikov... This is not your personal conclusion and you do have a source, right? -YMB29 (talk) 22:30, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- Which exactly, only claims related to Lunde have been made by you - which places the proof of burden on you as well - and so far all of those have been either original research or original synthesis (or both of them). Furthermore Lunde's work was published in 2011 which makes it impossible for Baryshnikov (works publishes in 2002 & 2006) to refer to him or to analyze his conclusions in any way. - Wanderer602 (talk) 14:58, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- What you just said is obvious original research... Or do you have a source that analyzes Lunde like that? -YMB29 (talk) 14:42, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- And how exactly? Lunde (for example, he wasn't alone) contradicts Baryshnikov while clearly being non-Finnish and only evidence of Lunde's conclusions being based on Finnish sources or being influenced by Finnish sources are your original synthesis and/or original research. - Wanderer602 (talk) 18:09, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- The quoted sentence above that you inserted into the article says otherwise... -YMB29 (talk) 16:36, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- Actually, no i do not. The claim that Lunde was following Finnish historiography was yours based on Baryshnikov to begin with. Which is nothing than OR and/or original synthesis. I'm not stating where or how Lunde came up with his conclusions that is totally your doing and your OR, nothing else. - Wanderer602 (talk) 07:07, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- Again you are making the claim in the article, so you have to find a source which specifically says that Baryshnikov is wrong since authors like Lunde don't base their conclusions on Finnish sources. You can put as much references as you want, but if the sources don't explicitly say what you are inserting it is OR. -YMB29 (talk) 21:15, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- What you are missing is that i had actually added references to that statement (granted a later on) so it was not OR, several non-Finnish authors have expressed views which contradict what Baryshnikov states. Unless you can establish a source which proves that those non-Finnish authors used Finnish conclusions without making their own conclusion (regardless if they reach the same conclusion or not) you have nothing but OR. - Wanderer602 (talk) 17:54, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- No it is you who inserts OR into the article: (Baryshnikov writes that views about a Finnish victory come from Finnish historiography) + (Lunde has the same view but is not Finnish) = (Baryshnikov is wrong [your edit: however contrary to the Baryshnikov's claim several non Finnish historians also hold contradictory views to the one held by Baryshnikov...]). -YMB29 (talk) 17:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Actually you are just admitting that your claim is original synthesis (ie. original research) by you - in essence: Baryshnikov (a certain viewpoint is Finnish) + Lunde (comes to same conclusion as Finns) = YMB29 (Lunde is clearly influenced by the Finns). I thank you for your candidness. Also there is nothing supporting your claim that Lunde conclusions would be influenced by Finnish views that is 100% your own OR and nothing else. - Wanderer602 (talk) 16:02, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- The reason is the way you are using Baryshnikov's claims. He states that certain claim is part of 'Finnish historiography', then you see similar statement in non Finnish book and jump to conclusion that the book must follow Finnish historiography, however that is OR, nothing else (could be synthesis too actually). Second you have authors statement that he had help with Finnish sources yet he is still stating a couple of lines later that his usage of both Finnish and Russian sources is limited, yet you again jump to conclusion that he is using solely Finnish sources, again that is nothing else than OR. In the chapter in question he author reaches similar conclusions as the Finnish researchers have and again you immediately state that he is using Finnish conclusions, which - again - is nothing else than your OR. And also it is not polite to lie, you did remove most of the references in the last paragraph leaving only those supporting your POV and erased everything that contradicted it, yet you are blaming me for removing verified sources. What Baryshnikov states is not dubious, it is only how you are using because so far you used it to provide your OR or used it as basis of your own synthesis. - Wanderer602 (talk) 11:01, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Here you are mistaken. I'm waiting for the admins to reach their decision. However what you did was to erase several sources which directly contradicted as to what the comments you were using - in intro alone and further into the text. Furthermore you erased several dubious tags without actually providing any answers even though they were linked to ongoing discussion on the talk page, and you erased several fact (quote) tags as well which you had so far not provided any replies for. Before your edits the last paragraph contained multitude of references and citations - after your cleansing it contains in essence only Soviet or Russian sources as you erased all references which contradicted your POV, it is not a compromise but instead it is pushing biased POV into the article. Had you only edited the page i would most likely had no complaints or requests for revert but instead you erased all references which contradicted your POV. - Wanderer602 (talk) 07:00, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
deleted Hugo De Man under R3
Hi Fastily, I found two articles with red links to Hugo De Man. I knew he is a Belgian person and I created a soft redirect to the nl wiki as a kind of stub. And I was planning a translation in the near future. I don't see directly the match with "R3: Recently created, implausible redirect" rules. Can you explain? Kind Regards, SchreyP (messages) 00:03, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- Please post a translation locally on en.wikipedia, and include interwiki links in the body of the article. Interwiki redirects such as the one you created are generally prohibited, and appear the mediawiki software as broken redirects. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:34, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- Ok thanks. I was not aware that this creates problems. I will plan a translation in the near future of Hugo De Man. For my information what is allowed usage of soft redirects? -- SchreyP (messages) 11:57, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Fred Dyson
I forget whether you were the one who initiated this deletion the first time. If not, Dyson was adjudged to be notable enough and the article was kept. As an incumbent state legislator for nearly 15 years, Dyson certainly passes WP:POLITICIAN. This article also falls within the goals of WP:STLEG to create new stubs on state legislators who haven't previously had articles created. The only issue I see has to do with issues regarding the article's creator, which I see as being a strawman argument, if anything. If there are other issues with the article, please feel free to express those. As you can see for yourself, WP:ALASKA hasn't been very active the past several years, so if improvements need to be made, they just very well may be slow in coming.RadioKAOS (talk) 08:28, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- #Kathleen Clyde -FASTILY (TALK) 04:59, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, I read that already. This is the second SD I've had to seek to overturn recently (the other was KENI) because the deletion was made due to issues obviously more important than such trivial matters as the notability of the subject or the likelihood that the article can be expanded (sarcasm intentional).RadioKAOS (talk) 05:35, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Kathleen Clyde
Hey Fastily- I noticed you deleted the article on Kathleen Clyde. While not "my" article, I did edit it and will likely start another one at some point since she's notable as a state representative in Ohio. I realize it was created by a banned user, but he/she was not the only person editing it. Did you have notability concerns as well? Thanks for your time. --JonRidinger (talk) 12:46, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- Was looking at the log on the article...noticed it had been deleted before (G3 Vandalism) and then recreated. I probably edited oe of the previous versions. --JonRidinger (talk) 12:50, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- The editor is a serial copyright violator and the Contributor Copyright Violations page is not working. Marcus Qwertyus 17:29, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help to stop the terrible attacks and deletions of articles pertaining to Ohio politicians by User:Marcus Qwertyus. He has consistently been on attack against one user and is now creating a terrible drain of information on Wikipedia. EVERY and I mean EVERY article he has deleted has been stocked with credible sources and are liable. He is creating a great disservice to individuals in Ohio, especially in an election year. Can you please see that each of articles on a Ohio politician that he has deleted are has submitted to be deleted is reinstated. I am willing to do whatever it takes to ensure that this does not continue to happen. I am greatly outraged! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.252.215.130 (talk) 17:26, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
I've been watching Marcus Qwertus' actions for awhile now and from what I can see they are constructive in helping against this copyright violation guy, but are very nonconstructive in terms of allowing individuals who can vote in Ohio know about their politicians. I've tried to look at Wikipedia periodically in regards to Ohio politics, and it's going in the wrong direction because of this guy Marcus. I felt it was finally time to say something by creating an account. Please do what you can as the head honcho around here and make sure this kid from St. Louis isn't hampering the ability for Ohio residents to know about their legislators... especially in this election time. Please put this articles back into place. — Preceding unsigned comment added by OhioPolitico40 (talk • contribs) 17:51, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
You might want to protect it, as I can edit it. LikeLakers2 (talk | Sign my guestbook!) 20:44, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- Deleted. Forgot I still had that laying around. I never ended up using that code for anything. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:55, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
How
I noticed that the Catergory: Canidates for speedy deletion page get backlogged alot. I could review the articles and delete the ones im sure meet deletion critirea. How do I delete articles? Shakinglord:Kudos, Mailbox, ??? 00:08, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- Only administrators are able to delete pages. -FASTILY (TALK) 05:00, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks
For the Anguluma/KongoGroup block, freeing me to go to bed. Ian.thomson (talk) 03:25, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- You're very welcome. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 05:01, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
CKD Galbraith
Hello, I was looking at the CKD Galbraith article yesterday. Why was this deleted so quickly? Could you please restore the article, so that it may evolve into something more encyclopedic? I don't think it was particularly an Advert like, but rather more of a 'stub' of which there are many articles. Thanks Hackbinary (talk) 18:13, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello, you have again, deleted CKD Galbraith's article. You did not address any of the points that I raised. I will be forced to instigate the complaint procedures against your deletionist ways if you do not offer greater explainations to your actions. I appreciate that you are attempting to keep the quality of contributed articles up. I would ask you to allow new articles sufficient time to develop. I am now watching your actions, and this article in particular. Hackbinary (talk) 22:31, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
I have now seen that you have deleted User:GMcQ page. This is wholey inappropriate, and contrary to ways, and philosophy, of wikipedia. Wikipedia has due process, and you have not adhered to the review process. Please explain your actions. I am now lodging complaints against you. Hackbinary (talk) 22:31, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 22:46, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- I see that you have now visited your page. I am asking for you to undelete the articles and the user who created them in the first place, and to allow time for them to evolve. Hackbinary (talk) 22:48, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- Odd. Before even giving me a chance to respond, you threaten me with "complaint procedures" and now you expect me to help you? Oh please. Try asking again, nicely. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:36, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps there is bug in the system, because you edited this yesterday, and now today it was put into your archive. I can't say that I spend as much time with Wikipedia as you do, however, I would expect that there would be some process where peripheral and causal users of Wikipedia can contribute, and not make it overly onerous. The reason why I brought up complaint procedures was because of the speed and arbitrary nature with which you seemed to be acting. I would say that CKD Galbraith is of significant national note in Scotland, and it's article and editors should be given reasonable space and time to rectify the diffencies of the article. Many thanks in advance for your assistance.
- I would further add that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:GMcQ user's with the original text of the article seems to have disappeared. Could you at the very least least restore that user's page Hackbinary (talk) 15:39, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- Do you know that forum shopping is strictly prohibited on Wikipedia and is considered disruptive editing? This, this, and this are highly inappropriate. Please refrain from making such disruptive edits in the future. I am not going to restore any of these pages; use of Wikipedia for advertising or promotion is strictly prohibited and is subject to on-sight removal. I do not know why I'm telling you this. You've been around long enough to know that. A word of advice - use some common sense in your editing. If you want others to help you, be respectful and be patient. Your recent rude, uncivil, and childish behavior is grossly offensive, and I am not amused. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:53, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily, I have been responding to what seemed to be childish behavior by you. It seems to me that you acted very quickly and expediently to a.) delete this article b.) to erase GMcQ's user page and b.) to erase this thread from your talk page. Is 30 minutes a reasonable amount of time from when DGG posted this article for speedy deletion, to being deleted? In no shape way or form was I trying to Forum Shop. I was merely trying to respond and react to timescales which where acted upon this article. Hackbinary (talk) 22:07, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- Do you know that forum shopping is strictly prohibited on Wikipedia and is considered disruptive editing? This, this, and this are highly inappropriate. Please refrain from making such disruptive edits in the future. I am not going to restore any of these pages; use of Wikipedia for advertising or promotion is strictly prohibited and is subject to on-sight removal. I do not know why I'm telling you this. You've been around long enough to know that. A word of advice - use some common sense in your editing. If you want others to help you, be respectful and be patient. Your recent rude, uncivil, and childish behavior is grossly offensive, and I am not amused. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:53, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- Odd. Before even giving me a chance to respond, you threaten me with "complaint procedures" and now you expect me to help you? Oh please. Try asking again, nicely. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:36, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- I see that you have now visited your page. I am asking for you to undelete the articles and the user who created them in the first place, and to allow time for them to evolve. Hackbinary (talk) 22:48, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- I would also point out that I initially sought 'assistance' from at you 1813 6 Oct, then you deleted CKD Galbraith's on GMcQ's page by 2231 6 Oct, without any comment to me; Please explain just how I should interpret your actions in good faith? I appreciate your busy keeping the the quality of articles up, but please understand that I am a naive, causal user. So yes, at that point I felt persecuted by you. I do not have admin tools, and I would like to think that you ultimately want the knowledge base to grow. It seems to that CKD Galbraith is a significant, and notable actor in Scotland and worthy of an article in wikipedia. Hackbinary (talk) 23:05, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
I am worried they are about to cause an edit war. I pointed out to them on their talk page (Link in topic) that I Need You (LeAnn Rimes song) needs at hat on it as there are several songs that have the title "I Need You" and only 9 of them have pages. They keep saying it breaks this stupid Wikipedia:NAMB thing but I don't see that it does cause if you look at the disambiguation page it's clear that they all need one, how else are people gonna know there's other songs with the same name, especially when they don't have pages? Can you please say something to them. Thanks! JamesAlan1986 *talk 19:15, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- Have you tried the dispute resolution noticeboard? I'm afraid there is no administrative action I can do for you at this time. Sorry, FASTILY (TALK) 21:36, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- I brought it up actually on the talk page of Hatnotes I'm still confused on where it says that we can't use I Need You on the song pages but that's me. JamesAlan1986 *talk 21:40, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Ben Gurion Airport
Hello, I feel that the "freezing" of the article and the warning you gave the user KARPARTHOS will not help. And in my opinion even in a week and a half freezing will end, he will still continues to ruin the article. I'm sure he does it on purpose and that's, i can not talk to him because he does not listen and he incites me against others and it really uncomfortable. I really do not know what to do.--Assaf050 (talk) 19:21, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- If that is the case, have you tried starting a discussion at WP:ANI? This will draw community attention to the dispute and the behavior of Karparthos. By going there, with luck, this dispute should be resolved in a matter of days. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:37, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| You are really good at doing your admin's duties and I just thought you should know it's really appreciated ^_^ JamesAlan1986 *talk 19:22, 8 October 2011 (UTC) |
- Well, thanks :) I do appreciate it! All the best, FASTILY (TALK) 21:38, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
You're welcome. :) JamesAlan1986 *talk 21:41, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- And I agree with JamesAlan1986. Thanks for the hard work. Eeekster (talk) 21:42, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks guys :) Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 21:55, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- And I agree with JamesAlan1986. Thanks for the hard work. Eeekster (talk) 21:42, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Cheers! :) JamesAlan1986 *talk 22:03, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Incidentally, I came by to give you one of these literally five minutes after James left this. I thought that might be a tad excessive, but you do deserve it.
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| For your great administrative work all around, especially when it comes to your impressive CSD patrolling. I can't imagine it's particularly fun work, but you do a fantastic job— keep it up. :) Swarm 23:14, 8 October 2011 (UTC) |
- Wow! Thank a lot everyone! I really appreciate it :) Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 23:38, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Do you feel loved? LOL! JamesAlan1986 *talk 23:43, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, I do lol. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:47, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Ups and Downs (band)
Dear Fastily, you recently deleted my article Ups and Downs (band) for "unambiguous copyright infringement". I am struggling to understand why you did this, as I believe I had correctly edited the article to use nothing other than my own words, and I had left a message on the talk page for the article to say this. In this same edit, I also added additional factual material sourced from multiple external sources which was, I believe, correctly attributed. I have received no explanation as to why my edit was unsatisfactory.
Please, I am a beginning wikipedia editor, and I am trying to learn how to do this correctly. I can see now that my original article had problems, but I have genuinely tried to address them. If there were still problems after my last edit, it would be useful to know what they are so I can attempt once again to set these right. Tttallis (talk) 21:06, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
My apologies if I'm getting this wrong, but you seem to be replying by pointing me back to the original message about copyright. Is that what the above text means? My last edit re-wrote the article to remove all traces of the cited article. I'm pretty confident there's not a single sentence or sentence fragment in common between the two. I'd really like to get this right, but I genuinely don't understand what I am doing wrong. Is there some other procedure I've missed? Would my last edit have been acceptable if it had been submitted as a recreated article? Perhaps my mistake was in not waiting for the deletion to proceed first. If that is the case, is there someone reading this with the right access to retrieve the text of the last edit and submit it as a new article? I don't believe I have the right access to do that, and I don't have a copy of what I wrote :( Tttallis (talk) 01:00, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Meg Pokrass
I've just moved the newly created Meg pokrass (author) to Meg Pokrass, and was going to tag the talk page, but found a note saying that you had previously deleted it. If the article is still there when you read this, you might want to take a look. TheMadBaron (talk) 22:11, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- Deleted as advertising. Thanks for letting me know. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 23:40, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Please restore this. If there's a copyvio problem, then you could have fixed that by reverting to the long established version, before the recent Indian additions. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:44, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Talkback
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anonymous (street meat)
US copyright - 1-547929428 "anonymous (street meat)" Ciboney Productions.
Mig (talk) 00:13, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
copyright
Sorry -- I'm rude -- thank you for looking into this :)
Anonymous (street Meat)
1-547929428 "anonymous (street meat)" Ciboney Productions.
Copyright office #Mig (talk) 00:23, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you!
Inali-Wakan
Hello Fastily, I hope I am communicating with an actual person and not a chat bot. By the trouble it took me to find a way to communicate with you, I hope you will appreciate that I am sincere. If you go to any search engine (pick your fav!), and type in either "Inali-Wakan" or "Scraling", you will see you get little information. A few friends of mine have been suggesting that I create a WIKI page to explain those terms. One is an ancient Scandinavian word that does not exist on the internet (it only exists in History Books), the other is a Lakota word for "Quiet Spirit" - so I thought you guys would be interested in being the First on the block to have definitions/descriptions. I also posted some things about my family name (Klingensmith) to help clear up some controversy in my Inali-Wakan article, but I take it this is a no-no. I saw you had several articles already posted about my family name, but I am new to WIKI, so my bad.
I really am who I say I am and can send you links to my websites (not going to do That again on here), government agencies who can verify who I am, or photos, or my phone number, whatever it takes to share some information. Help me out here, I am a US Combat Veteran. Let me know what I can do to share the info, or if you think the info sucks and no one will ever search for it, let me know that too. Thanks in advance for your help, Scott ScottyHeadbanger (talk) 01:38, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- Please see User:Fastily/E#G11 and Wikipedia:YFA#Things_to_avoid. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:47, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Cool, good to know someone out there in cyberspace is on their game - you guys are. I will add any info I have about whatever article I have info to add to to That Article, and not create a new one. Thanks for the fast & honest response! And LOL, #13: The New Great Thing you made up in school today. You guys are hilarious... ~ Peace, ScottyHeadbanger (talk) 04:28, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Sockpuppet of Philip126
Hi, Fastily. 74.72.15.7 resumed editing after the expiration of 3 month block.[20] I cannot report to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Philip126 because it is not archived yet. I would appreciate if you could take an appropriate action. ―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 03:41, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- Blocked – for a period of 1 year -FASTILY (TALK) 03:53, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
203.129.23.146
It's time to remove talk page access for this IP you blocked. Obvious troll is obvious.Jasper Deng (talk) 03:54, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- User(s) re-blocked with talk page editing disallowed. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:57, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
There seems no obvious way to contact you or otherwise file a complaint. I have been accused of using copyrighted materials that are unambiguously in the public domain.It is your burden to determine that any materials are actually copyrighted.
I need your identity: name and address to deal with this matter. If you are not willing to provide your identity that is a whole other problem.
Bbeartoo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbeartoo (talk • contribs) 04:40, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) The WP:BURDEN is on you, not him. He doesn't need to provide his identity to you whatsoever. Doc talk
- I've re-deleted the page as a copyright violation. Please do not re-post it. -FASTILY (TALK) 05:10, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Notice
Hi Fastily, I want a favor: It appears that several articles such as the Diary of a Wimpy Kid articles are continuously being vandalised and it is putting a rough time on most editors. Can I request you semi-protect the following articles: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, List of Characters in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, as they are continously being vandalized. Abhijay (talk) 07:24, 9 October 2011 (UTC) Write back to me if this is possible, Thanks.
- Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:57, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
I'm needing more help
Hope you don't mind that I made you my go to admin, but I'm having trouble again. Please take a look at the history of August 2010 West Bank shooting attack, I removed a sentence that seemed to be just a racist non-sensical quote from a random person. It was instantly returned, with a statement that my edit was based on me not liking it. I took it out again, and it was replaced, again Plot Spoiler stated I was doing it for seemingly personal reasons. I than realized that the quote mixed with the following sentence which proves the quote wrong actually makes it so that Plot Spolier is calling the man a liar, so I deleted due to wp:blp and wp:or. Plot Spoiler than re-adds again, again making attacks on me, saying I'm doing it for opinionated reasons, and again giving no insight into the value of the quote he keeps adding. He also posted a long threatening message on my my talk. Can you talk with him and give us both some advice on what to do now. Thanks, Public awareness (talk) 00:54, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- I've warned Plot spolier. Consider taking this issue to the dispute resolution noticeboard; tell them exactly what you told me. For the time being however, please don't revert Plot spolier again. I would rather not you inadvertently break the 3-revert rule. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 01:40, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily, I urge you to tell Public awareness to review the rules of Wikipedia. He has no basis for removing that quote, which came from a New York Times article. I have absolutely no idea what he's talking about the quote being wrong or me calling the man a liar. The quote is clearly from the The New York Times piece and elucidates the settlers' reaction to the attack and it has no bearing whether some people find the quote distasteful or WP:DONTLIKEIT. Plot Spoiler (talk) 02:08, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- I know, I did hesitate in even making my second revert, reverting doesn't go anywhere, though Plot was fine in making 3 reverts. I brought up the issue at dispute resolution noticeboard. Thanks, Public awareness (talk) 17:03, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
190.161.134.66, who you blocked on 4 October, is back, editing as 200.83.32.16. This edit to Reservoir Dogs is identical to the edit over which he edit-warred previously. The other edits the IP has made today are of the same style. I have reverted all of the IP's edits today, as it seems clear this is a block-evading sock. He implied on this talk page that he would get another IP and continue editing. I guess he kept his promise. ---RepublicanJacobiteTheFortyFive 16:50, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:47, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for your quick action on this! ---RepublicanJacobiteTheFortyFive 22:15, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Donald Braswell
Hi, you recently deleted a page that I believe to be a mistake with a "Prod expired". I tried to do a restore request, but the request keeps erring out because the page doesn't exist. I may be doing the request incorrectly, as I'm not a wiki expert. Here is the reasoning I tried requesting it:
It was just discovered that Donald Braswell's wiki page has been deleted. I cannot now see what discussions were held regarding it's deletion, if there were any, and the reason the page was removed other than a PROD request. Donald Braswell was a Broadway star in the 1950's and was a performer at the 1968 world's fair at the Hemisphere. His list of credits, including his appearances on the Ed Sullivan show were listed on his page. He is the father of America's Got Talent Donald Brawell II. I would like to respectfully request that the page be restored. Thank you. -Wikiauthenticity (talk) 18:23, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Can you please help me sort this all out?
Thank you so much,
Cherie
Donald Braswell
Dear Fastily,
It appears that I was able to make the request for recovery of Donald Braswell's page ok, despite getting an error. Now I have two requests out there. Sorry to have bothered you with the last message. If you can do anything to help me sort this all out, though, I would appreciate it. Cherie. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiauthenticity (talk • contribs) 18:30, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
The Article you deleted is substantially different to the last one discussed in the deletion discussion. There are now many sources that indicate he meets GNG. I only created because of this major difference did you check that. This should never be speedy deleted. I had in my userspace but i wish to contest your decision as the code you used was not what the article was nominated for nor do i beleive you checked to see if meets GNG should go to an AFD. Edinburgh Wanderer 21:16, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fair enough. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:21, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry for being so pointy. Just couldn't see how meet the criteria for speedy its very different to the original and given very recent sources felt it now met GNG. To be honest the fact the nominator never bothered to advise of his nomination in the first place could my back up. I will remove the prod then its up to the rest of the community to decide whether to take to AFD. Just to ask can a copy of the article be placed back in my userspace if eventually gets deleted. Although i feel meets GNG i appreciate as yet he dosent meet WP:Footy although GNG should over rule that but if gets deleted do not want to lose the substantial work. Edinburgh Wanderer 21:29, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Exzavion
Hi,
you just speedily deleted Exzavion per my nomination. I wasn't really sure that it constituted a blatant hoax, as such, but I thought it was most likely a setup for an advance-fee fraud. Was that your interpretation? Is that sort of thing seen often on WP? TheMadBaron (talk) 21:24, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- Now that I look at it, it appears to be more advertising than it is a hoax article. I've adjusted the deletion log accordingly. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:21, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
You removed my Helen Darras photo incorrectly.
The photo on Wikipedia is of myself, Helen Darras, and was taken with MY CAMERA. I own the camera & the digital memory card. It is copy-written by me, in my name. Why would you so aggressively remove a photo, without asking or notifying/contacting me first? Based on your own assumption & not fact? Please put the photo back up and contact me at: [email protected] Helen Darras — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hdarrasrn (talk • contribs) 23:18, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- What is your relationship to Island6111? -FASTILY (TALK) 23:34, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your quick response. I am Island6111. Why do you ask? I use that user name on eBay., Helen Darras — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.190.9.148 (talk) 01:58, 10 October 2011 (UTC) Also of note, I got these emails a short time ago. They are under alias names, but they are all from Butch Patrick & Ethan Tudor W. They hide behind alias names & both have criminal records. First email to me: 7/29/11 Your Rep. is ruined, your WIKI has been hacked and you look like a dunce! Even your IMDB has been removed. I'm tweeting about you [email protected] (You see Fastly, I'm working on a $30 million dollar movie project with an Oscar winning staff. And they're jealous. And no, my IMDB is very much intact. However, my attorneys got IMDB to slice off 50% of THEIR phony IMDB credits.) Next email: 7/29/11 Don't you think enough is enough, or are you fucking mental? Well....I updated your WIKI and your IMDB. Just wanted to make sure people know what your really about. Listen Sister, as twisted as you are, I'm tweeting, posting, youtubing and more about YOU. - [email protected] (Again Fastly, these messages are really from Ethan Tudor W. & Butch Patrick, both found on Twitter as @ethantudorw & @bpmunster. It's a case of credibility (mine) against convicted felons & drug addicts (them). Really pathetic, lifetime losers. Sorry I even wrote Butch's biography. Big mistake on my part. However, with the release of our new Major Motion Picture "Exile To Babylon" and Video Game "Dogs of Glory" by Epic Games and Graphic Novel from Dark Horse Comics which will all be released next year, my name will resurface on Wiki soon enough. I work hard. They don't., Helen Darras
Image-redirect deleted without fixing pointers to it
Was created less than a week ago as the result of an image-renaming and at least one article was using the image via this previous-location name. When you deleted the redirect, apparently before updating the articles that used the old name to use the new name instead, User:ImageRemovalBot came along and removed the now-redlinked image from the article using it. Special:Contributions/ImageRemovalBot has a mile of similar deletions--spot-checked and they are all as a result of this same type of action of yours. Please fix this mess. DMacks (talk) 23:21, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- I see. Please Mass-rollback any pages you found to be adversely affected by ImageRemovalBot. I'll have a script go through and repair everything once you've done that. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:32, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- I rolled back all of the bot's deletions where the bot was the latest change and the removed image was a bluelink. Looks like you and/or others were also working on it maybe by a different process, so I may have missed one or two. For example, in at least one case I think some other editor had since edited the article further to put *some* image in its place, not sure (and don't care if that editor doesn't) if same as previous. DMacks (talk) 00:35, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- It's done now. I think I got everything. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 03:14, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- I rolled back all of the bot's deletions where the bot was the latest change and the removed image was a bluelink. Looks like you and/or others were also working on it maybe by a different process, so I may have missed one or two. For example, in at least one case I think some other editor had since edited the article further to put *some* image in its place, not sure (and don't care if that editor doesn't) if same as previous. DMacks (talk) 00:35, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Faster Than a Bullet deletion
You deleted Faster Than a Bullet against evidence. It had third-party coverage. I guess we'll have to get additional sources later. Don't bother to leave a note on my talk page since I will delete it without reading. Walter Görlitz (talk) 00:28, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- Did you need something? -FASTILY (TALK) 03:16, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Advice?
Hi Fastily, your opinion would be appreciated. Here[21] the vignette "No Win Scenario" was added. The text is a direct copyvio from here[22] which I don't care about, so there isn't a problem with "Gee, the STP2 gang is gonna get upset for the copyvio" - I won't, and can (am authorized to) speak on behalf of the rest of us regarding this type of matter. The problem is thus: we can't creative commons or pd the stuff, so even though we won't take any action, it's against WP's policies and I do not know what repercussions that might cause. I could simply rewrite it, except I have a very clear and definite COI with that topic (ya know, being one of the producers and such). So, your advice would be appreciated. Best, ROBERTMFROMLI | TK/CN 02:21, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- I have reverted the IP's edits. Copyright is a very serious issue on Wikipedia and there is a zero-tolerance policy on copyright violations. While editing/writing articles with a conflict of interest in mind is generally discouraged (particularly for new users who work for an organization or are paid to edit Wikipedia on behalf of an organization), it is not prohibited. That said, feel free to rewrite the section; I am confident you've been around long enough to know how not to introduce bias into articles or let a conflict of interest affect you. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 03:24, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks Fastily. Will do. ROBERTMFROMLI | TK/CN 03:26, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletions
Congratulations on passing me in total deletions. Keep up the great work. Maxim(talk) 03:03, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks :) Didn't know you were keeping track of that :P Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 03:24, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Daniel Severino
Please feel free to re-create this article. He has now made a senior appearance for Gold Coast United. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.65.80 (talk) 05:57, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of page Webiso
The page webiso which I had made is not a promotional/advertising page, I am working on the product webiso, and I wanted to share some knowledge on Webiso with others. as working on webiso may help a lot of people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mayanksri1989 (talk • contribs) 06:59, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Just wondering what this article was, and what you plan on moving into it. The disambiguation? The first game? The series? The character? You deleted the article 10 hours ago. What is going on? Blake (Talk·Edits) 12:39, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- Er, it was deleted to make way for a move. A little more patience on your part perhaps? -FASTILY (TALK) 21:23, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- Well, you deleted it, and then disappeared for 10 hours, where somebody else had to finish up after you. Not my fault I got paranoid. Blake (Talk·Edits) 23:30, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
You seem to have deleted Exeter services, obviously I can't see the page history, but did someone tag it for speedy or did you make the decision by yourself? Services articles have been the subject of lengthy AfD discussions, to which the consensus has always been to keep. Could you please be so kind as to restore the article so I can take a look at improving it. Right now you've left a red link amongst a series of articles! Thanks Jeni (talk) 17:23, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- After a second review, it doesn't look that bad. I've restored it. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:24, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
from R3: "This page was deleted under as a result of routine housekeeping and non-controversial maintenance because it was an implausible, unused redirect." Bulwersator (talk) 17:41, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
New Meadowlands Stadium
Hello- I was away this weekend, but it seems there were vandalism problems with MetLife Stadium. The previous name was "New Meadowlands Stadium", and after it was changed to the MetLife name, "New Meadowlands Stadium" re-directed to it. Since the vandalism, and subsequent deletion, it no longer redirects. Can that be fixed? Kjscotte34 (talk) 21:34, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- This was just resolved by another user. Thanks! Kjscotte34 (talk) 23:16, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, you just deleted the page [[Roy Miller, producer}} when all I did was rearrange some text and remove some duplicate information. Why do you think a bio about a broadway producer reads like an advertisement? Especially wondering since it was fine before and all I did was make it more accurate and flow better. Please let me know. Also, since I can no longer access it, do I have to start from scratch or is there a way to restore it to fix it? Thanks! Adelmang (talk) 03:44, 11 October 2011 (UTC) adelmang
- Considering you admitted to being the marketing director for his theater on my talk page, I'm surprised you are wondering. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 03:51, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'm also surprised. — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 03:59, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
You also just deleted a page I was creating about Showplace Ice Cream Parlour. It was tagged for speedy deletion just a few minutes ago and I posted a contest explaining that I was adding citations and more info and now it's gone before I could get back to it. Please let me know how I can help get this page restored so I can complete it. This is a legitimate tourist attraction in a resort town that gets thousands of visitors a week. Thanks. Adelmang (talk) 03:57, 11 October 2011 (UTC)adelmang
Could you please restore Chocolate City? It was a disambiguation page, not an A1 candidate. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:18, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:19, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Fbot damaged text description
Hello Fastily. A week ago I left a message on the talkpage of Fbot, but now my message has been automatically archived without any answer from you. You probably should set the archiving on Fbot's talkpage to be less aggressive, or put a note there that you also check the archive (I sure hope you do check the archive).
To make sure you get this, here is my message again:
A month ago Fbot tagged one of my images with {{Orphan image}}. But while it did so it also changed all instances of "<" to "<" which completely damaged the image description and broke the {{Information}} template. Here is the diff
I hope Fbot hasn't damaged too many image pages in the same way...
--David Göthberg (talk) 05:46, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, I got the message. You speak of a problem which was resolved a very long time ago. -FASTILY (TALK) 05:50, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Cogentys
Why did you delete entry cogentys? How is it any different then all the other Learning management companies who have wiki entries as seen in this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_learning_management_systems. i.e http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_OnDemand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learn.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorb_LMS — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lberghoff (talk • contribs) 22:19, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
OTAShirt-Front/Back
These images were wrongly deleted. They had been replaced with Free versions. Please revert (images and article updates), and look at file history before destroying content. --Belg4mit (talk) 18:06, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- You failed to make your case at Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_files/2011_September_25#File:OTAShirt-Back.png. You neither explained why nor proved that the files were indeed freely licensed. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:27, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- You are mistaken. I most definitely did provide free replacements. As I recommended before, you should check file history. --Belg4mit (talk) 13:18, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps it is you who is mistaken. I looked at the deleted history of both files and I saw nothing that supports your claim. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:33, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- I replaced both files the day after they were marked for deletion, with updated versions that used a Public Domain T-Shirt template. Indeed the SVG source for them, referenced in the PUFD (and the deleted pages, which had clearly had a new version posted after they were marked) and which you somehow overlooked in haste to remove them, are still up; the PNG are necessary because MediWiki does not render the SVG properly, especially at small sizes. --Belg4mit (talk) 05:52, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps it is you who is mistaken. I looked at the deleted history of both files and I saw nothing that supports your claim. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:33, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- You are mistaken. I most definitely did provide free replacements. As I recommended before, you should check file history. --Belg4mit (talk) 13:18, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
From [23]
- 2011-09-25T16:29:51 Belg4mit (talk | contribs) uploaded a new version of "File:OTAShirt-Back.png" (PD shirt outline)
Versus [24] (cur | prev) 2011-09-25T03:03:00 Bkell (talk | contribs) (2,429 bytes) (→File:OTAShirt-Back.png: also File:OTAShirt-Front.png) (undo) (cur | prev) 2011-09-25T03:00:31 Bkell (talk | contribs) (1,996 bytes) (File:OTAShirt-Back.png) (undo)
Advanced warning on FfD
Hi there. Since you're still pretty much the person that does FfD, I wanted to give you a heads up. Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2011 October 10, today's, and probably those of the next few days are going to have a few very similar sounding items, as I'm cleaning out Wikipedia:Database reports/Largely duplicative file names. Just letting you know that I'm not mindlessly listing the same file multiple times. Cheers. Sven Manguard Wha? 08:33, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- It's fine. No worries. Cheers, FASTILYs (TALK) 00:49, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Fastily, you STILL haven't re-posted my Wiki page/photo or responded to me as to why you took it down after you stated my photo "must have been taken by someone else." (???)
The photo on Wikipedia is of myself, Helen Darras, and was taken with MY CAMERA. I own the camera & the digital memory card. It is copy-written by me, in my name. Why would you so aggressively remove a photo, without asking or notifying/contacting me first? Based on your own assumption & not fact? Please put the photo back up and contact me at: <Redact email address> Helen Darras — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hdarrasrn (talk • contribs) 23:18, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
What is your relationship to Island6111? -FASTILY (TALK) 23:34, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your quick response. I am Island6111. Why do you ask? I use that user name on eBay., Helen Darras — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.190.9.148 (talk) 01:58, 10 October 2011 (UTC) Also of note, I got these emails a short time ago. They are under alias names, but they are all from Butch Patrick & Ethan Tudor W. They hide behind alias names & both have criminal records. First email to me: 7/29/11 Your Rep. is ruined, your WIKI has been hacked and you look like a dunce! Even your IMDB has been removed. I'm tweeting about you -<Redact email address> (You see Fastly, I'm working on a $30 million dollar movie project with an Oscar winning staff. And they're jealous. And no, my IMDB is very much intact. However, my attorneys got IMDB to slice off 50% of THEIR phony IMDB credits.) Next email: 7/29/11 Don't you think enough is enough, or are you fucking mental? Well....I updated your WIKI and your IMDB. Just wanted to make sure people know what your really about. Listen Sister, as twisted as you are, I'm tweeting, posting, youtubing and more about YOU. - <Redact email address> (Again Fastly, these messages are really from Ethan Tudor W. & Butch Patrick, both found on Twitter as <Redact email address>. It's a case of credibility (mine) against convicted felons & drug addicts (them). Really pathetic, lifetime losers. Sorry I even wrote Butch's biography. Big mistake on my part. However, with the release of our new Major Motion Picture "Exile To Babylon" and Video Game "Dogs of Glory" by Epic Games and Graphic Novel from Dark Horse Comics which will all be released next year, my name will resurface on Wiki soon enough. I work hard. They don't., Helen Darras
- (talk page stalker) Here's a hint: don't be so aggressive! Hint number 2: sign in to your Wikipedia account! We admins are pretty nice for the most part, because we're here to help. It also allows us to actually know what you're talking about, because we can look through your editing history (including deleted ones). There is a photo uploaded to Wikimedia Commons of a Helen Darras - it's still there. Photos on Commons are usable on Wikipedia, in fact, that's the main location for photos for across all Wikipedia's. Based on your message above, there's more going on - and all of it is off-wiki. Keep it there. We are an encyclopedia of notable, verifiable, and existing things, events and people. Wikipedia doesn't care about imdb, or your offline e-mails (even posting them would be a violation of private messages). I would assume that in the longer run, you're hoping for an article about you. Thanks to WP:COI and WP:AUTOBIO, that article would be difficult for you to create. However, your photo - on Commons - is intact. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 09:51, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Here's a hint for you. I am an Organ Transplant Nurse. I save lives for a living. I have done so for 30 years. I'm aggressive when it comes to facts. That's why I've not had one case of medical malpractice filed against me in 30 years. You supposed "here to help me" message above, doesn't. My photo is up, but not the wiki page.?.?. First you talk to me as if I'm "impatient" after waiting 2 days. I'm glad you aren't burdened with the responsibility of taking care of hospital patients, they might not survive your "time tables." But wiki is not a life or death situation. WIKI made a accusation saying they mystically thought was someone else's photo of me was being posted uncredited & then "nominated" to remove it. Without SEEKING FACTS. No apology was given. And given your trite, patronizing, "hint this & hint that" statement above: consider manners. My posting of my emails was to point out to you that 2 individuals have indicated they intended to hack & remove my wiki info. Then my wiki info was removed. This is not an effort to "air dirty laundry." It is an effort to ENLIGHTEN YOU. Which, given your response of "off-wiki, keep it there," you aren't interested in enlightenment of facts. Again, thanks for all your kindness & understanding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.190.9.148 (talk) 11:58, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- There's few major differences: number 1, all of us on Wikipedia - including admins - are volunteers. I, myself was away for 4 days because of a Canadian holiday weekend. There is no WP:TIMELIMIT. You also will quickly need to learn the concept of good faith. Every single admin, and indeed every single editor - including you - follows that simple policy. Your sarcasm, nastiness, and lack of good faith are creating a WP:BATTLEGROUND - and that does not help your case. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:10, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Let me add, you should read the WP:DELETE policy and processes. For example, in this case the article as proposed for deletion by someone (not Fastily) with specific reasons, and none of them were fixed within 7 days - based on policy, the article was deleted by an admin (Fastily). Typically, one could politely request a request from that admin OR at WP:REFUND to reconsider, which makes it a contested PROD. Removal of an article is never to be considered a personal attack on the subject - it merely means that the article (not necessarily the subject) did not meet the myriad of policies for inclusion on Wikipedia. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:15, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
You said "battleground." (?) And in big capital blue letters? I am not interested in ANY battleground, in big blue letters or otherwise. Also, regarding your info on your "volunteer" capacity on Wiki & Canadian Holiday info. I'm unclear why you've shared that information, as I'm also unclear that there exists any battleground taking place, in this tiny white window box posting. Perplexed. I won't bother you further with my inquiries on what I thought was a Wiki inquiry page, as (based on your statements above) I believe inquiries upset you....(?) Truly, sincerely & completely very sorry for all misunderstandings, Helen Darras
- He shared the volunteer info because it's actually rather significant. With the exception of a handful of users, most of whom sign with a "(WMF)" tag appended to their names, every user on Wikipedia, administrators included, are unpaid volunteers. They're not exactly under any obligation to obey requests from people, and indeed most ignore a request if it's beyond their abilities or not part of their interests. Secondly, WP:BATTLEFIELD is a shortcut to WP:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a battleground, which is a section of policy that says (CliffsNotes version) that Wikipedia is not a place for continuous arguments. Third, this is a user's talk page. The only inquiry you're making is to the user this page belongs to; Bwilkins and I only responded because this page is on our watchlists. —Jeremy v^_^v Components:V S M 16:50, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- (Fastily: sorry, I was trying to help this editor - back to you! (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 16:28, 11 October 2011 (UTC))
I'm so sorry for the delay in responding; I had a pretty nasty flu. Yes, please userfy them so I can work on them some more before re-posting. Thank you so much, Fastily! Alexandra Adotrde (talk) 12:56, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'm a stupid clutz and accidentally edited your archive. *slaps self with trout* Adotrde (talk) 12:56, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Vicky David Gallery Article Reinstatement
Fastily, I have reviewed your disputes against this article and do discount that it has a couple mistakes. I can also verify all of the given information is true and correct. As this is the first time working with wikipedia can you give the article writers some recommendations on how to get this article reinstated. Our team will be working with the copywriters to best resolve this small issue. We thank you for your assistance in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpcconsulting (talk • contribs) 18:54, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Help Desk FYI
This section of the help desk mentions an admin action you took recently. Just an FYI. TNXMan 20:53, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 03:46, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Image
My image was indeed free. TheThingy TalkWebsite 23:00, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Could you specify the image in question? It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:47, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
88.104.129.166 requesting unblock
88.104.129.166 (talk · contribs) is currently requesting unblock; looks like you set a range block on 88.104.128.0/20 (block range · block log (global) · WHOIS (partial)). I took a quick look around, but wasn't able to find any context. Any chance you could provide some insight? – Luna Santin (talk) 00:35, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Someone was IP hopping on that range. I forget who, but I'm certain it was a banned user. If necessary I can try to find the details. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:49, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
the flying heads
hi i know you deleted the flying heads. and i won't put it back on but is there any way i can see what i've written so i can keep that on my computer? thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flyingheadslover21 (talk • contribs) 01:11, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Second wind (sleep) late contested prod
There are plenty of sources out there like this one. Marcus Qwertyus 02:29, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Are you willing to revise this article in a timely manner if I restore it? -FASTILY (TALK) 03:50, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Indian Football
Hey mate I am very sorry for disturbing you as you most likely have millions of other things to do but regarding my now reopened page History of Indian Football, why did you put it back up. I don't know why I am asking. I am just very curious. Sorry once again if I have disturbed you. --Arsenalkid700 (talk) 03:57, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Could you please restore Lal Tip? It was a disambiguation page, not an G12 candidate. This site www.avi-series.com/Lal.Tip.html is my own site. so i just copied that article in my site nothing else. Thank you --Avibd (talk) 08:37, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. For the article to be used on wikipedia, your website must explicitly state that the text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). In general, verbatim copying of text from other websites is not allowed, even if you hold the copyright (we have no way of verifying that you are actually the copyright holder). Cheers, — Oli OR Pyfan! 09:18, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
My recent block
I'm fairly disappointed. In spite of the 1RR technicality, you could have solved it in a friendlier way than a silent week long block, especially considering the amount of constructive edits I have made here. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 13:46, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- By the way, I have just been reverted after politely asking not to do that and continue the discussion I started on the talk page. I have reverted that, which counts for my first reversal of the day (the original edit was removal of contentious information). I would appreciate an honest response and possibly some help as well. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 19:13, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- You knowingly breached 1RR, despite a warning on your page; I find it odd that you think you should be exempted from 1RR based on tenure. This matter has gone to WP:AE since your third edit after being released from your previous block was the same type of revert that led you to violate 1RR in the first place. FWIW, I'm afraid there's not much I can do for you. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:41, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- So when I remove contentious information and politely request editors not to reinsert before consensus is reached, it's OK for an editor to blatantly disregard that request, reinsert challenged information and reply to me with "nonsense" and "your comments merit no response", refusing to continue discussion. Furthermore, this editor seems to have reported oh so many editors that disagree with his agenda to the same noticeboard he reported me, after a series of tendentious edits as I just described. Logic, anyone? Hearfourmewesique (talk) 22:00, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- You knowingly breached 1RR, despite a warning on your page; I find it odd that you think you should be exempted from 1RR based on tenure. This matter has gone to WP:AE since your third edit after being released from your previous block was the same type of revert that led you to violate 1RR in the first place. FWIW, I'm afraid there's not much I can do for you. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:41, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
History of Indian Football
Why did you delete History of Indian Football. Did you even look at the talk page of that article which explains why it should not be put down. All that work that I did to make that article is now gone. I DID NOT COPYRIGHT THAT ARTICLE!!! Once again if you looked at the talk page you would have seen that. --FootballinIndiaWiki (talk) 22:33, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G12 -FASTILY (TALK) 22:58, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Once again that stuff that was on that wikipedia page was made before that Hard Tackle page was created. THERE WAS NO COPYING! --FootballinIndiaWiki (talk) 23:01, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Let's get a second opinion shall we? -FASTILY (TALK) 23:03, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fine we will then wait. Also just to clarify sorry if I sound really mad at you for deleting the article, I am not. I am just mad at the user that originally put it up for speedy deletion from the beginning. --FootballinIndiaWiki (talk) 23:05, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Let's get a second opinion shall we? -FASTILY (TALK) 23:03, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Once again that stuff that was on that wikipedia page was made before that Hard Tackle page was created. THERE WAS NO COPYING! --FootballinIndiaWiki (talk) 23:01, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Sorry to butt in here, but I had intended to edit this before it was deleted so I do have some knowledge of what's going on. According to the Duplication Detector Report prior to deletion, the longest passage of the article which duplicated the Hard Tackle page was fifteen words in the first section. Second place went to the link in the CSD template, and third (I think) was the phrase "goals for India". If fifteen words in a thousand-word article constitutes unambiguous copyright violation, the policy must have changed somewhat since I last read it. Alzarian16 (talk) 20:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- Bringing this back out the archive since everything seems to have gone quiet... any comments? Alzarian16 (talk) 16:41, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Very well. Please remove the offending text. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:45, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for reconsidering. I'm in the process of rewriting now; there doesn't seem to be too much to fix, so it shouldn't take long. Alzarian16 (talk) 19:59, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Very well. Please remove the offending text. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:45, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Ughh sorry
Sorry about my tardiness :S I'm free when your busy and vice-versa, it's getting really annoying. Anyway, after some 2-3 weeks delay >.< I've answered your questions and I hope they are satisfactory. With Freedom of Panorama, I didn't read the individual country-by-country variants, though, if you wish I will. My sincerest apologies for the tardiness once again. Regards, —James (Talk • Contribs) • 9:16pm • 11:16, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- No worries, I'll review shortly. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:00, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Indian temple problems
I thought I'd drop a note here as you've dealt with some of the Indian temple articles I tagged for CSD (G12). I'm seeing a nasty pattern in these articles, and have requested help for investigation at Village pump. Pesky (talk …stalk!) 12:15, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know. I'll comment as necessary. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:05, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
I apparently have misunderstood something or have used an incorrect designation. I am attempting to restore a photograph to a page which was cited as an F4, lack of licensing information. I have received written authorization from the photographer who took the picture and can produce that authorization allowing me to use the picture without restriction, which to my understanding makes it fair use. If I have misconstrued something, please tell me what I must do to properly submit the photograph. I have attempted to resubmit it with an expanded explanation of the permission for use. If something else is required, what might that be? Drphreddee (talk) 13:43, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Dear Fastily, you have recently deleted the file File:Dimitriadis 505.jpg. However, in OTRS ticket #2011100110009351 there was sufficient permission for the file to be used on Wikipedia. I believe I put the OTRS Permission template on the image, but since it is deleted, I can not double check this. Can you check for me if you are still sure that the image should be deleted, and let me know if it was deleted by mistake, or if I did not mention the OTRS permission properly enough, or if there was even another reason? Thanks in advance for your coorporation, Edoderoo (talk) 17:06, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Restored and templates updated. Sorry for the inconvenience. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:08, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
It looks like you deleted a category page I had thrown together, 'Category: Southeastern Conference soccer'. The page now says "(G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page)" Yep, that was me. I accidentally blanked the page. I still think we need this category though as soccer is becoming increasingly popular, the SEC Tournament and three teams already have their own wikipedia pages. (Texas A&M also has a page and will be joining the SEC next July) Sorry about the mix up, but if this page was deleted because I accidentally blanked the page, please put the page back up.
Thanks J1776 (talk) 21:36, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Go ahead and recreate it. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:43, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Is there a queue to suggest potential entries?
Is there a place to suggest an entry? Since I fail to see how my entry read as an ad, perhaps someone else could take a crack at it. (I was trying to refine it, but thought it was a reasonable stub. I looked for similar entries as a guide to refining it.) --Kevin Cole (talk) 21:55, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Requested articles is the place to suggest or request entries. The problem with it is that it is indeed a queue... a very long queue. Some articles requested there don't get created for years. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:58, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
You deleated my page (Addendorial) unfairly
I specifically stated it was UNOFFICIAL and I was only attempting to be creative. I am actually finding uses for it. I will not currently share them so they are not plagiarized. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thenewmathemagician (talk • contribs) 22:57, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G3 -FASTILYs (TALK) 00:45, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- See also Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day. By the way, your made up term "addendorial" is actually called triangular number. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:09, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Files without fair use rationale
I started going through this list and tagging files without rationales, either template or raw, as F6 with AWB. Should I continue, or should I do this by hand (I am already reviewing every page in AWB)? — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 23:00, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- I would use AWB, that is, unless you enjoy the carpal tunnel that results from tagging by hand ;) Cheers, FASTILYs (TALK) 00:45, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- There are a LOT of mistagged files, {{wrong license}}, and other more complex problems. Since I'm working in alphabetical order and being very lenient, can you look at the ones I'm skipping over? — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 01:38, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- I can certainly do that, time permitting. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 09:28, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- There are a LOT of mistagged files, {{wrong license}}, and other more complex problems. Since I'm working in alphabetical order and being very lenient, can you look at the ones I'm skipping over? — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 01:38, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Again,
Sorry to bug you again, but I ran into a truely terrible editor, User:The Last Angry Man who is disrupting several articles. He came off a permanant block just last month, he has since already been topic banned for being a poor editor at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement, but has now moved to other articles with the same crap such as removing people from a list against consensus at Ex-gay movement, threatening to label Hamas a terrorist organization at August 2010 West Bank shooting attack, and actually editing Al-Qaeda to label them a terrorist group against WP:TERRORIST. So my question is what do I do about this editor, how do I get the people who blocked him first for being disruptive to block him again? Thanks, Public awareness (talk) 01:22, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Actually I think I'm just going to stop editing outside the ref desk, wikipedia is just a terrible website. Thanks for your help though, Public awareness (talk) 04:13, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Alright, well, I'm sorry to hear that. Hope you reconsider in the future. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 09:29, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Abdullah Ejaz
How will u know that Pakistani model Abdullah Ejaz is notable. Is the website of Fashion Central not enough for you and Pakistani websites are not reliable for you. If all this is true then how will you recognize a notable person is notable for Wikipedia if Pakistani websites are not reliable.--Jozoisis (talk) 06:39, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Since you already recreated the article, I'm really not sure why you're messaging me... -FASTILY (TALK) 09:30, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
A little help?
Hi Fastily! I've come here for a little help as you were the admin who deleted two articles as I tagged them {{db-move}}. The issue is regarding three articles, Saathiya – Pyar ka Naya Ehsaas, Saathiya (TV series) and Saath Nibhaana Saathiya. The first article (Saathiya – Pyar ka Naya Ehsaas) was a 2004 TV series which was exclusively known by its full name, and should thus be located at "Saathiya – Pyar ka Naya Ehsaas". The third article (Saath Nibhaana Saathiya) is an extremely popular 2011 series which people call "Saathiya" and thus should be known as "Saathiya (TV series)". I had moved these yesterday, but Survir (talk · contribs) moved 'em back, saying that the first serial is referred to as Saathiya. If this was the case, a Google seach would atleast mention the 2004 serial somewhere. Yes, it refers to the Star Plus series as "Saath Nibhaana Saathiya" but even the network refers to the serial as "Saathiya" without "Saath Nibhaana" (logo; translation). I requested help from you because the matter went out of hands. Avenue X at Cicero (talk) 06:46, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Give me a list of pages you need deleted to make way for you to revert moves and I'll delete them. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:34, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'll save you the trouble: Direct link for moving "Saathiya (TV series)"; new title should be "Saathiya – Pyar ka Naya Ehsaas" and reason "It is a series which was exclusively known by its full name, and should thus be located at "Saathiya – Pyar ka Naya Ehsaas"
Direct link for second move; new title should be "Saathiya (TV series)" and reason "This is an extremely popular 2011 series which people call "Saathiya" and thus should be known as "Saathiya (TV series)".OR
You could move the pages saying "reverting original move by Survir, see talk page for further details." I have already posted some info on both the talks. As a side note, I believe move protection might help. Avenue X at Cicero (talk) 14:04, 12 October 2011 (UTC)- Done I think I did what you asked, though, your instructions could have been clearer. -FASTILYs (TALK) 00:46, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Alright. Here are some clearer instructions: Move Saathiya (TV series) to Saathiya – Pyar ka Naya Ehsaas; then, move Saath Nibhaana Saathiya to Saathiya (TV series); edit summaries — requested move by User:Avenue X at Cicero + see talk page.. Thanks and regards, Avenue X at Cicero (talk) 14:46, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Alright, that's better. Done now. -FASTILY (TALK) 17:58, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks man! Regards, Avenue X at Cicero (talk) 18:52, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Alright, that's better. Done now. -FASTILY (TALK) 17:58, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Alright. Here are some clearer instructions: Move Saathiya (TV series) to Saathiya – Pyar ka Naya Ehsaas; then, move Saath Nibhaana Saathiya to Saathiya (TV series); edit summaries — requested move by User:Avenue X at Cicero + see talk page.. Thanks and regards, Avenue X at Cicero (talk) 14:46, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'll save you the trouble: Direct link for moving "Saathiya (TV series)"; new title should be "Saathiya – Pyar ka Naya Ehsaas" and reason "It is a series which was exclusively known by its full name, and should thus be located at "Saathiya – Pyar ka Naya Ehsaas"
I've created a temporary disambiguation page while these contributors discuss the naming issues. User:Survir came to my page with the same kind of request. :/ --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:34, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Recently protected article
Hi, remember the article you recently protected for a week after an edit warring report I made[25], well the user I reported reverted to the version he likes as soon as the protection expired.[26]
So looks like he did not get the message that reverting is not the way to go. I don't understand how he originally did not get blocked after making 6-7 reverts and violating 3RR? -YMB29 (talk) 03:52, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- You replaced several sections of text with rewritten sections which deleted all reliable sources from those sections opposing your point of view. And neither is your original research and/or original synthesis related to Lunde. Just because you do not like what a source states is not a reason enough to delete references to such a source like you did. Nor did you try to reach any kind of agreement in the talk page, instead you later on tried to use your 'sanitized' text sections as starting point instead of the original ones. - Wanderer602 (talk) 04:25, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- First of all, you are the one who did not consider what was discussed on the talk page. You just blindly reverted as soon as the protection expired.
- Secondly, I did not delete "reliable sources"; I only removed your manipulations of the sourced information you don't like, along with your original research that you failed to find sources for. I also attempted to simplify the intro, make compromises, and keep the two opposing views in two separate paragraphs to avoid the manipulations you constantly insert.
- If you really were itching to revert, you could of at least taken into account some of the issues discussed in talk, but no you blindly reverted to the version your like... -YMB29 (talk) 04:40, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- So if a reliable source disagrees with your point of view it is immediately a 'manipulation'? And it does not help your case to claim that you wouldn't have deleted reliable sources, that is blatantly obvious from your edits. Just because you do not like what reliable sources state is not a reason enough to delete references to them. And indeed you did simplify intro - you erased all text from there which opposed your point of view. - Wanderer602 (talk) 05:32, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- So you are saying that I only left the text I like in the intro? That is a lie...
- Manipulation is when there is a sourced statement and you add things like: "though several writers contradict this claim...", "but this is not widely supported...", "contrary to this claim..."
- Anyway, the point is that your revert shows that you are going to continue to edit war. -YMB29 (talk) 06:33, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- You erased references (well sourced in several places of the article) as well as all mentions that fighting ended in Finnish victory and replaced it with something else. If attacker fails in its attack that is a victory for the defender is it not? Manipulation would be to make a source state something that it did not actually do. Those things you mention are criticism laid just against the comments presented - and they all reliable sources with them until you deleted them. If it is an edit war you should remember that one cant do such a thing on his own, instead some one else (in this case you) is then edit warring just as well. - Wanderer602 (talk) 06:44, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Well your revert speaks for itself...
- Those "criticisms" you insert are just part of your attempt to make the opposite view look fringe or wrong. They are not well placed, repetitive, and/or are your own original research. Would you like me to do that after every sentence of the pro-Finnish view? -YMB29 (talk) 12:22, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Unlike your comments regarding Lunde none of the entries lacked reliable sources. So they most definitely were not original research - again unlike your claims regarding Lunde. That they may not have been well placed is editing question, not deletion like you did it. Repetitive nature preexisted in the text, the comments only made it more obvious. - Wanderer602 (talk) 13:13, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- No, you placed them to disrupt the opposing view that you don't like.
- You insert obvious OR into the article, including your "analysis" of Baryshnikov and Lunde, and then pretend that it is sourced... All you are doing is censoring information that you don't like. -YMB29 (talk) 16:44, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- You are entitled to your opinion though they were not mean to disrupt anything, only to show that the information provided by Baryshnikov may not have been the universal truth like you had presented it. And regardless of your claims those comments were sourced unlike your claims regarding Lunde & 'Finnish historiography' which were original research or original synthesis from your part. - Wanderer602 (talk) 17:28, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- You are the one claiming that Lunde proves Baryshnikov wrong just because he is not Finnish... So where is your source for this?
- No one is saying that Baryshnikov is the universal truth. Actually you have the paragraph where the Finnish views are presented as facts. Then you insert the same views in the paragraph that has the non-Finnish views to try to discredit the non-Finnish views. You want me to do the samething? -YMB29 (talk) 19:08, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- You are entitled to your opinion though they were not mean to disrupt anything, only to show that the information provided by Baryshnikov may not have been the universal truth like you had presented it. And regardless of your claims those comments were sourced unlike your claims regarding Lunde & 'Finnish historiography' which were original research or original synthesis from your part. - Wanderer602 (talk) 17:28, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Unlike your comments regarding Lunde none of the entries lacked reliable sources. So they most definitely were not original research - again unlike your claims regarding Lunde. That they may not have been well placed is editing question, not deletion like you did it. Repetitive nature preexisted in the text, the comments only made it more obvious. - Wanderer602 (talk) 13:13, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- You erased references (well sourced in several places of the article) as well as all mentions that fighting ended in Finnish victory and replaced it with something else. If attacker fails in its attack that is a victory for the defender is it not? Manipulation would be to make a source state something that it did not actually do. Those things you mention are criticism laid just against the comments presented - and they all reliable sources with them until you deleted them. If it is an edit war you should remember that one cant do such a thing on his own, instead some one else (in this case you) is then edit warring just as well. - Wanderer602 (talk) 06:44, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- So if a reliable source disagrees with your point of view it is immediately a 'manipulation'? And it does not help your case to claim that you wouldn't have deleted reliable sources, that is blatantly obvious from your edits. Just because you do not like what reliable sources state is not a reason enough to delete references to them. And indeed you did simplify intro - you erased all text from there which opposed your point of view. - Wanderer602 (talk) 05:32, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Fastily, are you going to at least warn him? The fact that he violated 3RR and reverted right after your protection expired does not show you anything? -YMB29 (talk) 16:58, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
The men who will not be blamed for nothing
Why were they deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.195.122.194 (talk) 14:38, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
I agree! As a fan of their music, I'm curious to know as well! Amber, the Michigan Fan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.149.163.178 (talk) 15:56, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- According to deletion log, G8: Redirect to deleted or nonexistent page. There WAS an article at some point, and the last page in the redirect/rename/move change list gets "(Expired PROD, concern was: )" which is, obviously, a dead end. Any further info? --Battlemonk (talk) 15:57, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Could someone link the page in question? It's unclear what is being referred to. -FASTILY (TALK) 18:00, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- The page is The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing. There is no reason shown for the PROD. Basically, we'd like the page back. --Jtle515 (talk) 19:17, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Could someone link the page in question? It's unclear what is being referred to. -FASTILY (TALK) 18:00, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of Photo?
The National Archives sent an e-mail to Wikipedia clearly stating that SS record scans were public and free to use. The archivist at NARA alerted me this morning that he never got any reply. Here is a copy of his original e-mail (censored to remove personal contact info)
- Dear Wikipedia-
- I was asked by a researcher to e-mail your organization concerning the display of SS record copies on your website. SS records are maintained at the National Archives II complex in College Park, Maryland and are open to the public for review and copying. Copies of these records are not under any copyright protection that I am aware of and my understanding is that researchers may utilize them as they see fit, provided the National Archives is cited as the source. For the specific laws and legal background of the National Archives Records at College Park, you may contact the address below for further assistance:
- National Archives and Records Administration
- ATTN: Archives II Reference Section (NWCT2R)
- 8601 Adelphi Road, Room 2400
- College Park, MD 20740-6001
- I hope this e-mail is of use to you. Feel free to contact me with any further questions or you may direct inquires to the address below.
I did my part and had someone contact this website to confirm the copyright. I don't think that image should not have been deleted. Will you restore it? -OberRanks (talk) 15:20, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- What Wikipedia email did he send this message to? -FASTILY (TALK) 18:01, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Project Trains no image plaque
Your efforts to adjust the file name of railroad-related articles with the plaque File:Project Trains no image.png does nothing other than leave a markup of the intended image size. I suggest you cease these types of edits. ----DanTD (talk) 15:56, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- I did not expect or foresee a redirect to be used in that fashion. Totally fooled the semi-automated script I've been using. Thanks for cleaning up -FASTILY (TALK) 18:04, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- No problem. We're all WP:AGF here,... or at least I am. ----DanTD (talk) 19:48, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Riverside-La Sierra (Metrolink station)
This edit [27] replaced the "Project Trains no image.png" (please supply a photo template) with a red "250px". Without looking at other edits you did, I think the same result exists with many other edits. Mistake? --S. Rich (talk) 15:58, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- I already mentioned this to him in the message above, and I believe it is a mistake. ----DanTD (talk) 16:33, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
WeVideo - I'll edit the part where it was infringing copyright!
Hi, my entry for WeVideo was deleted because of copyright infringement of a document that I created, and didn't realize was up on WeVideo's actual website. I'd like to re-submit a WeVideo entry but with editing the wording so as not to be infringing on copyright. I'd like my file back please if you still have it. Thanks, SocialRadiusOly — Preceding unsigned comment added by SocialRadiusOly (talk • contribs) 18:48, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G12 This page cannot be returned for legal reasons. Sorry. -FASTILY (TALK) 18:52, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Help please!
Hello, I have some questions. One is what is rollback or a rollback right? I have the option for it when I am reverting vandals. Also what is tagging? What does it do and where i it shown? I am new to this so I don't know how it works. Like how you get back to me but whatever. Can you please help? ChocolateWolf (talk) 18:50, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- You can read about Rollback here. When you tag a page, you add a template to it. Looks like you also tried to use twinkle. Currently, Twinkle is supported on Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, and Safari; it won't work on Internet Explorer -FASTILY (TALK) 18:54, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
OTRS Pending on a page (Sonita Lontoh) you deleted due to G12 reason
Hello Fastily,
I am just made aware of a page created recently (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonita_Lontoh) that you deleted on October 13, 2011 at 07:41 am due to G12: Unambigious copyright infringement of http://www.newscertified.com/experts/Sonita-Lontoh). I am the owner of the copyrighted materials and have sent my granting the permission to copy material already online to the [email protected] email address. I am writing this message on your talk page to post the {{OTRS pending}} notice because there is no discussion page as the article has been deleted. I am new to wikipedia, so please let me know if there is more I need to do to grant the permission correctly. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
- If that is the case, then the page will be restored with the appropriate templates once the email has been processed by an OTRS rep. -FASTILYs (TALK) 21:18, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
File Maintenance: Illumina.jpg to BW image of Edit Centric.jpg - Moves and Deletions
The image that you just deleted was previously moved by User:FleetCommand to another filename, at 10:27 UTC yesterday. Since you deleted the "illumina.jpg" file, (which I'm trying to understand how that was done since it was already moved, unless a "move" in Wikipedia is actually more like a "copy"...) what should be done with the "moved" file? Edit Centric talk 20:20, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Moving a file leaves behind a redirect. Unlike the case with articles, when a file redirect has no links to it, it may be deleted for maintenance/housekeeping reasons. -FASTILYs (TALK) 21:07, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, but what I'm asking is what should be done about the current file on Wikipedia, since it's still technically an orphaned image. Do I need to tag it for deletion before you can delete it? I'm perfectly agreeable to its deletion, since it would free up server space and clean up Wikipedia... Edit Centric talk 22:24, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Normally, yes, but since you explicitly requested deletion here, I've deleted it for you. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:01, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Awesome, thank you! Edit Centric talk 23:07, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Normally, yes, but since you explicitly requested deletion here, I've deleted it for you. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:01, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, but what I'm asking is what should be done about the current file on Wikipedia, since it's still technically an orphaned image. Do I need to tag it for deletion before you can delete it? I'm perfectly agreeable to its deletion, since it would free up server space and clean up Wikipedia... Edit Centric talk 22:24, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion review for File:OTAShirt-Back.png
An editor has asked for a deletion review of File:OTAShirt-Back.png. 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. Belg4mit (talk) 21:49, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Harold Jensen
could you please undelete the Jensen article? I never saw the prod notice or I would have improved the article. Jensen DOES meet college athlete notability guidelines, specifically in that he has "Gained national media attention as an individual, not just as a player for a notable team" - both when he played and since. Jensen is one of the classic figures in college basketball history and had a perfect game in the 1985 NCAA final - one of the biggest upsets in sports history. He has gotten a lot of press since for that reason. I'd be happy to document all this in his article but would prefer not to start over. Thanks Rikster2 (talk) 00:11, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Done -FASTILY (TALK) 03:39, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you - I will update the article ASAP. Hopefully tomorrow evening. Rikster2 (talk) 03:46, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
I noticed you just deleted SS personnel assigned to Auschwitz, which was a valid redirect. How is that eligible for deletion under CSD criteria G8? Also, it looked like the page was serving as the attribution history for a merge, so if it stays deleeted you you will need to revdel the portions of the target page that were merged in as without attribution it is a copyright violation. Monty845 00:23, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Restored. Not sure how that happened. And which pages need to be histmerged? If need be, I'll do it. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:37, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Its not technically eligible for a histmerge, as the pages existed side by side for a time, so I think it just gets the merge notice on the talk page. You may also want to check the other Auschwitz related G8 deletions you made at the same time, SS personnel assigned to Auschwitz is the only one I know shouldn't have been deleted, but given the similarity in names and deletion reason, worth checking. Talk:SS personnel assigned to Auschwitz also had the deletion contested and a couple comments on the merge. Monty845 00:42, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Galveston Pirate SC should be revived
It seems the Galveston Pirate SC page was deleted today after a deletion discussion. However, the club's move to the US NPSL was just announced yesterday: http://www.npsl.info/home/570877.html Please consider restoring the page. (Also, I realize there's a series of forms I should have submitted for this request, but MY GOD, what a bureaucratic nightmare that is. It's just a single wikipedia page about a 4th-tier soccer club. Who has the time for all that red tape?) Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrcrumley (talk • contribs) 03:06, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Delete Solar eclipse charts?!
Something very bad was done, large scale deletion of solar eclipse charts, like from Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_1560, commented as (G6: Housekeeping and routine (non-controversial) cleanup)!?!?!?! SockPuppetForTomruen (talk) 20:04, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Looks like file extension renamed?
- 13:37, 13 October 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:SE1560Aug21T.png" (G6: Housekeeping and routine (non-controversial) cleanup)
- 18:59, 31 May 2010 Arbitrarily0 (talk | contribs) moved File:SE1560Aug21T.png to File:SE1560Aug21T.gif (more suitable name) (revert)
Is there any automatic conversion of links? Luckily most are linked in a few templates: like Template:Solareclipse155_db, but need care to hand-edit only the ones deleted/renamed. SockPuppetForTomruen (talk) 20:07, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Would you consider creating a standard infobox for solar eclipse articles? The templates in the series "Template:Solareclipse### db" were confusing and difficult to read for me, and are likely impossible for newbies to read. Since you obviously used a bot to perform your mass article and template creations, I doubt it would be difficult for you to write another bot to make this change. -FASTILYs (TALK) 21:13, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- I didn't use a bot to generate the _db files. They were exported from a spreadsheet. There's no automation available to me to determine which ones have been renamed. p.s. Isn't this a "standard infobox" Template:Infobox_Solar_eclipse2 SockPuppetForTomruen (talk) 23:06, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- So, should I assume you are going to do nothing to fix the dozens of solar eclipse articles whose images have been deleted/renamed, and they'll remain broken for months until I decide to do it? SockPuppetForTomruen (talk) 16:02, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Assuming this is the full list, File:SE1878Jul29T.gif, File:SE1875Apr06T.gif, File:SE1871Dec12T.gif, File:SE1874Apr16T.gif, File:SE1870Dec22T.gif, File:SE1868Aug18T.gif, File:SE1867Aug29T.gif, File:SE1865Apr25T.gif, File:SE1860Jul18T.gif, File:SE1857Mar25T.gif, File:SE1853Nov30T.gif, File:SE1854May26A.gif, File:SE1842Jul08T.gif, File:SE1820Sep07A.gif, File:SE1824Jun26T.gif, File:SE1816Nov19T.gif, File:SE1806Jun16T.gif, File:SE1780Oct27T.gif, File:SE1766Feb09T.gif, File:SE1778Jun24T.gif, File:SE1724May22T.gif, File:SE1715May03T.gif, File:SE1652Apr08T.gif, File:SE1598Mar07T.gif, File:SE1560Aug21T.gif, I downloaded the images, converted to PNG and reuploaded the new ones to commons. I think this should fix the problem, although eclipse articles don't seem to update missing images without editing, maybe they'll fresh later on their own. I think this is a better solution than referencing gifs so there won't be confusion of some eclipse chart files being png and some being gif. SockPuppetForTomruen (talk) 16:22, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
VMF logo.png
Hello,
I noticed that you have mistakenly deleted the file "VMF logo.png", for the reason of "F9: Media file copyright violation without fair use or credible claim of permission."
I must notify you that I have the explicit permission of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Stara Zagora to create and edit their Wikipedia page, as well upload any pictures related to this organisation at my discretion.
I request that the file be restored the way it was.
Is there anything that has to be done in order to avoid such misunderstandings in the future? How can I indicate (as clearly as possible) that the file is used with permission?
Demon! (talk) 13:14, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- There is a form at Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries which you can fill out and email to the OTRS team. Instructions are on the linked page. That is the best option. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:08, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Ok, I'll give it a try. Thanks. Demon! (talk) 12:31, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you about this again but this user's going through ever single Taylor Swift article and vandalizing them and I've reverted their edits on Taylor Swift (album) twice and gave them a warning on their talk page and I'm afraid to do anything more as a third revert on my part can be considered edit-warring even though I'm reverting vandalism. And from the looks of the user's talk page they seem to do disruptive editing a lot on here. Can you help? JamesAlan1986 *talk 15:11, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- I've warned the user. If the continue to vandalize, report to WP:AIV, or WP:ANI (which may be more appropriate in this case. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:35, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
A beer for you
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Thankyou for participating in my request for adminship. Now I've got lots of extra buttons to try and avoid pressing by mistake... Redrose64 (talk) 16:11, 14 October 2011 (UTC) |
- Thanks, and congrats! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 20:31, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Cakebreak Cellars
This is my first time writing a Wikipedia article and I'd like to contribute more back to you guys than just spelling corrections.
Can you guys just let me edit the page w/o destroying all my work? I planned on SIGNIFICANTLY changing it over the weekend. It's going to get very annoying if every time I try to post things about wineries that I visit up in Napa the articles go missing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robd003 (talk • contribs) 18:21, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Something wrong on the internet
So I'm back, I need you to look at Talk:Al-Qaeda under "Terrorist?". A few editors are trying to ignore WP:Terrorist and label the organization as a terrorist group. At the top of the talk page it even says "Wikipedia has a policy of not calling people or groups "terrorist". This is not an indication of condoning "terrorist" activities, but of neutrality, and avoidance of passing judgment, affirming or denying." This was not enough for these individuals, so I provided sources which show many notable western people and organizations do not think they are a terrorist group but conclude they are an insurgent group. Please put an end to this, keep opinions and designations attributed. Thanks, Public awareness (talk) 18:49, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- I hate to tell you this, but it looks like consensus is against you on this matter. It's not wise to take on an army on your own. I know you feel strongly about this matter, but I recommend you not push it any further, lest you should be blocked or banned from editing al-qaeda related articles. Sorry, FASTILY (TALK) 04:34, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- "It's not wise to take on an army on your own." Thats why I came here. The "consensus" goes against both policy and sources. An editor with any integrity, one who is here to support the pillars of NPOV and verifiablity must sometimes fight the tyranny of the majority for what is right. If I get blocked for not allowing opinions in wikipedia's voice, for supporting policy, for sticking to sources, than you will make me a martyr. Public awareness (talk) 07:05, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Then initiate an WP:ANI discussion. Tell them exactly what you told me. This is not something that needs to be actioned by the community, not by me. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:42, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- "It's not wise to take on an army on your own." Thats why I came here. The "consensus" goes against both policy and sources. An editor with any integrity, one who is here to support the pillars of NPOV and verifiablity must sometimes fight the tyranny of the majority for what is right. If I get blocked for not allowing opinions in wikipedia's voice, for supporting policy, for sticking to sources, than you will make me a martyr. Public awareness (talk) 07:05, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Vaduvur Sri Kothandaramaswamy Temple
Hi,
You have deleted the page "Vaduvur Sri Kothandaramaswamy Temple".
the content is originally created by me and the website http://srivaishnava.tv/ency/abhmansthlms/vaduvur.html) just copied and posted the content recently. Also, I already own a google site having the same information for more than 6 months and being visited by over 1500 people.
Kindly re-instate the wiki page and I will contact the owner of http://srivaishnava.tv/ency/abhmansthlms/vaduvur.html to change it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajesh.parthasarathy (talk • contribs) 20:17, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Question for you.
At [28]. Thanks, Hobit (talk) 20:20, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! Hobit (talk) 21:09, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
You need to reconsider
Actually, you need to remove this message you left on User:Noozgroup's talk page. He was following MOS and the vandal warning given to him by User:JamesAlan1986 was out of line. So was this complaint JamesAlan made to you. I've left a message on his page. Moriori (talk) 21:31, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- No I don't. There was edit-warring. It doesn't matter who's right and who's wrong in an edit war. Users are expected to discuss with one another in a disagreement and not blindly revert each other. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:02, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- It was absolutely nothing like edit warring. Noozgroop made edits to six articles. In five of them, he edited the article to comply with MOS re numbers. Each of his edits were incorrectly reverted by JamesAlan1986, and on each occasion Noozgroop did not respond. Regarding the sixth article, Noozgroop edited it to comply with MOS re numbers, it was incorrectly reverted to non MOS by JamesAlan1986, and then reverted to MOS by Noozgroop. So in six articles, Noozgroop reverted only once, and his revert was justified. That is hardly edit warring. I have restored to MOS all of the reverts made by JamesAlan1986. Moriori (talk) 00:54, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
You really need to read the MOS as it says you can do both all Noozgroops edits were reverted as they were unnecessary edits. I have reverted them all back on that note. So I suggest you stop before you end up blocked for starting problems on Wikipedia and do note you are talking to a Wiki admin on their talk page. And Fastily you are more then welcome to check my talk page and see what was written. JamesAlan1986 *talk 06:29, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Westlake Financial Services
Hi,
I created the page for Westlake Financial Services and it was immediately deleted. The page contained only informational and not promotional content. Please undelete this page.
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 23:02, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hi, I've got to agree it's not exclusive promotional. At least the version I'm seeing in the cache is almost entirely factual and pretty NPOV. As written it doesn't meet WP:Nand doing a news search, I'm not seeing much other than a $3.1 million dollar lawsuit loss. But I think this should go to AfD rather than deleted by WP:CSD#G11. Thoughts? Hobit (talk) 00:30, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fair enough, would you like to do the honors? -FASTILY (TALK) 04:48, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- 'fraid I can't do the restore, but I'd be happy to send it off to AfD. Hobit (talk) 06:18, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, thought you were an admin ;0 Done now. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 07:36, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, thought you were an admin ;0
- 'fraid I can't do the restore, but I'd be happy to send it off to AfD. Hobit (talk) 06:18, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fair enough, would you like to do the honors? -FASTILY (TALK) 04:48, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hi, I've got to agree it's not exclusive promotional. At least the version I'm seeing in the cache is almost entirely factual and pretty NPOV. As written it doesn't meet WP:Nand doing a news search, I'm not seeing much other than a $3.1 million dollar lawsuit loss. But I think this should go to AfD rather than deleted by WP:CSD#G11. Thoughts? Hobit (talk) 00:30, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
The user Karparthos
Hello, I want to complain about user Karparthos. He begins to change things that are not true on articles of certain airports such as Toronto's airport, he decided that Air Canada operates seasonal flights to Tel Aviv, but it's not true. This user was a similar case with another user, he started an edit wars with him and it does not end well. I do not want to begin these wars, because I know he will not listen to me. Can you help me please?
--Swiss Man2 (talk) 22:01, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- My advice for you would be to initiate a discussion at WP:ANI. Tell them what you told me. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 23:10, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hello
At some you had warned a potentially disruptive editor diff, but since then the user who occasionally comes to wikipedia continues a potentially racially motivated edit patterns, introducing POV terms, removing cited material here and here. I have not followed the users other edits. But seems just an account occasionally used to introduce racially charged POV. Thanks Kanatonian (talk) 02:43, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- I see you've left the user a warning. If the disruption continues, let me know and I'll see what I can do. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:53, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
AN/I notice
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:Moriori. Thank you. —The Bushranger One ping only 06:16, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of db-G8 redirects
Why did you delete {{Db-talk}} and a bunch of other db-g8 redirects? Db-talk is probably used a few hundred times per day. Was there a discussion I am missing that you did not put in your deletion summaries? All of the intuitive versions of the numbered csd templates are vastly useful for the very reason that they are intuitive, i.e., it's much easier to remember "talk" refers to talk page than it is to remember "g8".--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 09:10, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hm, that's odd, I thought I restored them. Oh well. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:34, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Note
Might want to check the contributor for that guitar hall article. Probably a promo only, can't be bothered taking to AIV.
PS, scary edit warning ;-)
Matthew Thompson talk to me bro! 09:58, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Warned user. Thanks for letting me know. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 10:02, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
And another...
It's been a while since I've new page patrolled.
What do you think about this one?
I was going to prod for original research. Matthew Thompson talk to me bro! 10:10, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- A hoax perhaps? I've deleted it as such. -FASTILY (TALK) 10:12, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Help!
File:Shahrukh Khan unveils the new Nokia Symbian mobile.JPG
I transferred this file to Commons but I'm not sure it should have been transferred... I figured since you're a dual wikipedia/commons admin you were the best to go to.
Sorry! Won't do that again. P.S. useful
Matthew Thompson talk to me bro! 10:49, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Whoops, should have read the disclaimer properly. It does allow usage. Might want to check it still. Matthew Thompson talk to me bro! 10:52, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of albums
Hello Fastily,
I' m wonderling why this happened
(Deletion log); 22:26 . . Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "In the Moonlight (Sophie Milman album)" (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)
This article didn't have much information like Beatles, Michael Jackson, or U2, but it is just information of young talented jazz singer's album. not for advertising or promotion purpose.
Please consider put this back.
As well as 22:26, 14 October 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Sophie Milman (album)" (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion) 22:26, 14 October 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Take Love Easy (Sophie Milman album)" (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)
thank you in advance squarepm — Preceding unsigned comment added by Squarepm (talk • contribs) 11:38, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) But what about notability, especially that under WP:MUSIC? (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:52, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Insulted by your actions
The Book 'A Tale of Buddhas and Bandits' IS NOT A HOAX. I think you will find it is a REAL book. It was first published by lulu last month but has since been taken up by Black Sheep Publishing a brand new New York based publisher. It is their first book and will be launched next month. Interviews with major UK newspapers and radio stations have been arranged. GET YOUR BLOODY FACTS RIGHT! YOU THINK JUST COS IT ISNT PLASTERED OVER THE NET THAT ITS A HOAX! Billy Kerr is my cousin, I saw how much he put into that book and you put it down in one swoop. Do the right thing and withdraw that comment.
Regards
David Stenson
PS Over 3000 copies have already been sold! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.182.22.70 (talk) 13:56, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)Explained on IP's page that we don't care if the book is real, but if it's notable; that we're not an advertising platform, and that he needs to mind his manners. Ian.thomson (talk) 14:23, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Question
Hi, Fastily, i just wanted to ask a question regarding an important message: Is this user User:Thebladesofchaos violating the Wikipedia policy [29]? I'm not so sure about this policy, but judging from the way the user edits, I think it could be. Can you please write back about this? Abhijay (talk) 07:49, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Could you link the problematic edits in question? -FASTILY (TALK) 09:44, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Edits in question : [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36]. I think some of them may not be, but can you take some time to review, because I have a feeling that this user is violating Ownership of Articles. Abhijay (talk) 13:19, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- This is an odd one, but not entirely surprising. This editor took it upon themselves to play administrator ([37]) when they are not ([38]), and when questioned ([39]) decided to move on and not explain ([40]) , then promptly posted a "retired" sign ([41]), and then returned and apologized ([42]).
As is the case here, the editor in question misread the situation and made a series of assumptions with no basis for their claims. Many of my edits revert original research and excessive trivia, as the articles must at least attempt to be encyclopedia standard. If this editor had simply asked me about the edits in question, I would have been happy to explain. Doing things this way, however, simply weakens their credibility still further - particularly since it seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to a reversion of one of their edits. Regards PurpleHeartEditor (talk) 11:48, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Question on article deletion
I understand you just deleted Association for Theological Education in South East Asia for a G12 infringement. I had already disputed the claim of copyright infringement by stating that the article's creation preceded the creation of the website that I allegedly plagiarised from by 3 years. I had also gotten in touch with the webmaster of the website asking for their cooperation in this matter. Shouldn't there be some window given for the resolution of this matter prior to deletion? - Bob K | Talk 11:16, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Very well, Restored. Thanks for letting me know -FASTILY (TALK) 21:19, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you. I will post updates about the status of negotiation with the website's webmaster on the article's Talk page. - Bob K | Talk 01:52, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Commons help
I'm getting into moving files to Commons. I've come across few files that require renaming, and I've moved them anyway, changing the name during them move. I just realised that it isn't recommended to do so. How much experience should I get before requesting the 'File Mover' right? (I understand I probably don't meet the requirement now).
Matthew Thompson talk to me bro! 12:19, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- PS Bwilkins if you're (talk page stalker)'ing me feel free to answer Matthew Thompson talk to me bro! 12:19, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- FWIW, it actually doesn't really matter all that much. Just don't modify the file titles when moving files with numerous links to them. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:55, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Stigma Identity Management
Last night I placed a G11 tag on this article, which had been written by a user named "Identity Management". You deleted it, but he asked me (a reasonable mistake) to undelete it. Checking, I find that the term Stigma management to be standard and a reasonable topic for an article, so I did undelete and move it to that title. I continue to think it COI based on the user name and OR or copyvio based on the style, but I think I was overhasty calling it a speedy--as I could not identify an organization or product of that precise name. (I've advised the user to pick another name, also.) (Actually, I said I would undelete it before I realized it was you, not me who did the actual deletion, so please forgive the apparent revert.) DGG ( talk ) 15:35, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Don't worry about it, thanks for letting me know. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 21:20, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Unused redirects in File namespace
Hello, Fastily
I see that you constantly delete unused redirects in File namespace. How do you find them?
Regards, Fleet Command (talk) 21:43, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
I tried filing an [Wikipedia:Administrators: noticeboard/Incidents#User:Moriori AN/I] and now I feel really scared to come back on here because of this user. They were warned by another user for the same thing I warned Noozgroop about and didn't even mention that in the AN/I report and tried to make it look like I was bad and then went and ran their mouth on my talk page. I did warn them that I filed a complained but I did it wrong. And now I feel real intimidated to be on here and I hope maybe you can handle this. Thanks. JamesAlan1986 *talk 04:47, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily if you can will you please make a comment in the Incident report? And thank you JamesAlan1986 *talk 05:03, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- I don't think there is anything I can do for you. Consensus at the ANI thread is not in your favor I'm afraid. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:47, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
It's okay. It just goes to show that some admins don't take their responsibilities as seriously as you do. That happens in the end all will get way they deserve because I do believe in 10 fold and that God gets everyone in the end, etc. And thank you for what you said to Moriori, I do appreciate it. And it looks like Noozgroop didn't get the hint. He once again went and made the unnecessary edits that started all this without discussing them. Some people can't take a hint. I just had to revert their edits on both Taylor Swift and Tim McGraw (song) JamesAlan1986 *talk 08:54, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Initial D (TV Series) was reposted again
Hi. I would like to seek assistance again since the original creator of this article (User:Ronaldo Lagasca) reposted this article again with the same contents. Also, I am also requesting to block this user, together with his suspected sockpuppet (User:Cherrylyn Torres) since both of these accounts were very active in editing this article. Thanks in advance. -WayKurat (talk) 09:43, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- Blocked -FASTILY (TALK) 10:31, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Question on Article Deletion
I don't really understand how the article was anymore promotional than any other article of someone living that is on Wikipedia. I was actively editing the article when you deleted it so you didn't even delete it based on the final product. I want to recreate this page but Wikipedia says I need to talk to you first. Page in question was for Canadian entrepreneur, engineer, musician Andrew Forde. I am new to editing on Wikipedia and I just cannot figure out how to cite things fast enough before you guys keep deleting them. Atgrif --Atgrif (talk) 05:40, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
This is not housekeeping, nor non-controversial
Please restore the redirect at File:An Earthbound Misfit I.jpg and stop deleting it. The image was originally located there but was moved. It should remain a redirect for those looking for it at its old location. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 23:14, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
- Very well, I've adjusted the deletion log accordingly. Please refrain from recreating this redirect. The vast majority of users do not search for files using redirects. If someone is looking for this file under it's original title (highly unlikely considering that there are only 3 non-image links to the file), the current search extension will either find the new title or give the user a link to the deleted title, in which the move log entry of the image will be visible. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:40, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- No, the redirect should remain. The file was originally uploaded at that location. I will take this to ANI if I need to, unless you can provide some logical and reasonable reason for not providing a redirect. Why should readers have to filter through a deletion log? Completely rediculous. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 01:59, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- Redirects Wikipedia:REDIRECT only parenthetically mentions one person talking about file redirects. I can't imagine the scenario whereby someone is searching for the old filename and can't find it, but I suppose stranger things have happened. I guess I don't really have a horse in this race, but I appreciate the notification. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:24, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- I think we have a duty to provide the redirect. But the question is, why delete it? So somebody else can upload a file under that meaningless poetic name only for it to be eventually filemoved? To keep things tidy? If its the latter than its unfortunate where priorities lie on wikipedia (deleting convenience redirects post-haste based on unwritten rules, but twiddling thumbs on the requirement for sourcing or the consistency of citations). - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 14:54, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- Redirects Wikipedia:REDIRECT only parenthetically mentions one person talking about file redirects. I can't imagine the scenario whereby someone is searching for the old filename and can't find it, but I suppose stranger things have happened. I guess I don't really have a horse in this race, but I appreciate the notification. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:24, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- No, the redirect should remain. The file was originally uploaded at that location. I will take this to ANI if I need to, unless you can provide some logical and reasonable reason for not providing a redirect. Why should readers have to filter through a deletion log? Completely rediculous. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 01:59, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi. The contributor who tagged this article for speedy deletion dropped by my talk page to talk about copyright concerns with it. On investigation, I have restored it for processing through the copyright problems board. It isn't likely that the article was copied from the defunct site flagged: the earliest date on the website flagged is October 2010; our article predates that by 8 months. Moreover, in the first listing on that page, they acknowledge copying Wikipedia. It seems to have actually been copied from Wikia, which could be repaired with attribution (although it's far too long!), but I'll look into the matter further before restoring the content. If you find articles tagged for G12 that are not unambiguous, please just convert them to {{copyvio}} and list them at WP:CP. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:39, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing, I'll keep that in mind. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:28, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Larry Bock
Hello Fastily, you deleted my page stating it is copyright infringement but it is not copyright infringement as the Wikipedia page i created is different from the http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/pagrp/LarryBockinfo.html page and we own the other page. i have personal permission from Larry bock to create this page. i respectfully ask you to please restore my page. thank you (frank 14:27, 16 October 2011 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frank.diaz1994 (talk • contribs)
- (talk page stalker)We cannot restore the page until you have followed the procedures described for you at your talk page:
- If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.
- Until permission is verified either at the webpage or through email to the Wikimedia Foundation that this material is licensed for publication under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, we cannot publish it. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:26, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Blocked IP
I suggest extending the block you placed on 24.107.157.205 or making it indefinite. This IP has been used for almost nothing but vandalism and trolling for more than a year. From the style of editing, I get the impression that this is actually all the same user operating from a static IP. — TheHerbalGerbil(TALK|STALK), 16:02, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- This IP has not vandalized since being blocked. If they return and continue vandalizing, let me know and I'll simply block them for longer. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:29, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Regarding Treasury Tag
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FYI
Public awareness has now been blocked indefinitely as a sock of the banned editor User:Passionless.--Epeefleche (talk) 21:31, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- Okay, thanks for the note. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 22:31, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I´m Aloneibar user. Why has you deleted my redirect link to my spanish page site??? Thanks a lot. Bye bye
--Aloneibar (talk) 21:36, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
es:Usuario:Aloneibar Please, enter your opinion
- I'll create a soft redirect for you. Cross-wiki redirects created wtith
#REDIRECT[[...]]show up as broken to the mediawiki software. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:30, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Truly speedy
Thank you very much for your truly speedy deletion of Talk:Gravity well! – Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX ) 22:46, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- You're welcome! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 22:47, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of Harry Potter Returns to Hogwarts page
You deleted this page this morning using the reason that it was a hoax. I spent time explaining on the talk page of this article that the fact that it was a hoax was the whole point. I have a group of seventh graders who copy large slabs of information from the internet with no concern for its accuracy and submit this as their own work for assessments. I constructed this article to show them how easy it is to post inaccurate information on the internet. I explained all of this on the talk page and asked that the page be left until after the lesson, which is later today. Unfortunately, you did not read this explanation and have deleted my morning's preparation for that lesson. I also stipulated that I would happily delete the page myself following the lesson. Given my explanation and the imminent deletion of the page by my own hand, I do not see that it would have done anyone a great deal of harm in the 3 or so hours it would have existed. Missjgoodwin (talk) 22:59, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- Nice try. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:01, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- Now that it has been shown that vandalism on Wikipedia does not last very long, maybe you can convert your lesson to why it's a waste of time to vandalise this site. →Στc. 00:41, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- Another lesson could be: Read the box label before opening it. I hope you don't feel bitten: I am sure you were doing it all in good faith, and please come back with some new material that will improve the encyclopedia. Thank you so much. Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis (talk) 02:19, 17 October 2011 (UTC).
- Now that it has been shown that vandalism on Wikipedia does not last very long, maybe you can convert your lesson to why it's a waste of time to vandalise this site. →Στc. 00:41, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion review for File:EichmannSSdoc.jpg
An editor has asked for a deletion review of File:EichmannSSdoc.jpg. 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. OberRanks (talk) 02:31, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
On Sonny Bill Williams
Hello once again. Sorry to have to ask this yet again but could you please protect the Sonny Bill Williams page yet again. I ask this because over the past few days there has been a high level of vandalism of the article. Thankyou once again.Suid-Afrikaanse (talk) 06:17, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:51, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Thankyou.Suid-Afrikaanse (talk) 11:52, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
re:request for rollback
Hello, Mr. Fastily
Thank you for your trust provide that tool. I will do everything possible to help combat vandalism here. Cheers. Wagino 20100516 (talk) 07:19, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- You're welcome! Thanks for helping to keep Wikipedia free of vandalism. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:51, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello there. You removed a speedy deletion notice and your edit summary is unclear. Could you please explain your reason why this should not be deleted? thanks --Merbabu (talk) 07:49, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- You nominated the page for deletion under WP:CSD#G4. For a page to be eligible for deletion under G4, it must have been previously deleted via an XfD (deletion) discussion. You did not provide a link to the deletion discussion where this page was deleted when tagging the page. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:53, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Query on article deletion
Hi. I'm new as a Wikipedia editor. I registered a few days ago, soon after discovering that a valuable article that I had consulted previously had been deleted. The article is about a contemporary philosopher, Stephen Palmquist, who, in my opinion, is one of the leading experts on Kant’s philosophy. I located the deleted version, then read the Talk page that ended in the initial deletion decision. I then uploaded my significantly revised version, with numerous changes that I believe satisify all the requirements of Wikipedia's Notability rules, as I understand them. Can you please restore the deleted page, as it is not even close to being identical to the previously uploaded page? If Ozob or others wish to conduct a further discussion for deletion of this new page, that is fine. But as I understand Wikipedia's accepted procedures, my new page should not have been deleted without any discussion of the merits of its significant revisions! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dao4Andrej (talk • contribs) 08:17, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
IDIT I.D.I. Technologies
Hello Fastily, I would like to understand why the page IDIT I.D.I. Technologies was deleted. I was not the one who has created it (I don't know the username). The only thing I found out is that the reason for deletion was "non-notable company" and I would like to add the necessary reliable independent/third party sources and any other information that may be missing to reinstate the original page back in Wikipedia. Looking forward to hearing from you or your collaborators and thank you in advance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDIT_I.D.I._Technologies — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucia a91 (talk • contribs) 09:36, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
deletion GOBENCH
I don't really understand how the article was anymore promotional than any other article about Software on Wikipedia. I'm new on Wikipedia and actively editing the article about the Benchmarking-Software. So please tell me about wrong formulations before you delete it...?! Thank you Joelsmom (talk) 10:31, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
File help
This file is from Getty images but whether it is under fair use for 'commentary' I am not sure of. I have tagged it for a dated speedy for no license. Matthew Thompson talk to me bro! 11:58, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) He's a living public figure, so getting a free picture of him would be easy enough. This wouldn't pass the fair use requirements. I suppose that licensing it and listing it at FfD would take just as long and result in the same outcome, and I wouldn't lie by creating a fair use rationale that I don't believe is valid, so I suppose that the status quo is fine here. Sven Manguard Wha? 12:35, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
I'm ready to freaking cry...
I'm getting really sick of this sh*t with Moriori on my talk page. I can't handle it anymore I'm seriously ready to freaking cry. I got enough on my f*cking plate without this crap. I'm worried as hell about my baby brother who goes into surgery this month and he has problems pulling out of sedation. I DON'T NEED THIS CRAP! I can't deal with it anymore... JamesAlan1986 *talk 12:33, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- I have just left a harshly worded message at Moriori's talk page telling him that his comments on JamesAllan1986's talk page were out of line, and telling him to cease immediately. The message is at Moriori's talk page. I would appreciate it if an admin chimed in and backed me up, as I have no real authority to do what I just did. Sven Manguard Wha? 12:43, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
On your recent deletion of Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies
Hello, Fastily! I was searching for Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies today when I saw that you had deleted the article as a blatant hoax. Now from what I've seen of the article (which was several weeks ago), it was very ill-written, but I am certain the school is not a hoax - in fact, it's a very famous school in South Korea. This is the school website, and I've actually visited the place myself, and found it very much real. :P Having retired from Wikipedia for nearly a year, please forgive me if you had reasons for deleting it that I've missed. I would very much appreciate an explanation, though, as I'm rather confused. Thank you very much for your attention on this matter. Warmly, Clementina talk 11:23, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Facepalm Should have noticed the IP vandalism. Restored now. Sorry for the inconvenience -FASTILY (TALK) 19:40, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for the quick response. :) Clementina talk 09:14, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#Sonita_Lontoh. – Adrignola talk 14:01, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- Been taken care of now. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 19:27, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Reply
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Just an FYI, I accidentally reverted Trusilver, though it's just another accident. (Eh, I'm clumsy, ain't I?).
HurricaneFan25 20:09, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Why did you delete my page
hi i have created a page for school telling people how to make a article on wiki. The info you give is hard to understand. Could you please put it back up. Thank you for your time Therandomusername (talk) 00:28, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- Well, I can tell you that, simply put, there is already an article which helps you through making an article. There is already something that explains the topic. Olaf the Shakinglord: Mailbox, ??? 00:33, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Flying Yankee
Kind of a strange close, don't you think? SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:26, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- I don't think you need me to go into details, but there was never any consensus in the discussion to delete the file. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:31, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not contesting it (because it's orphaned non-free and will get deleted anyway), but I just found it a little odd, that's all, considering it has slipped under a few NFCCs that are clear-cut. SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:54, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- This image is not orphaned. Centpacrr (talk) 04:10, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not contesting it (because it's orphaned non-free and will get deleted anyway), but I just found it a little odd, that's all, considering it has slipped under a few NFCCs that are clear-cut. SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:54, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Damn
That was fast. Thought I had a chance to leave a note, but I guess there's no spot to, but I just wanted to note that the song is real, but everything about it being a single is made up. Also, there's no source for a title of this, so that should be removed as well. It's like someone (or more than one person) is making up the ideas. Re-release is coming, but nothing about this-so called "Euphoria Reloaded" is true. — Status {talkcontribs 02:43, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- Done now. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 06:05, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Why did you deny my request for unprotection of a certain article?
You denied my request for unprotection of Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia and then referred me to Dreadstar's page, who obviously cannot respond back because he is on a prolonged vacation. Hello?!?
--Bodhidharma7 (talk) 02:48, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- I see.
Unprotected -FASTILY (TALK) 06:07, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Vandalism?
Please tell me what article I have vandalized. 24.78.226.138 (talk) 03:19, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
My deleted article
Dear Fastily,
My name is Miriam and I'm the one who just created the page for photographer Randi Malkin Steinberger. The reason there is such blatant copyright infringement is because I wrote the bio on her web site too. Is there anyway to un-delete it or do I need to re-write it all?
Thanks so much, Miriam
Rydenorama (talk) 03:30, 18 October 2011 (UTC)rydenorama
Non-free files in your user space
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- See a log of files removed today here.
- Shut off the bot here.
- Report errors here.
- If you have any questions, place a {{helpme}} template, along with your question, beneath this message.
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Closure of deletion discussion
Hi, Fastily - regarding your closure of the deletion discussion on File:Wall-Street-1.jpg as "no consensus", I noticed you didn't include any explanation or reasoning. I was particularly interested in the copyvio issues regarding the use of a photo of Charging Bull - I was wondering if you could include your thinking on this. Kelly hi! 05:40, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Kelly, I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you asking me to clarify my reasoning (which long story short, is really simply 'no consensus'; I found no clear consensus to delete the image), or are you asking me to investigate copyright concerns (Both File:Charging Bull statue.jpg and File:Wall-Street-1.jpg are tagged as non-free in accordance with Commons:Commons:FOP#United_States)? -FASTILY (TALK) 07:33, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
IDIT I.D.I. Technologies
First of all thank you for the first answer. I am new here and as I have stated before, I am ready to help improve the currently deleted page by adding to it independent/reliable sources. What I need is the page again in order to make the changes. How do I have access to it (it doesn't have to be public, just for me to start working on that page again)? Thank you in advance for your help, Lucia. The page was deleted on 00:02, 5 September 2011. Name of the page:IDIT I.D.I. Technologies — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucia a91 (talk • contribs) 06:17, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- I've reproduced the deleted text below. Click here (or edit this section) to view it. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:37, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Final request
Can you delete all my pages? Thanks. JamesAlan1986 (talk) 06:51, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- It's done now. Sorry to see you go. Best of luck in your future endeavors. Best wishes, FASTILY (TALK) 07:27, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Fastily. It's okay. I just have had it with everything I gotta focus on my brother he needs me more then Wikipedia does. Can delete my talk page or is that not an option? LOL! JamesAlan1986 (talk) 07:30, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- No problem. Hope your brother's surgery goes well. I'm afraid talk pages are typically ineligible for deletion under U1. Sorry, FASTILY (TALK) 07:35, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. If anything I'll let everyone know how he turns out. I know I probably went overboard with everything but I just felt I kept getting kicked in the nads and mainly I haven't been thinking straight under the stress of waiting for God knows what to happen with my brother. I love him and he's the one I look up to and it's hurting a lot right now to think that something could happen to him and I think that's the fault on my part is just stressed to the point where I'm not thinking straight. JamesAlan1986 07:39, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- But I definetly let you know how it turns out. ^_^ Take care Fastily, you're still the best! JamesAlan1986 07:46, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks James. You take care too. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 07:52, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
My article has been deleted
Hello,I'm sorry to disturb you.My article "China Discussion Association" has been deleted for the reason "the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article".However "China Discussion Association" is a famous competition in China,maybe I should have added more imformation to show what is in there is true.Could you please recover my article so that I can write it better?
Best wishes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NNU-10-Alice (talk • contribs) 07:04, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- Certainly, I've reproduced the text of your article below. Click here to view it. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:39, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Cryptic YGM tag
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Sven Manguard Wha? 08:30, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
coade caesar ii
Pls note that Caesar II is a very well known and widely used pipe stress analysis commersial engineering software package. Pipe stress analysis is a specialised mechanical engineering topic, but this particular software is almost exclusively used in the industry when it comes to pipe stress. I am of the opinion it should be un-deleted. Googling it gives for example this and this but most information can be found on the Coade site. It is to a great degree a "scientific" software package and i could say that the third-party wikipedia rule does not fully apply here. The article could just be a summmary of the info provided by Coade and still be usefull for wikipedia readers.
Regards.--83.235.22.226 (talk) 09:21, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion review for File:MEC Flying Yankee.jpg
An editor has asked for a deletion review of File:MEC Flying Yankee.jpg. 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. SchuminWeb (Talk) 12:10, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Oxwall article deletion
Dear Fastily,
You speedy deleted the article Oxwall from wikipedia due to copyright infringement (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://oxwall.org/). I would like to request you, if possible, to provide the exact reason for copyright infringement (was it textual content, or an image). I will be glad to re-write the article if required. But the problem is that I can't seem to find my draft for the article. Will you be able to let me know what exactly was a subject to copyright infringement in the article, and undelete it so that I could make the necessary corrections?
I look forward to your reply.
Thank you in advance.
HookAndEye (talk) 07:32, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Could you recover my text so that I could make the corrections? HookAndEye (talk) 07:54, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- No. For legal reasons, that cannot be done. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:43, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you
Hi Fastily, thanks for the rollback rights. Just tried it out; this should make vandal-thrashing substantially easier. Now I may even beat ClueBot to the revert from time to time. Yunshui (talk) 08:28, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- You're welcome! Thanks for helping to keep Wikipedia free of vandalism. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 00:45, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Human Revolution
Why was the Human Revolution page deleted? Mollari08 (talk) 14:52, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) User:Fastily/E#G11 (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:24, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Deleted Article: Riordan Clinic
Hello Fastily,
I'm just getting around to asking you about the article you deleted that I wrote about the Riordan Clinic. The reason the article was deleted was given as "clearly doesn't meet WP:Notability (organizations and companies) as there aren't sufficient independent sources to prove notability". While I admit that I hadn't gotten around to adding additional sources, I feel that this article was prematurely deleted. This is especially the case considering other hospital articles listed under in article "List of hospitals in Kansas". For example, the Wesley Medical Center has no more content than I had and has zero references. Labette Health has two references from the same site, less content, and has avoided deletion for over a year. I don't see why my article was removed when these two remain.
I'd like to recreate the article with more content that I've been working on outside of Wiki and with more sources (both official and independent). I feel it's important that people can learn about hospitals in our community and even if the information is brief and to the point it should be available. I understand that incorrect information should be removed, but valid information about any hospital is noteworthy if it helps people get the help they need and I put out what I had available at the time.
Here are a couple examples of why I feel it's notable:
- http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2011/04/riordan-clinic-proposes-intravenous-vitamin-c-for-cancer/
- http://www.doctoryourself.com/cancereviews.html - In this case the clinic is listed as "The Center for the Improvement for Human Functioning". Riordan Clinic is the clinic's new name.
Thanks for your consideration.
If I don't hear back from you in a week or so I'll go ahead and assume it's ok to recreate the article. Otherwise, I'd appreciate it if it could be restored. Thanks.
Sophieammy (talk) 17:18, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) You might want to read WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS ... it's highly probable that the other articles you mention should be deleted as well. This is an encyclopedia of notable topics, and WP:CORP has very strict guideliness for business/organizations. You also need to provide valid third party reliable sources ... neither of the two above appear to meet that requirement. I would also advise that if you work for the organization, WP:COI also kicks in. Wikipedia is neither a business/organization directory nor a place to highlight business/org's. Your best chance (as long as you do not have WP:COI is to write a draft in your personal sandbox, and have someone verify it before moving it to articlespace (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:23, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Some copypaste page move deletions
Hi Fastily, Yesterday I tagged two articles as copypaste moves:
- José Tagle, a CP move of Jose Tagle and
- James L. Gordon, a CP move of James Leonard T. Gordon
I tagged them both for copy-paste moves, as the old articles existed for some time; they were both edited under their new titles as well as their old titles. You deleted both of them, but did not do the histmerge that was needed (I realize I used the wrong tag there). Then today, you deleted the redirects that contained the old attribution history and whatever remained of those articles. Can you please restore all the articles and complete the histmerge? Thanks. --Fiftytwo thirty (talk) 02:06, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Archery at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's individual
Any reason why you blanked the page? Intoronto1125TalkContributions 03:40, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Hefnerkerze
Regarding your edit to Hefnerkerze: the content you removed was not "obscured by the redirect". The "R from" templates are designed for use on redirect pages, and category tags work properly on redirect pages as well. Adding a category to a redirect page causes the redirected term to appear in the category page. This is useful if the term is very different from what it redirects to.--Srleffler (talk) 03:50, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Removing categories from redirects
Hi, I noticed you removed some categories from redirects in articles relating to murder cases with the message "Removing content obscured by redirect". I thought it was Wikipedia policy to categorise redirects in some cases (I thought if the page focuses on the victim then the categories for the killer would go on the redirect if they were reasonably notable?).
For example I wrote the Murder of Lakhvinder Cheema article and the killer in that case received just as much attention as the victim if not more so therefore should surely remain in various categories (poisoners etc) for the benefit of people navigating through Wikipedia via categories? Thanks.--Shakehandsman (talk) 04:06, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- I do hope that now that you have stopped the bot (see below), you are going to revert your indiscriminate removal of categories. (See WP:Categorizing redirects.) – Fayenatic (talk) 09:10, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Old news. This was resolved hours ago. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:27, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- I apologise, I only looked at Special:Contributions/FSII not realising that you had undone them as Special:Contributions/Fastily. – Fayenatic (talk) 12:22, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Larry Bock
Dear Fastily, Mr Larry Bock got UC Berkeley to take down the page in question http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/pagrp/LarryBockinfo.html i respectfully request you restore my page on Larry Bock biography for i am not in any violation of Wikipedia rules thank you (frank 00:58, 20 October 2011 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frank.diaz1994 (talk • contribs)
Access to a deleted page
Hi, I understand that you had to delete Zwinky because it was written like an advertisement. My students in the Online Communities class at Cornell University edited this page for a course project. I would like to see what were the contents of the page before it was deleted so I could evaluate their work. Is it possible provide me with access to the contents of the article? I am not contesting the deletion. Thank you. LeshedInstructor (talk) 12:50, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
You deleted an article on "Conscious Business", which was not written by me, but is an important topic in the subject of business sustainability, green business, etc. It really should be included in Wikipedia. I linked to the page from my website, as I do with other topics, to educate viewers on such related topics. This is the purpose of Wikipedia isn't it? I cannot reference the article now, but I don't remember it being an advertisement, unless it referred viewers to the writer's business in the credits? If so, just delete the business referral, not the content. I work this new field of Conscious Business and encourage the widely recognized subject to be included in Wikipedia. Shall I write an article to replace it?
Rusty Elrod HorizonPath Corp. [email protected] 404-502-8853 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.140.197.28 (talk) 13:57, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- No page ever existed at Conscious Business. Are you sure that is the correct title? And please, by all means, feel free to start a new article on this subject matter. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:50, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Yes, the page existed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscious_business. Is it possible to recover the original text as reference for a new article, or can it be reinstated with revisions? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.140.211.235 (talk) 02:48, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Please stop
Redirects Per WP:CAT and WP:REDIRECT, it is fine and appropriate to categorize redirects. You need to immediately stop removing their categories and revert yourself. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:18, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Wait You've even removed redirect categories such as Category:Redirects to sections and Category:Redirects from songs--these are specifically created for redirects. What are you doing? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:19, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- And look at this What was this? I can't imagine what you're doing here. Please respond as soon as possible. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:23, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry To keep on posting here, but I just looked at your contributions and this is a cause for concern. I have posted to WP:AN and you should probably keep all the discussion there. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:26, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Calm down. It was a semi-automated script I wrote to remove non-category content from redirect pages. Obviously, it has some problems. I halted its execution roughly an hour before you started posting to investigate the issues so I'm not exactly sure why you're acting as if it's still running... -FASTILY (TALK) 04:44, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Okay Please keep this all at WP:AN--what is the purpose of splitting it up? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:53, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Are you authorized to run a bot? If not, you should be reviewing and approving each edit made by your script. You are responsible for every edit made by a script that you choose to run.--Srleffler (talk) 05:29, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Calm down. It was a semi-automated script I wrote to remove non-category content from redirect pages. Obviously, it has some problems. I halted its execution roughly an hour before you started posting to investigate the issues so I'm not exactly sure why you're acting as if it's still running... -FASTILY (TALK) 04:44, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry To keep on posting here, but I just looked at your contributions and this is a cause for concern. I have posted to WP:AN and you should probably keep all the discussion there. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:26, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- And look at this What was this? I can't imagine what you're doing here. Please respond as soon as possible. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:23, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Note: These edits were not NOT performed by a bot. I was testing a semi-automated (i.e. user assisted) tool I wrote myself. Obviously, there are some problems with it. Presently, I have self-reverted all the edits I made using this tool. If I missed anything, you do not need my permission to revert the edit. Please do not continue to leave me messages about a 'broken bot'. I am aware of the issues at hand and am working to fix them. Thanks, FASTILY (TALK) 09:36, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily, editing at a rate of 47 edits per minute [43] is not semi-automated, it is a bot. Please seek bot approval if you want to edit at such a rate. –xenotalk 13:25, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- After you fix the script, are you planning to continue its execution? — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 14:51, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Nope. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:02, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Function What is the script's purpose? Do you have the code to share? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:22, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Nope. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:02, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- After you fix the script, are you planning to continue its execution? — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 14:51, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily, editing at a rate of 47 edits per minute [43] is not semi-automated, it is a bot. Please seek bot approval if you want to edit at such a rate. –xenotalk 13:25, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Based on my reading of the situation, it appears that Fastily was trying out a script that removes categories that don't exist from articles, i.e. if Category:Batman fight scene reenactments involving yodeling were in an article, the script would take it out but leave Category:Batman, which does exist, in place. However two things went wrong. First, it would appear that the script is not yet able to determine existing categories from non-existent ones, and secondly, the throttle appears to have broken. Keep in mind that the script was only running for 15 minutes before it was stopped. Had the throttle been working, we'd be dealing with 90 edits. What is important here is that Fastily realized before anyone else that something was wrong, and reversed the damage. I do agree with the whoever posted in AN thread, however, that in the future this probably should be a task for Fbot. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:59, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Based on Fastily's description above, I think the purpose of this script is to remove content hidden by redirects (except for categories). I wonder why you're not continuing it? If it must be done slowly, so be it. — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 20:47, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Occupy Wall Street image AFD closed as No Consensus
Really? I am gonna need an explanation for that. As the closing admin, could you clarify exactly how you came to that conclusion? It appears to have formed a consensus to keep.--Amadscientist (talk) 08:02, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
That really didn't explain how you saw that as no consensus.--Amadscientist (talk) 21:06, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Could you please take a moment to clarify to me how you determined it to be "No consensus"? Thank you.--Amadscientist (talk) 21:08, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
G4
Just a note, before deleting a page (such as List of important publications in biology) under G4, please be sure to check the deletion log; it may have been restored rather than recreated. In this case, it could have been deduced from the deletion log that the correct thing to do would have been to move it back to the incubator. Cheers, King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 10:38, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, right. I'll keep that in mind. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:03, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
A wee request for assistance
Hi Fastily,
This is a minor niggle, but it's been bugging me... I recently encountered the article Tongue drums and thought to move it to Tongue drum. That page already exists (it was an empty page), so I made it into a redirect instead, but now I'm frustrated - the page title should definitely be "Tongue drum", per WP:TITLEFORMAT. Any chance you could delete Tongue drum under G6, move Tongue drums there instead and create a redirect from the plural to the singular when you have the time?
Cheers, Yunshui (talk) 10:51, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- I've deleted " Tongue drum". Go ahead and move the page when you're ready. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:05, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Excellent, thank you for doing that. I shall sleep easier tonight knowing that Wikipedia's Tongue drum article is correctly named. The really tragic thing is, I actually will...Yunshui (talk) 21:09, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
y did u delete my page-awesome truth? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Larry Daykin (talk • contribs) 12:00, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
You should really be a bit more careful...
Plip!
...with speedy deletion- in this case, User:JakeInJoisey. You deleted this user page as G8 when it a.) had previous versions to revert to and b.) a short check of the history showed that it was only a typo by the editing user. Remember to check the history when deleting stuff, otherwise you will sooner or later allow vandals to use you to delete valid but vandalized entries. Regards SoWhy 17:59, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Whoops. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:06, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks
I forgot to detag that thing I moved into userspace. Peridon (talk) 19:13, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 19:13, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Another overly hasty speedy deletion
You speedy deleted Aaron Livesy and Jackson Walsh on the grounds that it duplicated the Jackson Walsh article. It did not duplicate that article, and you deleted it without giving me a chance to discuss it. If anything, it should have been listed for a deletion discussion: its structure was based on the article John Paul McQueen and Craig Dean, which survived a similar deletion attempt although both characters have their own stand-alone articles as well. Although Aaron Livesy and Jackson Walsh was just at the beginning stage (I only created it a few hours ago), the article was well-sourced and as encyclopedic as any of the others in the List of fictional supercouples. I'm asking you to reinstate it and list it for deletion if you still think it shouldn't be here. Exploding Boy (talk) 19:15, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Also, A10 was not even an appropriate criterion for speedying this article; for A10 to apply the article must duplicate an existing topic and not expand upon, detail or improve information within any existing article on the subject, and have a title that is not a plausible redirect. And articles that expand or reorganise an existing ones or that contain referenced, mergeable material should not be deleted under A10. Exploding Boy (talk) 19:25, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- There is nothing that can be said in the article that isn't said in the stand alone articles. All reception that exists or development info can be placed at Aaron Livesy and Jackson Walsh - The storyline information already exists in both of those articles, and has been edited and condensed down. What we do not need is yet another article documenting the fictional lives of these two characters - and basically saying the same development information, just reworded by you.
- Another thing is that this couple have not been documented in reliable sources as a "Supercouple" - they have been relatively popular with viewers of Emmerdale alone, there is no evidence to support a following outside of the serial. So there isn't enough weight behind this topic to jusify a split-off article. Your choice in sources was bad, episode summaries are not saying a thing to do with why these two are notable and why we should grant them an extra article.
- I do not think it is fair that you bring up otherstuff - but if you want to talk about those - a very reputable source discusses John-Paul and Craig as being a supercouple - and there is sources to support that their storyline was partially responsible for a rise in Hollyoaks ratings - which means outsiders came to view the show for those characters. Whether or not that article should have a stand alone article is another story and could be discussed further elsewhere. The list you are refering to that does have links to seperate articles - however they are to do with american soap operas and document such couples dates over the last few decades - where there was a real phenomena in the US to do with supercouples - so some of the articles are justified by the all of the hype they saw during the ratings boom in soap operas. These days they are generally less viewed shows, still popular but they do not experience the same hype and media following - so what these newly created soap opera articles are up against is that there isn't enough weight or notability for a dual articles in addition to the ones that exist. As a result many are deleted via AFD with little support for a keep in light of sourcing and the fact they already have other articles that document every said thing. So I hope that helps explain the reasoning a little better, and it is great that you are keen to edit fictional character articles.RaintheOne BAM 19:51, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hold on, first, why are you responding here? I've asked Fastily to reinstate the article and give it a chance to have a proper deletion discussion. I don't really want to do it all here; it deserves a proper chance to stand on its merits. Briefly, however, it's far better to split long information into a different article. The Jackson character may be gone, but Aaron is a long-running and continuing character. There's no reason not to split this info. Second, it's far better to have information in one article than three. If we have reception and storyline in both Aaron Livesy and Jackson Walsh, that's a problem, and so is only having it at one of those two articles. Third, there is ample evidence to support a following outside the serial--you and Fastily didn't give me a chance to provide it. Plus, a lack of sources isn't a valid reason to speedy delete an hours-old article. Finally, there are sources to support the claim that the Aaron/Jackson storyline was partially responsible for a rise in Emmerdale ratings, just as you claim for Hollyoaks--and I gave at least one. Anyway, as I said, I posted here because I want a response from the person who deleted the article. I'm still waiting. Exploding Boy (talk) 21:47, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- I endorse Raintheone's summary. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:40, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hold on, first, why are you responding here? I've asked Fastily to reinstate the article and give it a chance to have a proper deletion discussion. I don't really want to do it all here; it deserves a proper chance to stand on its merits. Briefly, however, it's far better to split long information into a different article. The Jackson character may be gone, but Aaron is a long-running and continuing character. There's no reason not to split this info. Second, it's far better to have information in one article than three. If we have reception and storyline in both Aaron Livesy and Jackson Walsh, that's a problem, and so is only having it at one of those two articles. Third, there is ample evidence to support a following outside the serial--you and Fastily didn't give me a chance to provide it. Plus, a lack of sources isn't a valid reason to speedy delete an hours-old article. Finally, there are sources to support the claim that the Aaron/Jackson storyline was partially responsible for a rise in Emmerdale ratings, just as you claim for Hollyoaks--and I gave at least one. Anyway, as I said, I posted here because I want a response from the person who deleted the article. I'm still waiting. Exploding Boy (talk) 21:47, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but that's really not good enough, Fastily. You haven't responded to any of the points regarding your overly hasty speedy deletion: most importantly, I've asserted that your speedy deletion wasn't within the acceptable criteria, and that the deletion reason you chose wasn't appropriate. I don't intend to start a wheel war so I'm not going to undelete, however I do intend to recreate the article, which is still open in my browser. Please list it on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion if you still believe it should be deleted. There's no reason why we can't wait a few days for other users to have their say. Exploding Boy (talk) 00:57, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily, he recreated the article again. He quoted whole paragraphs of prose left, right and center (Aside from the quote boxes) - using two non free images - using youtube videos as sources and dressing them up as viable ones. Copyvio heaven. Overides an decision made by an admin. I'm not sure if there can be any excuses either - EB's been editing since 2004.RaintheOne BAM 01:47, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but that's really not good enough, Fastily. You haven't responded to any of the points regarding your overly hasty speedy deletion: most importantly, I've asserted that your speedy deletion wasn't within the acceptable criteria, and that the deletion reason you chose wasn't appropriate. I don't intend to start a wheel war so I'm not going to undelete, however I do intend to recreate the article, which is still open in my browser. Please list it on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion if you still believe it should be deleted. There's no reason why we can't wait a few days for other users to have their say. Exploding Boy (talk) 00:57, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
If the images are non-free I'll remove them, but they should be removed from the original articles as well. However, I don't see any copyvios. If you do, then you should point them out or remove them yourself. Exploding Boy (talk) 03:14, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- On second thought, Raintheone is right: although I didn't undelete the article, I shouldn't have recreated it either. I have therefore deleted it, and have instead requested a deletion review, which can be found here. Thanks. Exploding Boy (talk) 03:27, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Please be more careful...
...and leave my sandbox alone.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 19, 2011; 19:18 (UTC)
- Um...what are you doing with a broken redirect in your userspace? -FASTILY (TALK) 19:21, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Well, I, obviously, have my reasons. What are you doing deleting my sandbox again, despite my edit summary explicitly asking to leave it be? Good thing I can undelete it myself; a regular user would have to jump through all kinds of hoops to have it undeleted, and it's not like there aren't previous revisions in that sandbox's history I wouldn't need to come back to one day... How did you find it even? It doesn't end up in any of the maintenance cats, as far as I can tell. If it does, please let me know where; I sure don't want to have to undelete it on the daily basis...—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 19, 2011; 19:25 (UTC)
- User:Yet Another Redirect Cleanup Bot/SkippedRedirects, [45]. Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken redirects. In case you didn't know, broken redirects (i.e. red-linked redirects) are subject to speedy deletion under speedy deletion criterion G8. There. I answered your question, so answer mine. Why do you have a broken redirect in your userspace? -FASTILY (TALK) 19:29, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Surely you meant "please answer mine"? :) I wish those tools were smart enough to exclude the sandboxes... sigh.
- I use my sandbox as a preload template for when I need to create batches of redirects—it speeds up the process. Having a valid redirect in the sandbox would populate the newly created with whatever the target of that redirect is, which, of course, is of no help at all.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 19, 2011; 19:44 (UTC)
- Pre-load template? Could you explain what you mean by that? Do you use a userscript/bot to mass-create redirects or are you manually creating redirects (via copy+paste)? -FASTILY (TALK) 19:48, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Look, I have neither time nor desire to explain every technical thing; go poke around the documentation on meta if you are really interested. To answer the other part of your question, no, I don't use any automated tools; everything I do is manual. At any rate, the only thing that's important here is remembering that even when a page obviously meets a CSD criteria, it still helps to think whether acting on it makes sense or not. Deleting a user's sandbox (thus making a bunch of its older revisions unavailable to a non-admin user) is just not cool; doing it twice in a row despite being asked not to is just obnoxious. My sandbox is not disrupting anything, and I can't help that the database reports aren't smart enough to distinguish a genuine problem from a user's sandbox set up a certain way for a reason. Please just ignore my sandbox next time you see it. I certainly am not planning to keep that broken redirect there forever; as soon as I am done, it will be replaced with something else. Thank you.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 19, 2011; 20:00 (UTC)
- There's no need to get defensive. I only asked you a few simple questions, which, for the most part, you have ignored. Since you indicated you create redirects manually, I'm assuming you copy and paste. That said, I'll make a few changes to your sandbox to prevent the redirect from showing up to the system as broken while still allowing you access to the page as a 'pre-load template' -FASTILY (TALK) 20:04, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- People tend to get defensive when one asks questions in a commanding tone and omits "please". As for the change to the sandbox, I had to revert it, because the nowiki/code tags are not stripped out when the page is preloaded. I have, however, placed the redirect between the includeonly tags, which should hide the page from the database maintenance scripts. Unless those scripts are too smart for their own good, that should resolve the problem; if not, I'll try something else. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 19, 2011; 20:17 (UTC)
- There's no need to get defensive. I only asked you a few simple questions, which, for the most part, you have ignored. Since you indicated you create redirects manually, I'm assuming you copy and paste. That said, I'll make a few changes to your sandbox to prevent the redirect from showing up to the system as broken while still allowing you access to the page as a 'pre-load template' -FASTILY (TALK) 20:04, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Look, I have neither time nor desire to explain every technical thing; go poke around the documentation on meta if you are really interested. To answer the other part of your question, no, I don't use any automated tools; everything I do is manual. At any rate, the only thing that's important here is remembering that even when a page obviously meets a CSD criteria, it still helps to think whether acting on it makes sense or not. Deleting a user's sandbox (thus making a bunch of its older revisions unavailable to a non-admin user) is just not cool; doing it twice in a row despite being asked not to is just obnoxious. My sandbox is not disrupting anything, and I can't help that the database reports aren't smart enough to distinguish a genuine problem from a user's sandbox set up a certain way for a reason. Please just ignore my sandbox next time you see it. I certainly am not planning to keep that broken redirect there forever; as soon as I am done, it will be replaced with something else. Thank you.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 19, 2011; 20:00 (UTC)
- Pre-load template? Could you explain what you mean by that? Do you use a userscript/bot to mass-create redirects or are you manually creating redirects (via copy+paste)? -FASTILY (TALK) 19:48, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- User:Yet Another Redirect Cleanup Bot/SkippedRedirects, [45]. Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken redirects. In case you didn't know, broken redirects (i.e. red-linked redirects) are subject to speedy deletion under speedy deletion criterion G8. There. I answered your question, so answer mine. Why do you have a broken redirect in your userspace? -FASTILY (TALK) 19:29, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Well, I, obviously, have my reasons. What are you doing deleting my sandbox again, despite my edit summary explicitly asking to leave it be? Good thing I can undelete it myself; a regular user would have to jump through all kinds of hoops to have it undeleted, and it's not like there aren't previous revisions in that sandbox's history I wouldn't need to come back to one day... How did you find it even? It doesn't end up in any of the maintenance cats, as far as I can tell. If it does, please let me know where; I sure don't want to have to undelete it on the daily basis...—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 19, 2011; 19:25 (UTC)
redlinked talkpage
Hi, I might have messed up nominating that page for housekeeping - all I wanted to do was to get rid of the comments page/to do page but we appear to have lost the whole talkpage? Peter Nygård - Off2riorob (talk) 19:58, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Fastily - sorry about that, regards. - Off2riorob (talk) 20:06, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- All good. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 20:07, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Your revert
Hi there. Regarding this revert of yours. I thought I'd fill you in on the full picture. The user that uploaded the image also created the article Jason 'Jonty' Rhodes, which was deleted under WP:CSD#G12. The content of the article had been cut-and-pasted from Jason Rhodes' own Facebook page. If you look at the photos on the Facebook page, and the image uploaded by the user then you'll see that the uploaded file is a cut-and-paste of this Facebook image (all rights of which are reserved by Facebook). Examining the history of the uploaded image also shows that it was tagged for WP:CSD#F4, but that tag was removed by the uploader. It's obviously yet another copyvio by the same user. — Fly by Night (talk) 20:12, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- P.S. It'd be lovely if you could leave an edit history explaining the rational instead of just r. — Fly by Night (talk) 20:12, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Revert? It was not a revert. It was a decline of your speedy (files tagged as non-free are never eligible for deletion under WP:CSD#F9) and the addition of a proper deletion tag. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:46, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
help to understand image use
I wonder if you could please take a look at this deletion and tell me what I messed up or if it might be an oversight. I want to figure out how to get the justification right so i'm not wasting my time chasing down great images that might be objectionable. The picture is of an important turn of the century planner so there will not be a lot of other images that are out there. Seems like you're busy from what I read so I understand if you don't have time - thanks much. Teda13 (talk) 03:58, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
You Second Mistake
Why was my page List of Lebanese people in Switzerland deleted? The entry on the last is a Swiss citizen of Lebanese ancestry. if you look at the Lits of Lebenanese people, this person was part of a national series on the diaspora. I need to repost this list back on the site immediately.--XLR8TION (talk) 01:42, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Greg Wyshynski
Hey there,
Unbeknownst to me until now, you deleted my Wikipedia entry:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greg-Wyshynski/120178294695066?sk=wiki
I wanted to reach out and find out why, and if it could be restored. I think it was some kind of notability thing. I'm the editor of Puck Daddy blog on Yahoo! Sports, considered the preeminent hockey blog on the web. I'm a published author, have appeared on the Hockey News people of power list and I'm rather terrible at tooting my own horn so I'll stop now.
Thanks. Email is [email protected]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.255.46.151 (talk) 04:55, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Range block
Would you mind modifying this to block the /18 for some time? I apparently miscalculated the original range.—Ryulong (竜龙) 20:42, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Already done by Master of Puppets -FASTILY (TALK) 04:00, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion review for Stephen Palmquist
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Stephen Palmquist. 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. Dao4Andrej (talk) 23:04, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Fastily, I noticed you deleted the hoax pages on the West African Tusked Horse. Please see also this SPI I have opened for the author. What I'm wondering about is why there's a "closed" note on the SPI page when it has not even been listed at the main SPI site and when I am the only editor and did not put up any admin templates. Regards, De728631 (talk) 00:38, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Update: HelloAnnyong has now officially "re-opened" that case. No idea why the page was created as closed in the first place. De728631 (talk) 00:51, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note. I'll look into it. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 04:00, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
That article was re-created without their consideration for your approval. Right now, I have tagged the article for copyright infringements, and the infringed content should be blocked right now, unless Marist2015, the creator of reborn article, would revert my edits. --Gh87 (talk) 05:38, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Re-deleted and user warned. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 05:43, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Deleted Francisco San Martin From Days of our Lives???
why this is an Actor on the Soap Opera Days of Our Lives who was written up NUMEROUS times in 3rd party articles? has IMBD has been in Soap Opera Digest and several other articles and you note that he is not NOTABLE? PLEASE explain? (Starpreneurgoddess (talk) 05:56, 21 October 2011 (UTC)).
- Link the page in question. It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:02, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks Barek. Starpreneurgoddess, please see User:Fastily/E#PROD -FASTILY (TALK) 06:14, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Req. for userfy
Can you userfy Grammarly and Talk:Grammarly under User:Lexein? Thanks. I was freaking out over "who added the redlink to the table in Plagiarism detection?". Then the penny dropped. 
--Lexein (talk) 06:57, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Done at User:Lexin/Grammarly. I didn't do the talk page because it consisted of some test edits/borderline vandalism...that is, unless you want it :P -FASTILY (TALK) 08:51, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
COMPLAINTS ONLY
WILL YOU STOP DELETING SO MANY PAGES AND START MARKING PAGES OR FIX IT YOURSELF? REALLY YOU ARE ANNOYING ME! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dssis1 (talk • contribs) 08:16, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Uh. No. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:49, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Page on Kiran Bedi was locked by you.
I had added a well sourced info about "kiran bedi" about her recent award. A few users are meaninglessly removing this content. Please suggest.
Same is true with Pranab Mukherjee. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.95.193.231 (talk) 08:26, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Neither page is currently protected/locked. Not sure why you're messaging me. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:52, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Your mistake
You deleted Time in Portugal, saying A10 "Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic, Time_zones"
But the article had content that is not in the article "Time_zones" as I wrote in the talk page, contesting the deletion proposal. TZ master (talk) 00:36, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- As I responded on that page, no it did not. The representation was different, but the information was the same.
- Additionally, you are creating a large number of pages by copying and pasting from Daylight_saving_time_around_the_world - please stop. While ones like the more in depth article for the UK is one thing, copying and pasting one or two lines to create an article isn't helpful, duplicates existing content and loses all attribution history that's contained in the original. ALL the copy/pastes need to be deleted. If you wish to create such, the Daylight_saving_time_around_the_world article should be SPLIT so not to lose the contributor information. Best, ROBERTMFROMLI | TK/CN 00:41, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Fastily, you may wish to be aware of this: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Help_with_numerous_new_pages_being_created_by_copy.2Fpaste_from_another Best, ROBERTMFROMLI | TK/CN 00:49, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Fastily, I've dug through TZ master's older contributions, and I see what he's trying to do. I'd also support an undeletion so he can continue to expand the article. I've already suggested he do only a few at a time and use the underconstruction tag to alleviate such issues (as mentioned on AN/I) in the future. Thanks ROBERTMFROMLI | TK/CN 02:26, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for handling this Rob. I looked at the ANI link you provided, but it looks like the problems are being resolved. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 04:02, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- @Rob "As I responded on that page, no it did not. The representation was different, but the information was the same." Then go and tell where on the page time zones one can find the tz database zones for Portugal. TZ master (talk) 11:18, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- @TZ, I'm not your enemy (or anyone else's for that matter) - and I think Fastily can confirm that's never my attitude around here. Check your talk page... I'm willing to help you out with this stuff.
- @Fastily: thanks for the undelete discussion! Best, ROBERTMFROMLI | TK/CN 18:16, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Template:Latest stable software release/0irc
- Template:Latest stable software release/0irc (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Template talk:Latest stable software release/0irc (edit | template | history | links | watch | logs)
Please restore this template and its talk page. For some background, see this recent TfD. Some of the links in the section at the top of my talk page and this TfD will go back even further to where some of the edit warring began. The larger issue is quite messy and got started several years ago. Even though the original people who engaged in meatpuppetry and initiated the edit warring have long since been sanctioned and abandoned the accounts they were using at the time, the edit warring has continued. I don't want to overwhelm you here with too much information and links, so if you need any additional background let me know and I'll see if I can provide additional links. --Tothwolf (talk) 11:41, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- Go ahead and restore them then. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:20, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- I don't have the admin bit so I can't restore it myself. (Although if I would have had the bit, I'd have still asked you first to avoid even the remote possibility that someone might consider it wheel warring ;) --Tothwolf (talk) 11:10, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- -_- That's the second time I've done that this week. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:01, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- *chuckle* No worries. As far as the admin bit goes, maybe one day. I've been around long enough, but until recently selective parts of that mess which I finally documented at the top of my talk page would occasionally get thrown at me by people who wished to discredit me when they disagreed with me, so until I get around to getting that re-addressed, I don't think I could currently pass RFA. --Tothwolf (talk) 21:30, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- -_- That's the second time I've done that this week. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:01, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- I don't have the admin bit so I can't restore it myself. (Although if I would have had the bit, I'd have still asked you first to avoid even the remote possibility that someone might consider it wheel warring ;) --Tothwolf (talk) 11:10, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
My Return
Hey Fastily, I just returned to active editing. I know my break will hurt my admin chances, however I would like to continue Admin coaching if you are not to busy.--SKATER Hmm? 13:04, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
- Welcome back! :) As for admin coaching, well, I would prefer that we wait a few months before resuming. It's been awhile since you've edited and a number of rules/policies/community members have changed. In this time, get re-aquainted with the community, and continue building your editing history. Come back in say, January with consistent editing for the past few months and we'll talk. Does that seem reasonable? -FASTILY (TALK) 03:59, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Agreed, fair enough. Thanks for working with me! Edit: However, I would still appreciate it if you could continue to at least mentor me through image policy, tagging, etc. --SKATER Is Back 15:41, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Will do. Don't hesitate to drop me a line if you have a question or if you are in need of assistance. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:00, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Agreed, fair enough. Thanks for working with me! Edit: However, I would still appreciate it if you could continue to at least mentor me through image policy, tagging, etc. --SKATER Is Back 15:41, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Please advise
I find it slightly suspicious that Moriori made a comment here, considering the combination of:
- a) The last time he participated in a FAC before this was 4 April 2006, and before that 29 September 2004. Those are the only ones he participated in, ever, as far as I can tell.
- b) It was the first thing he touched after an eight hour break from editing.
- c) I made a comment that the FAC nominator was someone I got along well with.
- b) I recently very publicly put my foot down and told him to back off from engaging with JamesAlan1986.
Am I being paranoid, or does this look like the beginning of a stalking situation? I don't believe in coincidences of this size, but at the same time I don't want to start a fight over one, all be it difficult to explain away, incident. Please advise. Sven Manguard Wha? 09:43, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Agreed, it is suspicious. If this becomes a recurring pattern, let me know and start an ANI thread for harassment/stalking. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:52, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Your mistake on CSD A10 of UTC+01:30
Namibia is covered in UTC+01:30 but not in South African Standard Time. Wikipedia:CSD#A10: "A recently created article with no relevant page history that duplicates an existing English Wikipedia topic, and that does not expand upon, detail or improve information..." It fails, your deletion is a violation of CSD. Go and restore immediately. TZ master (talk) 11:22, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- If you're going to be a bit nasty to someone in your requests, make the immediate assumption that your request will not ever be actioned. Besides, there's a WP:DRV already opened on this, isn't there? (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:35, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- I think he is frustrated because one admin restored it after also deleting it under A10, and then it was deleted again by a different admin. I've not seen the page itself, but might it be better off instead merged and redirected to a section of the other article if it largely dupliates it? --Tothwolf (talk) 11:43, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- I understand the frustration, but aggressive, non-AGF, and ordering people around certainly doesn't go far. "Go and restore immediately"...seriously? If you ever get to the point where you actually click "SUBMIT" on a statement like the above, it's time to logout and go do something in real life for awhile (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:55, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- TZ split the one time zone article into dozens of smaller, infinitely less useful articles. The whole thing was a bad move if you ask me. Sven Manguard Wha? 12:29, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- There is no deadline though, right? If his changes don't work out (maybe he is going to expand on some of these?) someone can always go back and merge/redirect them later. Besides, how many of us can claim "perfect" first-time Wikipedia edits? ;P --Tothwolf (talk) 13:40, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- TZ split the one time zone article into dozens of smaller, infinitely less useful articles. The whole thing was a bad move if you ask me. Sven Manguard Wha? 12:29, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- I understand the frustration, but aggressive, non-AGF, and ordering people around certainly doesn't go far. "Go and restore immediately"...seriously? If you ever get to the point where you actually click "SUBMIT" on a statement like the above, it's time to logout and go do something in real life for awhile (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:55, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- I think he is frustrated because one admin restored it after also deleting it under A10, and then it was deleted again by a different admin. I've not seen the page itself, but might it be better off instead merged and redirected to a section of the other article if it largely dupliates it? --Tothwolf (talk) 11:43, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
He made a mistake on UTC+01:30 and should fix it ASAP. Namibia is not covered in South African Standard Time - this is content that did not exist in WP and I did provide it to WP. TZ master (talk) 12:47, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Attention: User:Bwilkins is known to support deletions that violate A10, see Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2011_October_20#Time_in_Portugal. TZ master (talk) 12:51, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- A few things. 1) your being a dick stop it. 2)you aren't that important. 3)There is a pile of UTC +/- X:XX CSDs on your talk page. Normally thats a hint that there could be an issue. Please take it.--Guerillero | My Talk 12:57, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- As of 12:57, 21 October 2011 there is only one "UTC +/- X:XX" CSD on my talk, namely UTC+01:30. TZ master (talk) 13:19, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Meh. As the one who initially made the AN/I report about the tz database issues, I'm pretty sure TZ master has good intentions as far as improving Wikipedia's coverage of timezones, but he doesn't yet seem to have an understanding of Wikipedia's own conventions and norms. Given the latest AN/I I feel compelled to remind everyone involved of WP:BITE and anyone who isn't familiar with the new editor experiment conducted in October-November 2009 might want to read over WP:NEWTREAT. TZ master, please look over Wikipedia:Redirect, a targeted redirect as described at WP:RSECT may be a better solution. --Tothwolf (talk) 13:34, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Where would you redirect it to, Time in South Africa#History or Time in Namibia#History? UTC+01:00 isn't redirected to Central European Time, or to 1884 Austro-Hungarian Standard Time. TZ master (talk) 14:12, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- It appears to have since been turned into a disambiguation page, which would probably be the best course of action if it could conceivably refer to more than one subtopic. --Tothwolf (talk) 18:43, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Where would you redirect it to, Time in South Africa#History or Time in Namibia#History? UTC+01:00 isn't redirected to Central European Time, or to 1884 Austro-Hungarian Standard Time. TZ master (talk) 14:12, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Use of speedy criterion A10 on potential redirects
Hi Fastily,
When considering an article for speedy deletion under criterion A10, please remember that it is not supposed to be used when the title of the duplicate article would be an apporpriate redirect to the previously existing article. For such cases, please instead redirect the duplicate article to the existing article. For example, Schaumburg Baseball Stadium which you deleted under A10 seems like it should have been redirected instead. Calathan (talk) 19:43, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Um...sure? -FASTILY (TALK) 20:54, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Template:Cite pmid/20795620 and others
Can you salt that page and the other ones that the bot keeps re creating please, see how many times it's been deleted thanks. L888Y5 (talk) 20:11, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Not going to do that, in case having a redirect becomes useful. Kindly notify the bot's owner and request that the issue be fixed. For the time being, please stop nominating the page for deletion. Thanks, FASTILY (TALK) 20:58, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'll just let it go for now. L888Y5 (talk) 21:01, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- I've left them a note. L888Y5 (talk) 21:05, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Great, thanks for doing that. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:08, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- I've left them a note. L888Y5 (talk) 21:05, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'll just let it go for now. L888Y5 (talk) 21:01, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Never never say goodbey
Since you deleted Never never say goodbye, can you please delete Never never say goodbey too? It's a misspelled duplicate. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 21:07, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Re: Protection of userpage
The thing is, my userpage is completely dependent upon subpages at the moment, and I don't plan to change that soon; so basically, there's no reason for myself to edit as it's all in this subpage. If you still decline full-protection, could you semi-protect it? Thanks! HurricaneFan25 21:13, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Very well, Semi-protected -FASTILY (TALK) 21:15, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Taunton Deane (hundred)
Hi, You just deleted a redirect from Taunton (hundred) to Taunton Deane (hundred) which I created a few second later. Can I redo it as it is an alternative name?— Rod talk 21:28, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Certainly! Please do. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:36, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
List of time zones by country
Although my request for the temporary semi-protection of the List of time zones by country was declined, the edit warring between the two IP users is still continuing in that article. The issue is about Transnistria, a breakaway region of Moldova. One IP user is putting it in the list and the other IP user is removing it from the list. However only de-jure (internationally recognized) countries and their dependencies are listed and no breakaway de-facto states are or were listed at all – with the exception of the partially recognized state of Kosovo. Due to this I removed Transnistria since no other unrecognized state are listed and put in parentheses that Kosovo is a "partially recognized state", and urged both IP users to stop the edit warring.
Is there another procedure I should follow? Do you have any other recommendations, if possible? Thank you. Noraton (talk) 22:33, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- I left a few links on your talk page that should help. Let me know if you have any other questions. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:03, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Script run request
Can you please write some form of a script to deal with this problem? In a review of only a couple of users' contributions, I found >50 violations. — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 00:03, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- It should be doable. I'll look into the technical details and let you know shortly. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:19, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- And it looks like it's doable. Shall I file a BRFA? -FASTILY (TALK) 01:41, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Sure. Approximately how many files will be affected? Thousands? — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 01:54, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, that sounds about right. I'll file the BRFA right now. -FASTILY (TALK) 05:59, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Sure. Approximately how many files will be affected? Thousands? — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 01:54, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- And it looks like it's doable. Shall I file a BRFA? -FASTILY (TALK) 01:41, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
High-risk templates
You seem to often decline protection requests for high-risk templates, with the stock message "Pages are not protected pre-emptively". While this may be true for other pages, it is not true of high-risk templates, which (as mentioned at WP:HRT) are in fact protected pre-emptively. If you are declining a request because you believe the template is not high-risk enough to deserve protection, then I feel it would be better if you stated that specifically rather than using the stock message. Thanks, — This, that, and the other (talk) 00:11, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- I do not see anything wrong with using the stock message. It gets the intended message across and saves a lot of time. If you feel it is not adequate for declining template protection requests, consider proposing an alternate template at Template talk:RFPP. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:09, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- It is adequate for requests like "Protect this article please, because he is about to release a new single". But not for high-risk templates. Perhaps a new stock message is in order here; I'll see if I can arrange one. — This, that, and the other (talk) 01:24, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- I would be willing to use a new stock message, when it's added to Template:RFPP. Thanks for looking into that. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:25, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
{{RFPP|nhr}}→
Declined – This template is not used widely enough to be considered a high-risk template.. — This, that, and the other (talk) 01:36, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Excellent, I'll start using that right away. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 01:38, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- I would be willing to use a new stock message, when it's added to Template:RFPP. Thanks for looking into that. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:25, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- It is adequate for requests like "Protect this article please, because he is about to release a new single". But not for high-risk templates. Perhaps a new stock message is in order here; I'll see if I can arrange one. — This, that, and the other (talk) 01:24, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Kindly explain why you deleted this article. You do not simply delete articles you want to move, losing their entire edit histories, and then not move them anyway. -- Necrothesp (talk) 00:23, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- You have also deleted perfectly good redirects (e.g. First Class Detective Sergeant and Clerk Sergeant). I don't know what you think you're doing, but this is completely unacceptable behaviour. -- Necrothesp (talk) 00:41, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Okay, two things:
- Are you sure you know what you're doing? If you need help, the new admin school is this way. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:16, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- So, you think it's acceptable just to delete an article do you? Since when? Where's your justification for this? I'm aware of the capitalisation issue, but it doesn't mean just deleting a page then leaving it deleted. That looks like vandalism. All you need to do is move the page and then change the redirects, not delete everything. Not really too hard is it! -- Necrothesp (talk) 01:26, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Man, you just don't get the cues do you? A bit about me: I am more happy to explain my rationale and correct mistakes for users who ask politely. Want my help? Ask again, politely. Otherwise, get off my talk page. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:35, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Why should I ask politely when you are unable to correctly apply procedure? I have just moved the articles to lower case and redirected the redirects without any need for deletions or tags. Why on earth were you unable to do the same? Do I want your help? No thanks. I went to that new admin school long before you did. I just wanted an explanation as to your actions. Which you are clearly too arrogant to provide. -- Necrothesp (talk) 01:41, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Okay, bye. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:42, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Why should I ask politely when you are unable to correctly apply procedure? I have just moved the articles to lower case and redirected the redirects without any need for deletions or tags. Why on earth were you unable to do the same? Do I want your help? No thanks. I went to that new admin school long before you did. I just wanted an explanation as to your actions. Which you are clearly too arrogant to provide. -- Necrothesp (talk) 01:41, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Man, you just don't get the cues do you? A bit about me: I am more happy to explain my rationale and correct mistakes for users who ask politely. Want my help? Ask again, politely. Otherwise, get off my talk page. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:35, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- So, you think it's acceptable just to delete an article do you? Since when? Where's your justification for this? I'm aware of the capitalisation issue, but it doesn't mean just deleting a page then leaving it deleted. That looks like vandalism. All you need to do is move the page and then change the redirects, not delete everything. Not really too hard is it! -- Necrothesp (talk) 01:26, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
My Page
Hi, My page was deleted because I supposedly advertised something that I don't even know of. I was just making a page for my horse who has an interesting story. I do not intend to sound mean at all :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crossfirefarm (talk • contribs) 01:47, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hello Crossfirefarm. Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. While your horse may be important to you, it does not appear to meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that submission is not suitable for Wikipedia. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 06:03, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
"Booktrack" Page
Hello Fastily,
I wanted to get in touch with you about your removal of the "Booktrack" page from the Wikipedia site. It appears that you deleted the page due to it violating the copyright of an article posted on Zepy.net. While I appreciate the thoroughness of your citation, it appears that the article from Zepy was in and of itself a blatant plagiary of the press release that the company released and that was cited in the initial article. [You can see the original press release at http://www.booktrack.com/blog.do?pid=1]. Given that this is information that has been sanctioned for release by the company and that it was properly cited in the original article, would it be possible to reconsider the deletion of this article?
Thanks so much,
Josh Hirschland — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.47.119.102 (talk) 02:16, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of cite doi as "Test page"
Hi, can you explain how your deletion of Template:Cite doi/10.1089.2F106652700750050961 falls under G2? It is (or was until you deleted it) a subpage used by {{cite doi}} to provide one of the citations in Nir Friedman, not a test page at all. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:21, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hm, I'm fairly certain it was a test page when I deleted it. Apparently that wasn't the case. Thanks for letting me know. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 06:05, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, could you undelete this image? I might not have been clear in my comment, but what I really meant was "change free copyright tag to fair use and keep." -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:41, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Facepalm -FASTILY (TALK) 06:05, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
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Larry Bock
Fastily, i request a restoration of Larry bock page for i am not in any violation of Wikipedia rules please. frank 22:24, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Can you please restore the page you deleted. frank 01:49, 22 October 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frank.diaz1994 (talk • contribs)
- Hi Frank, to answer your question, please refer to the link Fastily posted above. Content/articles that violate Wikipedia's policies (and Federal Law) against violating copyright cannot and will not be restored (not even to userspace). Please click the link Fastily provided above - additionally, you may wish to review WP:COPYVIO as well. Hope that helps. This does not prevent you from recreating the article - it simply means you cannot recreate it by violating copyrights (or other policies and guidelines). Best, ROBERTMFROMLI | TK/CN 19:19, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Deleting redirects
Fastily, please be a little more careful when deleting redirects. I've come across two instances (Talk:Akawaio and Category:Kenyan prisoners and detainees) where deletion was not merited. The first wasn't a redirect, while the second was a mishandled redirect attempt. — ξxplicit 18:49, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
DataTune
Hello. I have noticed you have deleted the page "DataTune". I would like to create it again, and this time, kindly ask you for guidelines to avoid making it look commercial or promotional data. Thanks. Vulik. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vullik (talk • contribs) 04:43, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
External Stowage Platform
Hi
I wondered if something had gone wrong in the page moves and deletes?
The page has been External Stowage Platform and External stowage platform - I believe there was a talk page at some point, but it might not be the case. As it stands now there isn't one on either though - any chance you could take a look and see what happened please?
Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 16:31, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Everything appears to be at Talk:External Stowage Platform. Everything that once existed at Talk:External stowage platform now exists at the other title. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:21, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
Ashyj555 requesting unblocking
About two years ago, you blocked Ashyj555 (talk · contribs) for vandalism; they're now requesting an unblock, saying that they've matured a bit since then and want to help out the wiki. Personally, I figure we have nothing to lose in giving them a second chance at editing, but your comments on the matter would be appreciated. – Luna Santin (talk) 20:38, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'm going to give this a bit of a bump in case you've missed it. :) — Joseph Fox 17:17, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
- In that case, please, feel free to! Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 00:22, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
Deleted image history
Hello. I am a writer for the Signpost working on the history of some icons used by WikiProjects. One image, File:WikiProject Business briefcase.svg mentions that its source was File:Businessbriefcase.png, an image you deleted on 14 May, 2010. The reason given for deletion was "F1: File redundant to another on Wikipedia." Is there any chance you could check the edit history for the deleted image to see who originally uploaded the file and the date it was uploaded? Thanks. -Mabeenot (talk) 21:27, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- File:Businessbriefcase.png was uploaded by User:SaintDaveUK on 20:44, 4 January 2009 (UTC) -FASTILY (TALK) 00:23, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. -Mabeenot (talk) 02:22, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
Deleted tour of Britain photos
Hi there,
Re
- (Deletion log); 00:05 . . Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:2011 Tour of Britain in Dumfries 2.jpg" (F4: Lack of licensing information)
- (Deletion log); 00:05 . . Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:2011 Tour of Britain in Dumfries 1.jpg" (F4: Lack of licensing information)
When these files were nominated for deletion, I added a comment to the talk pages requesting assistance on how to tackle the concerns raised on the copyright of the images in question. I'm not sure if you seen the comments or not (my apols if you did and replied to them, the image was deleted before I checked to see if there were any replies there.
Regards, Socheid (talk) 12:05, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Content
I am extremely confused as to why this content was deleted. This read in no way as a promotion. It read as an educational topic on a document released via several channels. it had references to validate all things said, and was in now way biased.Jeremyritzmann (talk) 03:05, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
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RollBack
Hi! I'm Dipankan.I went to Special:RecentChanges according to your advice.I just need to ask you that I've been reverting vandalism from today,and have already made about 34 bad-faith reverts using Twinkle.Check in my contributions.Only one time,I did by mistake reverted a good faith edit.And I have undid my own action.After I complete 50-60 reverts,Will I be able to get the rollback feature enabled?Please reply to this in my talk page if you can.;-) Bye Dipankan001 (talk) 05:27, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
please revoke rollback from user: "Wagano"
Fastily: can you put the reigns on this Wagano user? He/she reverted an entry I removed vandalism from moments after I removed it, yet the text I removed was improper in every way imaginable (incorrect claim wedged into opening text, rife with spelling mistakes, improper English besides), so Wagano obviously restored it without even reading it -- *unless* it was Wagano who added it in the first place, which seems likely. On visiting the user's talk page, it appears this is not the first issue with this user. Please seriously consider revoking rollback privileges. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.93.163.20 (talk) 08:45, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
Fastily, can you please re-review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscious_business for undeleting. It is a very relevant subject in business and I don't recall any (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion) in the article. I didn't write it, but if so, can it be edited rather than omitted? Thanks Fastily - HorizonPath — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.18.129.65 (talk) 12:37, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
The Conscious Business page was deleted (not mine) and I am disappointed
You deleted the Conscious Business page (not mine) formerly at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscious_business
This page had some excellent information in it, I am very disappointed that it was deleted.
I would also be interested to know why that page was deleted?
In the very least, is it possible that you could send me the body of info that was on that page so I can paraphrase it and incorporate it directly into my website for my users? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cosmicnexus (talk • contribs) 14:25, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
- Text appended below. Click edit this page to view it.
- User:Fastily/E#G12 -FASTILY (TALK) 22:41, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
Nathan Sosnovske
If you're still online at the minute, first of all, if we could get create protection on this page, as it has been created and deleted again. Also, I think the creator is using multiple socks. I can't see the article history anymore, however, as it has been deleted. Calabe1992 (talk) 04:34, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Warned user. There's only one author - User:Sosnovsken. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:46, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Having seen the changes done by User:Michaelparks, I'm leaning against Bert Oliva meeting G4.Naraht (talk) 09:08, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Simonna Pic
The photo was from a television broadcast, as I noted. New photo is up. We own these photographs.
Whittbrantley (talk) 12:02, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- You took a photo from the TV and are claiming that you own WP:COPYRIGHT? Taking a "screenshot" does not give you specific rights over the content - you may have taken the photo, but you do not have legal ability to use it because you took a photo of someone else's work (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:04, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
I need to contest this deletion of Bert Oliva
Hi Fastily, hope everything is well! I need your help; the page i helped create: "Bert Oliva" was deleted because they said it was a recreation of an older version. I worked with other people including Wikipedia facilitators on creating new material, verbiage and references. How can I get this turned around? I think this wasn't a valid deletion.
Thank you very much for your time and help! --Michaelparks (talk) 17:05, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
List of All My Children miscellaneous characters
Hi Fastily, For that list, was there any kind of discussion? I'm trying to figure out how it was determined that we copied from them and not the other way around. Hobit (talk) 18:52, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Er...Hobit, do you know how copyright violations are dealt with on Wikipedia? -FASTILY (TALK) 00:22, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
- Special:WhatLinksHere/List of All My Children miscellaneous characters includes WP:Copyright problems listings on October 19, 21, and 23. Flatscan (talk) 04:35, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
- I do. But a comment was made that it may be the case that the site in question copied from us, not the other way around. I was wondering if anyone looked into that. Hobit (talk) 01:16, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- "Archives confirm their prior publication." – User:Moonriddengirl. Flatscan (talk) 04:28, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the response, I'm afraid I'm still confused (and I think this is about a different page). Are you saying that the Wikipedia text came before or after the off-site text? I was planning on checking via the wayback machine, but I don't know when our text appeared. Thanks and sorry for being clueless here. Hobit (talk) 23:56, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, Hayley Vaughan Santos is a character from All My Children that was not merged to the miscellaneous list. I pointed it out as an example where investigation by MRG confirmed that Wikipedia copied from Soap Central. As far as I can tell, copyvios were introduced in the individual character articles (see the redacted history of Jenny Gardner), then merged to the list. You will be able to see more non-deleted histories if you look at the later CP logs before they are processed. Flatscan (talk) 04:34, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks!Hobit (talk) 08:20, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, Hayley Vaughan Santos is a character from All My Children that was not merged to the miscellaneous list. I pointed it out as an example where investigation by MRG confirmed that Wikipedia copied from Soap Central. As far as I can tell, copyvios were introduced in the individual character articles (see the redacted history of Jenny Gardner), then merged to the list. You will be able to see more non-deleted histories if you look at the later CP logs before they are processed. Flatscan (talk) 04:34, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the response, I'm afraid I'm still confused (and I think this is about a different page). Are you saying that the Wikipedia text came before or after the off-site text? I was planning on checking via the wayback machine, but I don't know when our text appeared. Thanks and sorry for being clueless here. Hobit (talk) 23:56, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- "Archives confirm their prior publication." – User:Moonriddengirl. Flatscan (talk) 04:28, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- I do. But a comment was made that it may be the case that the site in question copied from us, not the other way around. I was wondering if anyone looked into that. Hobit (talk) 01:16, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
I think this guy has finally started to understand what the whole problem was - maybe. He has agreed to a topic ban on Middle-Eastern- and Indian-related articles, which hopefully should help avoid some of the less pleasant comments he's made; he's also asking for help with editing, which I consider a positive sign from any one. Do you think this is enough to unblock him, or should he stay off a little longer? Hersfold (t/a/c) 23:38, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
- Works for me. I'll leave the final call to you. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 23:41, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, I've unblocked him and made a note in the block log about the ban. Enjoy your upcoming break! Hersfold (t/a/c) 02:09, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
I'm an admin and I think your bot is malfunctioning. I need to block it.
Well, not really. Seriously, though why is the bot removing {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} from images just because they're listed as obsoleted [47] [48]? And {{NotMovedToCommons}} != shouldn't be moved to Commons [49]. Magog the Ogre (talk) 09:16, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- That's because someone messed with the blacklist. Fixed now. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:23, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
BOO!
Hey Fastily. ^_^ JamesAlan1986 12:13, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- Welcome back! I'm glad to see you've returned. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 19:23, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Fastily ^_^ JamesAlan1986 20:20, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
about Blue Note Milano (page deleted)
Hi Fastily. I have created a page you deleted, named "Blue Note Milano Jazz Club". I'm working for Blue Note in Milano (Italy), we need our wikipedia page, because we are an istitution, not because we want to advertise and promote our concerts. we are in franchising with the historical Blue Note Jazz Club in New York, you can find all the information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Note_Jazz_Club there's a link to our website in that page.
I ve created my page following the Blue Note NY description, because essentially we the same thing.
What can I modify to have our page? I really can't find the "ambiguous advertisment" you talked about, I wrote just informations abouts our jazz club! please tell me what can I do!
Many thanks Chiara — Preceding unsigned comment added by XxxBxxx (talk • contribs) 12:19, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Jor Napolitano
Fastily, Whoever you are?
You deleted a page "Joe Napolitano" for some reason. Could you explain in plain english not wiki talk exactly why it was deleted? First of all, I did not create the page. However I am Joe Napolitano and I did go in and correct it and update my information and credits which can all be verified on imdb (International Movie Data Base) and or with the DGA (Directors Guild of America).
I always thought that Wikipedia was about keeping information accurate and current? With that in mind could you explain your action? I'd appreciate it.
Also by the way, there's some of us who depend on the accuracy of Wiki to the public in our careers. People check us out before entering into business with us.
Thanks for your time, next time you might want to check with the source before playing god.
Joe Napolitano — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joenap (talk • contribs) 14:54, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Joenap, although I am not Fastily it seems from the Deletion summary that your article was subject to a proposed deletion, which is where the article is deleted because no one contested the PROD by removing it. Additionally, and with no disrespect intended you may not meet our standards on Notability. Hope this helps, regards.--SKATER Is Back 17:13, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Besides what Skater says above, if you are writing an article about yourself you have a conflict of interest and generally we recommend you let other editors write about you. If you are notable enough they will; we are not a self promotion vehicle for you to promote yourself. If there are errors in the article you can always post a note on the article's talk page. ww2censor (talk) 17:26, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'd like to echo what the above have said. But if you want the article to come back, you can try at WP:REFUND where it will likely (though not for certain given the WP:COI issues) be restored. However, unless the article is/can be brought in line with WP:BIO or WP:DIRECTOR it will almost certainly get deleted again. Hobit (talk) 00:00, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Besides what Skater says above, if you are writing an article about yourself you have a conflict of interest and generally we recommend you let other editors write about you. If you are notable enough they will; we are not a self promotion vehicle for you to promote yourself. If there are errors in the article you can always post a note on the article's talk page. ww2censor (talk) 17:26, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Please Take Another Look at Editor User:Hoops_gza disruptive/vandalism image substitution
Hi,
Hate to bother you, but I saw your comment on that editor's talk page. The editor continues to replace images which comply with fair use rationale with top quality photos which unfortunately are copyrighted (unless they are gimped a bit first to make them fall in line with fair use). The editor uses 70+ year rationale despite the photos being either (a) taken less than 70 years ago (b) not taken in Europe. Speedy deleting photos that were present for 2+ years on Wikipedia and replacing them with copyrighted photos (that were also present on the web 2+ yeas ago, but were not used due to ... copyright issues) is plain vandalism when done on a large scale as the editor has been doing. Now the old photos are deleted and the new ones are private property, so those articles now will have no photos. If you have a moment, please take a look at this situation once more. Thank you in advance. Cheers! Meishern (talk) 21:25, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'll see what I can do. Thanks for letting me know. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:36, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
The original version of this article was a copyright infringement, but it had already been removed and replaced with a new version by Colonel Warden, which didn't appear to contain any of the copyrighted text. Peter E. James (talk) 22:52, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- Restored Thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:00, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Why did you delete it?
Well... The reason I'm messaging you is because sadly you deleted Reckless Tortuga from wikipedia. This had information on the youtube channel and I don't understand why you deleted it for Prod. A lot of people have asked and I'm wondering.... Why and can you restore it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.251.40.67 (talk) 00:23, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
190.161.134.66
Hello. I thought I would pass on to you some information on a user you blocked for disruptive editing 190.161.134.66 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and the same individual for sock-puppetry under the IP 200.83.32.16 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log).
This person has also been editing under the following IPs:
186.107.167.11 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
200.83.32.2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
200.104.181.183 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
and using one of which he has managed to stir up more trouble.
These three IPs are currently unblocked and are still available for him to use although there has been no activity on them for the past two weeks. I don't know if you want to just keep an eye on these, pass them on somewhere else, or just go ahead and block them also. Personally I dont think any action would be too harsh in this case. I briefly dealt with this person about a month ago over the abusive language he was using in his edit summaries. The user responded as if he was more interested in picking a fight with me. Reading through his contributions under 190.161.134.66 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) painted a disturbing picture to me. The user took to extremely aggressive and abusive tones over the most minor of edits and corrections, at times spouting off at no one in particular or at whoever may have been responsible for the content he was editing. In one case he entered four consecutive aggressive taunts in edit summaries on one page, without anyone responding in between, arguing with...no one! Like I said, disturbing, and I for one felt uncomfortable editing any page he had anything to do with.
One thing I don't know is under what IP he editing under now, if he is in fact still editing. Perhaps he has moved on to something other than Wikipedia to occupy his frustrated life.--Racerx11 (talk) 04:34, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Also using 200.104.121.217 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). He sometimes uses multiple IPs on the same discussion page.--Racerx11 (talk) 05:25, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of Tyler Foundation
Hi Fastily, I note that you deleted Tyler Foundation. I was intending to input references in a later edit (later meaning within 48 hours). However, I understand why you deleted it and it was the correct thing to do. I am new to Wikipedia, but now understand where I went wrong, so please let me re-post the article and give me 48 hours to input proper references. Thank you. Pureenterprise (talk) 2:30 AM, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Pureenterprise, Fastily is currently away. If you believe the article meets our Notability standards and is no longer written in an advertising tone. Then you may want to ask to userfy it for you so you can get it ready for mainspace. Regards and best of luck in editing!--SKATER Is Back 05:13, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletions reversed
Hello, Fastily. I was going to ask you to reverse a few speedy deletions, but based on your page notice, I am going to go ahead and do it myself. The pages in question are Main Street - Flushing (IRT Flushing Line), Main Street – Flushing (IRT Flushing Line), Roosevelt Avenue – Jackson Heights (IND Queens Boulevard Line), and Roosevelt Avenue - Jackson Heights (IND Queens Boulevard Line), all of which are redirects that were tagged with {{db-r3}}. R3 does not apply here, because (a) none of these redirects were recently created, and (b) each of them is a plausible search term, even though the names are technically incorrect. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:58, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey
I'm not gonna be able to do anymore editing till the 29th as I'm not gonna be home. I'm going to my hometown to be with my brother while he's in surgery. I'll be back late on the 28th but I probably won't get back on till the 29th. I just wanted to let you know what's going on. Talk to you on the 29th. JamesAlan1986 18:09, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
F5 deletion of File:Bitter.Virgin.jpg
When Bitter Virgin was userified as a result of this AFD, you deleted the corresponding non-free picture, File:Bitter.Virgin.jpg. As Bitter Virgin has now been moved back into mainspace, could you please undelete the image so that it can be used again in the article? Thank you. --Malkinann (talk) 00:15, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily is currently away, you may want to look elsewhere. --SKATER Is Back 00:18, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
- I did see the "away" notice, thanks. :) It's not urgent - it can wait until Fastily gets back, or until another admin comes along and reverses it in lieu of Fastily. --Malkinann (talk) 01:43, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily is currently away, you may want to look elsewhere. --SKATER Is Back 00:18, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Deleted ChildFinance-Page
My article on Childfinance, an international NGO based in Amsterdam that pushing for financial education and financial inclusion of children and youth was deleted by you. The reason you state is that it does not "fulfill the notability criteria" of Wikipedia. I disagree, but would be willing of course to make changes to the articles if you point me to specific instances.
Could an administrator please undelete the page or at least send me the text of the article?
Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Thanks,
Resp3ct01 (talk) 09:26, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
- See WP:REFUND, but make sure you have the exact article title (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:30, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
F9 deletion of File:CinemaTVlogo.jpg and File:the game channel logo.jpg
Hi again, Fastily. I've noticed that you've deleted the following: CTV-31 logo, and The Game Channel Logo, and marked as F9. May I request to return it back so I can fix the authorship and its copyrights. I really caught it using my Nokia camera phone. Thanks. Hamham31Heke! 08:28, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
- You took a photo of someone else's artwork/logo ... that doesn't give you rights to upload it :-) (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:31, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of Auto Italia South East
My page Auto Italia South East was deleted, the reason stated was 'ambiguous advertising' which is ridiculous. The page consisted of a simple description and history of the well renowned artists' run space. Auto Italia has recently become a National Portfolio Organisation meaning that it is of national importance to arts and culture[1] [2]. Auto Italia is a not-for-profit organisation, any accusation of advertising is completely unfounded as Auto Italia offers no services for sale. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chaosandvoid (talk • contribs) 17:21, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily, ignore this one ... he posted the same screed at WP:REFUND at the exact same time. We'll look after it there. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:29, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
My brother
Hey Fastily, my brother's doing fine, he pulled out an hour after they finished the surgery. My mom kept saying "Of he'd make a liar out of me." and I told her "Would you rather he pulled out faster then you thought or not at all?" but he's fine. I'm so glad. It was hard to see him in the hospital though all prepped for surgery. When my mom and my sister went out to go talk, I was talking to him and I told him how much I loved him and that I had worried about him all month and he took his good and and literally went and grabbed mine and held it. I almost cried. You see my brother is mentally 2 years old due to what my dad beating him in the head when he's 18 months old and so he's brain dead on the right side. So he's left side is completely paralyzed. But I wouldn't trade him for the world. That moment was the greatest I'd ever had with him. He was trying to comfort me. He even told me he was nervous. I am so happy he pulled out. But I'd thought I'd let you know he pulled out and he's doing good. I just heard from my mom and the group home that takes care told her he's doing good. JamesAlan1986 12:45, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Ruhet Genç
Dear Fastily,
The article titled Ruhet Genç was deleted and the reason was written as G4. But i made necessary changes and if there is more i should do i guess it is better to do it instead of losing whole article. Can you tell how should i edit more?
Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Es Dziekuje (talk • contribs) 07:42, 26 October 2011 (UTC) Es Dziekuje (talk) 13:43, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of Firefly website images
Hi,
You've deleted the website images of the Firefly website that I uploaded.
These are website screenshots and certainly fair use.
Please restore the images.
Multinomial (talk) 14:42, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Website screenshots typically would not qualify as free - it's like taking a picture of the Mona Lisa and uploading it ... (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 15:07, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Please recreate deleted content!
I've asked once before at User_talk:Fastily/Archive_4#Your_deletion. Can you please recreate the article and move it to my userspace under User:Nsaa/Scrub nurse or something like that. Your deletion was not in accordance with Wikipedia policy, and should have gone through a deletion review, but I'm not up for it now. This is an extreme example of topic ownership thats really bad for the project. A redirect had been ok to do but not removal of the stuff that I added. This kind of deletions frightening people to ever do contributions to Wikipedia. Luckily Im been here for 7 years and now my way around (and is in the position to delete etc. on the no-wikipedia as an Bureaucrat). Nsaa (talk) 17:39, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
- Dramatic statements aside, if he's declined you before, he probably wouldn't do it for you now, even if he were here, for whatever reason he decided against doing it before. The banner up top, however, indicates that he isn't here right now anyways. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:49, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Happy Halloween
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Puffin has given you some caramel and a candy apple! Caramel and candy-coated apples are fun Halloween treats, and promote WikiLove on Halloween. Hopefully these have made your Halloween (and the proceeding days) much sweeter. Happy Halloween! |
Puffin Let's talk! 18:29, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Deletion review for Template:Db-movedab
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Template:Db-movedab. 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. Logan Talk Contributions 21:14, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Unexplained rebirth of List of All My Children miscellaneous characters
I have tagged this article, which has been reborn again, for {{copyvio}}, and it was reported in Wikipedia:Copyright problems as well as some articles of All My Children characters. Since you are vacationing, I should bring this attention to whoever are watching this talk page. --Gh87 (talk) 18:20, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
- I have struck the above passage to notify you: this issue has already been resolved... again. There is no need to reply ...only if the link is NOT blue! --Gh87 (talk) 17:31, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Important Notice
Hello Fastily! I need to request an arbiration for the article Blood on the Dance Floor (group), because there are numerous disputes regarding this article, and I intend to solve this now. Write back if that is possible. Abhijay (talk) 07:22, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
EAST-NMR
To whom it may belong
Please inform us why you have deleted the page EAST-NMR.
The page was about a European Framework programme financed by the European Research Programme FP7. The aim of the project is to disseminate the NMR technique and to give the opportunity to Eastern countries and/or to universities/research facilities to use existing NMR facilities. We are not making some marketing to sell something! The project is financed by public money and we can not understand why this should not be ok for a wiki entry.
Please let us know as soon as possible! We have to inform the EC about this issue, as our wiki entry was one of our deliverable in the project.
Best regards Sarah Steiner Project Manager — Preceding unsigned comment added by EUREL (talk • contribs) 13:25, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) It was nominated for deletion by another user, and merely deleted by Fastily. The reason was "Non-notable project. No independent sources, does not meet WP:GNG". Wikipedia does not exist to get your message out - it's an encylopedia. If a Wikipedia entry is a deliverable, then your project is a bit ... misguided. You should also read WP:COI. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 13:55, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
Xyience Energy
I am writing a factual article about the company that has nothing to do with advertising. I simply stated what the company sells, where it is located, and some of its sponsors. I would like to continue with the article and would like to know what i posted that resulted in its deletion. (BenChilton (talk) 17:14, 1 November 2011 (UTC))
- (talk page stalker) As a "relatively new" company, how does it have any form of notability, especially the requirements under WP:CORP? Wikipedia is not a directory of every business or organization. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 21:53, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
A question
I need to know why my account page has been deleted? Also how do I get my account working so I can rewrite my articles to contribute to your vast internet based encyclopedia? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by UmmRayyan (talk • contribs) 21:13, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Your account is working (after all, you posted here successfully.) Your user page was deleted because you moved the content to Saletab.com, an article that was deleted because it was deemed to be purely promotional--and Wikipedia is not for advertising purposes. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 21:17, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
I need to contest this deletion of Miner Dig Deep
You deleted the page I created: "Miner Dig Deep". I would like to contest the deletion.
You should have seen in the page I created that I even included sources and links to external pages. I put work into the page.
I am a big fan of the game, so I created the page in honor of it. I play the game frequently. I am in no way affiliated with anyone who created or sell this game, nor am I an employee of xbox or anyone relating to the game, or sales of the game.
Please un-delete the page. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TyCamden (talk • contribs) 23:14, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) "gorgeous"? "addictive"? "so fun"?? Seriously - that's not an "article" to be proud of. It was deleted as spam, and with WP:PUFFERY like that, it's not a surprise. There's not even any hint of it being notable in any way, shape or form (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 23:53, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Note that Gamingeverything.com (one of my sources) reviewed the game and called it gorgeous in paragraph three. XBLIG reviewed a game called Wizards Keep and stated: "We recently had a chance to contact Substance Games about their contributions to the XBLIG marketplace, and that results in us having the chance to review both Miner Dig Deep and Wizard’s Keep today. By far, Miner Dig Deep is the more addictive and enjoyable of the two titles,..." My article is not Spam, as I sell nothing, and have no financial interest in the game. My article is not Puffery, as the descriptions used were from Game Review Websites, not just of my opinion. Simon Stevens of XBLIG Review (one of my sources) mentions that "Miner Dig Deep has sat close to the top of the XBLIG charts for quite a long time now" - which tells me that as one of the best selling indie titles ever, it is "noteworthy" enough to warrant a Wikipedia page. AGAIN, Please reconsider deletion of the page. TyCamden 15:53 EST, 28 October 2011. —Preceding undated comment added 19:54, 28 October 2011 (UTC).
Again, please reconsider deletion of the page I created. TyCamden 14:36 EST, 4 November 2011. —Preceding undated comment added 18:37, 4 November 2011 (UTC).
- (talk page stalker)I would be willing to work with you on toning down the promotional bent of the article you have on your user page to see about getting it ready for posting in mainspace. I have had some experience with this sort of thing before, notably Angry Birds, and I believe we can get this article into shape. Contact me on my talk page if you are interested. --McDoobAU93 18:44, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Very concern user and athlete
Dear Fastily
I do not understand why you have deleted me from this and said that i am a non notable fighter. Im undefeated in RSA and are not competing at the moment because of a neck operation. I have not retired or anything and am making my comeback through the press release early next year.
Please reconsider to put me back on as i would like to update my photos and recent achievements.
Kind regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teamq (talk • contribs) 22:57, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Aakhri ladai
Aakhri ladai is a great film. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Feeldon (talk • contribs) 09:06, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
What is wrong in creation of list of specific country universities?
Hello there, you deleted my page "List of Azerbaijani Universities". I really wonder what is wrong with it, why its illegal or unethical, or promotional in providing of contacts of that Universities? Hope u will answer me and Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sidney Pyburn (talk • contribs) 18:01, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
- There is no need for such a list, since we already have List of universities in Azerbaijan! --Orange Mike | Talk 18:14, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Don't know how to contact you, but
Hello!
I don't know how to contact you... But I noticed in FB, that the article of Piirpauke was deleted:
00:15, 3 August 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Piirpauke" (Expired PROD, concern was: an unreferenced stub that fails WP:BAND and WP:GNG)
Piirpauke is the only band from Finland which has been in EBU's World Music Chart no1. They started their carreer like 1974 and has been making more than 20 reacords. It is an institution in Finland. Also wellknown in World Music genre in other countries too...
Just wondered, if the original page is somewhere, because it could be easy to clean the page and make it relevant, if the origanal was there.
Now in Piirpauke fan pages in FB there is a blank in the information. Sad...
Don't know how to contact you. And I don't know a lot about how to work in Wikipedia. Hopefully this message comes until you. .) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.155.132.186 (talk) 21:59, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
- As you can see from the top of this page, Fastily is away until 24-Nov. I have just taken a look at the article, and it does not pass the requirements under WP:MUSIC based on how it was written. I would be happy to provide the contents as a WP:USERSPACEDRAFT, but this would need to be requested by someone with a Wikipedia account. For faster service, someone with an account could make the request at WP:REFUND (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 09:55, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
Deletion review for File:JesseDirkhising.jpg
An editor has asked for a deletion review of File:JesseDirkhising.jpg. 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. Caden cool 00:27, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Re-started Talk:Applied Biological Materials, a page you previously deleted
Hi Fastily. Hope that was OK. Then again, see this. Best wishes, and looking forward to see you back in late Nov 2011 --Shirt58 (talk) 12:45, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Reese Williams
Hello, Fastily. Will you redirect Reese Williams to Reese Williams and Bianca Montgomery? Why was it deleted when it was just a redirect before? Because of copyrighted versions of the storyline in the edit history? Flyer22 (talk)
- As you can see, Fastily is away. I would expect that it's because Reese Williams originally redirected to List of All My Children miscellaneous characters#Reese Williams, and when List of All My Children miscellaneous characters was deleted, the redirect was deleted too (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 10:20, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
- I see. I suppose I'll wait until Fastily has returned, instead of requesting this of someone else. Flyer22 (talk) 21:22, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
- The editor who redirected it to that character page really should have left it as a redirect to the couple article, I must say. That article covers the character in great detail, and with real-world information instead of just WP:PLOT. Flyer22 (talk) 21:24, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
- I see. I suppose I'll wait until Fastily has returned, instead of requesting this of someone else. Flyer22 (talk) 21:22, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Wikibreak enforcer
Hi there, this is User:Basalisk. I'm editing as an IP as I messed up my configuration of the wikibreak enforcer and have managed to lock myself out of my account until next week. Would you mind sorting things out on my java page? Thanks 46.64.86.194 (talk) 13:33, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) It just happens that Fastily is using the wikibreak enforcer till 24 November 2011. HurricaneFan25 13:34, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Google Adwords Express article deleted
HI,
I had created an article "Google Adwords Express" and submitted to Wikipedia. I think its a new product from Google and people must know what it is exactly all about. You had mentioned G11 some promotional touch that article have. I dont think so the article hold promotional touch. Even I had edited the page viable to wikipedia.
If possible let me know what mistake I made exactly, so that I can overcome from next time. Is it possible to resumbit the same article or renew the article I had submitted.
Thanks and Regards Praveen P — Preceding unsigned comment added by Praveensms (talk • contribs) 07:48, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) If it's new, how is it notable yet? (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 14:53, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Could you (or, in your absence, an admin TPS) please look at this template and determine why it was deleted? G6 seems pretty tenuous to me. — This, that, and the other (talk) 23:27, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Undelete File Request: File:SPRIMONT (Huy).jpg
File:SPRIMONT (Huy).jpg
I believe I fully specified the source for this file; apologies if was incomplete (but the trail indicates I fully cited the image.) Here is the full citation:
1. This is OUT OF COPYRIGHT; it is 361 years old.
2. The source is: Fonds LEFORT, part IV, register 3, Armorial de Huy.
3. This source is maintained (archived) in the AEL (Archives de l'État à Liège).
This is COMPLETE, and proper way to cite a primary source (many examples of scholarly citations exist; MLA, CMA, Turabian, etc. For example;
http://libguides.gwu.edu/content.php?pid=8881&sid=189511
Please be so kind as to undelete the file, as it is fully cited. You can visit the State Achives in Liege as I did, and confirm this as a primary source!
Thank you and Best Regards,
Thomas SPRIMONT
P.S. There is no additional information. If you required something else, I cannot determine what that is, so please let me know.
Added by another used: Support I think. I can't see the file but the source given above was plainly in the description (which I can see via Google cache); not sure why a no-source tag would have been applied. I admit I can't find much information about the named source, but I do see similar references in a couple of places (such as here). If there is any doubt about the named source, it should be brought up in a regular DR (or asked on the uploader's talk page first). Carl Lindberg (talk) 02:38, 9 November 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsprimont (talk • contribs)
YOHO Artist Studios - Is this article OK now? Please advise. Thank you very much.
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YoHo Artist Studios is a community of producing artists and crafters that work out of two of the former Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Company Mills buildings at 540/578 Nepperhan Avenue in Yonkers, New York. The population renting private studios here has grown to over 60 working artists since the current owners acquired the five-story loft buildings in 2005. [3] This was the largest carpet manufacturer in the world for much of the 83 years the company was in operation here in Yonkers. Not one employee lost his or her job during the Great Depression; it was agreed that hours would be cut, but jobs were not. The company was constantly improving their looms and increasing output. [6] The company maintained a good reputation and solid success until the end of World War II, when, after a number of employee strikes the city’s largest employer relocated to Greenville, Mississippi, where workers were not unionized. In the mid-1950’s the Yonkers plant shut down entirely, leaving a massive complex vacant and an estimated 5,000 workers without jobs. [7]
At closure, almost half the workers had put 25 or more years of their life into this company. [8]The stronghold along Nepperhan and Saw Mill River, and within the Yonkers community, was suddenly gone. [9] Beginning of YoHo Artist Studios: In 1983, the loft buildings were listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. [12] Several years later, Yonkers and Eisenkraft began see the trend of artists moving out of Manhattan and into more affordable work space outside of the city. Thus, some of the space on the fourth floor was dedicated to be used as artist studios in the early 1990’s, and was given the name YoHo, or “Yonkers’ SoHo.” [13] As artists sought larger spaces that they could afford, they were attracted to areas like Yonkers, which are within a 25-minute commuting distance to the traditional arts centers in SoHo and Chelsea. Some artists and crafters began sparsely occupying Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Company Mills as well as other aging buildings in Yonkers in the early 1990’s, Cite error: A Among the artists that rent or have rented space at YoHo include producers of murals, collages, sculptures, mixed media, and portraits. While the population is made up of primarily visual artists and specifically painters, there has also been a jewelry maker, a surface decorator, tattoo artist, lighting fixture designer, and custom motorcycle graphic artist. [15]
YoHo has grown and expanded since the property’s most recent acquisition in 2005. In the beginning of 2011 the owners started planning for the incorporation of 25 new spaces that would occupy a newly-opened fourth floor wing. These new studios sought to improve upon the original 50+ studios that were already occupied at 540 and 578 Nepperhan Avenue – by this time known to be Southern Westchester’s largest artist community. [18] Transportation:
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I've collapsed this. Fastily can view it when he gets back, but in the mean time, it'll take up less space on his page. Sven Manguard Wha? 10:35, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
File namespace noticeboard idea
Hi there. As a file worker, I'd like your input on the idea of a noticeboard for file workers. The prototype is at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#File Namespace Noticeboard.
Please comment at the VPIL thread, or edit the page linked to there directly, as I can't keep track of this conversation if everyone I invite to comment on the matter responds on their own talk pages. Sven Manguard Wha? 07:41, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
P.S. I know you might not get this for a few weeks, but it's worth a shot. Plus, people stalk your page.
360networks page
Could you please provide some direction as to why you deleted the 360networks page and how I can recover the content to make any edits you require? It had been posted for nearly 2-years with no reported issues, regular updates as needed, citations provides and guidelines of encyclopedia-like entry followed in terms of factual vs. advertising content. It was even cited in other Wikipedia articles, such as the Hibernia Atlantic and Global Crossing entries(now broken links), as well as external links such as http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-506-7177 for a citizen researching a telemarketing fraud issue. The company has been instrumental in building the wholesale telecom industry and is a case study in effectively emerging from bankruptcy. Having just been purchased by Zayo, the article's absence from Wikipedia in September now creates a hole in the greater wholesale telecom story. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skeoch.s (talk • contribs) 15:55, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) The moment anyone thought it was a good idea to include the supposed fact that it's "debt-free", it became obviously promotional, possibly intended to prop up the value of the company via its Wikipedia entry. On top of that, I see nothing in the entire article that even suggests that it meets the notability guidelines...especially those in WP:CORP. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 16:35, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of Ansell
I see that you speedily deleted this article per G11. Unfortunately, this created quite a few redlinks, including Ansell (disambiguation) where the deleted article was the primary topic.
I seem to remember contributing to the article some years ago, and at that time it was not advertising. It seems that at some point the article was highjacked. Is there any way of retrieving the history so that we can restore an earlier and acceptable version?
Thanks.--Mhockey (talk) 03:07, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
- I've gone back to a December 2008 version, and it pretty much matches the June 2011 version. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:14, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, but all I see now is a redirect to Ansell (disambiguation). The lost article I was looking for was one on the long established Australian company Ansell, which started life in about 1890 as Dunlop Australia. There are now a lot of links to the dab page which should be to the lost article on the company.Mhockey (talk) 03:13, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Fbot adds "move to Commons" despite wrong template
Fbot marked File:159th Fighter Wing.png (and a few other files) as eligible for a Commons move despite having {{Non-free image data}} and {{Non-free image rationale}}. The two templates imply that an image is not eligible for a Commons move, so could you add them to some template blacklist? It would also be practical to have "move to Commons" tags removed if found on an image with these templates.
File:159th Fighter Wing.png is in fact in the public domain, so I will fix the licence templates and move it to Commons. --Stefan2 (talk) 16:45, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- Oh wow. Those templates are so old and ill used that neither Fastily, Drilnoth, nor I remembered that they existed when we built the blacklist for Fbot. I've added the template to the Fbot task 2 and task 4 blacklists, meaning that files with those tags won't be tagged in the future (task 2), and images that have those tags and are tagged for transfer to commons will be untagged for transfer (task 4). I've also sent an email to Fastily, who is on Wikibreak, to see if he could run an emergency run of task 4 to fix this. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:05, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
why did you delete the marty goetz page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pilotingcharly brown123 (talk • contribs) 01:29, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Re-creation of deleted file
You deleted a photo pursuant to a PUF discussion. [50]. The identical photo has been re-created, and I've marked for PUF.[51]. Should this instead simply be deleted? Apart from being uploaded to Flckr with a dubious (and inadequate) license, it's basically just a re-creation of a properly deleted file. ScottyBerg (talk) 01:11, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
- This photo that was marked for "PUF" by Scotty Berg was uploaded by an Administrator. In addition, I e-mailed full copyright information and release to OTRS. I own the photo, I own the copyright, and I sent the permission to OTRS.
- I don't see how ScottyBerg can circumvent the discussion which he himself called for (a PUF discussion), or claim a photo is "identical" to any other photo, or seek to delete a photo that is released by the copyright holder (myself) and uploaded by an Administrator.
- The PUF discussion can be viewed here: [52]
- You've said about a dozen times now that the photo was uploaded by an administrator. Please stop doing that. This was not an administrative action, and whether the editor is an administrator or not is about as irrelevant as it can be. You also have said repeatedly that you are the "copyright owner." But you said that before, when your explanation was that this and other photographs were created by yourself with a "remote shutter release." All were deleted, because they plainly were taken by a third party. ScottyBerg (talk) 19:06, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
- One other point that I needed to mention: the photo that is up for discussion, Nelson_Denis.jpg, is identical to the one that was deleted by Fastily in June, File:NDENIS FOTO -1.jpg. Any administrator can see that. I can "claim a photo is 'identical'" because it is identical. I spent enough time arguing over the photo with your socks to be acquainted with its appearance. You don't do yourself any favors by implying otherwise. You made the same false assertion in today's PUF discussion. ScottyBerg (talk) 22:17, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Steve James Sherlock
Hello Fastily. I would appreciate your help. The article Steve James Sherlock was placed in the Article Incubator - It needed some work to establish Notability. A lot of work has gone into establishing this and changes/additions made accordingly. Unfortunately the person that originally deleted it is busy in real life. I would like the article moved back into main space. I would appreciate your help in achieving this. Kind thanks 81.157.187.37 (talk) 18:37, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Intentional disambig redirects
Hi. Please do not delete intentional disambiguation redirects. These redirects are created in accordance with our finely balanced policy at WP:INTDABLINK, under which we route disambiguation links through "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects to prevent false positives from appearing on the lists of pages requiring repair, which prevents unnecessary work for disambiguators. Because articles occasionally need to refer readers to the actual disambiguation page instead of a solution on the page, all disambig pages are supposed to have the "Foo (disambiguation)" redirect for this purpose. Also, certain templates such as the template for listing multiple species designations are designed to automatically route through such redirects, and deleting those redirects prevents those templates from functioning properly. Cheers! bd2412 T 01:40, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
- Hi there. Fastily hasn't been here for a month, so I'm not sure you have the right person. Also, could you point to which page you're claiming Fastily made a mistake on? Sven Manguard Wha? 06:00, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
- I got the same context-free spam...and I removed it. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 10:23, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
- I apologize for not providing the appropriate context. On October 15, 2011, Fastily deleted "Father Knows Less (disambiguation)", and two other similarly configured "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects, which exist in accordance with WP:INTDABLINK. These are the pages to which I am referring. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:40, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
- I got the same context-free spam...and I removed it. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 10:23, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of 'Bestselling cars of all time'
I would like to know what was the reason of deleting this page. It wasn't a cop of any web page. It took me alot of time to expand previous article, in good faith. It is nessary to keep it because there aren't any analogous list in other articles. Even if there were any plagiarism in contents it would be much easier to fix it than writing whole article once again.
03:19, 22 November 2011 (UTC)03:19, 22 November 2011 (UTC)03:19, 22 November 2011 (UTC)03:19, 22 November 2011 (UTC)Fargoeth (talk)
Deletion of Images of William Green Elementary
Hi Fastily, you deleted the images I had uploaded and you cited lack of licensing information as the reason for the deletion. I made these graphs and I'm OK sharing these graphs with anyone. Would this be the correct license to include in teh description: {{PD-self}}?
- Could you please link the files in question? It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:34, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
Now that you're back...
...can you please clean up one of the daily deletion categories that have languished while you were away? Disputed fair use has some things as old as 2 November. Thanks! — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 02:22, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
- More specifically:
- Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 2 November 2011
- Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 3 November 2011
- Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 5 November 2011
- Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 6 November 2011
- — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 20:50, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
- All clear :P -FASTILY (TALK) 20:55, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
...also check your email for that one I sent you, update the Fbot requests, clean the floors, shine my shoes, and don't you dare touch that glass slipper, don't you dare! Sven Manguard Wha? 03:58, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
- It's only my first day back guys! :o Guess I'd better get on with this party... :P -FASTILY (TALK) 08:52, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
- Indeed, backlogs got so bad I stupidly ran for RFA :p. Get to work :) Steven Zhang The clock is ticking.... 10:34, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
- I missed that? Dang. I would have supported. Sorry to hear that. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 20:48, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
- Eh, I withdrew at 73% (124/45). I agree that I need to do more content work. That said, 124 supports is a pretty big barnstar in itself, so whenever I feel down I just read the RFA. :-) Steven Zhang The clock is ticking.... 23:22, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
- I missed that? Dang. I would have supported. Sorry to hear that. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 20:48, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
- Indeed, backlogs got so bad I stupidly ran for RFA :p. Get to work :) Steven Zhang The clock is ticking.... 10:34, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
Some baklava for you!
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Welcome back Fastily! Thanks Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 19:06, 24 November 2011 (UTC) |
- Thanks! :) I really appreciate it! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 21:57, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
A beer for you!
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Cheers! Keep up the good work. Osarius : T : C : Been CSD'd? 23:15, 24 November 2011 (UTC) |
- Thanks! I appreciate it :) Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 23:53, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, could you please block above user as per details here: WP:AIV. Cheers. Osarius : T : C : Been CSD'd? 23:47, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
- Update: Not to worry, User:Materialscientist has done it already. Osarius : T : C : Been CSD'd? 23:49, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
Talk:Anti-access/area denial
Hi, why did you delete Talk:Anti-access/area denial? The CSD tag mentioned R2, but that was clearly not an appropriate tag. I asked about the tagging the nominator's talkpage but he hasn't replied. I have reinstated the AfC project banner as it is customary to place them on AfC created redirects. Jarkeld (talk) 23:58, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
- Meh, I thought he was simply requesting some sort of cleanup. Sorry about that. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:02, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- No problems, just wanted to get the complete picture. Jarkeld (talk) 00:54, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
About the user who requested for Confirmed rights
Hi Fastily. I want you to tell that this user Weather99999 is only requesting a confirmed rights. But I've seen that he requested a 2nd time with a threat that if it is not granted, he will post the comments on Twitter. I have an evidence that can prove to you. If you want to see it just simply click here. Thank you.Hamham31Heke! 04:20, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- Already blocked -FASTILY (TALK) 08:06, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
Hey there Fastily, thank you for your contributions! I am a bot, alerting you that non-free files are not allowed in user or talk space. I removed some files I found on User:Fastily/TMI.
- See a log of files removed today here.
- Shut off the bot here.
- Report errors here.
- If you have any questions, place a {{helpme}} template, along with your question, beneath this message.
Thank you, -- DASHBot (talk) 05:02, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Is FSII running a bot?
I had tagged several files earlier with {{subst:dw-nsd}} - I noticed FSII is also tagging them with {{nsd}}. Strange... Kelly hi! 08:54, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- Bot? I wish. More like Fastily + linky + copy/paste. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:26, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- Why the additional tag? Kelly hi! 09:28, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- Didn't see it? If it really bothers you, revert it. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:29, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- No, it's just that I don't understand why extra deletion tags are being added, and when I look at FSII contribs, it looks like a bot because tags are being added too fast for a human to do. Just curious. Kelly hi! 09:36, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- If you've ever used linky before, you'll find that yes, it's quite possible to make ~30 edits a minute. An unthrottled bot on the other hand, can reach a rate of 250+ a minute. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:38, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- No, it's just that I don't understand why extra deletion tags are being added, and when I look at FSII contribs, it looks like a bot because tags are being added too fast for a human to do. Just curious. Kelly hi! 09:36, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- Didn't see it? If it really bothers you, revert it. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:29, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- Why the additional tag? Kelly hi! 09:28, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Kochadaiyaan
I have created a page named "Kochadaiyaan", the page is about the Tamil movie. But the user "Eelamstylez77" moved my page into new name "Kochadaiyaan". After that you have deleted the page. Can I revert my page? By ChinnZ 08:16, 25 November 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chinnz (talk • contribs)
- Make sure you come to an agreement of some sort with EelamStyleZ before taking action. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:14, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Ways to proceed
Hello Fastily! Can you please read this? I just did what you did on the user's talk page. Which is the proper way to proceed? Thanks in advance for your response.--Jetstreamer (talk) 10:34, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- Hello there, I would recommend you follow Boing! said Zebedee's advice. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:08, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
No source tagging
I note a number of images which are tagged self, where a source could be added in goodfaith quite quickly, Is there a reason you are seemingly tagging these on a technicality?
Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:00, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- Also, are the uploaders being notified? Kelly hi! 11:08, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- Hm, quite true. I'll work on a fix for that. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:04, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
File:Indoortanninglotion.jpg
I notice you speedy deleted File:Indoortanninglotion.jpg. I was a bit surprised to see it speedy deleted since it has been here for years. I took that image myself, and yes it is used on the website claimed. I work for that company and took the photo using my gear, in my studio and have the authority to release any image into any license as the Director of Marketing. I've worked for them 18 years. I've uploaded other images as well for the purpose of improving Wikipedia that we use on our website. I understand the confusion since I have a clear copyright listed on the commercial website, but a select number of images we release under the CC (and a few in the PD). I have other blogs that I run that I do the same thing with: claim full copyright there, but release select images that are helpful in the PD or under CC. If there is any question about my authority to release any of our images under different licenses, you can actually call the 800 number on that website, and ask for the same name I use here, my real name. :) Hopefully, you will just restore it. Dennis Brown (talk) 11:07, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)Please email OTRS with proof. See Wikipedia:Contact us/Permit. — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 14:50, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
IRC
Just saw you cross my watchlist, mind hopping on the IRC? Sven Manguard Wha? 09:40, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
- Be right there. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:42, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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- Thanks!! :) I really appreciate it. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 10:19, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Liana K speedy
I'm surprised you speedily deleted the article under G11 terms scarce two hours after an anon IP added the tag. A quick check back shows the article has been edited by a number of people and there are sources. Tabercil (talk) 16:22, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- Can I say...oops? -FASTILY (TALK) 21:09, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- Eh, de nada. As Billy Joel once sang, "You're only human - you're supposed to make mistakes". <G> Tabercil (talk) 18:35, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Why did you delete my talk page?!
Tell me WHY you deleted my talk page in the section below.
- (talk page stalker) There are no deleted contributions listed under your userid (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 15:51, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Re: Deletion of My Article on Sir Jude Agbaso"
I dont understand why my aricle on Sir Jude Agbaso was deleted. Please let me know why . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccsonyewuotu (talk • contribs) 15:36, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
- Your AfC submission did not conform to WP:BLP, so it was deleted. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:39, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| For much the same reason as the one above, but also for implausible mistakes I made before I moved a page! Gilderien Talk|Contribs 21:30, 26 November 2011 (UTC) |
- Wow, thank you!! I really appreciate it! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 23:07, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
România Literară
Sorry, I didn't ment to create an promotional page, but one that counts for Romania's history. Just see what links to this article. Please tell me what was wrong in that article and I'll try to fix it.Ionutzmovie (talk) 01:48, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- I've restored the article to give you a chance to imporve it. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 02:07, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Autopatrolled
Thanks for adding me. Smartyllama (talk) 01:59, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 02:07, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Fbot 8
As you may or may not know, Fbot 8 is approved for trial. Are you going to do that now or wait until Fbot 10 is approved? — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 02:01, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- I'm aware of that. I'll run the bot when I have a chance to. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 02:08, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- So...there's a bug with the main library code Fbot runs on. I'll talk to the library's author I suppose. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:45, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- I noticed that one of the tests with Fbot 10 ran into a snag. Good thing we hit upon that one early, as I hadn't even thought of testing to see if the bot could handle parens. Is there anything else you want queued up for testing (other than video, I can't do video)? Also, what does the above text mean? Is something wrong? Sven Manguard Wha? 04:07, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- Not really, I think you've done everything you can. ogv files are handled the same way sound files are handled so if there were any bugs, we would have seen them in the sound replacement test. Fbot uses a framework of pre-defined methods (e.g. edit, get category members, get transclusions, ect) written by MER-C, which saves me so much coding time it's not even funny. His framework doesn't work perfectly all the time though, and that's when I let him know that something is wrong. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:22, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- I noticed that one of the tests with Fbot 10 ran into a snag. Good thing we hit upon that one early, as I hadn't even thought of testing to see if the bot could handle parens. Is there anything else you want queued up for testing (other than video, I can't do video)? Also, what does the above text mean? Is something wrong? Sven Manguard Wha? 04:07, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- So...there's a bug with the main library code Fbot runs on. I'll talk to the library's author I suppose. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:45, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Is there a particular reason why you are deleting wikipedia articles and images that have been on this website for years suddenly over Thanksgiving?
It seems that the days following Thanksgiving you specifically targetted a number of articles, images, etc. about people from Philadelphia. I find it odd that anyone would suddenly delete any article that has been properly sourced, again for at least 4 years, and then have the audacity to claim that it is being deleted on the basis of something that had never been reported on that article. You said all of these articles you deleted had "expired prods" when they most certainly did not. All you are doing is helping to delete history. Whether or not you have heard of a person living or dead, doesn't mean that they are not relavent or as wikipedia loves to put it "notable". Are you having a bad holiday weekend? Maybe you shouldn't take it out on good sourced articles that have been apart of wikipedia since it began. Notable means that something has been noted...particularly in newspapers or magazines. And all of the articles you deleted were sourced by national, international newspapers and magazines. We will all be taking this complaint further, with our lawyers. Hopefully one day wikipedia will be like it used to be. People like you only help to promote big corporate companies and squash small not for profits or independent directors, musicians and athletes that maybe by your standards haven't earned enough money to be notable enough. So sad. Wikipedia is no longer an encyclopedia for the people. Enjoy your power trip Fastily! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.144.227.184 (talk) 05:12, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- I have opened an ANI thread regarding that comment.Jasper Deng (talk) 05:25, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Fastily, I see that you deleted this page but I would like you to be aware that there is more going on here then has been mentioned. I know you are busy but this is relevant and I would like you to review this conversation as I believe there is a cause for concern : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:MikeWazowski
I have posted this conversation below for your convenience:
Hey Mike, I recognize your truly a busy guy and not to waste anymore of your time here but I have to honestly say that I don't rightly understand why this particular page doesn't establish notability. And not to sound overly rude here but, if the page is going to continually be deleted, flagged, monitored, and tagged by you indefinitely, I would appreciate an answer that explains how a person who dresses up as a giant beer can (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keggy_the_keg) can have a sustainable page but this other artist/mascot/performer at Dartmouth can not? I don't understand. More specifically, how is this not notable: http://www.vnews.com/webextras/webextras-sungod.html?? Again I don't mean to sound rude in anyway, it's just that I worked hard and spent many hours trying to re-create this page again from scratch and now you deleted it again without much consideration to the fact that 80% of it's former self has been removed. I want to understand. It goes without saying that I feel very frustrated and upset because I don't know what it is you need to give this the 'okay'. Thanks for your understanding and I'm sorry if I sound upset. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheGildedEdge (talk • contribs) 00:58, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
I did not delete anything - I merely flagged the article for deletion as a recreation of deleted material - which it was. The page was deleted by DGG the first time, and Fastily this time. As for the other pages, please read WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS - I don't care about the other pages, as they have nothing to do with this discussion. And a webvideo from a local news site doesn't scream notability to me. I'm sorry, but I just don't see this as a notable individual, especially when the person in question had to create all the articles about himself the first time around, and you appear to have shown up the first time right soon after Recor asked people on his personal page to come sway the deletion discussion, and you recreated the article using elements uploaded by him. MikeWazowski (talk) 01:12, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the quick reply Mike but I never said you deleted anything. Rather, you contributed to it's deletion, which is more then relevant for discussion. The fact that you won't allow the page to be reviewed by other admins without your prior approval makes me strongly feel that you have a personal vendetta against the subject. Browsing through your post history with this subject, I can't help but notice the following entry deletions:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dartmouth_College&action=history
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keggy_the_Keg&action=history
- This is a cause for concern.
- You mention "other pages", again Mike, I don't know what your talking about or what this has to do with the question at hand. "I'm sorry, but I just don't see this as a notable" -- Mike, my friend, this is the problem. By not allowing other admins on Wikipedia to pass judgement the second time around, it's only natural that you pose a bias towards the page. Regarding the WebVideo, are you aware that this simple slideshow won the national NEAPNEA contest - which apparently, is a big deal. Here is one of several thousand links I found on google: (http://bangordailynews.com/2011/07/27/business/neapnea-2011-website-contest-winners/).
- "Especially when the person in question had to create all the articles about himself the first time around" -- Mike is this really true? -- The original page was up for two months before another user added substantial changes, in which you reverted back to it's original (passed/accepted) form as logged in the "view history". You also mention that I "appear to have shown up the first time right soon after Recor asked people on his personal page to come sway the deletion discussion" -- Mike, again, this is a biased assumption and note that the facebook page (which I have just reviewed for the past 20 minutes) has no record or post of anything concerning Wikipedia and because this point was the contributing factor that led to the deletion of the page, is a major cause for concern especially given this quote below in defense of the subject:
- "Keep - The article has a subject of minor notability. "Clearly not notable" is not a viable position. Subject was a primary part of Dartmouth College/Hanover culture with a wide-spread message and cultural significance. With proper editing and clean-up to maintain neutrality, this article will provide important information on an significant series of events that defined an entire town and college community. Contents are verifiable. Please note: many people on Dartmouth College have a personal vendetta against J.J. Recor and many entries in favor of deletion may be the result of prejudice and personal opinion, unrelated to any concern for Wikipedia guidelines. Naysayers have also been brought to this discussion by Recor's Facebook page and are not impartial. Their disruption of this article due to personal prejudice against the article's subject is a violation of Wikipedia's anti-harassment policy. ALSO, no concrete proof of sock puppetry. Fellow editors who have broken no Wikipedia rules are being banned just for editing or associating with this article. This is unjust and against Wikipedia policy to ban users who have done nothing wrong. People need to take a careful look at what's going on here and understand that this isn't a trolling fest; some of us here are actually concerned about the important/relevant content of this article! Thank you. GW9IFAL804 (talk) 19:00, 7 November 2011 (UTC)— GW9IFAL804
- Mike, I appreciate all your efforts in keeping Wikipedia a safe and friendly place, I would just politely ask that you reconsider this deletion. As a result of all these contributing factors, I see no reason why this page should not be up.
- Thank you for your time, Rob
Spain... on the road Again
Fastily, you summarily deleted Spain... on the road Again and its talk page giving "G6: Deleted to make room for an uncontroversial page move" as the reason. However you never restored the content of the page under another name. Then you deleted Spain... on the Road Again giving "G8: Redirect to a deleted or non-existent page" as the reason. Hence you effectively deleted the page by fiat with no discussion. Please restore Spain... on the road Again. —MJBurrage(T•C) 18:56, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- The deletion was requested by User:Dream out loud to make a page move. I think I'll give them some more time to make the move; if no action is taken within 24h, I'll restore everything. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:12, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- I ran into this problem last time too. I think you should either a) move pages after deleting the obstruction like everyone else, or b) notify the requestor that the move is ready to be performed. — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 23:00, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily, I found User:Dream out loud request in Google's cache of the article.
- For what its worth the show's on screen title is Spain… on the road Again. In the shows press, they use that capitalization mixed with Spain… on the Road Again, and Spain… On The Road Again.
- Why was this not done by deleting the redirect and then moving the page? (which would maintain the page contents and history)
- Since this was not done as a move, will the new page have the edit history of the old page?
- —MJBurrage(T•C) 18:36, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Talk pages
Fastily, When you restored the page and moved it, you did not also do that for the associated talk page. I do not recall what of consequence was there, but it is not currently accessible. —MJBurrage(T•C) 13:26, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- The old talk page consisted of a few assessment templates and pure vandalism. I've copied the assessment templates over to the new talk page. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:21, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Maya Vik
I added numerous sources to the article, and it was still deleted. Why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oyvindhb (talk • contribs) 14:07, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
I was told it was "better to use newspaper or magazine sources". That´s what they were, weren´t they? At least one of them. Oyvindhb (talk) 22:51, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Ben Gurion Airport
Hello, I want to complain about user 46.196.33.96. This user has changed things in the article Ben Gurion Airport without proof (and these things are not true). I wrote to him twice to give evidence on the talk page of value but he didn't answer me and continued to change. It's really annoying. I'd love if you do something about it.--Friends147 (talk) 15:13, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- Warned user. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:25, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
I see you’ve moved these pages, despite the explanations given on the talk pages there. I’ve opened a discussion, here; perhaps you’d care to explain? Xyl 54 (talk) 16:06, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- According to the tag placed by User:70.24.248.23, this was a non-controversial history mere request. Redo the page split then, if there was indeed consensus for that. As I recall, you were the sole creator of the alleged "copy+paste" move so attribution won't be a problem. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:29, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
A few weeks ago you deleted this article (if I'm reading the talk page notice right), and now it is back. If memory serves me, it is identical to the deleted article, including the strange grammar at the end of the last sentence. The article addresses itself to "you". The sources are 3 websites and one book. The book is a source for the paragraph on sleep hygiene, which is half the article. (The cited book pages are online.) The article, as is, should be deleted again IMO. --Hordaland (talk) 18:46, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- The page was originally deleted via the WP:PROD process so I am not allowed to speedy delete its reincarnations. If you feel the article should be deleted, feel free to re-prod the article or send it to WP:AFD. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:32, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. I've prodded it again and explained my reasons on the talk page. --Hordaland (talk) 05:08, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
ITF Dubai
Why have yu deleted the pages, because if you look at 2010 it is just the same style as I created it, so I think you made a mistake.Sorry to say that in that way, but why wasn't it deleted last year because there is no difference between the years. Catgamer (talk) 00:32, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I've restored this redirect. Please see its talk page for an explanation of why it's retained and should not be deleted. (I've notified the tagger as well.) Thanks! —David Levy 01:04, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- I just noticed that you also deleted Wikipedia:", which I've restored. Please see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2010 October 15, where it was decided to keep both redirects. Thanks! —David Levy 01:20, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Australian Franchise Directories
The Wikipedia page "User talk:Banannabreadbogan" has been created on 26 November 2011 by Cmprince, with the edit summary: Notification: speedy deletion nomination of Australian Franchise Directories. (TW)
Why did you delete this page claiming it is advertising yet pages about Nissan, Toyota and thousands of other companies are permitted? This page had sources and was written from a neutral perspective about how online directories assist thousands of people everyday. It used one company - Australian Franchises - as case example but was open for anyone to also edit and add additional case examples.
I don't understand Wikipedia, you guys claim to be about providing free information and I can appreciate not allowing blatant advertising to fill up the site, but when someone writes an article about an industry you have to use case examples - and your own rules state you have to provide references and links. Then you go and delete anything that you don't agree with or understand without providing any solid foundation or opportunity for the author to edit the article prior to deletion.
Please re-instate this article. I spent several hours writing it and your deletion of it only re-enforces the opinions of many of my friends who find wikipedia is misleading and untrustworthy.
Banannabreadbogan (talk) 04:15, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Adco
Hi Fastily, sorry it took me so long to finish your remaining tasks, it was my final term in middle high school. Please look at them when you have time. Cheers, —James (Talk • Contribs) • 4:38pm • 06:38, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- No worries, I'll have a look. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:34, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Shahid Modarres missile base explosion
Your deletion bot catches duplicate articles (here) but make it a pain in the ass to create a redirect to the original article. Isn't a redirect a natural for these situations? --BoogaLouie (talk) 17:26, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- What are you talking about? User:SDPatrolBot is not my deletion bot. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:33, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| Thank you for exceptionally fast deleting of redirect pages so that articles could be moved. Lhynard (talk) 20:12, 28 November 2011 (UTC) |
- Aw thanks :) I really appreciate it! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 20:13, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
What percentage do you want the image reduced by? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:26, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Not percent, but with regards to pixels, such that (in pixels) Length x Width > 164,025. There's no need to resize manually, User:DASHBot will handle that within the week. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:01, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Presumably you mean "less than or equal" instead of "greater than", right? So that bot will shrink those files automatically, right? If so, that will save me some trouble. Thank you. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:26, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Current size is 224,400. So it will shrink to about 73 percent of current size, right? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:28, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- My bad, I did mean less than or equal to. That's right, Tim's bot will resize the image automatically. 73% looks about right. Regards, -FASTILY (TALK) 06:34, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- OK. I see that 164025 equates to a square 405 x 405. Is that the new rule of thumb? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:41, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- My bad, I did mean less than or equal to. That's right, Tim's bot will resize the image automatically. 73% looks about right. Regards, -FASTILY (TALK) 06:34, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Current size is 224,400. So it will shrink to about 73 percent of current size, right? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:28, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Presumably you mean "less than or equal" instead of "greater than", right? So that bot will shrink those files automatically, right? If so, that will save me some trouble. Thank you. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:26, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Four improperly deleted free image files
Why did you summarily delete the following four image files files none of which had ever even been nominated for deletion, only questioned as "possibly un-free", and when you deleted them none of those discussions had even been closed?
16:53 . . Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:South Philadelphia Sports Complex c1972.jpg" (Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2011 November 10#File:South Philadelphia Sports Complex c1972.jpg)
- This is derived from a ppc (Wyco #317), which I acquired in 1973 and was published w/o any copyright (©) notice. (I have uploaded an image of its reverse side on my server here which shows it has no copyright notice anywhere.) As it was published in the US prior to 1978 without a © notice it is thus in the public domain.
16:51 . . Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:Centpacrr.jpg" (Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2011 November 10#File:Centpacrr.jpg)
- This is a photograph of me that was taken at my request by a colleague using my camera which was then returned to me. It is used only on my WP user page and the copyright belongs to me and me alone.
16:47 . . Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:AHL Philadelphia Phamtons 2005 Calder Cup.jpg" (Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2011 November 7#File:AHL Philadelphia Phamtons 2005 Calder Cup.jpg)
- I personally took this photograph from the TV broadcast booth at the then Wachovia (now Wells Fargo) Center in Philadelphia in which I was working on the telecast of this Calder Cup championship game and am thus both the sole creator and copyright holder of this image. Although the editor who claims that it is "non-free" because less than 5% of the image includes a CCTV image on the scoreboard, so do many other long standing images hosted on Commons which are licensed as free such as those located here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and most tellingly here which is ironic because this last image of an NBA game at TD Garden in Boston was uploaded by the very same editor who is claiming the my image is "derivative" and thus "un-free" when the one he uploaded also includes a live CCTV image on the scoreboard. As the hosting standards for these files including scoreboard images with CCTV content on Commons are far more restrictive then the standards for similar image files on en:Wikipedia, then clearly the Phantoms' 2005 Calder Cup image easily qualifies under WP policy as being non-derivative and thus I, as its creator, am free to license it any way I choose to.
15:55 . . Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:Flying Yankee at Portland Union Sataion.jpg" (Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2011 October 26#File:Flying Yankee at Portland Union Sataion.jpg)
- This is a digital "watercolor" illustration which I created myself which was not derived from any "non-free" photograph as had been claimed by another editor.
Three of these files were created by myself and the fourth was derived from a picture post card published in 1971 without copyright (proof provided) and is also thus free. I provided extensive documentation of this in each of these discussions on the day they were opened (see summaries after each above). Please therefore promptly restore them and explain why they were deleted in the first place. Centpacrr (talk) 22:25, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
- Regarding the two I nominated:
- Sports complex: Sorry to be a bit overly pessimistic, but is there a year on the post card?
- Personal picture: Does the US still allow the person(s) who request(s) a picture be taken of them to own the copyright on that image, or is the hired/voluntary photographer the holder of the copyright? From my experience, Wal-Mart seems to claim copyright on all images it takes when hired, but that was in Canada. Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:14, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
- RE Sports Complex: There is no date printed on the postcard, but (as I noted on the discussion page and above) I personally acquired it in 1973 so it was clearly published at least five years before 1978. Also I have worked at this sports complex in one capacity or another continuously since 1969 and can tell you from personal knowledge that it looked the way it appears in the image in 1973 but was different from this image by 1978.
- RE Personal Picture: This image was not taken "for hire" but was taken by a colleague in the TV booth at the sixth game of the 2010 Stanley Cup final in which we were both working. We each wanted pictures of ourselves and so we exchanged our personal cameras, snapped pictures of each other based on how each of us directed the other to do so, and then returned the cameras to each other. This, by the way, is doubtless how tens of thousands of other similar pictures that WP editors have posted of themselves (such as this one for example) on their own user pages or elsewhere on WP. The copyright to such images clearly belong to the subject of the image who owned the camera, directed the other person as to what to point it at (him or herself), and when to "push the button". All of the "creative" components (if any) of such an image also belong to the subject (in the case of the image under discussion would be myself) and not the other individual who did nothing more than the act of "pushing the button" when asked to do so. Obviously in this case neither of us could both take their picture and be in it at the same time, and neither of us has any claim of a copyright or ownership interest in the pictures we "took" of the other with the subject's camera. Instead the rights to the pictures of ourselves taken with our own cameras and under our direction and control rightly belong to the person in the picture. Centpacrr (talk) 00:06, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- I see that these PUF discussions have now all been marked as "closed," but only by a BOT (User:AnomieBOT) because you had already deleted the files albeit without providing any reason or, I gather, even visiting the discussion pages as you did not post anything there. It is also my understanding that PUF discussions are only for the purpose of determining whether on not an image file should be licensed as "non-free" as opposed to "free", but they are not discussions as to their eligibility for use under WP:NFCC which is a completely different issue. (Per Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_files: "Unlike Wikipedia:Files for deletion the primary purpose of this page is to ascertain the source and/or copyright status of a file. Therefore it is not specifically a vote to keep or delete but a forum for the exploration of the copyright status/source of a file and contributions should not be added solely in those terms.") For that reason alone they should be restored without delay as none of them was ever actually "nominated for deletion" in the first place, only questioned as to whether any were "possibly un-free". Centpacrr (talk) 01:06, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- Please advise on what basis you deleted these files when none of them had ever been nominated for deletion. Centpacrr (talk) 22:22, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
- Please respond to the question I have posed to you here: "On what basis did you delete these files when none of them had ever been nominated for deletion?" Centpacrr (talk) 19:34, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
- I'm waiting for input from SchuminWeb before I take action, if at all. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:22, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
- With respect, I am afraid that you have completely missed the point of my question. The views of any other editor have nothing at all to do with this. The issue here is that you deleted image files that had never been nominated for deletion and that is a violation of WP policy. The images in question had only had their status as being "free" (as opposed to "un-free") questioned over sourcing, the sources (see summaries above) were then provided in detail, and none of those PUF discussions had even been closed with any sort of finding as their not being free as originally licensed when you deleted the images leading me to believe that you likely never read them.
- I'm waiting for input from SchuminWeb before I take action, if at all. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:22, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
- I repeat that the WP policy on "Possible Un-Free" image files states:"Unlike Wikipedia:Files for deletion the primary purpose of this page is to ascertain the source and/or copyright status of a file. Therefore it is not specifically a vote to keep or delete but a forum for the exploration of the copyright status/source of a file and contributions should not be added solely in those terms." Therefore there was no basis whatsoever to delete them unless and until they had at a minimum been subjected to the FFD process.
- Three of these four images are exclusively my own work and thus I own the copyright to them outright. The fourth is derived from an image that is in the Public Domain as it was published prior to 1978 (in 1973) without any claim of copyright and visual proof of that has been provided. So again I ask you as the individual who deleted them to tell me on what basis that you unilaterally deleted them when none of them had ever even been nominated for deletion? The views of SchuminWeb or any other editor have no bearing in that at all as neither he or anyone else ever opened an FFD on any of these images. The only individual who can possibly speak to the basis of their improper deletion is you and you alone. Please do so. Centpacrr (talk) 00:10, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Regarding my nominations, say what you want about whether you consider them to be your own work, but in both cases, they are derivative works. In the "Calder Cup" photo, taking a photo of a screen displaying someone else's work is a derivative work of the first, plain and simple. Regarding some of the other photos you mentioned, most of them are de minimis on the screen's presence, but some may require additional attention. Regarding the "Flying Yankee" image, it was obviously the case that your "original digital illustration" was in fact derived from the now-deleted File:MEC Flying Yankee.jpg image. You can photoshop the heck out of it (which you did), and claim that it is your original work (which you also did), but it doesn't make it any less of a copyright violation, and considering how hard you have fought over a false claim of ownership on both images, you have damaged your credibility. Ever heard of The Boy Who Cried Wolf?
Additionally, WP:PUF is at its heart a deletion discussion, because unless the concerns are rectified, the process ends in a deletion because when there is sufficient doubt about the copyright status of an image, we can't use it, and there is no reason to retain images that we can't use. The most common results of PUF discussions are "keep", where all concerns have been satisfactorily addressed, "converted to non-free", where we can't say for sure that it's free but all ten criteria of WP:NFCC are met (thus we can use it that way), and "delete", where all concerns have not been satisfactorily addressed and it also fails one or more criteria of WP:NFCC.
And lastly, a little civility goes a long way. You have been amazingly unkind to anyone who dares question the copyright status of your files, and that needs to change. After all, "You catch more flies with honey than vinegar," as they say. SchuminWeb (Talk) 01:30, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- I will address each of these issues point by point and then ask you to answer my original question:
- "Nominations": Again none of these four summarily deleted image files had ever been "nominated for deletion" (WP:FFD) by User:SchuminWeb or any other editor but instead they were only listed under WP:PUF which states that "Unlike Wikipedia:Files for deletion the primary purpose of this page is to ascertain the source and/or copyright status of a file. Therefore it is not specifically a vote to keep or delete but a forum for the exploration of the copyright status/source of a file and contributions should not be added solely in those terms." That being the case, there was no basis whatsoever to even consider any such image files for possible deletion unless and until they had at a minimum been subjected to the FFD process in order to seek the consensus of the community as to how they should be treated. Summarily deleting image files without following that well established and completely separate process in clearly contrary to long standing WP practice, policy, and guidelines.
- "Calder Cup image": As for the "Calder Cup" file, User:SchuminWeb's very own action just three days ago (November 25) of uploading the file "NBA Game.jpg" of TD Garden in Boston during an NBA game defeats his claim of such images being "derivative" works as that photograph also includes a clearly visible live CCTV image on the scoreboard as do dozens of other long standing image files hosted on Commons which are all licensed as free. (See for example the images located here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.) The "free" licensing status of these and many other similar files has never been questioned by User:SchuminWeb or any other editor over the years that they have been in place and widely used throughout WP. Claiming that some are de minimis derivatives as compared to others is unsupported hair splitting. What policy or guideline establishes an acceptable threshold of what constitutes de minimis in such cases? 10%? 15%? 25%? The live CCTV portion about which User:SchuminWeb complains in my photograph, by the way, actually constitutes less than 5% of the the total image so it can hardly be claimed to be the "subject" (or even a significant element) of the illustration. Is adjudicating such minutia really what is contemplated by the letter and spirit of WP's guidelines and policies? So "...taking a photo of a screen displaying someone else's work is a derivative work of the first, plain and simple" really isn't all that "plain and simple" after all. User:SchuminWeb really can't have it both ways.
- "Flying Yankee illustration": Regarding my Flying Yankee at Portland Union Station illustration, I made my case extensively in the PUF discussion which was never resolved and was only closed by a "Bot" (User:AnomieBOT) after the fact only because the file had been arbitrarily deleted despite never having been nominated for deletion. User:SchuminWeb, the editor who opened the PUF discussion of this file, is also the only editor who posted anything there in support of his claim that this illustration is a "derivative" work and should be licensed as un-free. He and I disagree as WP editors as to which it is, but again the consensus of the community was never arrived at as to its licensing before it was summarily deleted without ever going through the FFD process let alone even completing the PUF process.
- "Civility": Again for reasons unknown to me it seems that whenever any editor disagrees with User:SchuminWeb he interprets it as being a "personal attack" or being "amazingly unkind" which I categorically reject. As I have told him many times before in various forums none of my comments have ever been about this editor as a person but are instead about interpretation of WP policy as well as his actions and oft demonstrated pattern of refusing to accept (especially unacceptable for an admin) the consensus of the community when that does not precisely comport with his own exact interpretations of the project's guidelines, policies, and/or his personal editorial views. (See here for a third party summary of this which he promptly deleted with the telling edit summary of "Don't speak down to me.".) Over the past couple of months this editor has also made multiple unsupported accusations against me and others at one time or another of "vandalism", "plagiarism", "disruptive editing", "making personal attacks", and now being "amazingly unkind" simply because we have had the temerity to have have disagreed with his extraordinarily narrow interpretations of WP policy and guidelines and his cavalier and arbitrary approach to myself and those other editors.
- As that other editor recently observed (as seen in this now deleted earlier form of his talk page) about this editor's adamantine approach to other Wikipedians who may disagree with him about anything: " ...your dogged refusal to listen to experienced editors with a long history in that article - and your inability to address other people's arguments in the matter - combined with your unilateral decision to act using admin powers in such a way that other editors could not fix your mistake...and all this despite strong prior consensus was (as I said) an egregious abuse of admin power..." as well as "Admins are the servants of editors - not their masters - and they are held to a higher standard of accountability." In October another Admin commented in calling for the withdrawal of another FFD nomination made by this editor that it was a "Bad faith nomination. In the time he took to nominate this he could have written the rationale himself. It's well established--by the debate he linked to even--that this falls under fair use. Bureaucracy isn't a stick with which to beat editors. In the meantime I'll write up some rationales, and they had better be sufficient."
- Typical examples of how User:SchuminWeb ends his postings can be found in the PUF discussion of the "Calder Cup" image discussed above in which he wrote: "Nothing doing. I am not withdrawing this nomination, since I know I'm right, and as I have stated my arguments on this matter, I don't see the need to waste my time arguing with you about it. You're going to throw two or three paragraphs below this saying that I'm wrong, wrong, wrong, and what an "utterly" (your favorite word, apparently) horrible person that I am for being so wrong as you see it, but I'm not arguing with you about this one anymore. I have made my case, and I can now rest it. Good day to you."; and the PUF discussion of the Jimmy Hendrix mugshot in which he wrote: "You oversimplify the copyright situation for works of various governmental entities, and in your oversimplification you have painted with too broad of a brush and made mistakes. I feel no need to engage you on this further, because I am convinced that you don't understand, and won't listen to me if I try to explain it to you because you just plain do not like me, and so why bother."
- My original question: Now that everybody has had their say, please answer my original question which is: "Why did you summarily delete the following four image files files none of which had ever even been nominated for deletion, only questioned as "possibly un-free", and when you deleted them none of those discussions had even been closed?" Centpacrr (talk) 08:48, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- Very well, let's keep this short. A few things you should know:
- WP:PUF is a deletion discussion. Files listed here are deleted if their copyright status is unclear and/or cannot be confirmed.
- File deletion discussions are automatically closed by bot when the result of the debate was determined to be delete by an admin; all I have to do is delete the file and the bot closes the discussion for me.
- You need to start listening to what others have to say, instead of tenaciously asserting your own beliefs. Swallow that pride and accept the facts. Your interpretations of copyright and derivative works are egregiously wrong. Take the time to read up on your policy knowledge before attempting to debate about it.
- I will not be undeleting anything. Despite having given you multiple opportunities, you have repeatedly failed to demonstrate that your uploads are indeed freely licensed and not derivative works of some sort.
- Don't attack other users. It doesn't help your case in any way whatsoever, and is only going to result in removal of your editing privileges.
- -FASTILY (TALK) 20:01, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- Very well, let's keep this short. A few things you should know:
- Point by point:
- I affirmatively addressed the issues of copyright status and provided verification for each of these files (see above) but you deleted them anyway without ever providing any reason for disputing the information I provided so I have no way of knowing what more information you might think is necessary to convince you.
- The "Bot" may close the discussion, but it does not provide any information about why the admin who deleted the file did so thereby again leaving me in the dark.
- Most of the discussions in which I have expressed my opinions on free/non-free copyright matters have been closed (some even by you) with my position being supported (sometimes unanimously) by the community and the files kept. See for instance: Leena.png, ATSF El Capitan combined x3.png, Robertson Aircraft Corporation Logo.jpg, Pioneer Zephyr Dawn to Dusk Club.jpg (Sept 10, 2010), Pioneer Zephyr Dawn to Dusk Club.jpg (Oct 15, 2011), UAL Route Map 1940.jpg, Denver Public Library images, Jimihendrix1969mug.jpg and Pioneer Zephyr Dawn to Dusk Club.jpg (Oct 10, 2011).
- Again I addressed the issues of both copyright status and provided verification (see above) and you deleted them anyway without ever providing any reason for disputing the information I provided.
- I would not have addressed the issue of "civility" here at all had User:SchuminWeb not first raised it in his comment above. Please also note that the comments I quoted above regarding this subject were not written by me but are the opinions expressed by other editors about User:SchuminWeb's actions as an Admin. Centpacrr (talk) 02:07, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Explain how this violated non-free criteria. GaryColemanFan (talk) 03:20, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#F7 -FASTILY (TALK) 05:25, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- Explain how this violated non-free criteria. GaryColemanFan (talk) 23:07, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- A quick look through your talk page seems to indicate that I shouldn't expect a reasonable answer to this question, based on your "Shoot first and then criticize the victim" mentality. It's sad to see that sort of thinking is so prevalent on Wikipedia, especially among administrators. I can't quite bring myself to thank you for the useless link or refusal to answer a reasonable question, so I suppose our communication is over. GaryColemanFan (talk) 04:13, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Explain how this violated non-free criteria. GaryColemanFan (talk) 23:07, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Question re licensing of pictures of myself
Please educate me re the proper licensing of a picture taken for me of myself, at my request, under my direction, with my own camera, and which has always been in my sole custody and control. Would not the copyright of such an image be mine and mine alone to release and license as a free file? If not, what would make such an image different from thousands of other similar images on WP such as File:Ben Schumin at Iwo Jima Memorial.jpg? According to its summary, that image was made under exactly those circumstances and is licensed as a "free" image file on Commons. You have now twice deleted my userpage image of myself also made exactly the same way as that one and all the others without telling me why it is unacceptable thus leaving me at a loss to tell how you find it is different from all the others. Please therefore advise me what is the proper license for this image so that I can return it to my userpage. Many thanks. Centpacrr (talk) 23:31, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- Certainly, but before I do that, have you read WP:C? -FASTILY (TALK) 06:05, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, and I don't see anything there that would indicate that I would be anything other than the exclusive copyright owner of any image created under such circumstances. Centpacrr (talk) 06:20, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Copyright_FAQ#What_is_copyright.3F. From the first sentence - "you get [a copyright] automatically every time you produce creative work.". In other words, the party who pushed the button on the camera owns the copyright to the work, not the owner of the camera. As for File:Centpacrr.jpg, please do not re-upload it. I do not feel you have been completely honest with us about the origins and purpose of this photo. You neither took the photo yourself (you therefore have no legal right to publish this file under a free license), nor did you explain the occurrence of a watermark on one of the deleted versions. Don't bother trying to come up with an excuse for that; given your track record, there is no way for me to know whether you're lying or telling the truth. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:40, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- With respect, sir, this does not answer the question I am asking you which is how is the image of myself which you claim is not free any different in character than File:Ben Schumin at Iwo Jima Memorial.jpg which is licensed as free? Acording to its summary, this image was made under exactly the same type of circumstances as mine and yet resides on Commons licensed as a "free" image as do several hundred other similar "self" images posted in the "Wikipedia:Facebook Directory" located here? Although none of these pictures were taken by the people who appear in them, virtually all of them identify each of those people as both the creators and copyright holders of the images of themselves.
- Wikipedia:Copyright_FAQ#What_is_copyright.3F. From the first sentence - "you get [a copyright] automatically every time you produce creative work.". In other words, the party who pushed the button on the camera owns the copyright to the work, not the owner of the camera. As for File:Centpacrr.jpg, please do not re-upload it. I do not feel you have been completely honest with us about the origins and purpose of this photo. You neither took the photo yourself (you therefore have no legal right to publish this file under a free license), nor did you explain the occurrence of a watermark on one of the deleted versions. Don't bother trying to come up with an excuse for that; given your track record, there is no way for me to know whether you're lying or telling the truth. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:40, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, and I don't see anything there that would indicate that I would be anything other than the exclusive copyright owner of any image created under such circumstances. Centpacrr (talk) 06:20, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- If my image is truly non-free as you claim, then all of these must be non-free as well. If, however, they are free images then so is mine. Please then explain to me on what basis you insist that mine should be singled out of all of these to be treated differently and please be specific.
- As for the small logo that appeared on the image, I added that myself for a non-web use before later uploading it to WP for use on my user page. When it was pointed out to me that it was still there I removed it. This image does not now appear, nor has it ever appeared, on the web, in print, or anywhere else other than my WP userpage. I presume by "Don't bother trying to come up with an excuse for that; given your track record, there is no way for me to know whether you're lying or telling the truth." you are basing this unexplained "attack" on me on whatever User:SchuminWeb said to you about me in the email he sent you about this issue to which I obviously can't respond because it was done off site and thus I have no idea what claims he made in it. Centpacrr (talk) 10:47, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- It seems like a fair question to ask. Schumin clearly indicates that someone else took the picture. Since I can't see Centpacrr's picture, I must also ask, what's different about it? Meanwhile, there's one sure way to get around this, I think: set your camera on timer, and take the picture yourself. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:30, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- This picture was taken of me in the NHL International TV broadcast booth at the Wells Fargo (then Wachovia) Center in Philadelphia in which I was working the telecast of Game 6 of the 2010 Stanley Cup final between the Philadelphia Flyers and Chicago Blackhawks. A few minutes prior to the start of the telecast our stage manager (a friend and co-worker of mine for more then 30 years) asked me to snap a picture of him with his camera and I asked him to do the same for me with my camera. This we both did and then returned the cameras to each other. The whole process took about thirty seconds which was all the time we had for this after which we both went back to work preparing for the worldwide telecast (our feed went to 160 countries) of the game which was to begin a few minutes later. Centpacrr (talk) 13:48, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- I think I remember that one. I wonder if the specific issue, as compared with Schumin's, is that it doesn't look "touristy" enough? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:45, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- I found a couple of your wikipedia pics by google-imaging your user ID. I don't see what the issue is. [Not directly "saveable" because their source images are deleted, but somehow google images still had them.] ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:31, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- The "issue" here, Bugs, is that there actually is no legitimate issue here. As your Google search demonstrates, there actually is no difference as to what the appropriate copyright status should be between my image and any of the others. The repeated deletions of my userpage image of myself thus appear to be merely arbitrary and made without any basis in WP policy but simply because the admin who deleted them had the "power" to do so. I presume that this fact is also the reason that my question asked here multiple times (see above and below) as to "what the difference is" between mine and all the others continues to be met with silence. Centpacrr (talk) 11:31, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- I found a couple of your wikipedia pics by google-imaging your user ID. I don't see what the issue is. [Not directly "saveable" because their source images are deleted, but somehow google images still had them.] ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:31, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- I think I remember that one. I wonder if the specific issue, as compared with Schumin's, is that it doesn't look "touristy" enough? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:45, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- This picture was taken of me in the NHL International TV broadcast booth at the Wells Fargo (then Wachovia) Center in Philadelphia in which I was working the telecast of Game 6 of the 2010 Stanley Cup final between the Philadelphia Flyers and Chicago Blackhawks. A few minutes prior to the start of the telecast our stage manager (a friend and co-worker of mine for more then 30 years) asked me to snap a picture of him with his camera and I asked him to do the same for me with my camera. This we both did and then returned the cameras to each other. The whole process took about thirty seconds which was all the time we had for this after which we both went back to work preparing for the worldwide telecast (our feed went to 160 countries) of the game which was to begin a few minutes later. Centpacrr (talk) 13:48, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- I ask you again to please answer the question that I actually asked which was: How specifically is the image of myself which you claim must be deleted as "non-free" is any different than the image File:Ben Schumin at Iwo Jima Memorial.jpg made under exactly the same type of circumstances and licensed as "free" as well as the several hundred other similarly licensed "self" images posted in the "Wikipedia:Facebook Directory"? Although none of these pictures were taken by the people who appear in them, virtually all of them identify each of those people as both the creators and/or copyright holders of the images of themselves. Please therefore explain to me on what basis you insist that mine should be singled out of all of these to be treated differently as being a "non-free" image. Centpacrr (talk) 00:37, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Reductions
I have other deadlines and thus will never have time to reduce the many images you have tagged. Is it possible you could reduce these? If so, thanks. Pepso2 (talk) 00:35, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Please don't feel a need to do these manually. There is a bot which will perform this task automatically within the week. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 01:04, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- File:Sheila Walsh-Future Eyes 500.jpg was tagged. I read the relevant sectionin the policy but it's not particularly helpful. Template:Infobox Album indicates that 300 pixels is ideal. Is that the size to which it will be reduced or will it be a different size? --Walter Görlitz (talk) 02:18, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- The 300 you reduced it to is perfectly fine. — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 03:30, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- File:Sheila Walsh-Future Eyes 500.jpg was tagged. I read the relevant sectionin the policy but it's not particularly helpful. Template:Infobox Album indicates that 300 pixels is ideal. Is that the size to which it will be reduced or will it be a different size? --Walter Görlitz (talk) 02:18, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
File:Moonmullins111255.jpg should not be reduced. The Sunday comics page has 11 panels and the entire point of the gag rests on a tiny object in panel seven. Unless this object is visible, the humor is meaningless. The rules of reduction should be changed to accomodate this and similar artwork, originally published in a very large size in Sunday newspapers. Pepso2 (talk) 09:43, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- File:Craigecarchivesmoors.jpg should not be reduced. The image is there to demonstrate subtle distinctions of digital re-coloring of 1950s comic book pages. As I noted in the rationale, this was uploaded at the smallest size possible to still make those subtle tones evident. Pepso2 (talk) 15:04, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- File:Thepassingshow7718.jpg should not be reduced. Even at the largest size right now it is difficult to read some of the tiny lettering. Pepso2 (talk) 15:29, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- File:Craigecarchivesmoors.jpg should not be reduced. The image is there to demonstrate subtle distinctions of digital re-coloring of 1950s comic book pages. As I noted in the rationale, this was uploaded at the smallest size possible to still make those subtle tones evident. Pepso2 (talk) 15:04, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
RV Fbot on File:Inspector Calls Edna.png
I've reverted this edit, but expanded the FUR to match more closely the conditions at WP:NFC#Image resolution. Is that OK? --Old Moonraker (talk) 08:41, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Well, I went ahead and reduced the file a bit; your new rationale should be good now, given the current size of the file. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:40, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- The picture still does the job in the article. Thanks for the reply. --Old Moonraker (talk) 21:11, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Fbot issue, maybe minor
Fbot seems to be ignoring {{Bots|deny=Fbot}}. It just tagged File:Versions of the Doctor.jpg where the template has been placed.
- J Greb (talk) 11:52, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Hm, it will now. -FASTILY (TALK) 18:39, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
File:Versions of the Doctor.jpg
Even after J Greb removed the non-free reduced template, you went ahead and reduced this image. This is an incorrect application of #3b. It should be noted this is not "one" NFC but eleven different ones, placed in a single user-created montage as one of the few acceptable examples as such (since 11 different actors have played the role, this has been discussed several times). So in judging minimum size, we look not to the overall size of the montage, but to the individual parts, which each are about 166x200 pixels (no more than 40,000 pixels); there is no problem there, as long as we understand that there are 11 non-free images there. Treating the montage as the complete image is inappropriate in this case. #3b is not a hard limit, as several past discussions on NFC have stated (if we treated as a hard-fast limit, people will upload images to that maximum size when they don't need to be.
This is why I'm asking about the Fbot 9 task in light of WT:NFC not being notified. It itself is not a bad task, but as it is presently designed, in-congruent with how we deal with overly large images in the past, relying more on human judgement than any fixed math count. --MASEM (t) 18:52, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- To add, reduction breaks the image map used on Doctor (Doctor Who), and you reduced it even to under the displayed dimension of 275px, and way under the proposed limit 140k, to a mere 42k pixels. — Edokter (talk) — 19:05, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Fbot + image resolution
Not sure whether anybody has notified you, but discussion has been opened at Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Fbot_9 concerning whether Fbot's current tasking and implementation is really such a good idea. Your thoughts would be useful.
There was also quite a recent discussion on image resolution at WT:NFC, that you might like to add to. Jheald (talk) 19:35, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Also, instantly removing old versions of resized images is generally considered a bad idea, because it deprives the community of a chance to see and assess what's been done. Usually it's more normal to leave a gap of say 14 days or perhaps longer to make sure everyone goes along with the change, before locking it down like this. Jheald (talk) 19:43, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- It's seven days, as built into the {{furd}} template. Sven Manguard Wha? 02:52, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- My concern was primarily that Fastily had been removing old revisions at the same time that he'd been doing replacements, and that this probably isn't the best way to do things.
- But even seven days is quite itchy trigger fingered. In the past Masem has talked about quite happily leaving months before removing such images -- in the overall scheme of things they make very little difference to our legal fair-use position; but reduction isn't the most obvious of changes, and can take quite a while to get noticed (even with a note on the original uploader's talk page), and removing the revision essentially makes the change final: it becomes very unlikely for a casual passer-by will easily revert (or that it may occur to do so). We can take the time to get it right; there's no particular pressing need to be hasty. Jheald (talk) 12:10, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Deleted talk page
Hello. Noticed you deleted a rather active talk page, talk:NXIVM, with a G6 rationale. Was this possibly a mistake? JFHJr (㊟) 19:35, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, it was. Restored. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:39, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Thankya! JFHJr (㊟) 19:40, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Logo was deleted because it was orphaned, but now I have a live Wikipedia article for it.
Hi, I'd like to repost this logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:KaizenAthleticLogo.jpg&action=edit&redlink=1
It's a logo to accompany this new article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen_Athletic
Please advise. Thanks!! Expewikiwriter (talk) 20:07, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Feel free to upload a new logo, if that's what you're asking for. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:09, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
G6 deletion
Why did you delete that page? tedder (talk) 21:03, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Oops? -FASTILY (TALK) 21:08, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Based on your talk history, it's happened before. Guessing you have a cat
tedder (talk) 21:11, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- That's also excuse number 27 in the "I am not a sock" litany: "My cat/dog/parrot/whatever not only made those edits, it has learned my password and it edits maliciously while I'm at work/out driving/at recess/whatever." ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:43, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Based on your talk history, it's happened before. Guessing you have a cat
Close request
Hi Fastily. There is currently a topic ban proposal at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Stephfo.2C_disruptive_editing_after_unblock that is a bit stale. It has been archived once, after which I moved it back to AN/I, but is not getting much attention. You're one of a few admins I know by name who isn't involved in the discussion, so would you be interested in closing it or perhaps pointing me to a better venue to find someone to close it? Thanks a lot. Noformation Talk 21:32, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Alright, I'll see what I can do. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:49, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Just wanted to say thanks for taking your time to close that. Noformation Talk 07:04, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Emtee (move to sandbox please)
Do NOT JUST DELETE, the talk will be SLOWLY then. Obrigado rapido, apressado, veloz. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jornalbrasilia (talk • contribs) 23:30, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello
Your deletion of article "The Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker" is ridiculous. Categorizing it as advertisement is just an insult to said deceased author who is winner of highest award for literacy in country. That particular article is for providing information on said novel which published long time back,so it cannot be termed as advertisement anyway. Thank You. -- bhaskar ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ 03:23, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Query about Size Reduction Bot
At least three of the eight image files just tagged by User:FBot for size reduction seem to have been tagged slightly inappropriately (though understandably so). (And in all 8 copesi the article copy is much smaller than the file copy). File:2001Satellite.jpg is a high-res reproduction of a very very low-res original. To further reduce would downgrade the image unacceptably. The files File:MoneyPennyMontage.JPG and File:BondChase.JPG are both montages of which the individual elements are already at fairly low resolution, even if as a collectivity they seem to be at higher resolution. With all of these three, I would petition removal of the tag. The other 5 I would be glad to upload smaller resolution copies.--WickerGuy (talk) 06:16, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- See section above. Someone else asked the exact same question. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:18, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- My question is how do I contest the resolution of the three I mentioned?? I don't see that addressed elsewhere here? (Glad to know the others will be auto-reduced.)--WickerGuy (talk) 06:23, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Well, before you try something like that, I think it's fair to warn you that you'll be fighting a total uphill battle, as long-standing consensus is against you: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Fbot 9, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DASHBot 9, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/NeuRobot 2, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ImageResizeBot. Also, see WP:NFCC#3, Wikipedia:NFC#Image_resolution. In case tl;dr, non-free files are reduced in resolution, especially where the original could be used for deliberate copyright infringement (i.e. copyright violators will continue to violate copyright, but Wikipedia is not going to assist them in doing so). Furthermore, non-free files are permissible on the Wikimedia Foundation's servers on the premises of Fair use, that is, inferior versions of copyrighted works may be used solely to educate, nothing more. I have reviewed the images myself and I see nothing that necessitates such high resolution. In the end, the size reduction will only be about ~80% of the original (reduction of 50 pixels on both length and width). Of course, if your heart is still firmly set on contesting this tag and 'saving' 50 pixels, I'll list the files at FFD for you, but you can expect someone to reduce the images, speedy the old versions, and speedy close the discussion. I'm only taking the time to explain this to you because you seem like a decent editor and because your time would be better spent on other things. Your call. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:10, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- I've had quite a few tagged as well, and I have one question. While I'm certainly not looking for any sort of medals for the images I've uploaded, I'm proud that I uploaded them and I would like to preserve the credit of me as the original uploader. The bot will preserve this after it reduces the images, right? Cheers :> Doc talk 07:54, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- You should put "uploaded by Doc9871" in the file description page. There is a way to revdel the thumbnail without revdeling the authorship information or the timestamp, but it's rarely done because as I understand it, it requires a great deal more effort. What this means is that your work will be preserved in the Show History tab readout, but not on the file description page itself. Sorry, but as I am not an admin, I can't control how this is done. Sven Manguard Wha? 08:36, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Actually, that won't be necessary Doc, you'll still be credited as page creator when you go click the history tab. -FASTILY (TALK) 18:43, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- You should put "uploaded by Doc9871" in the file description page. There is a way to revdel the thumbnail without revdeling the authorship information or the timestamp, but it's rarely done because as I understand it, it requires a great deal more effort. What this means is that your work will be preserved in the Show History tab readout, but not on the file description page itself. Sorry, but as I am not an admin, I can't control how this is done. Sven Manguard Wha? 08:36, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- I've had quite a few tagged as well, and I have one question. While I'm certainly not looking for any sort of medals for the images I've uploaded, I'm proud that I uploaded them and I would like to preserve the credit of me as the original uploader. The bot will preserve this after it reduces the images, right? Cheers :> Doc talk 07:54, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Well, before you try something like that, I think it's fair to warn you that you'll be fighting a total uphill battle, as long-standing consensus is against you: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Fbot 9, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DASHBot 9, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/NeuRobot 2, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ImageResizeBot. Also, see WP:NFCC#3, Wikipedia:NFC#Image_resolution. In case tl;dr, non-free files are reduced in resolution, especially where the original could be used for deliberate copyright infringement (i.e. copyright violators will continue to violate copyright, but Wikipedia is not going to assist them in doing so). Furthermore, non-free files are permissible on the Wikimedia Foundation's servers on the premises of Fair use, that is, inferior versions of copyrighted works may be used solely to educate, nothing more. I have reviewed the images myself and I see nothing that necessitates such high resolution. In the end, the size reduction will only be about ~80% of the original (reduction of 50 pixels on both length and width). Of course, if your heart is still firmly set on contesting this tag and 'saving' 50 pixels, I'll list the files at FFD for you, but you can expect someone to reduce the images, speedy the old versions, and speedy close the discussion. I'm only taking the time to explain this to you because you seem like a decent editor and because your time would be better spent on other things. Your call. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:10, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- My question is how do I contest the resolution of the three I mentioned?? I don't see that addressed elsewhere here? (Glad to know the others will be auto-reduced.)--WickerGuy (talk) 06:23, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Well. I may as well join in here as start a new section. I have just had a bot place a request for me to modify 53 files on my user page. I totally support the need to stay with in the law. When these 53 shots were first put up, I erroneously had them tied into a list page (We are talking industrial archeology here), and they and the elaborate text descriptions were deleted- I read the conditions of Fair use and image size very carefully, I have written the the accompanying articles so e- verything complies- it was water tight. Take for example File:Mars_Mill,_Castleton_Rochdale_0016.png (549 × 390 pixels, file size: 163 KB, MIME type: image/png). The guidelines now say that:
As a general rule of thumb, images where one dimension exceeds 1,000 pixels, or where the image size approaches 1.0 megapixels or more, will likely require a closer review to assure that the image needs that level of resolution. This is not a discouragement to use such images, but editors should assure that rationales fully explain the need for such level of detail.
The rationale says the image was taken from a scan- so it is obvious that thre would be a danger of moiré patterns. I am perfectly happy with the image being edited by User:ANOther and being re-saved at a lowerres- but I create text, write articles, comply with WP legislation etc within the limited time I have available. I take it as a compliment that someone has seen fit to c&P all the text of the 53 articles using these images and publish them on paper as a book. I don't however see why I should have by agenda dictated by a bot, that has not correctly interpreted policy. I would be happy if the image had, as in policy, 'received' a closer review- and as a result an administrator had corrected any error- but it hasn,t- I would be exceedingly grateful if an administrator would set up a bot to
- remove ally these erroneous tags
- add a tag saying
As a general rule of thumb, images where one dimension exceeds 1,000 pixels, or where the image size approaches 1.0 megapixels or more, will likely require a closer review to assure that the image needs that level of resolution. This is not a discouragement to use such images, but editors should assure that rationales fully explain the need for such level of detail. Would an administrator look at this image
- automatically reduce the resolution OR
- enter in discussion on the talk page as to a better way forward OR
- actively attempt to get a OTRS statement from the copyright holder
- tag it has been reviewed
I get more than vaguely irritated when rules drawn up for the POP music industry are applied where they are not relevant With 10000 edits under my belt, I really can understand why experienced editors leave WP — Preceding unsigned comment added by ClemRutter (talk • contribs) 12:15, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Without a response I am left hanging- what is your thinking? --ClemRutter (talk) 11:00, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Another G6 Deletion
Hmm, you deleted Talk:Butlin's/Butlin's articles" which was transcluded in Talk:Butlins another oops? Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 22:34, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Sure? :o -FASTILY (TALK) 22:51, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Cheers, as the discussion at the bottom of the Talkpage discusses the article (and other articles that are related) go through phases of being "Butlin's" and phases of being "Butlins" unfortunately those moving it never remember to move all the associated subpages - it's been stable for a while now so hopefully won't happen again. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 17:13, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
The re-salting of Sierra McCormick
Fastily, before you deleted and salted the Sierra McCormick article again, did you ask the unsalting Admin why he unsalted? Did you read the request on his talkpage? Things may have changed since the AfD, and for "up and coming" actors, relying on a decision made 5 months ago - conducted before the TV show that she's in was broadcast (on one of the biggest kids TV channels and shown worldwide) - doesn't really make much sense. Do I have to take this to DRV? (side issue - have you ever thought that with our gender bias and lack of younger editors, deleting articles that they are most interested in, might not be in the WMF's best interests?) The-Pope (talk) 15:24, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- I had a look at the logs and didn't find an instance where the page was unsalted. At any rate, please do consider listing it at WP:DRV if the original AfD no longer applies so the page isn't deleted again. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Undeletion request
Would you mind restoring User:Hurricanefan25/ACE2011, which you deleted on the 28th? Thanks. HurricaneFan25 15:34, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Done. NW (Talk) 21:02, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
I warned them on the three revert thing but they technically already broke it as you can see here as they reverted 3 times and then went and ran their mouth when they're the one's posting false stuff. Swifty*talkcontribs 17:02, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- User warned. If they continue vandalizing, let me know and I'll block them. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:13, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Will do Fastily. Swifty*talkcontribs 04:39, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your intervention in this matter. Unfortunately I'm not sure they're going to "get it" and move on. Honestly I wouldn't see the user page as a big deal if they ever contributed elsewhere on wikipedia. But all they've done is try to create this article, and after that was speedy deleted multiple times they moved on to self-promotion via the user page. 128.114.59.200 (talk) 21:16, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- User warned. If they continue spamming, let me know so I can block them. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:20, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Fair use rationale is for single use
I thought that Fair Use means you can use something for a single purpose, and my submission of File:Soanya Ahmad (from Channer Conversations).jpg was just such a photo. Why did you and your colleagues label this as unquestionable infringement, when I made every effort to justify my use of the screenshot. It is an option in the list of rationales, in your own guidelines, and I followed it exactly, giving the reason that to illustrate the interview I needed an image capture from the video used as a reference in the article. I had all this information in the Discussion page, which you also deleted just now. Why, why, why? I feel I have been mistreated here, and wish to protest this unwarranted action of speedy deletion. Have you nothing better to do than to annoy other editors here? --Skol fir (talk) 21:43, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Indeed it is. My mistake, Restored -FASTILY (TALK) 21:46, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- I am no longer annoyed. :-) Sorry for the outburst above, but I did think I had a good case here. I have added more talk to the Discussion page, in case anyone else gets ideas. --Skol fir (talk) 21:57, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Is this wikipedia article for YOHO Artist Studios ok now? You said it was too promotional last time. Thank you.
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YoHo Artist Studios is a community of producing artists and crafters that work out of two of the former Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Company Mills buildings at 540/578 Nepperhan Avenue in Yonkers, New York. The population renting private studios here has grown to over 60 working artists since the current owners acquired the five-story loft buildings in 2005. [1] This was the largest carpet manufacturer in the world for much of the 83 years the company was in operation here in Yonkers. Not one employee lost his or her job during the Great Depression; it was agreed that hours would be cut, but jobs were not. The company was constantly improving their looms and increasing output. [4] The company maintained a good reputation and solid success until the end of World War II, when, after a number of employee strikes the city’s largest employer relocated to Greenville, Mississippi, where workers were not unionized. In the mid-1950’s the Yonkers plant shut down entirely, leaving a massive complex vacant and an estimated 5,000 workers without jobs. [5]
At closure, almost half the workers had put 25 or more years of their life into this company. [6]The stronghold along Nepperhan and Saw Mill River, and within the Yonkers community, was suddenly gone. [7] Beginning of YoHo Artist Studios: In 1983, the loft buildings were listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. [10] Several years later, Yonkers and Eisenkraft began see the trend of artists moving out of Manhattan and into more affordable work space outside of the city. Thus, some of the space on the fourth floor was dedicated to be used as artist studios in the early 1990’s, and was given the name YoHo, or “Yonkers’ SoHo.” [11] As artists sought larger spaces that they could afford, they were attracted to areas like Yonkers, which are within a 25-minute commuting distance to the traditional arts centers in SoHo and Chelsea. Some artists and crafters began sparsely occupying Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Company Mills as well as other aging buildings in Yonkers in the early 1990’s, [12] but recent years have seen the communities concentrating in these areas, especially in the North of Tilghman – or “No Ti” – district. [13] Among the artists that rent or have rented space at YoHo include producers of murals, collages, sculptures, mixed media, and portraits. While the population is made up of primarily visual artists and specifically painters, there has also been a jewelry maker, a surface decorator, tattoo artist, lighting fixture designer, and custom motorcycle graphic artist. [15]
YoHo has grown and expanded since the property’s most recent acquisition in 2005. In the beginning of 2011 the owners started planning for the incorporation of 25 new spaces that would occupy a newly-opened fourth floor wing. These new studios sought to improve upon the original 50+ studios that were already occupied at 540 and 578 Nepperhan Avenue – by this time known to be Southern Westchester’s largest artist community. [18] Transportation:
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- It could still use some improvement. Some links you may find helpful: WP:YFA, WP:GNG, WP:ADS, WP:V, WP:CITE, WP:MOS, WP:RFF -FASTILY (TALK) 00:31, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Copyrights, etc.
I find the photo rules here mystifying, which is why nowadays I only upload photos that I've taken and don't bother with fair use anymore. In regard to the Centpacrr complaint, I'm lost. Can you point me to where you explained why the Schumin picture is allowed but the Centpacrr picture is not? I'm not trying to rile you, I just don't understand. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 23:57, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- I never did, actually. I have an issue solely with Centpacrr's behavior and uploads, not SchuminWeb's. I evaluate files based on their own merit, and not in comparison to others. Nonetheless, if there is a concern with SchuminWeb's photos, this should be brought up with him, not me; I do not speak for him. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:36, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- I advised him to either consult with a copyright guru like Delta, or to take it to ANI, so that someone can determine whether one, or both, or neither, are allowed here. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:47, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
undeletion / move request
Hi, you deleted "File talk:TnormCDF.png" can you move that to wherever the new file is? Actually, I created a .svg and I wonder if the talk could be moved over there. 018 (talk) 00:44, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- The flle was transwikied to Commons. You'll have to ask someone with importer rights or a steward to move the talk page over there for you. If you want me to move the svg version of the file to commons, please give me the link to it.Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 01:19, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Well, how about your just undelete it and I can copy it over by hand? Every interaction I have with commons is just more annoyance--you loose the talk page, you have to have a new login/and login... I'd rather the svg just stayed on the en server. 018 (talk) 01:57, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Can't do that, attribution issues. The history of the talk page should remain intact if it is going to be moved to Commons. Also, there's no need to create a new account, simply merge/create a unified login. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:45, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Well, how about your just undelete it and I can copy it over by hand? Every interaction I have with commons is just more annoyance--you loose the talk page, you have to have a new login/and login... I'd rather the svg just stayed on the en server. 018 (talk) 01:57, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Daily Heil redirect
Hi i had contested the speedy tag on the page and and had added comments to the talk page expressing why. I also gave reason showing use in reliable sources countering the arguments that had previously caused deletion. The deletion summary was " (G6: Housekeeping and routine (non-controversial) cleanup)" how is it non controversial when I was contesting it and my comments had not even had a chance to be read. RafikiSykes (talk) 01:54, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Meant to delete it under G4, my bad. See User:Fastily/E#G4 -FASTILY (TALK) 04:53, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
InnerWorkings
Is there any way you can possibly take another look at this page? Is there something specific that is problematic? Perhaps some insight on reworking the article, Thanks.Gsimon818 (talk) 03:16, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi, A quick one for you (since I've come across you a few times in relation to deletions). I listed SoilCure Microbial Amendment for AFD under notability. Its an article about a product with 2 lines about the product then everything else about general soil science. I'm now thinking it should be a speedy for spam (especially if you look at how the creator is linking it to every other article in existence) Special:Contributions/Marcjarod. Is it too late to change? Clovis Sangrail (talk) 04:05, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Nope, definitely not. Deleted -FASTILY (TALK) 04:57, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion review for Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 December 1
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 December 1. 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. jbmurray (talk • contribs) 08:45, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
164,025 figure
Hi there, I was looking for a response to my question over at User talk:Fbot. I was wondering how you came to the decision to mark all non-free images greater than 164,025 pixels square as needing to be resized. As far as I can tell, there is no Wikipedia policy on the pixel size other than 1 mega pixel (1,000,000 pixels square), but even that is only a guideline and editors are anyways still supposed to look at each image on a case by case basis. I do see that User:Sven Manguard got a similar number from User:DASHBot, but that Bot only resizes images that have already been marked for resize by a human editor. It sure seems to me that you and Sven just invented a new policy based on an arbitrary mathematical figure, and for the last two days have been using your bot to enforce it across thousands of image pages. I see there's discussion on this above, but just where does this number comes from?-- Patrick, oѺ∞ 21:24, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Since you're asking me this, I take it you didn't bother to read Fbot's FAQ, which, incidentally, is linked to the bot's talk page in a big red banner. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:30, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, I did see how it relates to DASHBot, but how does that relate to Fbot? Why use that number, and not one that Wikipedia has on their policy page, such as 1MP? Again, the thing for me is that DASHBot is only dealing with images that human users checked as needing to be resized.-- Patrick, oѺ∞ 23:14, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
This is *extremely* annoying. Automatic intervention shouldn't be applied to cases which are either definitely OK or borderline, it should be restricted to cases which you're fairly certain need fixing. Otherwise the false positives will overwhelm human editors. Again, previous bots' version history is no excuse to be unfairly tagging thousands of images which are perfectly fine according to Wikipedia's guidelines, and the previous bot only intervened *when real people had asked for intervention by placing a tag*. Wikipedia's official rule is "images should be rescaled as small as possible to still be useful as identified by their rationale." The guideline for identifying images which could be downscaled and still be useful is "images where one dimension exceeds 1,000 pixels, or where the image size approaches 1.0 megapixels or more, will likely require a closer review to assure that the image needs that level of resolution." Those *and only those* images should be tagged automatically. I can see a legitimate argument for automatically tagging images with 307,200 pixels or higher- captures of 640x480 computer displays, of NTSC and PAL TV and DVDs, etc should usually not be at full resolution, even though they come in under a megapixel and under 1000 px in each dimension. But 164,025px is ridiculous. I came here because some time ago I came across a 800x600 screenshot which had been reduced to a completely worthless and unidentifiable 304x228 blob. I located the original screenshot, tried resizing to 400x300, found that the image would have still been totally unusable, and instead resized to 533x400 (213,200px) which is well within Wikipedia's guidelines. Now I find your bot has tagged that to be resized again. Please stop the madness. Prodicus (talk) 19:42, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- The task is temporarily on hold while community discusses the thresholds for the bot. Feel free to join in here. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:46, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
I don't know if you're aware of this, but a photo you deleted pursuant to a PUF dicussion was inadvertently re-uploaded. It is now the subject of another PUF discussion. See [53]. ScottyBerg (talk) 23:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Noted. Thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:31, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, the PUF is about to end by default, in effect reversing your deletion and the previous PUF. ScottyBerg (talk) 18:32, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Question
Can you delete the previous uploads on the uploads I updated? Thanks! Swifty*talkcontribs 05:55, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily, do you need to wait the full 7 days to do this? I was going to do it but then I saw the timestamp--Guerillero | My Talk 06:11, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Standard practice is to wait 7 days, but you can go ahead and delete them now, especially since James has requested that we do so. Would you like to do the honors? Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 07:40, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- does this look right? --Guerillero | My Talk 14:13, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Not quite. It looks like you performed a revdel. This is different from removing previous image revisions. To remove previous image revisions, go to File:Sparks Fly Sample.ogg, scroll down to the section titled, "File History", and click the "(delete)" button in the leftmost column for the bottom two revisions. Try it out. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:28, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- does this look right? --Guerillero | My Talk 14:13, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Standard practice is to wait 7 days, but you can go ahead and delete them now, especially since James has requested that we do so. Would you like to do the honors? Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 07:40, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Old versions deletions
I see you're tagging old revisions of non-free pics for deletion when they are not used anywhere.[54] I would think that situation is the norm, and deleting them should be OK. But it's wikipedia's upload process that keeps the old versions visible. The editors who upload them don't have any control over that. Or do they? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:10, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- No, the original uploaders of the files do not have control over whether past versions of files are visible or not. All previous versions of a given file are visible unless an admin deletes them. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:42, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Why are past versions of non-free files visible at all? Or is it because licensing can change and it would be too much trouble? To put it another way, what if I discovered the Polo Grounds photo was actually pre-1923? (It wasn't, but let's suppose.) Then I would change the license to PD-1923, but the prior versions would still be invisible? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 08:58, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- And since the only way to get to a past version appears to be via a link,
- Why are past versions of non-free files visible at all? Or is it because licensing can change and it would be too much trouble? To put it another way, what if I discovered the Polo Grounds photo was actually pre-1923? (It wasn't, but let's suppose.) Then I would change the license to PD-1923, but the prior versions would still be invisible? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 08:58, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
File:20110827190114!Polo Grounds after 1923.JPG
- then they can't be displayed in articles anyway, so what's the purpose of deleting them? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 09:02, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- It's a technical issue: the mediawiki software retains all past versions of any given file for attribution, just like how all edits made to an article are recorded on it's history page. In the case of non-free files, it is not helpful to retain these past versions, because they are not being used. Granted that they cannot be accessed via wikilink, they can still be accessed via direct url. WP:NFCC#7 remarks that any non-free content hosted on en.wikipedia must be used in at least one article. If that cannot be done, the file is deleted. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:37, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- then they can't be displayed in articles anyway, so what's the purpose of deleting them? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 09:02, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Insert Coin(s)
I am wondering why my post for Insert Coin(s) is deleted when it's a general information page for the bar in downtown Las Vegas. Is there certain text that can be deleted to have this approved?
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Insert Coin(s) is a videolounge and gamebar located in downtown Las Vegas, NV. The video game centric bar and lounge features more than 50 vintage arcade games from the 1980s through the early 2000s, custom booths with every major video game console, a dance floor and special events each night of the week featuring top local DJs and video djs.[1] Christopher LaPorte opened Insert Coin(s) in April of 2011 following a strategic social media campaign involving many local press outlets such as the Las Vegas Weekly,[2] which originally found LaPorte and wrote about his quest to open the bar in Las Vegas.[2] Insert Coin(s) has found huge success in downtown Las Vegas, inspiring other local entrepreneurs to invest in the future of this Metropolitan area. == References ==
== External Links == (3) http://www.facebook.com/INSERTCOINSLV (4) http://www.twitter.com/InsertCoinsLV (5) http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/feb/14/new-fremont-street-business-marry-video-games-bar-/ |
RyanBrunty (talk) 07:45, 1 December 2011 (UTC)Ryan
I have opened up a deletion review following a close of yours a little while ago. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 08:45, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Alright, thanks for the note. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:39, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Elm photo deletions
I would like to point out that with one exception, all the photographers were contacted, and duly emailed Permissions at Wiki to articulate their full consents for the photos to be used. Perhaps you could explain why these have all been completely ignored? What an utter waste of time and effort. Ptelea (talk) 10:48, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- If that is indeed the case, the files will be restored once the emails are processed. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:40, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Re-deletion 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship
Hi. The Competition will be held after 1 and a half year and the qualification will take place in autumn 2012. I don't see Obvious reasons to delete it. If you see other football pages they have been created before their beginning in long time.--Uishaki (talk) 13:04, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Advice needed
I have concerns about this user page, and I would like to know your thoughts. As I mentioned on the user's talk page, all of the editor's contributions are edits to this subpage and images uploaded to be used on it; it appears to be a private research project which has nothing to do with the encyclopedia. I may be the only non-bot who has noticed, and the editor has continued on without responding to my comment. Thoughts?--~TPW 13:22, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Warned user. Contributions nuked. If it happens again, please let me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:50, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
deletion?
Hello,
I have noticed that my contribution on "Introduction to trade-mark law in Canada" (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Introduction_to_trademark_law_in_Canada;_passing_off&action=edit&redlink=1) has been deleted. Although there's already a page dealing with trade-marks in general, my contribution was more specific to Canadian Law and didn't seem redundant to me. Moreover, I've been asked to cover this particular topic on Wikipedia for one of my Law classes, for which I will get a grade, so it's important that my contribution be taken into account.
Could you please reconsider my contribution?
Camiliac (talk) 16:56, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Orphaned fair use revisions template
Hello Fastily, as you are currently the primary user of the {{Orphaned fair use revisions}} template, could you respond to the this inquiry. Thanks! Kaldari (talk) 18:27, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- FYI, I rewrote the admin instructions for that template. Kaldari (talk) 20:38, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Mistaken deletion: No copyright violation
Hello,
You deleted an image I uploaded:
23:05, 29 November 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:The Sexual Side Effects.jpg" (F9: Media file copyright violation without fair use or credible claim of permission)
This image was taken by a photographer I employed to photograph the event. The image is not copyrighted and I have permission to use it how I wish—including sharing it on Wikipedia.
Will you please restore the image?
Thanks,
Clay — Preceding unsigned comment added by Claymcclure (talk • contribs) 19:01, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- In that case, send an email to our OTRS team. To do this, follow the instructions at WP:PERMISSION. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:54, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Hello,
I think St John Plessington Catholic College might need some updates including the school's logo and a few picturesalong with some more relevant information about the college. I'm a student of this school and I had a chat aboutthis with the school's management. They agreed to give me the copyright free images so do you mind in me updatingthat? I'm also asking a few more opinions in this task, hope you won't mind. I have also read this (Schools, Article_guidelines, What_not_to_include) so I hope I can proceed, or may I? If you have any concern about it them could you please contact me onmy talk page. --Njavallil ...Talk 2 Me 20:14, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
photo permissions
Hi, Fastily,
With all respect, you guys are really busting my chops about these photo permissions. I followed (to the letter) all of the procedures directed by Moonridden Girl and submitted my permission for this photo (which is fully owned by me) to [email protected] two weeks ago. You've got me in some sort of feedback loop or labyrinth because there are too many of you randomly scouring the site. Please release me!
Warning: A file by that name has been deleted or moved. The deletion and move log for this page are provided here for convenience: 00:10, 30 November 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:Andy Hill.jpg" (F11: No evidence of permission for more than 7 days) 22:42, 22 April 2011 Fetchcomms (talk | contribs) deleted "File:Andy Hill.jpg" (Deleted because "F4: Lack of licensing information / F11: No evidence of permission".(TW)) 04:59, 23 April 2008 Misza13 (talk | contribs) deleted "File:Andy Hill.jpg" (: Image missing non-free use rationale. (WP:CSD#I6))
Ghostrider51 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghostrider51 (talk • contribs) 20:31, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Send another email. The photo will be automatically restored once the email is processed. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:49, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Socialphy Wikipedia Page
Hello, I recently visited Taringa's Wikipedia page. I see that you have Socialphy under the same page just in English. Although this is somewhat true, it is inaccurate. Socialphy is a completely separate website. It has its own rules and protocol, its own staff, and its own users. Though the concept is the same, it is unique in several ways. We have tried to create its own Wikipedia page for the site but you recently deleted it as G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion. Our intention is not to advertise and promote the site but rather have a Wikipedia page so that people can get unbiasedly informed about the site, what it does, and how it works. We want to simply distinguish ourselves from Taringa because we are in fact a separate child, with the same parents. You wouldn't deny a sibling his own identity just because he looks like his brother or sister would you? I'm asking you so that if I create an unbiased, purely neutral page for Socialphy that you will back me up so as to avoid having it taken down for G11 again.
I appreciate your time,
Jona Landman
Jonaland (talk) 21:07, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
I'm not sure what this means? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.68.40.216 (talk) 13:53, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Regarding your Protection of Continental Airlines
Hi -- I recently noticed you protected Continental Airlines here. I understand the "protect wrong version of the page, etc". The edit war was about when the airlines should be listed as "operations ceased" (which was the last fight to land last night), and now that that time has passed -- I think any warring of sorts should definitely die down. There is much maintenance that has to be done to the article now that the airline is legally shut down -- so I ask -- uninvolved in the war -- if you could please shorten the protection, or remove it. There are currently discussion going on at WP:AIRPORTS about the situation, and something is trying to be worked out. Would you be willing to shorten the protection? Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 21:57, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done Reduced to 3 days. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:50, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you. Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 23:14, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Following up - a photo you recently deleted (File:Nelson Denis.jpg)
Dear Fastily,
You recently deleted this photo: [56]
The photo was deleted pursuant to this (unfortunately long) PUF discussion: [57]
Your deletion notice said that, to perhaps straighten this out, the following information should be provided:
- 02:31, 2 December 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:Nelson Denis.jpg" (G4: Recreation of deleted material: Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_files/2011_June_9#File:NDENIS_FOTO_-1.jpg - copyright is owned by the photographer. Get the photographer to release rights via WP:OTRS and file can be restored)
Accordingly, though I did not not upload the photo, I am the subject and the owner of the copyright. I am not the owner by virtue of being the subject, but because I also took the photo. The manner in which I did this, is detailed in the OTRS Permission which I sent on Nov. 17, 2011, and again on Nov. 18, 2011.
In other words, as both subject and photographer, I did release rights via WP:OTRS.
In addition, since I own the photo and its copyright, I placed the photo on my Facebook page [58] , my LinkedIn page [59] , and my FLICKR page [60]. I am a practicing attorney, and would not endanger my law license by violating someone's copyright. It's simply not worth it.
Below is the text of that Permission which I e-mailed to OTRS.
Please let me know if this helps to resolve this. Thank you, Nelsondenis248 (talk) 03:55, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- PERMISSION SENT TO OTRS:
- From: Nelson Denis
- To: permissions-en <[email protected]>
- Sent: Thu, Nov 17, 2011 11:32 pm
- Subject: Permission to use File:Nelson Denis.jpg
- Permission to use File:Nelson Denis.jpg
- I, NELSON DENIS, as the copyright holder of the image attached in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nelson_Denis.jpg , agree to release it under the terms of CC-BY-SA . I understand that this allows anyone to use the image for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as the constraints in the license, such as attribution, are respected.
- Since I own the photo and the copyright, I already use this photo in my own Facebook page:
- I also use this photo in my own LinkedIn page:
- To avoid any confusion, there is no other "photographer" involved, since I used a timed remote shutter release on my camera. This enables me to set the camera on a tripod, walk away from it, and take many photos. I then select the photo with the best focus, framing, etc.
- It's a handy way to get great photos!
- It doesn't cost much, either. Here is an example of a timed shutter release, and what it can do. I highly recommend it:
- Finally -- I am an amateur photographer but I am a practicing attorney, and aware of copyright issues. I grant this license to Wikipedia freely and with no underlying conflicts or concerns.
- Sincerely,
- Nelson A. Denis, Esq.
- We've been through this already. That's why it was re-deleted under G4. I erred in not nominating it for G4 in the first place. ScottyBerg (talk) 04:32, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
GRAMMARLY
Sir,
The page for Grammarly was deleted (actually moved to Lexin/grammarly). It was an informational piece about a type of software, I don't believe it read like an ad anymore than the page about Skype or Word reads like an ad. They are all software. I can rewrite, but would like to hear your input.
Tenzingnineoneone (talk) 17:45, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- Please link the page in question. It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:52, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lexin/Grammarly Tenzingnineoneone (talk) 21:50, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
So what are we thinkin' there amigo? Tenzingnineoneone (talk) 17:19, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Okay so you just deleted the page again without explaining yourself. I suppose you feel you are allowed to do that. Please explain how Grammarly's page is promotion, in your own words.
Akaname
You do not believe Akaname should be deleted? Please send a TB.—cyberpower (Talk to Me)(Contributions) 10:56, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- Nope. It did not meet criterion A1 for speedy deletion. Consider prodding the article or sending it to WP:AFD if you want it deleted. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:08, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- Understood. Although it lacks sources and sufficient information for it to be a decent article.—cyberpower (Talk to Me)(Contributions) 20:33, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Article - Philobiblon- Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities
I hereby affirm that I, Istvan Kiraly V. the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of PHILOBIBLON -Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities (www.philobiblon.eu and/or www.philobiblon.ro
I AM THE CHIEF EDITOR OF THIS SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL !!!
I agree to STANDARD CHOICE; SEE BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION ON TYPE OF LICENSE: [publish that work under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0" (unported) and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).] I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites. I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by me. I am aware that the free license only concerns copyright, and I reserve the option to take action against anyone who uses this work in a libelous way, or in violation of personality rights, trademark restrictions, etc. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the work may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
[ISTVAN KIRALY V., THE Chief Editor of the Philobiblon – Transylvanian Jornal of Multidisciplicary Research in Humanities, email and official contact address: [email protected] http://www.philobiblon.eu/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=2&Itemid=56&lang=en
[YES, I’m the Chief Editor of the publication , see: www.philobiblon.eu and www.philobiblon.ro ] [02 december, 2011] --K. Istvan (talk) 12:29, 2 December 2011 (UTC) Istvan Kiraly V.
- Send an email to the OTRS team, telling them exactly what you told me. For instructions on how to do this, go to WP:PERMISSION -FASTILY (TALK) 20:09, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Woops, did it again. Please Undelete User:Schweiwikist/subpage/test3--didn’t wrap a g7 in a noinclude
Hi, due to my repeating an error I committed a year ago with Portal:Current_events/Calendar/2010/335, my transclusion of Portal:Current_events/Calendar/2011/335 without a noinclude wrapper mistagged my list page as a speedy delete candidate. Please recheck the deletion log. This exchange with your deletion precessor will be a help: Been here, done this.
Thanks in advance. Schweiwikist (talk) 12:29, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks again! Schweiwikist (talk) 19:12, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry, but could you specify which page you want returned? -FASTILY (TALK) 20:10, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- Precisely—no page to undelete (currently). ’Twas already undeleted by Courcelles, thanks, I assumed it was you who did so. See this log entry you (inadvertently) generated. ---Schweiwikist (talk) 21:23, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Talk subpages with redirect parent
Because that page is only limited to 2000 results, you'll have to keep going through it as new entries come up replacing those you deleted. Thanks! — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 16:08, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Philip smart
Thank you for deleting "Philip smart". I had accidentally forgot to capitalize the 's' in Philip Smart and could find no way to fix it other than to start a new entry and blank the old one.(Observation Station (talk) 21:11, 2 December 2011 (UTC)).
- Sure thing. Next time, try WP:MOVE? -FASTILY (TALK) 21:14, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Neat! Thanks again! (Observation Station (talk) 05:55, 3 December 2011 (UTC))
Recent deletion
As the admin who deleted Texas Services for people with disabilities in Bexar County, would you mind chiming in here when you can, if only to say that due to the promotional nature of the article it can't be userfied? Thanks, Nolelover Talk·Contribs 21:25, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Please review deletion and provide me a copy of the deleted article
Fastily - the article posted and recommended for speedy deletion was information about how to access services for people with disabilities. Nolelover made the recommendation for G11 reasons. I am having difficulty understanding how it could be considered promotion or advertisement. HELP!! me understand.
Also, please send me a copy of the article so I may take your input and that of Nolelover and improve both the article and my skills.
Thank you. Ahill1225 (talk) 22:15, 2 December 2011 (UTC) AHill1225
- Please see User:Fastily/E#G11. Also, given your creation of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Texas - Services for persons with disabilities in Bexar County, which is identical to Texas Services for people with disabilities in Bexar County, you don't need the article text to be returned. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:18, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Fastily - The two articles are not identical which I am certain you will see upon closer reading. I used the {{Wiki talk: Articles for creation}} draft to practice and ensure I was using the formatting guidelines appropriately and accurately. The article I posted today as a new article is the result of days of work to ensure compliance. During the preview process I made significant additions to the article and do not have those. While I am sure you get many of these requests, your kind return of the deleted version of the page would be appreciated. I will read your reference with great interest. Thanks for considering my request.
Ahill1225 (talk) 22:54, 2 December 2011 (UTC) AHill1225
Are you serious???????????
Why did you delete that photo?????? Please restore. No bot or other user ever gave me a warning on needing something on that photo. This was so inappropriate.--JOJ Hutton 22:39, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- Link the file in question. It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:53, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Deleted images
Can you restore these?
- File:Lunar eclipse chart, 28 August 2007 (with labels).png, File:Lunar eclipse chart, 28 August 2007 (without labels).png
I uploaded one version, overwrote with a second. Someone else liked the first better, and renamed both, and now they're both deleted for reasons I can't see besides "Deleted because "F4: File without a source for more than 7 days", so apparently the other person didn't copy the PD source from my original?! Tom Ruen (talk) 22:52, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Nevermind. I uploaded the original name back, this time on Commons. Note: It looks like you did deleted the original also, after the rename! [61] Tom Ruen (talk) 23:08, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Fastily - Thank you for your first note back. I am waiting to hear back on the second note about reconsidering my request for a copy of the deleted article Texas Services for people with disabilities in Bexar County. In the meantime, I have read your talk page and your editing comments. Were the external links to state websites the reason it was considered advertisement/promotional? I am truly interested in understanding your rationale. As I explained to Nolelover, every state implements federal programming for people with disabilities differently. The article was describing how the state of Texas and Bexar county were implementing supports and services. Your help is very appreciated. Please answer. Ahill1225 (talk) 23:28, 2 December 2011 (UTC) AHill1225
- I already answered those questions. See above. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:36, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
| Thanks For Watching RPP Andrew Kurish (talk) 00:03, 3 December 2011 (UTC) |
- Thank you! Glad to have been able to help. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 00:08, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Image restorations
Fastily, can you please restore the following images?
They were removed by a sockpuppet of image-vandal ElPilotoDi (talk · contribs) yesterday SadiquaP (talk · contribs), and hence were orphaned. I don't think they were even orphaned for more than seven days to warranty a deletion. Please do the needful. In the meantime I'm raising a checkuser. — Legolas (talk2me) 02:27, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done -FASTILY (TALK) 04:30, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thakns a lot Fastily. I have restored these images to the origina articles to which they belonged to. If possible could you please delete the sock's uploads? Better would be to indef the sock, but CU will take care of it I suppose. Thanks again. — Legolas (talk2me) 05:49, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Deleted, and all blocked and tagged. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 06:54, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thakns a lot Fastily. I have restored these images to the origina articles to which they belonged to. If possible could you please delete the sock's uploads? Better would be to indef the sock, but CU will take care of it I suppose. Thanks again. — Legolas (talk2me) 05:49, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Much appriciated
Thanks a ton for clearing the massive backlog of protection requests at the WP:RFPP. It seems like everyday it gets bigger. See you around. -- Luke (Talk) 04:56, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing. Happy to have been able to help. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 06:54, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen
I'm a bit surprised by your deletion of the talk page of the Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen article. What is the reason behind that? How would G6 apply here? Calistemon (talk) 07:30, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Well, that wasn't supposed to happen. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:42, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- You must be overworked! Thanks for the quick fix. Calistemon (talk) 07:56, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Following up - a photo you recently deleted (File:Nelson Denis.jpg)
Dear Fastily,
- I posted the following message on your talk page on 03:55, 2 December 2011 (UTC). I didn’t see any response from you. Could you please provide some feedback, even one line, so that I might know how to proceed? I appreciate it, thank you.
- What follows now, after my signature, is the earlier message I left.
You recently deleted this photo: [62]
The photo was deleted pursuant to this (unfortunately long) PUF discussion: [63]
Your deletion notice said that, to perhaps straighten this out, the following information should be provided:
- 02:31, 2 December 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:Nelson Denis.jpg" (G4: Recreation of deleted material: Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_files/2011_June_9#File:NDENIS_FOTO_-1.jpg - copyright is owned by the photographer. Get the photographer to release rights via WP:OTRS and file can be restored)
Accordingly, though I did not not upload the photo, I am the subject and the owner of the copyright. I am not the owner by virtue of being the subject, but because I also took the photo. The manner in which I did this, is detailed in the OTRS Permission which I sent on Nov. 17, 2011, and again on Nov. 18, 2011.
In other words, as both subject and photographer, I did release rights via WP:OTRS.
In addition, since I own the photo and its copyright, I placed the photo on my Facebook page [64] , my LinkedIn page [65] , and my FLICKR page [66]. I am a practicing attorney, and would not endanger my law license by violating someone's copyright. It's simply not worth it.
Below is the text of that Permission which I e-mailed to OTRS.
Please let me know if this helps to resolve this. Thank you, Nelsondenis248 (talk) 03:55, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- PERMISSION SENT TO OTRS:
- From: Nelson Denis
- To: permissions-en <[email protected]>
- Sent: Thu, Nov 17, 2011 11:32 pm
- Subject: Permission to use File:Nelson Denis.jpg
- Permission to use File:Nelson Denis.jpg
- I, NELSON DENIS, as the copyright holder of the image attached in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nelson_Denis.jpg , agree to release it under the terms of CC-BY-SA . I understand that this allows anyone to use the image for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as the constraints in the license, such as attribution, are respected.
- Since I own the photo and the copyright, I already use this photo in my own Facebook page:
- I also use this photo in my own LinkedIn page:
- To avoid any confusion, there is no other "photographer" involved, since I used a timed remote shutter release on my camera. This enables me to set the camera on a tripod, walk away from it, and take many photos. I then select the photo with the best focus, framing, etc.
- It's a handy way to get great photos!
- It doesn't cost much, either. Here is an example of a timed shutter release, and what it can do. I highly recommend it:
- Finally -- I am an amateur photographer but I am a practicing attorney, and aware of copyright issues. I grant this license to Wikipedia freely and with no underlying conflicts or concerns.
- Sincerely,
- Nelson A. Denis, Esq.
Tagging
Much as I appreciate your zeal in copyright matters, please could you explain what is wrong at File:Pecoraro.ogg?--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 09:02, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Same at File:Model Kraftwerk.ogg etc. Please explain why this fails to come up to scratch.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 09:06, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- File:Model Kraftwerk.ogg is missing fair-use rationale. I have fixed the issue with File:Pecoraro.ogg -FASTILY (TALK) 09:13, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- There is a rationale right there. It's not a template form (which is not required but it discusses the key points per NFCC. --MASEM (t) 13:28, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- File:Model Kraftwerk.ogg certainly has a fair use rationale, and the rationale does mention the name of the article. There is no requirement that the rationale has to use the words "non-free", "use", or "rationale", nor that it has to be formatted in any particular way. The only technical requirement is that the name of the article must be mentioned. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:40, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Back to the first one. File:Pecoraro.ogg certainly had a FUR before it was jumped on today. Here it is:
The aforementioned sample is considered fair use because:
- The experience of the subject of the interview is directly relevant to the article concerned.
- Because this sample is sourced from copyrighted work, a free alternative would not be obtainable.
- The sample is of an historic nature given the events mentioned in the article, and the subsequent media coverage thereof.
- Right, a sample is not a use, fair or otherwise. So all you needed to do was a very little rewording. For example: Use of this file within the article The Amityville Horror is fair because: [...] -- Hoary (talk) 13:53, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Fastily. What do you mean, there is no FUR? Please let me know, as far as I can see the description includes one. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:08, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Facepalm on File:BEOCE logo.jpg and issues with File:KE VI sch logo.jpg resolved. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 09:16, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Why this addition of a template demanding a FUR? There'd been one on that page since 2008; is it somehow defective? -- Hoary (talk) 10:39, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Tagging
Please explain the current spate of subst:Nrd tags. Many of them seem to have adequate FURs, even if they are written in text. Please also bear in mind that large batches of tagging risk getting longstanding images deleted. The subst:Nrd tag on its own is not clear on why the FUR is being demanded.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 11:07, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- I don't know what you're looking at, but the files I tagged either have incomplete fair-use rationale, or no fair-use rationale at all. Under Wikipedia Non-free content criterion 10c, non-free files must include fair-use rationale justifying their use on Wikipedia and storage on Wikimedia servers, without the permission of their respective copyright holders. For the record, copyright is no joking matter. I also agree that long-standing images could be lost this way. That is why whenever I do anything on a large scale, I set aside time and make plans to go back, re-check everything for accuracy, and fix what issues I can. -FASTILY (TALK) 11:22, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Does this mean that you prefer a table rather than a text based explanation? This was why Hoary reverted here, as there did not seem to be much wrong with the summary as it stood. The problem with one week deletion tagging in cases like this is that it makes a mountain out of a molehill. Deletion tagging should be reserved for obvious copyvios.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 12:24, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- No preference to templates; you'll notice that the fair use rationale for the majority of my own non-free uploads are in text. And uh....
{{di-no fair use rationale}}is not a speedy deletion tag. A file tagged with it will be deleted in 8 days from time of tagging if the concerns are not addressed by then. I plan on reviewing all my tags in the next few days. If you find it irresistible to help, knock yourself out, less work for me. -FASTILY (TALK) 12:33, 3 December 2011 (UTC)- Could you clarify what you did not like about File:Minamata Chisso Industrial Waste.jpg? Hoary was puzzled, and so was I.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 12:38, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- No preference to templates; you'll notice that the fair use rationale for the majority of my own non-free uploads are in text. And uh....
- Does this mean that you prefer a table rather than a text based explanation? This was why Hoary reverted here, as there did not seem to be much wrong with the summary as it stood. The problem with one week deletion tagging in cases like this is that it makes a mountain out of a molehill. Deletion tagging should be reserved for obvious copyvios.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 12:24, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Pulling back section from archive that hasn't been adequately addressed- Size reduction bot and Fbot wording
- == Query about Size Reduction Bot ==
At least three of the eight image files just tagged by User:FBot for size reduction seem to have been tagged slightly inappropriately (though understandably so). (And in all 8 copesi the article copy is much smaller than the file copy). File:2001Satellite.jpg is a high-res reproduction of a very very low-res original. To further reduce would downgrade the image unacceptably. The files File:MoneyPennyMontage.JPG and File:BondChase.JPG are both montages of which the individual elements are already at fairly low resolution, even if as a collectivity they seem to be at higher resolution. With all of these three, I would petition removal of the tag. The other 5 I would be glad to upload smaller resolution copies.--WickerGuy (talk) 06:16, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- See section above. Someone else asked the exact same question. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:18, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- My question is how do I contest the resolution of the three I mentioned?? I don't see that addressed elsewhere here? (Glad to know the others will be auto-reduced.)--WickerGuy (talk) 06:23, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Well, before you try something like that, I think it's fair to warn you that you'll be fighting a total uphill battle, as long-standing consensus is against you: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Fbot 9, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DASHBot 9, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/NeuRobot 2, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ImageResizeBot. Also, see WP:NFCC#3, Wikipedia:NFC#Image_resolution. In case tl;dr, non-free files are reduced in resolution, especially where the original could be used for deliberate copyright infringement (i.e. copyright violators will continue to violate copyright, but Wikipedia is not going to assist them in doing so). Furthermore, non-free files are permissible on the Wikimedia Foundation's servers on the premises of Fair use, that is, inferior versions of copyrighted works may be used solely to educate, nothing more. I have reviewed the images myself and I see nothing that necessitates such high resolution. In the end, the size reduction will only be about ~80% of the original (reduction of 50 pixels on both length and width). Of course, if your heart is still firmly set on contesting this tag and 'saving' 50 pixels, I'll list the files at FFD for you, but you can expect someone to reduce the images, speedy the old versions, and speedy close the discussion. I'm only taking the time to explain this to you because you seem like a decent editor and because your time would be better spent on other things. Your call. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:10, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- I've had quite a few tagged as well, and I have one question. While I'm certainly not looking for any sort of medals for the images I've uploaded, I'm proud that I uploaded them and I would like to preserve the credit of me as the original uploader. The bot will preserve this after it reduces the images, right? Cheers :> Doc talk 07:54, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- You should put "uploaded by Doc9871" in the file description page. There is a way to revdel the thumbnail without revdeling the authorship information or the timestamp, but it's rarely done because as I understand it, it requires a great deal more effort. What this means is that your work will be preserved in the Show History tab readout, but not on the file description page itself. Sorry, but as I am not an admin, I can't control how this is done. Sven Manguard Wha? 08:36, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Actually, that won't be necessary Doc, you'll still be credited as page creator when you go click the history tab. -FASTILY (TALK) 18:43, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- You should put "uploaded by Doc9871" in the file description page. There is a way to revdel the thumbnail without revdeling the authorship information or the timestamp, but it's rarely done because as I understand it, it requires a great deal more effort. What this means is that your work will be preserved in the Show History tab readout, but not on the file description page itself. Sorry, but as I am not an admin, I can't control how this is done. Sven Manguard Wha? 08:36, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- I've had quite a few tagged as well, and I have one question. While I'm certainly not looking for any sort of medals for the images I've uploaded, I'm proud that I uploaded them and I would like to preserve the credit of me as the original uploader. The bot will preserve this after it reduces the images, right? Cheers :> Doc talk 07:54, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Well, before you try something like that, I think it's fair to warn you that you'll be fighting a total uphill battle, as long-standing consensus is against you: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Fbot 9, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DASHBot 9, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/NeuRobot 2, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ImageResizeBot. Also, see WP:NFCC#3, Wikipedia:NFC#Image_resolution. In case tl;dr, non-free files are reduced in resolution, especially where the original could be used for deliberate copyright infringement (i.e. copyright violators will continue to violate copyright, but Wikipedia is not going to assist them in doing so). Furthermore, non-free files are permissible on the Wikimedia Foundation's servers on the premises of Fair use, that is, inferior versions of copyrighted works may be used solely to educate, nothing more. I have reviewed the images myself and I see nothing that necessitates such high resolution. In the end, the size reduction will only be about ~80% of the original (reduction of 50 pixels on both length and width). Of course, if your heart is still firmly set on contesting this tag and 'saving' 50 pixels, I'll list the files at FFD for you, but you can expect someone to reduce the images, speedy the old versions, and speedy close the discussion. I'm only taking the time to explain this to you because you seem like a decent editor and because your time would be better spent on other things. Your call. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:10, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- My question is how do I contest the resolution of the three I mentioned?? I don't see that addressed elsewhere here? (Glad to know the others will be auto-reduced.)--WickerGuy (talk) 06:23, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Well. I may as well join in here as start a new section. I have just had a bot place a request for me to modify 53 files on my user page. I totally support the need to stay with in the law. When these 53 shots were first put up, I erroneously had them tied into a list page (We are talking industrial archeology here), and they and the elaborate text descriptions were deleted- I read the conditions of Fair use and image size very carefully, I have written the the accompanying articles so e- verything complies- it was water tight. Take for example File:Mars_Mill,_Castleton_Rochdale_0016.png (549 × 390 pixels, file size: 163 KB, MIME type: image/png). The guidelines now say that:
As a general rule of thumb, images where one dimension exceeds 1,000 pixels, or where the image size approaches 1.0 megapixels or more, will likely require a closer review to assure that the image needs that level of resolution. This is not a discouragement to use such images, but editors should assure that rationales fully explain the need for such level of detail.
The rationale says the image was taken from a scan- so it is obvious that thre would be a danger of moiré patterns. I am perfectly happy with the image being edited by User:ANOther and being re-saved at a lowerres- but I create text, write articles, comply with WP legislation etc within the limited time I have available. I take it as a compliment that someone has seen fit to c&P all the text of the 53 articles using these images and publish them on paper as a book. I don't however see why I should have by agenda dictated by a bot, that has not correctly interpreted policy. I would be happy if the image had, as in policy, 'received' a closer review- and as a result an administrator had corrected any error- but it hasn,t- I would be exceedingly grateful if an administrator would set up a bot to
- remove ally these erroneous tags
- add a tag saying
As a general rule of thumb, images where one dimension exceeds 1,000 pixels, or where the image size approaches 1.0 megapixels or more, will likely require a closer review to assure that the image needs that level of resolution. This is not a discouragement to use such images, but editors should assure that rationales fully explain the need for such level of detail. Would an administrator look at this image
- automatically reduce the resolution OR
- enter in discussion on the talk page as to a better way forward OR
- actively attempt to get a OTRS statement from the copyright holder
- tag it has been reviewed
I get more than vaguely irritated when rules drawn up for the POP music industry are applied where they are not relevant With 10000 edits under my belt, I really can understand why experienced editors leave WP — Preceding unsigned comment added by ClemRutter (talk • contribs) 12:15, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
- Without a response I am left hanging- what is your thinking? --ClemRutter (talk) 11:00, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- This was archived before the above points have been addressed-- I still need an explanation as to your thinking about the wording of the tag and how it complies with policy.--ClemRutter (talk) 11:28, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- I actually have no opinion on this matter at the moment. I'm waiting for consensus to emerge at Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Fbot_9. Whatever is decided there is what I plan on adhering to. -FASTILY (TALK) 11:30, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Good. That gives me direction.--ClemRutter (talk) 12:48, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- I actually have no opinion on this matter at the moment. I'm waiting for consensus to emerge at Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Fbot_9. Whatever is decided there is what I plan on adhering to. -FASTILY (TALK) 11:30, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- This was archived before the above points have been addressed-- I still need an explanation as to your thinking about the wording of the tag and how it complies with policy.--ClemRutter (talk) 11:28, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Removed images under fair use for Patrick Swift
Hi, I see a bot has removed two images: File:Patrick Swift trees with curved roof.jpg ; File:Patrick Swift Self-portrait with Bird.jpg. As far as I am ware I followed guidelines(the images are historically significant work by the artist -his work on his page - needed to illustrate his work and are freely available on the internet etc). Is there something else that needs to be done? Also, is it not customary to contact the user who uploaded the images before? Best, TisTRU (talk) 11:32, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Went back and fixed both images for you. You're good. -FASTILY (TALK) 11:36, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
deletions
Err, I restored a few Good Article Nomination subpages that got deleted with a whole bunch of stuff you just did, such as Talk:Red-backed Fairy-wren/GA1. If you do accidentally see you've deleted one with "/GA1" in the future, could you please restore it? Some other mainspace talk subpages might have been valid too but I didn't check. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:44, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Facepalm .... Thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 11:49, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Tagging
FSII tagged File:PAMS.jpg as not having a rationale. The editing seemed to be at an extremely high rate, perhaps too fast to manually review the image pages to actually see if there is a rationale. But the text "Non-free use rationale" is a giveaway. That particular image complies with NFCC as it has a rationale and links directly to the article where the image is being used.
Separately, I noticed some other images were tagged that have rationales except they did not know to include a link to the article, for example File:Plouhar.jpg has a paragraph-long rationale, and does mention the name of the article in the rationale. On second look that seems to be an NFCC-compliant rationale, since WP:NFUR doesn't require a link to the article, just a mention of its name. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:41, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Before going to knock myself out, I would recommend that no more of these tags are added when a) the image is of low resolution, b) used in an article where it is clearly relevant and c) has a passable FUR written in good faith.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 12:47, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Another example, File:Plover ship badge.jpg, had a rationale but someone messed up the wikisyntax. A manual review of the page made the broken template pretty obvious old version. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:50, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- I am very concerned that this tagging is being done without checking the actual images. I'm seeing several cases where a non-template rational is in place. It may not be the best rationale, but it is not a reason to tag an image for deletion because it is lacking one. Is this a bot? Is this a script? Either case, you need to be very explicit of what the criteria is for marking images for failing to have a rationale. --MASEM (t) 13:27, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
I just noticed a comment by Fastily, "I plan on reviewing all my tags in the next few days.". I think that explains why other people might think the error rate is so high, if the intention was just to tag everything and then go back and look later. But at the same time, it must be obvious that other people will interpret the addition of a "no rationale" template as an implicit claim that there is, in fact, no rationale. If you would like to tag things for your own review, why not use a template in your user space, which you can replace with the "no rationale" template after manual review. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:44, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
another deletion
What's up with deleting this? tedder (talk) 12:47, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Talkback
Message added 12:48, 3 December 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Hallows AG (talk) 12:48, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
And again. I don't understand this edit of yours: there already was a fair use rationale. -- Hoary (talk) 13:26, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Please stop right now
Since I posted the message above I've seen similar bot-generated warnings about two files at Talk:Minamata disease. For both, you had for some reason (sleepiness?) ignored the fair-use rationales that were already present, and claimed that there was no fair-use rationale.
If a fair-use rationale is poorly or insufficiently worded but its import is clear, reword it. If you want it within some special-purpose template, then put it into the template. Don't just gallop from one file to another, slapping on speedy deletion templates because you happen not to like the wording of, or not to see, the FUR that's already there. -- Hoary (talk) 13:39, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- I think this may explain it: [67]. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:46, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
non free discussion
Hi, as this was quite a lengthy discussion would you please expand on your rationale for closing as keep in regard to policy and guidelines. Youreallycan (talk) 13:16, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- There was a pretty obvious consensus to keep the file. I really don't know how else to put it other than say that the !votes to keep adequately refuted or resolved the concerns brought up by the few delete !votes. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:13, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- I was a little concerned that the WP:NFCC#2 issue was glossed over or ignored in favor of "I like it", but not enough to take it to DRV. Probably best to revisit the issue after all the Occupy clones have gone away. Kelly hi! 20:18, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- Meh, as much as I would have liked to delete that, consensus is consensus, and frankly, I don't plan on committing political suicide anytime soon. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:21, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- Enough said then. I don't see as it can be kept using policy and guidelines but on a head count of the users that commented there is a keep consensus. Lets hope a commons comparable picture turns up in the near future. - there were a couple of hundred people there with photographic capability. Thanks - Youreallycan (talk) 20:26, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- Meh, as much as I would have liked to delete that, consensus is consensus, and frankly, I don't plan on committing political suicide anytime soon. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:21, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- I was a little concerned that the WP:NFCC#2 issue was glossed over or ignored in favor of "I like it", but not enough to take it to DRV. Probably best to revisit the issue after all the Occupy clones have gone away. Kelly hi! 20:18, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- The more I read this deletion discussion Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2011_November_24#File:OccupyUCD3.jpg the more I am disappointed in your Keep closure. Policy and guidelines over rides such non policy comments. If I was to post some of the reasons that supported keep here I don't see as you could count them in a policy discussion and you say it yourself that you were unprepared to suffer the wrath of involved users seems a poor offering for an admin to use to explain a policy closure. You are as I have seen respected in this field and as such your policy decisions are "followed" and held up as examples for other less experienced picture experts to follow. Such against policy closure demeans the whole process and our policy and guidelines themselves and encourages others to do the same. You say yourself, and its clearly in regard to policy and guidelines, "as much as I would have liked to delete that" - so, for you to close it on a head count is very disappointing. Youreallycan (talk) 18:17, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- - Can you please try to help explain why you kept this picture, would you please make a case, offer your personal rationale here for the non free use of this picture within wikipedia non free policy and guidelines in the lede of that article? You are very experienced with these guidelines and active in them, your clarification here will help good faith uninvolved users to clarify what is worthy of disputing and resisting in their attempting to follow guidelines. Youreallycan (talk) 18:26, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Alright then, I've listed the file at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2011_December_4#File:OccupyUCD3.jpg. Hope that helps. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 01:20, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
HiGear
Hi. Please could you re-check your recent deletion of HiGear. I do not think it was unambiguous advertizing; it included a reference to this, this and this - and the article structure didn't look like spam, to be; hence, I don't think it should have been processed as a speedy deletion. Chzz ► 02:32, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fair enough. Would you be willing to help clean it up if restored? -FASTILY (TALK) 04:31, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure, we could try. Or failing that, no problem with PROD/AfD.
- The reason I ask is, the user who tagged it was on ANI yesterday for excessive CSD-tagging of many articles; xe agreed to be more cautious, but then almost immediately after, tagged that one. It could help slightly to see it restored, if it's not actually CSD-able - and from what I gather, it wasn't. Chzz ► 15:45, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Works for me. Restored. Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 21:39, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Works for me.
Thanks. Actually, looking at it now... is there anything wrong with it? Looks OK, to me, for a stub. Chzz ► 03:26, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion review for File:Centpacrr
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quality of the arguments
Hello Fastility Fastily, in ref. to "When determining consensus, the closing administrator will assess the strength and quality of the arguments." I'd like to ask you how you have assessed the strength and quality of following arguments:
- that the accusation of me for edit warring just because I corrected the delete which was based on clearly false claim "it isn't in the body, and so does not belong in the lead" is clearly wrong; Considering he is no longer edit warring and is following his mentors advice I see no reason for drastic measures such as a topic ban.
- that the references to my editing activities happening before my previous block were irrelevant to the current incident titled as "User:Stephfo, disruptive editing after unblock"
- let alone the claim by user:Dominus Vobisdu that I was allegedly editing article on Intelligent Design before my previous block is clearly false
- argument that rather than enforce this unreasonable topic ban, Dispute Resolution regarding the matter should take place, where a neutral user can mediate between the two parties
- that no disruptive edits has been identified
- Thanks a lot for your kind explanation, I apologize I have not found these arguments addressed. --Stephfo (talk) 16:28, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Keep the discussion in one place please - User_talk:Stephfo#Warning -FASTILY (TALK) 22:35, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Pls. follow your promises:
"Admin abuse and RfCs? Whoa. I don't ever remember being unwilling to talk about my administrative actions. If I messed up, I'll be happy to fix it, no matter what it is. For the record, I'm neither being defensive about my errors, or for that matter, refusing to undo improper actions. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:49, 3 December 2011 (UTC)" Thanks. Regarding one place, see the announcement on my talk page. Thanks for understanding.--Stephfo (talk) 23:39, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
File information updated
The non-free media information for fair use rationale has been updated on my file here X. Would be great you find it ok and remove the tagging. Thank you. 176.1.57.186 (talk) 17:38, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- That file is PD-US (it was published by the London Daily Express in 1914) and does not require a FUR for use on Wikipedia, as uploaded files only have to be PD in the state of Florida. It will still be in copyright in the UK, as Sheehan did not die until 1948. Sfan00 IMG fixed the licence, but didn't remove the non-free component. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 18:26, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
AN discussion
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I see that you are
looking at copyright issues surrounding this image [68]. I m not quite sure how to deal with this image and another in the same article because they were published in Nazi publications that I have copies of. I discussed these with several college professor types several years ago, when they were first posted, and they figured that copyright issues would not be a problem. If you feel otherwise you may as well remove both images, though an article about architecture with no images is like . . ... an egg without salt. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 20:22, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Don't sweat, I'll see what I can do. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:58, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. Carptrash (talk) 21:55, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Banknote rationale
You added an Nrd template to a note of the Northern Bank File:NorthernBankNI20.png. However, I added a fair use rationale in 2008 (diff). Is that adequate? Would you remove your template please, or switch it to an FfD submission? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 20:32, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Cleaned the page up and removed the tag. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:04, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Many thanks!! (You deleted my text which is more specific than the templates. I am minded to restore it.) --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 09:06, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
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Deletion of File:Cole Durham.jpg
Dear Fastily, In spite of my best efforts, and the efforts of the photographer (Matt Imbler, who told me on Nov. 15 that he had "fixed it" for me), and in spite of the message I sent on November 25 to [email protected] including the e-mail record of the Nov. 15 permission from the photographer, you deleted this photo, which was mine to use in the first place. Obviously, I don't know how to do this properly, and I don't have any more time to spend on it. Since I already sent the e-mail correspondence, that isn't the right way to proceed. This is a disappointing outcome. Is this photo completely gone? Do we have to start over? Iclrsddt (talk) 21:23, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Follow the instructions at WP:PERMISSION and send a new email. Let me know once you've sent the email and I'll go dig for it in the system. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:43, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Question
Can I edit Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive727 even though it's an archive? I want to insert some information about dealing with the notorious troll Yourname on it.--1966batfan (talk) 00:03, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Respond on my talk page.--1966batfan (talk) 00:05, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- I would suggest creating an WP:LTA report on this user so that information on Yourname will be more readily accessible to other users; I believe that has already been recommended to you here? -FASTILY (TALK) 01:14, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Something Special TN
Please explain to me why the page Something Special TN was deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SOMETHING-SPECIAL-TN (talk • contribs) 02:49, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
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Asthma trigger
The article does not duplicate a previous article. It expands on a topic and if it had been read prior to its deletion it may have been noticed that it warrants its own article. I respectfully request it be undeleted. Matzerath1 (talk) 06:20, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- Go read the whole of Asthma#Causes. Thoroughly. If there is anything in your deleted article that you feel is missing from that section, please feel free to add it, provided you have a good source. The article could do with some editing anyway - it's got one section duplicated I notice.--Elen of the Roads (talk) 13:12, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
tablejungle
Hi I'm writing you because you delete the article "tablejungle" I do not understand the diference between my article and e.g. spotify or toptable articles where they also wrote a description of the brand. let me know thanks Eliozard — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eliozard (talk • contribs) 10:05, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- Your article was complete and utter spam. It read exactly like an advert for the product - "How is it possible that, in the age of Google, Facebook, etc. there isn’t a database on the Internet that contains virtually every restaurant on the planet"..."Why follow the advice of stuffy food critics when we could follow an entire tribe of sushi-lovers"..."TableJungle’s mission is to transport you from an anonymous and confusing universe of restaurant choices" If the articles on Spotify and Toptable are written like that, feel free to tag them for deletion as spam also ({{db-spam}}). In fact, the first Spotify article back in 2008 was deleted as spam. Alternatively, you could try reading the links in the welcome template on your talk page (User talk:Eliozard) to work out why your article didn't meet our standards. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 13:21, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Semi protection, did I do it wrong?
I haven't been active in Page Protection, but saw some concerns about backlogs, and thought I would pitch in. I think I semi'd Elle and Blair Fowler. The logs says it has been protected, but I don't see the gray padlock, so I'm worried I didn't do it right. Can you take a peek, and see what I'm missing?--SPhilbrickT 14:51, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Is this what you're looking for? Nolelover Talk·Contribs 15:09, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, but it wasn't there. I wonder if I had to purge? I reloaded the page several times, and even tried a non-secure version, no padlock. Oh, well it is there now, but I'm still wondering why it took so long. Thanks.--SPhilbrickT 15:12, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) You purged and reloaded before or after I added the template? Before my (and then User:Ianmacm's) edit, it wouldn't have shown because the template wasn't there. Nolelover Talk·Contribs 15:17, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- The silver padlock is actually a template
{{pp-vandalism}}and will add a silver lock to the upper right corner of a page, provided that the template is transcluded on the page, and that the template detects that the page is protected. Looks like Noleover added{{pp-vandalism}}for you. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:41, 3 December 2011 (UTC)- OK, I get it, you have to protect the page and separately add a template. What is the rationale for the additional step, instead of having the alorgithm also apply the appropriate template? Would one ever do one without the other?--SPhilbrickT 17:11, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- It's one of many mediawiki software limitations. Presently, we don't have the feature to automatically display a lock in the upper-right corner of protected articles, so it has to be added manually by editors. If I'm not mistaken, it's possible to use twinkle to automatically add
{{pp-vandalism}}. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:17, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- It's one of many mediawiki software limitations. Presently, we don't have the feature to automatically display a lock in the upper-right corner of protected articles, so it has to be added manually by editors. If I'm not mistaken, it's possible to use twinkle to automatically add
- OK, I get it, you have to protect the page and separately add a template. What is the rationale for the additional step, instead of having the alorgithm also apply the appropriate template? Would one ever do one without the other?--SPhilbrickT 17:11, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- The silver padlock is actually a template
- (edit conflict) You purged and reloaded before or after I added the template? Before my (and then User:Ianmacm's) edit, it wouldn't have shown because the template wasn't there. Nolelover Talk·Contribs 15:17, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, but it wasn't there. I wonder if I had to purge? I reloaded the page several times, and even tried a non-secure version, no padlock. Oh, well it is there now, but I'm still wondering why it took so long. Thanks.--SPhilbrickT 15:12, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| You delete huge amounts of images at once. That seems like a copious task to me. Your contributions are greatly appreciated. 1966batfan (talk) 00:07, 4 December 2011 (UTC) |
- Aw thanks :) I really appreciate it! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 01:12, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- Your work is appreciated and I hope you take this barnstar to heart. ScottyBerg (talk) 22:48, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
What's wrong with them?
I refer to this, this, this, this and this. Could you explain, please? I don't understand why you are questioning the fair-use rationale for each of those images, so I don't know what needs to be done to satisfy you. Thanks. --RobertG ♬ talk 14:47, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- I believe these are complying with fair use however, I am in no power to remove these templates without me being 100% they fully comply. Nonetheless, I do believe that the low resolution combined with the fact that it is merely a small snippet of music notes should comply.—cyberpower (Talk to Me)(Contributions) 15:12, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- File:Messiaen Song of the Golden Oriole.jpg is fine. For File:Messiaen Quatuor Danse de fureur excerpt.jpg, a small piece of bureaucracy requires you to copy and paste the same rationale twice, once for each article that the image is used in. In general, the requirements are that:
- The rationale has to mention the article that the image is used in; a wikilink is nice but not mandatory
- The rationale needs to somehow indicate "how the image is used in a way consistent with Wikipedia's non-free content criteria."
- A separate rationale is required for each use, even if the same reasoning applies.
- I believe the goal of Fastily tagging these is that he was/is planning to review them himself. But the use of this particular tag for that purpose has confused many people. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:17, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- File:Messiaen Song of the Golden Oriole.jpg is fine. For File:Messiaen Quatuor Danse de fureur excerpt.jpg, a small piece of bureaucracy requires you to copy and paste the same rationale twice, once for each article that the image is used in. In general, the requirements are that:
Sorry, but I didn't receive a warning about this. Are you sure there was no source? Thanks for your help! Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 18:24, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- Quite. Do you know the source of this file (e.g. website url, census archive/books, ect)? I'll restore the file for you if you can describe it to me. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:13, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
RFA thankspam
Thank you for your support at my recent successful RFA. Being now the new fellow in the fraternity of administrators, I will do my best to live up to the confidence shown in me by others, will move slowly and carefully when using the mop, will seek input from others before any action of which I might be unsure, and will try not to break anything beyond repair. Best, Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 19:09, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
AN post regarding deletion of Miguel, Crown Prince of Portugal
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Please follow template advice
{{deletable image}}
I'm not sure if you realized, when you added this template to File:8 July 2011 Elektron.jpg, it asks random admins to assist with your query about the source of the file. The file came from NASA as is specified in the description, I've added a more specific source on the internet, I don't know if it is the one I got it from in the first place, I just googled the filename and it was the first thing that came up. Is the new source ok ? I'm glad I accidentally found your template before other editors went to the trouble of deleting and un-deleting the image, I'm a bit new, and so that happens sometimes, but they always get put back. But I'd like to suggest that when you tagging files for deletion please notify the uploader with: {{subst:di-no source-notice|}} as it saves time, because the uploader often knows the source of the file they uploaded. Or even just ask in ordinary words, I don't bite. Penyulap talk 22:29, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- The new source is fine. Thanks for taking care of that. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 00:28, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of Tortolapanoramajost.JPG
Hi Fastily, That image of/from Tortola was a sequence of original photographs that I took (on a Canon G1 in panorama mode in Feb 2003) and then stitched together using the panorama software that came with the camera. Can you restore, or enable me to re-upload. I will set an appropriate license. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davepark (talk • contribs) 22:56, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- Works for me. Go ahead and re-upload the file. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 00:29, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
I got 99 rationales...
Hi Fastily- you marked these files that I watch: File:Last words.jpg, File:Huie's sermon.jpg, File:Jagmandir.jpg, File:Look at life screen.jpg as having no FU rationale. All of them do have rationales. I'm not sure how you're making your judgement... do you agree that these pages are OK as is? Staecker (talk) 23:09, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- Eh, they could be better. I'll see what I can do for you. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:39, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
File:Evstafy Sangushka.jpg|
Hi Fastily, I'd like to try and resurrect the image File:Evstafy Sangushka.jpg -- somehow I missed the tag that it was in trouble. Can you possibly help me out by tossing me the text for what little info there was? I'd sure like to use the image in the Arabian horse article if I can obtain a legal version... Thanks for any help! Montanabw(talk) 23:19, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- I've appended the deleted text below. Click here to see it. Be sure to specify a source when you re-upload or the file will be deleted again. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 00:32, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
File help
Can you please give your opinion on this image? Thanks. Matthew Thompson talk to me bro! 00:21, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- I left a comment on the talk page. IMO, the file fails WP:NFCC#8 and doesn't need to be included in the article. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:37, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Undeleted 2 talk pages
Hi, I restored Talk:Broad Run/Airport (VRE station), Talk:30th/Downing (RTD), both of which were attached to legitimate articles which happen to have slashes in their titles. Choess (talk) 00:29, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- No worries, thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:38, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Startisan deletion
Hi, can you help me understand why this was deleted.
This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference.
04:29, 3 December 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Startisan" (G6: Housekeeping and routine (non-controversial) cleanup)
Thanks, Dennis Hogan [email protected] 69.207.168.249 (talk) 01:10, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- It wasn't. The page was moved to a new title: Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Startisan -FASTILY (TALK) 01:31, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
DVIDS deleted image
You deleted the image file containing the logo of the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System. The image, as is explicitly stated in the image file wikipage, is "a work of a U.S. Military or Department of Defense employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain". This is the 2nd time within a week that I had to point this out to a wiki editor. So, I'm obviously not communicating that fact appropriately. Please advise what I am doing wrong here. I'd appreciate it. -The Gnome (talk) 07:35, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- It was not deleted for being a copyright violation, rather it was deleted for having no information about its source. We require an image to be labelled with its source so we can verify the licensing information. In this case, finding the source was easy (it's on the DVIDS homepage), so I have restored the image and filled out the source and author information for you [69]. Thryduulf (talk) 09:41, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
(MOVED CONVERSATION BACK TO WT:CHICAGO)
Hi, Fastily. Could you please explain why you deleted most of the Chicago community area maps (eg, File:US-IL-Chicago-CA10.GIF, File:US-IL-Chicago-CA11.GIF, File:US-IL-Chicago-CA12.GIF, etc). I thought those had been created by a Wikipedian years ago, but since I'm not an admin, I can't see exactly what the file pages said. These maps were very useful, so it would be great if we could get things straightened out. Consider posting a reply at WT:CHICAGO, because I know a few other project members have expressed concerns about the deletions. Thanks. Zagalejo^^^ 00:18, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- They were all PD-ineligible, and were tagged by FSII as no source. I don't believe they should have been deleted - they appear to have been drawn by the uploader, who created loads of these, most of them being eventually replaced by .pngs. I can restore them, but it would probably be worth (a)checking that there are no .png or .svg versions and (b) asking at Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop to have .png versions made. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 00:54, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- Wait, please don't restore them just yet! They're missing source information, which must be supplied, regardless of what the license tag is. I'll restore them granted you can identify the original author/source of these files. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:11, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- I haven't restored them - I think they have been replaced by .png files anyway. Or they should be. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 01:18, 4 December 2011 (UTC) File:US-IL-Chicago-CA06.png is one of the replacements (now on commons). I agree it would be nice to have the source info filled out, but these files are all ineligible for copyright anyway, so I would disagree with deleting them, other than that the graphics lab folks will make .png files for them that would be better anyway.
- Wait, please don't restore them just yet! They're missing source information, which must be supplied, regardless of what the license tag is. I'll restore them granted you can identify the original author/source of these files. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:11, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure that this editor was the one who uploaded them, given that he/she was the source for several of the other Chicago Community area map files that had all the proper source-citation info filled out. But there are other editors who have uploaded them as well... and it doesn't appear that Oo64eva has done any editing in a while, so I'm not sure if he/she can be contacted expeditiously to confirm. Ryecatcher773 (talk) 06:45, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- Several of these were not deleted. In order Rogers Park, Chicago (community area 1) uses File:US-IL-Chicago-CA01.png; West Ridge, Chicago (community area 2) uses File:US-IL-Chicago-CA02.png; Uptown, Chicago (community area 3) uses File:US-IL-Chicago-CA03.png; and Lincoln Square, Chicago (community area 4) uses File:US-IL-Chicago-CA04.png for starters. I have not checked others. Something haphazard must be going on with these files.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:17, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
- Make all further comments on this topic at WT:CHICAGO--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:48, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
File:Somewhere I Have Never Traveled Premier Poster.jpg
Can I have my picture back, please? The JPG was uploaded before the article was posted. The article is still not finished, but has been submitted to AFC. When/if it gets approved the page should go up. Hopefully with the picture. :-) Thanks. --I B d Shank (talk) 02:17, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- Let me know once the page is approved. I'll restore the file for you then, lest it should be deleted while waiting for the AfC submission to be approved. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:40, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. They seem to be really back loggged. --I B d Shank (Talk-Talk) 10:30, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Why did you nominate File:Oprahfirst.jpg for deletion?
Why did you nominate File:Oprahfirst.jpg for deletion? It has a fair use rationale stated clearly in the summary section. The rationale says: This image is considered fair use because as a photo of the very first episode of the Oprah Winfrey show, it is of great historical significance, and there are no free use images that could be used in its place. It also the only available image of how Oprah conducted her show in the early years standing in the audience in the tradition of Donahue. 76.70.108.248 (talk) 14:56, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- I removed the deletion tag. You are correct that image already had a rationale. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:23, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fair use images require a specific fair use rationale for every use (even if they are the same) whereas this image only had one rationale that covered both uses. Nominating the article for deletion with a reason that neither explains this nor relates to the situation on the ground is not the right way to go about it, and I apologise to you 76.70.108.248 on behalf of Fastily. I have provided the specific rationales for you. Thryduulf (talk) 17:52, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for copying the rationale; I glanced to make sure there was at least one use but missed the fact that there are two uses. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:54, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fair use images require a specific fair use rationale for every use (even if they are the same) whereas this image only had one rationale that covered both uses. Nominating the article for deletion with a reason that neither explains this nor relates to the situation on the ground is not the right way to go about it, and I apologise to you 76.70.108.248 on behalf of Fastily. I have provided the specific rationales for you. Thryduulf (talk) 17:52, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Could you please explain what you find inadequate about the current rationale for this image? Feel free to reply here or at my talk page. Christopher Parham (talk) 18:18, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- I can only guess at Fastily's reasoning, but it didn't say why fair use was being claimed, i.e. there was no explanation of what purpose it is serving in the article. I have written a rationale, but please be more specific with it or improve the wording if you can. I have left the tag on the page as I am not certain that I have addressed Fastily's concerns (as he hasn't articulated what they are). Thryduulf (talk) 19:11, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
XfD closure cruft
At [[70]], you appear to have deleted all the ones that had consensus to delete and not the ones that were specifically opposed (struck in the list or somehow else excluded during the discussion). However, the ones that were not deleted still appear to have their XfD tags on them (File:2-aminopurine.png, File:2-keto-3-deoxy-gluconate.png, and File:AntibacterialHydrazone.PNG were the three I spot-checked). DMacks (talk)
- Yeah, I didn't remove those. I'll try to remove them in a bit. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:12, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done now. I think I got everything. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 04:21, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Article deleted
Hello, you deleted my article. I want to rewrite it but it says that I have to contact to you first. What is the next step? Thank you, Yaellepa (talk) 20:46, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Request for a view of The Depiction of Memory in Waltz with Bashir
Hello! I was wondering if I may be supplied with a page that was deleted recently: The Depiction of Memory in Waltz with Bashir. I recently watched the film and was looking online for an analysis of the memory in the film when I stumbled upon the deleted page. To my dismay, it was gone. If it's not too much to ask, could I look at it? Thank you in advance!
212.203.107.122 (talk) 21:50, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
- Deleted text appended below. Click here to view it. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:55, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Please explain why my numerous adds to discussion are ignored
You have again deleted File=Soanya_Ahmad_(from_Channer_Conversations).jpg from the system, even though I added something to improve the Rationale for Fair Use, and also indicated in the discussion that I just talked to the copyright holder today by telephone. He told me that he approved of the use of the photo, so what are you concerned about? I expect his email response shortly. Then I will submit the response to OTRS, and soon get the permission. That means we have to "undelete" the file again.
Why is this being made so complicated? All you had to do was to give me another week to complete the permissions! I feel like this is all a waste of time, when I try my best to keep you informed in the Talk Page, and all my efforts are ignored! I thought that the admins were supposed to check the Talk Page before deleting a file. Do any of you actually follow that rule? --Skol fir (talk) 00:17, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Send the email to OTRS asap. Once the email you sent is processed, the file will be automatically restored, with a more appropriate license. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:58, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Please help - appreciate your time
An article I wrote was flagged and deleted within minutes of writing it and I'm struggling to figure out why and how I can improve what is apparently a style that is not working. The page in question, U.S. Digital Gaming, is part of a series of pages I'm putting together about the online digital gambling debate. This topic cannot be covered without including this particular company and its key players -- they are VERY vocal about the issue and have tons of expert opinions placed by reputable publications such as AP and WSJ. I even tried to include these sources.
Please let me know what I can do to change the article so that it is not considered promotional. I went through the spam and promotion articles carefully and cannot see exactly what it is that was done that deserved such quick and thorough action.
Thanks in advance for your help --Laveaux (talk) 00:25, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of 'Bestselling cars of all time'
I would like to know what was the reason of deleting 'Bestselling cars of all time' page. It wasn't a cop of any web page. It took me alot of time to expand previous article, in good faith. It is nessary to keep it because there aren't any analogous list in other articles. Even if there were any plagiarism in contents it would be much easier to fix it than writing whole article once again.
Is it possible for you to bring this article back? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.160.151.223 (talk) 02:02, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- The principal author requested the deletion. I would talk to User:T H A1984 if I were you. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:01, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Can you delete all the other uploads on this? Thanks! Swifty*talkcontribs 03:53, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Fastily :) File:Sparks Fly - Single.png This one needs it too. How you been? Swifty*talkcontribs 04:05, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done too. I've been good, thanks for asking. How have you been? How's your brother doing? -FASTILY (TALK) 04:08, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
I've been doing good. My brother's doing good, onry but good. LOL! My mom was telling me about him when I saw her on my birthday. His toes still healing but he's not in much pain from what I've understood which is a good thing. Swifty*talkcontribs 04:11, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- I'm sitting here trying to figure out what I was doing when I uploaded Sparks Fly's single cover, I didn't realize it till I got a good look at it I uploaded it 3 times on the same day and I have no idea why. LOL! Swifty*talkcontribs 04:16, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Good, glad to hear it. And heh, clicked the upload button one to many times? Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 04:27, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
LOL! I think I did oops! My bad! LOL! Swifty*talkcontribs 06:41, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Can you or Guerillero remove the big sized pics? I reuploaded them to smaller version cause Guerillero [[User talk:Guerillero#File:Ours CD Single.png|mentioned]] they are too big for Wikipedia. Swifty*talkcontribs 06:49, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Never mind someone else got to it first lol. Swifty*talkcontribs 07:02, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Missing companion notification templates to {{Di-no fair use rationale}} placed by {{subst:Nrd}}
FSII / Fastily:
{{subst:Nrd}} places a template, {{Di-no fair use rationale}}, whose banner states:
Notify the uploader with: {{subst:di-no fair use rationale-notice|1=Di-no fair use rationale}} ~~~~
Add following to the image captions: {{deletable image-caption|Thursday, 14 July 2011}}
I noticed that you put the {{subst:Nrd}} / {{Di-no fair use rationale}} on File:Ole Goes To War.jpg. However, I do not see the {{subst:di-no fair use rationale-notice|Ole Goes To War.jpg}} on the uploader's talk page, User_talk:NYDirk, nor do I see the {{deletable image-caption}} on Karlton Rosholt. I hope this was a one-time slip-up. I will take care of placing the {{subst:di-no fair use rationale-notice|1=Di-no fair use rationale}} on User_talk:NYDirk on your behalf. Peaceray (talk) 04:23, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
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The Philosophers Stone (Harmon)
Hello
You deleted a page I created via speedy deletion without any warning. If the page needed work (ie citations, references, etc) it should have been marked as so in order to allow others a chance to add to the existing page.
Additionally this film is listed in the IMDB, which is considered a reliable third party source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Creatcher (talk • contribs) 05:23, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
I request that you undelete this page so that it can be filled out accordingly.
Thank you
Creatcher (talk) 05:11, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
F8 Drive
I am giving out awards to people who help clear the backlog of F8 tagged files. I thought you may be interested cheers --Guerillero | My Talk 05:57, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sounds interesting. I'll help out, time permitting. Thanks for letting me know. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 06:42, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
"User:Janniekalb/Robert Holden (photographer)" Deleted?
Hello,
I didn't quite understand why my page was deleted. The reason given is G8, but I didn't mean to create this page as a subpage, is that what I did by mistake? Please forgive my confusion, I hope you can clarify this for me.
Thank you.
Jannie Kalb — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janniekalb (talk • contribs) 09:41, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- You accidentally created the page as a userspace subpage. Please be sure you have an actual article draft to submit before going to WP:AFC. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 10:07, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
IRC
Can you get on the IRC? I've got Fbot related questions. (Wikipedia-en) Sven Manguard Wha? 10:18, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Newly located discussion
Please comment at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Chicago#Break_for_conversation_return_here regarding which images were deleted and which were not.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:56, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
User talk:Hurricanefan25/ACE2011
Would you mind doing undeleting the talk page please (it was deleted when Hurricanefan requested the deletion of his guide page) as I'd like to post to it and as a candidate cannot undelete it myself. There's also a comment there from Hersfold, pertaining to the associated guide, which should really be left deleted now that the guide is back up. Thanks, Roger Davies talk 17:19, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Ceredigion Local Elections 2012
I wish to object to the 2012 page being deleted. The local elections in all the Welsh councils happen every four years (2004 / 2008) and are going to happen on May 3rd 2012. Could I therefore ask why you deleted the page? Harry Hayfield (talk) 17:22, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Central line extension
"File:Central line extension to Uxbridge2.png". I specified that this file was public domain - it took me hours to create and seconds to delete. So why did you? --Scotthatton (talk) 20:42, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Summer Junior Olympics
FYI: see also Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PM734. I recognize the MO, though it's been a while. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 23:02, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Interesting. I'll add to it as necessary. Thanks for letting me know. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 23:26, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
RfPerm/Autopatrol
Please reconsider after looking at the explanation that I have included. There is a valid reason unless we're going to go through and require that non-articlespace be masked. Hasteur (talk) 23:20, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Tom Morris explains quite succinctly here. What part about it do you not understand? -FASTILY (TALK) 23:26, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- What ever happened to do no harm to the users? I've done the research on how to minimize the impact to me. Since the administrative corps is deciding to be less than helpful I'll go away and request the masking at the Village Pump. Thanks for fragmenting a conversation across different pages Hasteur (talk) 23:38, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Wow, okay, I thought we were having a collegial discussion here. Guess not. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:41, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Obviously you didn't read my response to Tom Morris. Was it not blatantly clear when I followed up to the question with the VPM link where I asked the question and the screenshot (that you decided to upload to commons when It's probably just a en.WP problem). Tell me what reasoning would justify an exceptional circumstances exemption to the 50 articles created rule? I'm always willing to work with editors when they don't brush me off like as a random new user.Hasteur (talk) 23:47, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Wow, okay, I thought we were having a collegial discussion here. Guess not. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:41, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- What ever happened to do no harm to the users? I've done the research on how to minimize the impact to me. Since the administrative corps is deciding to be less than helpful I'll go away and request the masking at the Village Pump. Thanks for fragmenting a conversation across different pages Hasteur (talk) 23:38, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Nabeel Jabbour photo file
Re: 06:44, 6 October 2011 Fastily deleted "File:Nabeel Jabbour Edited LR.jpg" (F3: Media file with improper license) - Sorry, I accidentally chose the incorrect license tag on the first upload. My permission e-mail from the photographer states, "Yes, you may have full copyright permission for use of the photograph and may publish it in any form or media." Does the photographer need to submit a more specific permission statement to establish this photo as free content? If not, may I upload the same file again with a different license tag? 24.9.254.144 (talk) 23:32, 6 December 2011 (UTC)PippinScout
- No worries, feel free to re-upload. Since someone else is granting you permission to upload the file, you need to pass that email on to our OTRS team. See WP:PERMISSION for detailed instructions on how to do this. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:33, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Cutpaste move repair
Hi, I see that of the three {{histmerge}} requests that I raised, Anthony Appleyard processed two, whilst you did one. You seem to have deleted Talk:Sportcity-Velodrome Metrolink station, which had some useful content, without merging it into Talk:Velopark Metrolink station, which has nothing except a WikiProject banner added today. Do you think that you could restore and merge these two as well? Thanks. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:48, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi, can you block the editor who keeps recreating the above page? Peter Tremblay (talk · contribs) and Peter poker (talk · contribs), likely the same person. I think the page was created at another location as well but is now deleted. Goodvac (talk) 00:20, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Portal:Ancient Egypt/Did you know
I agree with your deletion of Portal:Ancient Egypt/Did you know/7, but could you please restore the container page Portal:Ancient Egypt/Did you know? That is a necessary part of the portal, and hadn't been vandalised; there's a redlink at Portal:Ancient Egypt now. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
TB
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KSMJ Logo
KSMJlogo.png is being used, if you go to KSMJ now. The logo needs to be put back up. Thanks. (JoeCool950 (talk) 07:10, 7 December 2011 (UTC))
- Done -FASTILY (TALK) 07:15, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. Hopefully, it didn't sound like I was asking rudely? If I would have known about the changes,of KSMJ having KNZR, I would have done that with that logo. Thanks again. Now I agree, if the logos aren't being used on the page, to delete, but since hopefully, it's o.k. to have previous logos like that on the page. Shows what the station use to be. (JoeCool950 (talk) 08:10, 8 December 2011 (UTC))
rpp
you realized he'll keep the socks coming, he has nothing better to do than harass me CTJF83 07:49, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Then we'll just keep blocking the socks as they come. I'm not going to protect a page that received two disruptive edits in the past few days because Brucejenner is socking. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:47, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Wipro Consulting Services page
Hi The page which was created by me had content taken from the material provided on the website of Wipro and is openly accessible to all and proper references were also provided. Kindly take note of it and reinstate the page asap.
I tried to request to get that back but I was denied. I had it on my JamesAlan one before it got blocked for being a compromised account. Is there anyway I can get that back? Swifty*talkcontribs 14:38, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Looks like the main concerns were that you had not done any anti-vandalism work as of late. Do some recent changes patrolling and I'll add the right for you. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:50, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Okay Fastily I'll try I have been doing some recently especially on List of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episodes episodes cause people wanna vandalize it by posting a second season that hasn't aired yet. Swifty*talkcontribs 05:07, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
NRD
Are you still planning to review the pages which you tagged with Nrd on December 3? Quite a lot of them do have rationales, based on my sampling, e.g. [71] [72] and the ones mentioned above on this talk page. The deletion date for many of these is Dec. 10, based on when you tagged them. If you don't have time to review them by then, it might be a courtesy to roll back your edits until you have time. — Carl (CBM · talk) 14:49, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Um, File:Old st vincents.jpg is missing rationale. File:Mastersofhorrorenglund3.jpg has a very incomplete rationale, which still makes it eligible for deletion. I've already reviewed a substantial number of files, including the ones mentioned on my talk page, and have removed mistaken tags. So yes, I do intend to finish up. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:54, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Old St. Vincent's says, "Old St. Vincent's High School. Pune. It is believed that in lieu of any known free source images, it is considered fair use to place this image on the free Wikipedia to illustrate the school itself.". This includes the name of the article "St. Vincent's High School" and says why the uploader thought the image was acceptable for us to use - that's a fair use rationale. Even if it's a bad rationale, or is an incomplete rationale, it's still a rationale, which means that we have to use DFUR for it, not NRD. But that rationale does have the two elements required by policy, so it is not an incomplete rationale.
- NRD, like WP:CSD#F6, is only applicable to images that have no rationale at all. When I look through the images you tagged, I see that a very large proportion of them seem to have a rationale, so the NFUR tag needs to get removed from them. If you're not planning to do it, I can do it Friday. — Carl (CBM · talk) 21:20, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- It made more sense when you used WP:CSD#F7 actually.
{{dfu}}(disputed fair use [rationale]) nominates files for deletion under WP:CSD#F7. If a minor technicality is what bothers you, easy enough, I'll change the tags around... -FASTILY (TALK) 21:29, 7 December 2011 (UTC)- The thing I am more worried about is that the two articles I linked had acceptable rationales and should not be deleted, and there seem to be many more of the same sort. These are not "my" images - I have never seen them before - but that sort of rationale has always been viewed as minimal but acceptable. So the images that do have rationales need to have any deletion tags removed. I didn't remove the tags en masse earlier because I thought you said you were planning to do it yourself. But if you are not, then I will do it. I posted today to make sure there is still time to take care of it before the 10th. — Carl (CBM · talk) 21:35, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Eh, don't bother. I'm already doing that. I'll re-review these at a later date, when I have more time. RL is kicking my ass at the moment :| -FASTILY (TALK) 21:37, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- I misunderstood that comment at first. Thanks for reverting them. For the record I don't object to tagging the ones that don't have rationales at all, it's just the ones that do have minimal, but technically permissible, rationales that I feel bad about. The NFUR page is somewhat vague about what is actually required but it seems like just the name of the article and some explanation why it passes NFCC is sufficient even if it is not an excellent. — Carl (CBM · talk) 22:37, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Eh, don't bother. I'm already doing that. I'll re-review these at a later date, when I have more time. RL is kicking my ass at the moment :| -FASTILY (TALK) 21:37, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- The thing I am more worried about is that the two articles I linked had acceptable rationales and should not be deleted, and there seem to be many more of the same sort. These are not "my" images - I have never seen them before - but that sort of rationale has always been viewed as minimal but acceptable. So the images that do have rationales need to have any deletion tags removed. I didn't remove the tags en masse earlier because I thought you said you were planning to do it yourself. But if you are not, then I will do it. I posted today to make sure there is still time to take care of it before the 10th. — Carl (CBM · talk) 21:35, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- It made more sense when you used WP:CSD#F7 actually.
- NRD, like WP:CSD#F6, is only applicable to images that have no rationale at all. When I look through the images you tagged, I see that a very large proportion of them seem to have a rationale, so the NFUR tag needs to get removed from them. If you're not planning to do it, I can do it Friday. — Carl (CBM · talk) 21:20, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Alex Nestoropolous
Hi, thanks for the G12 speedy on this bio article. But just a note that if it does reappear in a non-copy-vio form, it's still a recreation of what was just deleted at Afd: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alex Nestoropolous. thanks, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:28, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Deleted interwiki redirect
Hi, I saw you deleted the redirect at WP:Global Education Program. Any particular reason? The page on Outreach that it redirected to clearly exists, and since the program just had a name change within the past week, I see no reason to have deleted it. Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 18:19, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Interwiki redirects like the one you created show up as broken to the mediawiki software; that's why this page showed up in the database report. The proper way to redirect users to another wiki would be with a soft redirect. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:59, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Gary M. Lawrence
Hello. You deleted the "Gary M. Lawrence" article. We are trying to recover a copy so that my publisher and publicist can work toward improving/enhancing the article so as to address your concerns. Are you able to forward a copy or to advise regarding how they may recover it? Thank you. signed, Gary Lawrence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.147.134.59 (talk) 20:22, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Westlands and Baglan moors is different to Baglan
Baglan moors is not part of baglan itself it is a seperate area of port talbot and even has a different local mp. This can be seen on the welsh human deveolpment index and the neath port talbot council website. Just because it has a similar name does not mean it is the same. Baglan burrowers, baglan bay and baglan itself are apart of baglan were as baglan moors is seperate area politcaly in port talbot. It has different anthropgenic influecnes and figures. This article was deleted with haste and this action has removed an artile which is about a new topic and is highly releavant I have live there for many years. Please bring this article back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.104.161.113 (talk) 20:45, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Link the page in question. It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:01, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Accidental page deletion
Hi! I think you accidentally deleted Laura Dekker and the associated talk page as G8. I figured it would be a simple error, so I was wondering if you could restore them? - Bilby (talk) 21:57, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Restored My mistake, thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:58, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- No hassles, and thanks. I see it was due to the IP - that particular IP user has been causing a few issues around those related articles. Easy enough to get caught up in them. :) - Bilby (talk) 22:04, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- That's a sockie. Gwen Gale (talk) 22:54, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- No hassles, and thanks. I see it was due to the IP - that particular IP user has been causing a few issues around those related articles. Easy enough to get caught up in them. :) - Bilby (talk) 22:04, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Blue whale
Oh my, aren't you a duffer! I've filed a BRFA to fix it, all good. Steven Zhang Join the DR army! 22:40, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Hehe, seriously, thanks for taking care of that :P Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 03:04, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Amcook: My files had licencing info and sources, but you still deleted them...
Hello there. I'm perplexed. I received notice on November 25 that a number of my files were not property cited, so I quickly edited the file information to include the source info. Nevertheless, it seems as if these files were deleted on December 2nd. I feel like these graphs were of great value to my page. They were generated using publicly accessible data, so why am I not allowed to use them?
Your timely reply is much appreciated. Please note that I am writing this article (the article on working poverty, which is just in my sandbox for now) for a class, and that the article needs to be finished by December 12.
--Amcook (talk) 23:27, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- List the files in question? It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:05, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Need deleted page back
I created a page for the California Department of Real Estate (state government agency) and you deleted it today. Since the page is NOT advertising/promoting a private company, but instead was an information based page regarding a state government agency, I don't understand why it was deleted. If it was not written in a way that fits the criteria, I would like to have been given a chance to modify the page. If you're not willing to bring the page back, is there anyway I can get the content so I can modify it and re-create the article?
Cadreteam (talk) 00:04, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Suicidal Angels AfD
I'm confused. The article Suicidal Angels is linked to this AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suicidal angels which says it was speedy deleted by you.LoveUxoxo (talk) 03:18, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fixed and reopened. The nominator tagged the wrong page for speedy under A10. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:24, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Discussion at ANI
I didn't start it, but there's a discussion at WP:ANI regarding one of your deletions. --Jayron32 04:21, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- (clarity note)...or rather at this thread at AN.
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 04:29, 8 December 2011 (UTC)- Oops. My bad. --Jayron32 04:37, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Why'd you speedy I'll Be Home for Christmas? The article's been around forever. I doubt the whole darn thing was copyvio. Mind restoring it and histmerging to the current article? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 04:24, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- I'm looking into it. I've also commented on the AN thread you started. -FASTILY (TALK) 05:33, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2011_November_29#File:Chavezcoup.jpg: please provide rationale
Hi. I note that you do not discuss your reasoning in deciding that the result of the discussion was "delete." This is far from obvious to me. There were two keeps, one strong keep, and two deletes. The discussion was quite involved. I think that not to provide some kind of rationale for your "delete" decision is an abrogation of your responsibility as closing admin. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 04:28, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Jbmurray. First and foremost, I never count !votes...ever. After weighing the arguments (with regards to strength and relation to policy) presented against each other, I found the arguments to delete more convincing than those to keep the file. In summary, I found that the keep !votes (which largely consisted of WP:ILIKEIT) failed to address the concerns of the nominator and subsequent delete !votes, which were that the file failed to comply with WP:NFCC#8. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:38, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Obviously enough I disagree: in no way were they keep !votes premised on WP:ILIKEIT. You could do yourself a favor and re-read WP:ILIKEIT to remind yourself what such a !vote looks like: nobody said they "liked" either Chávez or the image, or even that it was a particularly good image. But in any case you should put this summary at the relevant FfD page. Your account of the thinking by which you came to your decision is an important part of the record. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 05:35, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
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Confused about this file now being gone. I was told by another editor that there was no source provided for this image. What does the information say? It's been so long that I have forgotten the details. Can you help? Thank you. GeorgeLouis (talk) 17:27, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#F4. The file description page was basically empty, and did not mention anything about a source. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:37, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Well, can I get it back so I can add the source? Thank you so much! Yours, GeorgeLouis (talk) 01:56, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- I'll restore it if you can describe the source here on my talk page. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:04, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello again!
I can't understand why I have just received a batch of warning notices, including one sent to Talk:Otto_J._Zahn, claiming that there is no rationale listed for those articles, when in fact there plainly are rationales on those pages. Could it be because the rationales were not in the form of templates? Could it be because somebody found the rationales lacking in substance? This sort of thing (claiming there is no rationale when there actually is one) has been going on for a long time and is really debilitating and off-putting. I can usually cure the matter by posting the same information within a template, but why should I (or anybody else) have to take the added time to do so? I would really appreciate some light on this. Thank you very much! Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis (talk) 17:36, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Link the files/pages in question? It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:38, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- This is one of the files, but my question refers to this one and many others that have been threatened with deletion in the past. File:Otto-Zahn-of-Los-Angeles-1937.gif. Yours sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 02:03, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Also, there are many files to which you have done something (I am not sure what), with simply the letter (a) in the Edit Summary. This is what mt History Page looks like.
(diff | hist) . . File:Los Angeles Charles Navarro in 1951.jpg; 22:12 . . (-63) . . Fastily (talk | contribs) (a) [rollback] (diff | hist) . . File:Otto-Zahn-of-Los-Angeles-1937.gif; 22:11 . . (-504) . . Fastily (talk | contribs) (a) [rollback] (diff | hist) . . File:Los-Angeles-City-Councilman-Joseph-F-Fitzpatrick-1925.jpg; 22:11 . . (-150) . . Fastily (talk | contribs) (a) [rollback] (diff | hist) . . File:Marie Mattingley Meloney 1943 obituary photo.tiff; 22:10 . . (-51) . . Fastily (talk | contribs) (a) [rollback]
- Thanks for helping me understand what you have done here. Yours, GeorgeLouis (talk) 02:12, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- I removed deletion tags from those pages. I'm not sure what the issue here is, that is, unless you'd prefer that I re-add the deletion tags. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:08, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Well, there was no explanation in the Edit Summary section, except for a small {a), and I didn't know what that meant. I guess that confused me somewhat. Also, why were they marked for deletion in the first place? Thanks. GeorgeLouis (talk) 17:46, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah actually, they were. I removed the deletion tags because they no longer met the criterion for deletion for which they were nominated under.-FASTILY (TALK) 23:05, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for helping me understand what you have done here. Yours, GeorgeLouis (talk) 02:12, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Any idea why this AfD log page got deleted? —SW— chat 18:14, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Not really. Restored now though. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:10, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- No worries, thanks. —SW— babble 23:25, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Lepeshka
Hi Fastily! :) I figured you would be a good person to address a question for me. I've moved article Lepeshka to user-space draft User:GreenGibbon/Lepeshka. Everything appears to be in order, but I'm now left wondering if the redirect should be deleted or left as is. Will this redirect pose a problem when it's time to move that draft back into a main name-space? -- WikHead (talk) 22:32, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- I've removed the redirect for you. You'll now be able to move it back to the mainspace. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:11, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you kindly! This is the first time I've ever moved an article to user-space draft, and wasn't sure if any standard procedure should be applied to the redirect left behind. I'll assume that the redirect should be tagged for deletion if/when I encounter this situation again in the future. Thanks again, and best regards. :) -- WikHead (talk) 23:44, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- What's even easier is to unclick where is says to leave a redirect behind :-) (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 23:46, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- I've encountered a number of page-move situations in the past where
suppressredirectcould have came in rather handy. Unfortunately for me however, this option doesn't appear to be part of the standard non-admin tool kit. Thanks for the tip nonetheless. :) -- WikHead (talk) 04:02, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- I've encountered a number of page-move situations in the past where
- What's even easier is to unclick where is says to leave a redirect behind :-) (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 23:46, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you kindly! This is the first time I've ever moved an article to user-space draft, and wasn't sure if any standard procedure should be applied to the redirect left behind. I'll assume that the redirect should be tagged for deletion if/when I encounter this situation again in the future. Thanks again, and best regards. :) -- WikHead (talk) 23:44, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Completely unacceptable delete of Romans (ethnicity) article, it is not just about citizenship
You deleted the Romans (ethnicity) article that had only been formed hours earlier by me. It is NOT just about Roman citizenship, it is about the Roman ethnic group that developed and later devolved. I was adding more material to it. The action was too short noticed and sudden, I provided reliable sources for the material that focused on Romans as an ethnicity. If you do not allow me to revert your recent action, I would like to know where I can contest this deletion and have the article restored.--R-41 (talk) 23:20, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#A10 -FASTILY (TALK) 23:22, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- I could remove material on ethnicity in relation to Roman citizenship. But there NEEDS to be an article on the Roman ethnicity. I have references that demonstrate it as being initially distinct from Roman citizenship. History and legend claim that the Roman ethnicity originated with the combination of King Aeneas' Trojan refugees and the people of ancient Latium and later Etruscans, fusing Greek Trojan ancestry, culture and legends with the ancestry, culturem and legends of Latium, Etruscans, and other Italic peoples. There is information that can be added to an article on Roman ethnicity about the haplogroup origins of the ancient Roman ethnicity that has been traced by biologists.--R-41 (talk) 23:33, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Might I suggest WP:USERSPACEDRAFT? (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 23:45, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- I will create a sandbox to rewrite the article and remove unnecessary material on Roman citizenship that is covered by its own article, while focusing on creating the Romans (ethnic group) on Romans as the Graeco-Italic ethnic group that originated in the Italian Peninsula. This article will describe their historical origins that include the peoples of Latium, the Etruscans, other Italic peoples, and King Aeneas' Trojan refugees. That being said, when it is reformatted in this matter I see no reason why there should not be an article on the ancient Roman ethnicity. It is important for an article to address the Roman ethnicity and its origins, as it clarifies to readers why the Romans had a mix of ancient Greek, Etruscan, and other Italic legend and culture, as well as the Latin language of the Latium peoples.--R-41 (talk) 23:55, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- So, errr, why are you still here? The quality of the article and its references will determine if it will remain, as per Wikipedia policy. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 00:12, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- I will create a sandbox to rewrite the article and remove unnecessary material on Roman citizenship that is covered by its own article, while focusing on creating the Romans (ethnic group) on Romans as the Graeco-Italic ethnic group that originated in the Italian Peninsula. This article will describe their historical origins that include the peoples of Latium, the Etruscans, other Italic peoples, and King Aeneas' Trojan refugees. That being said, when it is reformatted in this matter I see no reason why there should not be an article on the ancient Roman ethnicity. It is important for an article to address the Roman ethnicity and its origins, as it clarifies to readers why the Romans had a mix of ancient Greek, Etruscan, and other Italic legend and culture, as well as the Latin language of the Latium peoples.--R-41 (talk) 23:55, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Might I suggest WP:USERSPACEDRAFT? (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 23:45, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- I could remove material on ethnicity in relation to Roman citizenship. But there NEEDS to be an article on the Roman ethnicity. I have references that demonstrate it as being initially distinct from Roman citizenship. History and legend claim that the Roman ethnicity originated with the combination of King Aeneas' Trojan refugees and the people of ancient Latium and later Etruscans, fusing Greek Trojan ancestry, culture and legends with the ancestry, culturem and legends of Latium, Etruscans, and other Italic peoples. There is information that can be added to an article on Roman ethnicity about the haplogroup origins of the ancient Roman ethnicity that has been traced by biologists.--R-41 (talk) 23:33, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
File:Kathleen Byron Birth.jpg
That's twice now that you (or your bot) have flagged File:Kathleen Byron Birth.jpg as an orphan image. It isn't included directly in the article about Kathleen Byron but it is linked to by a reference in that article. Can your bot allow for images included by references in articles? This image shows details of a birth record to prove a birth name & place. It isn't appropriate to include it in the article about Kathleen but it is entirely appropriate that it be included as a reference -- SteveCrook (talk) 13:16, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Since you obviously didn't bother to read the text of
{{Orphan image}}, the bot ignores pages containing the text{{Bots|deny=Fbot}}-FASTILY (TALK) 23:09, 8 December 2011 (UTC)- Thanks for your comment. But how can I add that when this document has been moved to the commons and is no longer editable? Is it enough to add the
{{Bots|deny=Fbot}}to the commons version? -- SteveCrook (talk) 11:50, 9 December 2011 (UTC)- Fbot doesn't edit pages on Commons, so you won't have to worry about that anymore. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:04, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Great, thanks. Can you do the same thing for File:Edmund Gwenn Cert.jpg that I also asked about here but the comment was deleted? -- SteveCrook (talk) 20:21, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done -FASTILY (TALK) 20:34, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Many thanks -- SteveCrook (talk) 04:53, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Great, thanks. Can you do the same thing for File:Edmund Gwenn Cert.jpg that I also asked about here but the comment was deleted? -- SteveCrook (talk) 20:21, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fbot doesn't edit pages on Commons, so you won't have to worry about that anymore. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:04, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for your comment. But how can I add that when this document has been moved to the commons and is no longer editable? Is it enough to add the
Hi Fastily,
This page, which you deleted a few minutes ago, has just been recreated. The page author seems to have recreated it repeatedly; I was wondering if you might like to sprinkle it with SALT?
Cheers, Yunshui 雲水 10:16, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Warned user. If they create another inappropriate page, let me know and I'll block them. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 10:28, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what to make of File:PicosdeEuropa391.JPG - recreation of a sort, I suppose... Yunshui 雲水 10:31, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- ... but they have now recreated the page again. Yunshui 雲水 10:37, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- User has been blocked by Materialscientist. Yunshui 雲水 14:46, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- ... but they have now recreated the page again. Yunshui 雲水 10:37, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Cutpaste move repair II
Hi, me again. I see that when processing a {{histmerge}}, you moved Mid-Kent Railway to Mid-Kent Line without creating a redirect, see here. Unfortunately, there were quite a lot of incoming links to Mid-Kent Railway which were thus broken - I've created the missing redirect. Hopefully, this should fix it. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:40, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, thanks for handling that. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:05, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
I'm trying to get it so the Title displays italic but nothing I do will make it go that way so can you help me fix it so it will? Thanks! Swifty*talkcontribs 12:33, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Did it. Hope that helps. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:09, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks Fastily! You're the best! Swifty*talkcontribs 08:30, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Mags retired!
Look ... :( Swifty*talkcontribs 13:18, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- That's a shame. Hope he comes back sometime :\ -FASTILY (TALK) 20:10, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Me too. :( Swifty*talkcontribs 08:33, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
I know that many images having a problem right now with the non - free - reduce template, but why did you removed the template in the example above? mabdul 13:22, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Oh and File:Apnic logo 2011.jpg. mabdul 13:29, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'm aware of that. Haven't gotten around to fixing that yet. I'll work on it asap. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:10, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Contributions removing {{Non-free reduce}}
Can you tell me why you have 600+ edits removing {{Non-free reduce}} for numerous images under the rationale "old versions deleted", when in fact there are no old versions of said image (but where there clearly remains an oversized image present)? Magog the Ogre (talk) 13:41, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'm aware of that. Haven't gotten around to fixing that yet. I'll work on it asap. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:10, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Singapore Real Estate Exchange
Like Singapore Stock Exchange when it was first launch. This is the Singapore Real Estate Exchange. Kindly assist to advise on what is the needed edits required. Thanks. Linus — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.156.13.10 (talk) 15:50, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Did you need something? -FASTILY (TALK) 20:11, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
This page was not "unambiguous advertising or promotion," as I explained on the former talk page. It would have been nice at least to get a rebuttal or explanation before getting my editing wasted. Spike-from-NH (talk) 20:32, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Speedy Delete Removal
I was wondering why you said that wasn't a valid reason. That userpage was in French when it should've been in English.
--Thebirdlover (talk) 21:10, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion may be found here. There is no criterion on that list that which allows for the deletion of non-English userpages. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:13, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Decline of speedy on Until dawn
Hi Fastily, I saw that you declined my speedy on Until dawn. Actually the author did request deletion, on the article's talk page Talk:Until dawn, saying "This article should be deleted.". I believe that counts as a request for deletion? Thanks, Sparthorse (talk) 03:57, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- That works. I guess I missed that. Thanks for letting me know. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 03:59, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- No worries, glad I could help. It wasn't as clear as they usually are (page blanking etc.). Best, Sparthorse (talk) 04:00, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Nycalex2012 needs to be responded to be confirmed for editing semi protected articles
Can you please hurry up, cuz I really need a response NOW so I can start editing semi protected pages!Nycalex2012 (talk) 04:35, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Welcome back!
Just popping in to say welcome back! Late as it may be. How're things?--SKATER Is Back 16:07, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! Things are going well, I'm a bit busy in RL as always, but otherwise nothing to special. How have you been? -FASTILY (TALK) 20:57, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Pretty decent life wise, Currently working on my Comptia Net+ certification and finishing up a few internships. I've finally found my ways in content creation just a tad.--SKATER Is Back 21:14, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- Didnt want to clog up your page with another topic, but I was wondering if we could perhaps expedite the resumation of admin coaching. I feel im back in the loop enough by now. If not, ill wait till january as asked--SKATER Is Back 21:33, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Well, I would have liked to see more activity in the past month, but if you think you're ready, we can get started. I'm fine with whatever you decide. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:03, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Understood, school got a little heavy and i'm back to editing like I used too now. It's ultimately your choice.--SKATER Is Back 21:16, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- I feel that ive got my grasp back on the wiki, and still have all of the coaching pages watch listed. Im ready when you are--SKATER Is Back 19:28, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Very well then, I'll add some more to your coaching pages in a bit! Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:58, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Well, I would have liked to see more activity in the past month, but if you think you're ready, we can get started. I'm fine with whatever you decide. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:03, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Non free reduce
FYI, that task to remove the non free reduce taggings if finally completed. Regards, Steven Zhang Join the DR army! 21:13, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fantastic! Thanks for doing that :) Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 21:14, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Regarding this tagging. It is still on images that I keep an eye on. Should I remove the tag? I have never seen this tag before and can see the benefit especially as I messed up an image File:Handle with prayer.jpg when I uploaded an updated image somehow four times. if you could reply here to keep the comments in one place. Let me know what I should do? I do not know how to delete old uploads and except for blatant vandalism very rarely revert.REVUpminster (talk) 18:32, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- There's no effort required on your part. An admin will come by shortly, delete the old revisions of the file, and remove the non-free reduced tag. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:57, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thankyou.REVUpminster (talk) 23:57, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
I need your input
High Fastily. I am planning to run for adminship and would like your input about it. Would you consider me capable to be an admin and what could I do to improve? I appreciate your response. Please send me a TB.—cyberpower (X-Mas Chat)(Contrib.) 22:20, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
- Well, I had a look at your contributions, and I have to agree with the editors who particpated in this thread. You're off to a great start, but your chances of passing RfA at this point are slim. I recommend that you wait a few months, get some more experience writing articles, continue fighting vandalism as you have, and spend some time in administrative related areas (e.g. comment at WP:PERM requests, help out at WP:NPP, ect.). You seem like a decent editor. Tell you what - come back in a few months, and if I like what I see, I'll consider nominating you for adminship. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:55, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Where to go with a SPAM-problem?
The article Tubber, Ireland is targeted by an spam-IP. He quite often puts in links to Moominder.ie, promoting a soon to be released product. Another frequent added link is to burrensteel.com. Because it is an IP it is difficult to block the spammer so blocking the spamlinks might be a better idea. But where do you have to ask that? Night of the Big Wind talk 00:49, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Hi, Night - try WP:WPSPAM. Kelly hi! 01:07, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Won't be a problem anymore. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:30, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Semi-protected? That must be enough. Thanks a lot! Night of the Big Wind talk 15:39, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Won't be a problem anymore. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:30, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Regarding my supposed, so-called "vandalism" on Soviet war in Afghanistan
I wrote most of this in the reply on the WP:RPP page as well, but still reproducing (with additional comments) here in case you missed it before it gets deleted from there. Anyway, this is regarding the readymade stop-vandalism-warning-thingy you (as an admin) pasted all over my talk page just now. I would request you to research a bit about how my edits count as "vandalism" before taking such actions -- and I hope you are not so busy admin-ing wikipedia that it impacts your neutrality and justification in taking actions. You can call it a content dispute etc, but "vandalism" it surely is not because (1) I *have* been discussing the contentious point (of that article) on the talk page, (2) the consensus on that talk page is *on my side* (I have given links towards the end of my post on the talk page of previous archived discussions where exactly my argument was decided upon by ~10 other editors), and (3) it is User:TopGun and not me who has been reverting (vandalizing?) blatantly and making edits contrary to the consensus on the very same point that has been made thrice on that same article's talk page within the past 12 months already. Just because I prefer not to create a fancy username/login on wikipedia (anonymous and free editing by all is supposedly one of the goals and USPs of wikipedia -- at least that's what I heard Jimmy Wales say in the New Delhi conference last month) and Hassan happens to have one (albeit one that he changes frequently), I'm blindly assumed to be one doing "vandalism"?! 202.3.77.183 (talk) 22:30, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- And while we speak, TopGun (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has yet again reverted the consensus-based status quo edits to that article. I wonder if he also earns a readymade stop-vandalism-warning-thingy as well or whether that is only reserved for "IPs" like myself :-) He seems to have broken 3RR already. 202.3.77.183 (talk) 22:40, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Eh, don't think he's exempted either. I'll block both of you and protect/lock the article if I have to. If you still want to continue editing the article, I suggest you try to engage TopGun in discussion and work out a compromise. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:48, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- I don't see how this response (threatening to block the other guy as well) is good enough -- you have still not justified how my edits "vandalized" the article. Or how and why he has not yet broken 3RR on that article? Moreover, there would be no justification for blocking me for trying to MAINTAIN THE CONSENSUS-BACKED STATUS QUO on that article! Or may be the opinions of 10 different editors of that article have lesser weightage compared to TopGun (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and yourself? BTW, I have been doing precisely that (discussing with him on talk page) for the past few hours -- sadly, he thinks he owns this place. 202.3.77.183 (talk) 23:02, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Soviet war in Afghanistan
Though I don't want to spill this issue over to your talk, but since you advised me to report if the IP violates again - the IP has now start a massive canvassing campaign [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] and has been blocked for hounding me and making personal attacks before on 2 different IPs [78]. Although all the editors he's calling might have once been editing the article, I think just calling the editors of his choice at such level amounts to canvassing. Can you tell me if it is still in the limits and take action if not. About above, the IP seems to think that reverting while discussing does not count as editwar and has been blaming me for reverting removal of sourced content. --lTopGunl (talk) 23:15, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Rangeblocked 202.3.77.128/25 and page protected. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 23:24, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Good call. Thanks for handling it. Regards. --lTopGunl (talk) 23:26, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Why did you delete my article?
J/k. FYI I ripped off your page and made a few expansions here. Thought you should know in case you wanted to adopt any of it. Cheers, causa sui (talk) 23:22, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Hehe, glad you found it useful. With your permission I'll pilfer explanations as I see fit ;) Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 23:27, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Talkback
Message added 01:04, 11 December 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
— Train2104 (talk • contribs) 01:04, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
I have dePROD'd WKIP-FM as the station does exist. The FCC website is being cranky as they are moving from an old system to a more updated system, so sometimes you have to actually search for "WKIP-FM" instead of just "WKIP" in the FM database. Damned annoying, but I hope they get that kink worked out. Anywho, this is the license for WKIP-FM. Let me know if you have any others PROD'd and I will give those a second look to see if they are saveable. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:48, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- For the record, I converted this speedy tag to the prod tag you just removed. That said, I don't really have an opinion on this matter, but thanks anyways for letting me know. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 02:51, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- Not a problem. I am glad to give a second look at pages to see if they can be saved. We are finding some (oddly, mostly college stations) that are not FCC licensed and hence don't fall under our notability guidelines (like WCKS (college radio)), but 95% do fall under our notability guidelines, which is why I take a second look. Do let me know if you find another station that needs PROD'ing and I will give that a second look too. Doesn't hurt to have a second pair of eyes. Plus, I get to put some of these dusty bookmarks to work. :) Take Care...Neutralhomer • Talk • 03:20, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Looks like we were all trying to post on this at the same time. I left my objection to your PROD request on the WKIP-FM talk page. This station falls perfectly within the boundaries of what we at WikiProject Radio Stations are trying to accomplish. Makes absolutely no sense to delete this article. If this one went, due to the reason you suggest, that would mean we'd have to get rid of about 80% of the radio station articles on Wikipedia. Kinda foolish, don't you think? I won't remove the PROD template just yet, so as to give others the chance to take a look at it. But just want to let you know for next time when you propose deleting broadcasting-related articles. --Fightingirish (talk) 02:54, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion review for Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 December 11
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 December 11. 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. jbmurray (talk • contribs) 09:15, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of Terra Nova (season 1)
Hi, why the deletion? I know the show only has one season as of now, but it's just a redirect, and doesn't hurt. I use these redirects all the time, as it's faster to type than "List of Terra Nova episodes" or whatever. And it is a format that is not very standardized; there are lots of different titles for these lists, so having "Show (season #)" as a redirect doesn't hurt at all. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:58, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- I see. Go ahead and recreate the redirect then. -FASTILY (TALK) 10:02, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done, thanks. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 10:12, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
User: Longwayround
Hello, hope you will be fine and all is going well. Again i am disturbing you on your talk page, once again for the conflict over the edit war. The user: Longwayround, had reverted my three edits in 24 hour period without discussing any thing, moreover i have asked the user to discuss before making any changes.
Thanx
Nabil rais2008 (talk) 12:05, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- When you say without discussing any thing I take it you are ignoring this discussion. I really am glad for anyone to provide constructive feedback on the article but I'm not at all content to see such selective use of facts. Longwayround (talk) 23:09, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
User:TreasuryTag unblock request
FYI. 28bytes (talk) 19:31, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Image deletion from Pilbara Regiment article
Hello Fastily. I notice that you recently deleted File:Pilbara cap badge.gif as it lacked licensing information. As I'm not familiar with the particular image myself I'm happy to accept that this deletion was in line with policy; however, I wonder if perhaps you had put a note on the article's talk page first to highlight the problem editors such as myself who have the page watchlisted might have had to opportunity to see if the required information could be found and added first? Could you please consider doing that in future? Thanks. Anotherclown (talk) 20:27, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- There used to be a bot that did this. I wonder if it's still running. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:34, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not aware of a bot that placed notices on article talkpages. ImageTaggingBot, OrphanBot, and the manual tagging tools all place notices on the uploader's talkpage, while OrphanBot removed images the day before deletion was due to give article editors notice (and because image usage information used to be lost when the image was deleted). --Carnildo (talk) 01:56, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
File CNGS_layout.jpg is neither available elsewhere nor can it be recreated
It was placed under the fair-use clause. The image is of underground structures at CERN, and cannot be recreated from an "overhead" map, as the initiator of the delete claims. Criterion #1 is not violated by its use on Wikipedia. Ajoykt (talk) 00:31, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#F7. Non-free maps/diagrams are strictly prohibited on Wikipedia in accordance with WP:NFCC#1 -FASTILY (TALK) 00:37, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
BJ
Knew it wouldn't be long, User:Papererzop CTJF83 01:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Blocked -FASTILY (TALK) 01:51, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
User:Ziplinezulu CTJF83 02:09, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Blocked and pages protected. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:34, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
File:Plans for Maybutt, Alberta.jpg
Hello, I'm not sure if this is a bot malfunction or not, but as far as I can tell, the file is still eligible to be transferred to the commons. 117Avenue (talk) 02:16, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- It's not. Read the text of
{{PD-Canada}}closely - File:Plans_for_Maybutt,_Alberta.jpg#Licensing -FASTILY (TALK) 02:35, 12 December 2011 (UTC)- Sorry, you're going to have to spell it out for me. Is it not as simple as 1912 is before 1946? 117Avenue (talk) 03:41, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
{{PD-Canada}}transcludes{{Non-free in US}}, which suggests that the file may not be eligible for transfer to commons. If the file is eligible for transfer (which it is) according to the file's description page, please supply the commons parameter to PD-Canada by changing{{PD-Canada}}to{{PD-Canada|commons}}-FASTILY (TALK) 05:32, 12 December 2011 (UTC)- I'm a bit confused, first you said it's not, now you say it is. When I read the licence as you suggested, I considered changing that, but because you said it's not eligible for transfer, I didn't make the change. If you are correct now, in saying that the file is eligible for transfer, I still think the bot is faulty, and shouldn't have reverted what Sfan00 IMG correctly tagged. 117Avenue (talk) 06:06, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Er, my "It's not" above was in reference to the bot's alleged error. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:15, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- I'm a bit confused, first you said it's not, now you say it is. When I read the licence as you suggested, I considered changing that, but because you said it's not eligible for transfer, I didn't make the change. If you are correct now, in saying that the file is eligible for transfer, I still think the bot is faulty, and shouldn't have reverted what Sfan00 IMG correctly tagged. 117Avenue (talk) 06:06, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry, you're going to have to spell it out for me. Is it not as simple as 1912 is before 1946? 117Avenue (talk) 03:41, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
File talk:FBISeal.png
I just noticed that you deleted the talk page for File talk:FBISeal.png but it seems that File:FBISeal.png actually exists so I'm a little confused. --Kumioko (talk) 02:31, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- File:FBISeal.png doesn't exist locally (or, at least it used to until it was transferred to Commons)., it exists on Commons. File:FBISeal.png is a blue link because the mediawiki software automatically transcludes the Commons version onto en.wikipedia. For all purposes and intents, and from a technical standpoint, the talk page is orphaned. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:37, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- So your telling me if someone where to mark File:FBISeal.png for deletion/discussion it would not go to the for deletion board? Or that someone who may have a question about it would intuitively go to one of the WikiProjects that where displayed on the talk page? I realize that this file is not local however there are several good reasons why it should be tagged by a project. Especially if it is directly used by that project. Using this same argument a large percentage of the files tagged as FM would not be taggable because they do not list locally. --Kumioko (talk) 02:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry if that seemed a bit snappy, didn't mean it to be I haven't yet mastered the art of emotions through text. :-) --Kumioko (talk) 02:51, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- I would assume that anyone who has a question about an image used in an article would go to the respective article's talk page and ask that question there. In all my years working with media files, I find that users seldom, if ever, ask questions about files used in an article on the file's talk page; you'll almost always find file inquiries on an article's talk page. If you're trying to categorize media files, this needs to be done on Commons, and not on en.wikipedia. Furthermore, if I'm not mistaken, the scope of Wikiproject USA is restricted to local pages only, is it not? -FASTILY (TALK) 02:57, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- PS, thanks for clarifying the 'snappiness'. I think use of emoticons are something I have to work on too! ;) -FASTILY (TALK) 02:59, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Actually, there might be a problem. I've stopped deleting pages for now and am looking into it. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:11, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- PS, thanks for clarifying the 'snappiness'. I think use of emoticons are something I have to work on too! ;) -FASTILY (TALK) 02:59, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- I would assume that anyone who has a question about an image used in an article would go to the respective article's talk page and ask that question there. In all my years working with media files, I find that users seldom, if ever, ask questions about files used in an article on the file's talk page; you'll almost always find file inquiries on an article's talk page. If you're trying to categorize media files, this needs to be done on Commons, and not on en.wikipedia. Furthermore, if I'm not mistaken, the scope of Wikiproject USA is restricted to local pages only, is it not? -FASTILY (TALK) 02:57, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry if that seemed a bit snappy, didn't mean it to be I haven't yet mastered the art of emotions through text. :-) --Kumioko (talk) 02:51, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- So your telling me if someone where to mark File:FBISeal.png for deletion/discussion it would not go to the for deletion board? Or that someone who may have a question about it would intuitively go to one of the WikiProjects that where displayed on the talk page? I realize that this file is not local however there are several good reasons why it should be tagged by a project. Especially if it is directly used by that project. Using this same argument a large percentage of the files tagged as FM would not be taggable because they do not list locally. --Kumioko (talk) 02:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Just for FYI the 2 reasons I generally tag images is so that the project has some visibility of how many fall into the scope of the project and so that if someone submits it for something like for deletion ArticleAlertbot will let us know. I don't necessarily tag every single image but if it states something direct to a project WPUS supports (Such as FBI, Utah, Cincinnati, etc.) then I do. Additionally, there is currently now other way for a project to know if an image is in commons or if it resides locally. --Kumioko (talk) 03:24, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of Silent Life
Dear Fastily, you have deleted the article about American silent movie "Silent Life". I think it is notable enough to be in wikipedia Reasons: 1) Almost all films with Isabella Rossellini are in wiki, why excemption for this movie? 2) BBC mentioned this movie in its article stating that there are quite few modern silent movies. 3) The film is co-produced by notorius Hollywood Forever Cemetery 4) The movie press release was reprinted by more then 1000 web-sites, including Yahoo and Bloomberg 5) It is one of few modern full length silent movies, and moreover, it is in color 6) Milla Jovovich mom -Galina Jovovich plays there 7) The shooting took place in a range of notorious Hollywood locations 8) The movie is commemorated to 100th aniversary of Hollywood 9) The movie is based on the life of one of the first Hollywood stars. So please let me ask you to put the article back or expalain why every item mentioned does not make this movie good enough to be in wiki. Thank you in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.235.148.154 (talk) 06:52, 12 December 2011 (UTC) [[
Question about revert process
Hello Fastily,
Thank you for enabling rollback right for me. I have been reverting disruptive editing and have seen some ugly cases of vandalism (just thinking why people want to do that & what they gain from that). I have read about the "three-revert rule" in which the first sentence states "An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period". My question is that if I see a page being constantly vandalized by disruptive editing, can I not perform more than 3 reverts on that page? Can it make me a blocked user?
Thanks. Joydeep (talk) 07:01, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Vandalism reverts are exempt from the 3 revert rule, so no, you cannot get blocked for reverting vandalism, even if you revert it more than three times on the same article. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:19, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. It was very helpful. With regards Joydeep (talk) 07:34, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Sanctuary Woods
Any way you can bring Sanctuary Woods article back? I'd like to do some work on it, but it looks like it was deleted this month. PeRshGo (talk) 07:45, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Talk page edit mishap
To which you referred on my talk page, was a genuine mistake and I apologize. I didn't merge properly. Don't assume it was malicious. Benlisquare and Ryan Vessey are the ones who like to play games. I was simply trying to keep up. Sorry to have disrupted. I did a rather crappy copy/paste job. However I would like to reiterate, do not edit my talk page please. Someone may have removed it but there was an entry in my talk page history where you reverted something. As it is improper for me to mess up your talk page I would think it wrong for you to do it to mine. Jersey John (talk) 08:14, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Proposal at pump
So for getting a dev, please file a bug on bugzilla:. Then, devs will see it. ~~Ebe123~~ → report on my contribs. 11:57, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Fastily,
Can you go back and check - I could have sworn I added a rationale to this file earlier in the week, so it shouldn't have been deleted. Thanks, TheMightyQuill (talk) 14:39, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Indeed you did. Restored -FASTILY (TALK) 23:11, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Jeannine Edwards Deleted Page
Hello, You deleted my Wiki page.... I would like access to it so I can put it back up. Here is the reason given:
20:31, 12 September 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Jeannine Edwards (sportscaster)" (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.espnmediazone3.com/us/2011/09/06/edwards_jeannine/)
I work for ESPN as a reporter.... not sure what "copyright infringement" there was. Please explain and please send me a link to my original page so I may edit if necessary and put back up ASAP.
Thank you, Jeanninee12 (talk) 14:52, 12 December 2011 (UTC)JeannineJeanninee12 (talk) 14:52, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletions of talk pages with old history
Hello, I've undone your deletions of Talk:United States of America/Temp and Talk:Electric current/Old history, as they contain old history that needs to be kept for attribution purposes. Please be more careful with deletions of similar pages. Graham87 15:37, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- I just happened to see them and looked at the pages, shouldn't there be a history merge instead? Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:20, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- In these cases, a history merge would be inappropriate due to overlapping edits. Graham87 01:43, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Jeannine Edwards page
Can you please re-post the Jeannine Edwards wiki page that you deleted on Sept 12.... there was no copyright infringement... the text used on the ESPN Media Zone website was actually written by me and submitted to them, and it is the same text I used on my wiki page. I would like to re-post my page ASAP. Thanks for your prompt attention. Jeanninee12 (talk) 16:34, 12 December 2011 (UTC)JeannineJeanninee12 (talk) 16:34, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- You just asked 2 sections above ... have you not the decency to wait? You do realize, of course, that you may not write an WP:AUTOBIO, and that in order to reuse information off of another website that you wrote, you'll need to properly authorize its release to Wikipedia first? (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:17, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
PubSubHubbub
I undeleted that article, it was just some PROD deletion you did, you may not remember. :) It's a real thing though, I added one more link anyway. Some developer people, including Tim Bray were complaining on twitter. Just FYI in case you care. :) - cohesion 18:23, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
File:Taj Mahal on World Heritage Memory Net.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion
Greetings. I am a new contributor who was having trouble navigating the copyright tags, apologies. I believe that this image qualifies for inclusion under the non-free use rationale and would like to reload it or reinstate it so that I can include appropriate copyright information. It is a collage of two screenshots and is used for purposes of critical commentary and illustration in an educational article about the entity represented by the image. The image illustrates content that is referenced in the article, and shows the breadth of this free and educational world heritage site knowledge base. As a web page, the image is not replaceable by free content; any other image that shows the web page would also be copyrighted, and any version that is not true to the original would be inadequate for identification or commentary.
Please advise me on how to proceed, and many thanks in advance for your assistance and tolerance.
Rubinm (talk) 19:25, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Please disregard - I was responding to an old old deletion that has since been correctly updated. Regards, Rubinm (talk) 19:30, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Matus Valent Wikipedia page
Hi Fastily,
My name is Matus Valent, I am well known, international magazine fitness cover model from Slovakia living currently in Los Angeles. I had my Wikipedia profile for few years but recently I found out it was removed. My friend re-created my profile but it was removed again by You. Now I created my own account and would like to make a nice MATUS VALENT page on Wiki, but am writing you first before I do so. Nothing on my Wiki page was stolen or inaccurate. I have been in over 120 fitness magazines, 18 covers, several national TV commercials and won the Model America 2006 competitions. All my resume and bio is my personal website : www.matusvalent.com , which I plan to use for my Wikipedia profile. Once again this is the Matus Valent writing you. thanks a lot.Matusv (talk) 21:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)Matus
G6 deletion -- subs too?
Hi, you delete a G6 Template:Infobox IPA/core correctly (and very fast). The subpage, a sandbox, will it be deleted by auto or are there steps too take? Template:Infobox IPA/core/sandbox -DePiep (talk)
- Deleted Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 23:24, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
I declined the speedy delete on this as WP:CSD#A7 is for real people and Arborinus Verginix is fictional.
First line of the article: "Twig (Arborinus Verginix) is a fictional character from Paul Stewart's The Edge Chronicles." --GraemeL (talk) 23:33, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Whatever you say... -FASTILY (TALK) 23:34, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- The versions that got deleted (twice) were only a few hundred characters long and didn't indicate that it was a fictional character. I would have deleted the previous versions. The current article is very different. --GraemeL (talk) 23:48, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Bahadir Kaleagasi
Bahadir Kaleagasi was just recreated after you deleted it yesterday - it looks identical to the prior version. MikeWazowski (talk) 23:48, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Poof. Thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:50, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Julien Félix
Thanks for the cleanup. ST2002 (talk) 00:00, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- No problem, happy to have been able to help. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:59, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
You've speedied one incarnation of this article as a G3-hoax; however I don't think it qualifies; so I brought the current incarnation to AfD. -- Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 01:14, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Alright, thanks for letting me know. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 06:22, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Please stop deleting my page, there are several others that are the same
Can you please stop deleting my page, there are several other big film companies that have wiki pages about their orginazation like Lionsgate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_Gate_Entertainment. Thank you.
-Drew — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andyhav (talk • contribs) 01:26, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Article X CAN NOT justify Article Y. —Jeremy v^_^v Components:V S M 01:31, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Plus ... comparing a student film org to Lions Gate? Wow. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 13:10, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
A Suggestion
Hey Fastily, might I suggest an article that I created (shameless promotion) that might help with these "please stop deleting my page" and "why did you delete my page" posts. It's User:Neutralhomer/WWMAD. What I do is just post it as {{subst:User:Neutralhomer/WWMAD}}~~~~ and it creates the section header and signs it itself, just a copy/paste job. It might help so you won't have to constantly answer those posts. Just slap the template on their talk page. Feel free to tinker with the page at User:Neutralhomer/WWMAD, if you like. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:45, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- You should move that to the Wikipedia: namespace and add it to the {{Essays on building Wikipedia}} navbox. -- Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 01:54, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- I have thought about that, but my problem is, the "WWMAD" abbrevation is a little confusing, hence why I haven't. Plus, I didn't know if there was a template already like it. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:58, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Well, I agree that finding an appropriate shortcut for it would be tricky: all the good ones have already been taken. I was surprised just two weeks ago when I found out that the shortcut WP:SOLUTION was still available. -- Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 02:10, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- That's another reason I am trying to get it out there, more people that know about it, more people that can come up with something better than "Why Was My Page Deleted?" :) Plus, I bet there are things I have forgotten. I will rattle some shortcuts around in my head and see what I come up with. So far all I have come up with is YDELETED. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:15, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Looks pretty good. This is definitely helpful; thanks for sharing. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 03:05, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- You're Welcome. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 03:17, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- It might interest you to see my comment at ANB
- You're Welcome. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 03:17, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Looks pretty good. This is definitely helpful; thanks for sharing. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 03:05, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- That's another reason I am trying to get it out there, more people that know about it, more people that can come up with something better than "Why Was My Page Deleted?" :) Plus, I bet there are things I have forgotten. I will rattle some shortcuts around in my head and see what I come up with. So far all I have come up with is YDELETED. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:15, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Well, I agree that finding an appropriate shortcut for it would be tricky: all the good ones have already been taken. I was surprised just two weeks ago when I found out that the shortcut WP:SOLUTION was still available. -- Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 02:10, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- I have thought about that, but my problem is, the "WWMAD" abbrevation is a little confusing, hence why I haven't. Plus, I didn't know if there was a template already like it. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:58, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
You deleted a page in error
You deleted the page File talk:Confederate National Flag since Mar 4 1865.svg on Dec 12, claiming it was for a non-existent page/file, when in fact the file does exist, and my question about the file itself still stands. — ᚹᚩᛞᛖᚾᚻᛖᛚᛗ (ᚷᛖᛋᛈᚱᛖᚳ) 05:10, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- The file in question exists on Commons, and not on en.wikipedia. If you're trying to start a discussion about how appropriate this rendition of the image is, you need to start that discussion on the file's Commons talk page, and not on en.wikipedia. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:12, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Fraggle Article
Could you help me getting the article about fraggles up please? I'm sure there needs to be an article about the creature instead of the television thing. I can barely find them underground in real life. I found them but i sure do need help for it so i may need effort on that.--HappyLogolover2011 (talk) 05:28, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of File talk:QuArK-MapEditor.png
Hi Fastily, why did you delete File talk:QuArK-MapEditor.png? Your reason of "Talk page of a deleted or non-existent page" is clearly incorrect: File:QuArK-MapEditor.png --DanielPharos (talk) 07:47, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- WP:CSD#G8: "This excludes... talk pages for images that exist on Wikimedia Commons." Magog the Ogre (talk) 08:24, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Ah...Page recreated. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:14, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! --DanielPharos (talk) 11:33, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Ah...Page recreated. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:14, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
{{infobox IPA}}: deleted too much
Hi, yesterday I proposed for speedy-G6 two files Template:infobox IPA/core, Template:infobox IPA/Process input, and subsequently their respective sandboxes. You deleted, all right so far.
But now different files are gone too: Template:infobox IPA/core1, Template:infobox IPA/core2 which are part of the live template. Now the template is broken {{infobox IPA}}. So, please restore the /core1 and /core2 templates. I'll check for more missing templates. -DePiep (talk) 09:43, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done Sorry about that. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:45, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- All right, thanx. Just to let you know: I have just added one single db-G6 to this set, Template:Infobox IPA/process input/sandbox, and then I'll leave this area for a while. -DePiep (talk) 09:53, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Dean Koontz
You have locked the Dean Koontz page in an erroneous state and cited "Persistent Vandalism".
I have contributed heavily to the Koontz page, including the SF and fantasy.. and the erotica. I have collected Koontz for 40 years, and I was around when he was contributing letters and articles to fanzines in the early 1970s. _Everybody_ knew about the erotica; Koontz cited it in many places, including fanzines, letters, and his own books. I have already sent you the Energumen article, _which_Koontz_has_never_denied_, and quotes from _his_own_books_. How many more articles / letters do I have to provide to confirm it????
What is this nonsense about "not convinced"??? By what evidence have you decided that the article is inaccurate? Where does Koontz say he did not write it?? Msauer says he does, but he provides no reference or actual quote from Koontz. I believe you are libelling the late editor of Energumen in such a judgment and demand you confirm the basis of your decision.
Wikipedis is supposedly a repository of fact, irrespective of whether people like the facts. If you are denying the _fact_ of the erotica, on what grounds is that done?
And who is above you that I can pass this query on to??????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.105.46.145 (talk) 09:50, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Get this straight: anything in a biography of a living person must be cited to a reliable third party source. Edit warring even if you think you're right is never, ever permitted. This is a pretty simple concept, as already explained to you. Remember: WP:CONSENSUS is how Wikipedia works - so even if you have the truth, consensus can overule it. BTW, nobody is "above" anyone here ... we're all volunteers maintaining the project. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 13:02, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of a logo
Dear Fastily, you have deleted the logo for dalitstan.org website. The problem I am facing is that I am unable to get the desired result when I press "save page" for the article on dalitstan.org. I've created an infobox for the article which is @ User:Hindustanilanguage/dlt/sandbox. Can you please help me in inserting the infobox as well as also include the logo in the infobox within the article after undeleting it? Hindustanilanguage (talk) 06:07, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Please note that non-free files are prohibited from use in the userspace in accordance with Wikipedia non-free content criterion #9. Sorry, FASTILY (TALK) 06:13, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily you did the right thing by deleting the image - but my point is - maybe because of censorship or something - I want to edit the dalitstan.org website article and I am unable to do it. Can you please help me? Hindustanilanguage (talk) 07:03, 12 December 2011 (UTC).
- What happens when you click this? -FASTILY (TALK) 07:21, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily you did the right thing by deleting the image - but my point is - maybe because of censorship or something - I want to edit the dalitstan.org website article and I am unable to do it. Can you please help me? Hindustanilanguage (talk) 07:03, 12 December 2011 (UTC).
- The browser is not responding at all. I tried this in Firefox, IE, Safari, Chrome, SeaMonkey, etc. I am able to edit other articles but not this one.
- I want to include the infobox that you find on my sandpaper page as well as the website logo image which you have deleted in the dalitstan.org website article.
- I've requested others such Mar4d and I am yet to receive a reply.
- Please help me Fastily. Regards, Hindustanilanguage (talk) 06:19, 13 December 2011 (UTC).
- In that case, make an edit request on the talk page of the article. Tell them everything you told me. Be sure to include the text
{{Edit protected}}somewhere in your request. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:22, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- In that case, make an edit request on the talk page of the article. Tell them everything you told me. Be sure to include the text
- Please help me Fastily. Regards, Hindustanilanguage (talk) 06:19, 13 December 2011 (UTC).
Hello Fastily,
Today I uploaded this image which is in all likelihood non-free. I've noticed that non-free image criteria are very strict, that most images get deleted, & that you're often the one who does so, so I wanted to ask if there's any extra information I need to provide for this one to justify fair use. The subject was an important politician in Croatia 1995-2006, indeed he's the highest-profile politician from recent Croatian history still without a portrait in the English Wikipedia. The reason being, and this is also why it's quite unlikely a free image is obtainable, since he left politics he's totally cut off his public exposure (this is noted & sourced on the description page). The other nine NFCC criteria also seem legit. Anyways, please let me know, thank you!
– Miranche T C 06:54, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- I had a look, and I'm afraid that this image is not acceptable for Wikipedia. Mr. Tomcic is still alive and in accordance with Wikipedia non-free content criterion #1, we cannot accept non-free photos of pictures of people who are still alive. Also, I find your claim that he is no longer in the public eye to be inconsistent with the subject's entry on Wikipedia which states, "As of 2011, Tomčić is the CEO of a successful construction company." Sorry, FASTILY (TALK) 00:32, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily, thank you for your response.
- As far as I understand, NFCC1 makes provisions for photos of living people if they are difficult to obtain, as noted in {{AutoReplaceable fair use people}}. "He is no longer in the public eye" is not "my claim" but a report I took from a magazine who tried to interview the subject, the relevant part of which I translated in detail on the image description page. To see for yourself, please check out the (bad) google translate of the article [79], or consult someone who speaks Croatian. The magazine article does include a photo of the subject, but it's clear it was taken without his consent.
- "As of 2011, Tomčić is the CEO of a successful construction company." -- I'm the one who added this sentence to the Wikipedia page, and sourced it with the very same article from which I took the clip that he is not in the public eye. I understand that these two parts of the report appear inconsistent, but a person who runs a company does not have to necessarily give public appearances. If you check out their web site [80], they are a small company of architecture professionals who design buildings and supervise construction -- nothing that requires public exposure.
- Thank you – Miranche T C 18:53, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Second source on Tomčić staying out of the public eye [81], (terrible) google translation [82]. There's an entire paragraph about him, here's the relevant bit, adapted from google translation into English.
Ever since he left politics Tomčić seems to have evaporated. He does not want to be in the media, does not want to publicly comment on political events, although journalists call him. "It's hard to switch off from everything. Sometimes it itches me to say something, but for now I am resisting," admits Tomčić.
- – Miranche T C 22:14, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Dear Fastily, you have deleted this file according to NFCC1 despite the fact that I presented, in good faith, what I believe is a reasonable case for its inclusion. As far as I can see, you have addressed the case by:
- calling the fact that the subject is outside the public eye as "my claim", and not responded by a single word to two independent sources I provided which attest this as a fact;
- prioritizing the two independent sources as less important than your own subjective impression that being a CEO of a successful company is inconsistent with avoiding public exposure;
- deleting the file without addressing my last communication by a single word.
- I will not, at this moment, dispute the deletion, as I realized you may be right about NFCC1 but for another reason. I would like to let you know, however, that I consider these three characteristics of your response a breach of Wikipedia etiquette. I suppose you disagree, so if you'd like to discuss it, I'm all ears. Have a nice day. – Miranche T C 03:39, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- As you've probably noticed, my talk page is long and moves very fast and as a result of that, I sometimes miss replies. For the record, I'm not deliberately ignoring you otherwise I wouldn't be replying. It's rather rude of you to assume that I've ignored your message by giving me a tiny 5 hour window to respond. Have patience, please! I deleted this file because Mr. Tomcic is still alive and because it is still possible to create a photo of him. Please note that exemptions to WP:NFCC#1 are almost never made. There have only been a miniscule number of cases where non-free photos of living persons were not deleted under WP:NFCC#1 or by the community, but even then, those are still deleted when a free equivalent is found. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:53, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily, thank you for your response.
- Fastily, thank you for your response. My assumption that you ignored the message came from the fact that in that "tiny" 5 hour window you deleted the image in question. I think it's reasonable to expect, if you have the time to delete the file, that you'd also have the time & the inclination to check if there are related messages, especially since I had already contacted you. This is why your action came off as rude as well. Anyways, I am trying to obtain a free image by other means and if I succeed this matter will be moot. I do, however, have a few comments on this experience.
- The statements on the tag {{AutoReplaceable fair use people}} to the effect that "Possible reasons for removing this tag include ..." and "If the image is determined to be replaceable...", sounded to me like there was room for discussion, so I put in a very real effort to present a reasonable case for inclusion. Only after I did so, and after my case has not, in my opinion, been addressed meaningfully at all, did I learn explicitly that "exemptions to WP:NFCC#1 are almost never made". It seems that this experience is not unique. As I was awaiting the fate of my own upload, I looked at other cases of non-free images and noticed that practically all outside of the readily admissible categories (screenshots, covers etc) were being deleted in accordance to NFCC#1, even when the uploading user made a proactive effort to explain why NFCC#1 was satisfied. The two that caught my eye were [83], a scan of a diagram from an obscure Romanian archaeology dig, and [84], a weird sports routine involving coal in Virginia. Both users presented reasons why a free equivalent was not available, and I think that one of them actually presented a rationale for every single point of WP:NFCC. No matter the merits of the two deletions, it did not look like the reasons the uploading users presented were meaningfully addressed. If this happens with any frequency at all, it seems to me very detrimental to the project.
- With this in mind, it would definitely be very helpful to make it clearer that efforts to present a case for inclusion of non-free content are almost certainly in vain, and that if one wants to make an effort, one should instead direct it toward obtaining a free equivalent. It would also be helpful to document some strategies on how to go about obtaining free equivalents. I elaborated a bit on this on my talk page & I may re-post it in an appropriate forum at a later time. Please feel free to comment.
- Finally, I would like to extend a polite request that you take the time to respond to people whose work you are deleting, especially if they attempt to communicate. That said, I realize that pruning Wikipedia of inappropriate content requires much effort and commitment, so I would also like to extend my respect and appreciation. Thank you. – Miranche T C 10:24, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- You seem like a decent editor and you've raised some fair points. I think I'm too involved with this situation now to make a fair judgement so I've requested a deletion review of the file at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 December 13#File:Zlatko Tomcic.png Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:49, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Finally, I would like to extend a polite request that you take the time to respond to people whose work you are deleting, especially if they attempt to communicate. That said, I realize that pruning Wikipedia of inappropriate content requires much effort and commitment, so I would also like to extend my respect and appreciation. Thank you. – Miranche T C 10:24, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Many thanks. – Miranche T C 05:59, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Jerusalem Prayer Team
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
- Adding signature for archiving. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:53, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Feedback on Deleted Page
Hi, you deleted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Prayer_Team the other day. I posted a response in my talk page (see Jerusalem Prayer Team section in this talk page). Do you have an update on this? Would appreciate one, please. Rjmains (talk) 12:47, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Info about creating a deleted page
Good Morning,
You deleted the page for the Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice (ACE)
I have edited some of the content and would like to re post. Does the content have to be reviewed before doing so?
Thank you
Jmgarza20 (talk) 15:44, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
You deleted this page as an expired PROD moments after I tagged it. Did you see a speedy rationale there or was there a mistake? Ryan Vesey Review me! 00:20, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
- How exactly did you tag the article? You filled the timestamp in as March 10, 2010. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:36, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
- When I look at this it shows that the time-stamp was Dec. 14. But I tagged it using Twinkle. Ryan Vesey Review me! 01:38, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
- Very strange. Something must be out of date. Try bypassing your cache. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:39, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
- Okay, I did that. Hopefully I don't encounter this problem in the future. Ryan Vesey Review me! 01:44, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
- Very strange. Something must be out of date. Try bypassing your cache. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:39, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
- When I look at this it shows that the time-stamp was Dec. 14. But I tagged it using Twinkle. Ryan Vesey Review me! 01:38, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Accusation of Vandalism
You accused me of vandalism very recently and I would just like to notify you that I am not attempting to vandalize nor do I believe that what I was doing vandalism. My created page Numbered Feathers is for a Pittsburgh area band that has become quite popular. At their request, I made a page for both them and their debut record. This was done in an attempt to expand their already large Pittsburgh fan base as well as generate awareness elsewhere. This page is solely for information purposes and I believe should be left up as it is not an act of vandalism or slander, but rather an attempt to further expand the information available at Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TOMER2500 (talk • contribs) 01:49, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
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The information is not a duplicate. Edit had been done for resubmission. Kindly advise how to proceed further.Thanks.
The information is not a duplicate. Edit had been done for resubmission. Kindly advise how to proceed further.Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Linuslow (talk • contribs) 05:58, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Kusunose reversed part of the move but didn't do it properly, he didn't move the disambiguation page, didn't fix the hatnote, etc. I had a good faith belief that the move would not be contested, the book is described as "seminal" (cited to two sources). Shouldn't he have taken it to WP:RM if he contested it rather than move war? Or at least have started a discussion on the talk page and wait for opinions before moving it? I would like to move it back as the situation is now broken, then have him (or somebody) start a requested move and present their arguments for evaluation of involved editors. We don't do everything here based on page hits; other factors, like being a cultural icon, are always taken into consideration, aren't they? Yworo (talk) 15:19, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
- You're right. Please consider listing the page at WP:RM. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:34, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Looks like Yworo has retired. Some IP adress was Wikihounding Yworo. Can't this be stopped? Maybe Yworo will come back if we block the IP address.Msruzicka (talk) 09:37, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Regarding the mass deletion of file talk pages for Commons images/media
Fastily, I'm actually considering doing a mass undeletion, as a lot of those talk pages were used for WikiProjects. And where they weren't, they sometimes contained relevant discussion. But that might get on your nerves so I'd like to ask your thoughts, because I don't want to step on anyone's toes. Magog the Ogre (talk) 17:02, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
- I'm well aware of that issue actually. I'm planning on writing a script to create a list of pages that need to be restored, and then mass restoring the items on the list. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to that yet, so feel free to start restoring; you definitely won't be stepping on my toes ;) Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 09:38, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- I'd second those reservations. I have a feeling that's a case where the deletions should be reviewed case by case, rather than mass-deleted with a script. I suspect that in most cases where they really should have been deleted under G8, an admin will have done so manually already, and a high proportion of the remaining talk pages referencing deleted pages contained important discussions. -Kieran (talk) 07:03, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Ha, that's actually what I was going to do: create a script so that I could open the undelete option with a single click. Magog the Ogre (talk) 14:40, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
regarding the deletion of: 04:39, 13 December 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Diving expertise" (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/advanced-scuba-discussions/404129-what-makes-someone-advanced-scuba-diver.html#post6141385)
While it is understandable that you would assume that this was an Unambiguous copyright infringement of the ScubaBoard website, the fact is that is my original work that I posted there for the purpose of another discussion and that I would like to have here on wiki to be able to link to from allied topics. Now, I am new here and am just coming to understand the ropes, is all I had to do to add a CC type tag to the file? I just figured out how to do that for photos.
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki4robert&me (talk • contribs) 00:36, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
O RLY? Image talk page deletion
One 12 December you deleted File talk:Orly.jpg (under G8: Page dependent on a deleted or nonexistent page). However, based on the Google cache of the page, it seems it contained a very important discussion of the legalities surrounding fair use on Wikipedia. G8 does specify that it "excludes any page that is useful to Wikipedia, and in particular deletion discussions that are not logged elsewhere", and I think this is the case here. And this is not just Wikipedia. A Google search for John White orly brings that page up as the second hit (this being how I found it). It's also worth noting the comment in the previous deletion logs that it is referenced in article talk pages, and deletion has broken those references.
As to what to do with it, I'm not too sure. It seems a new image has taken the place of the original now, so the disconnect is even worse. Perhaps the deleted file could be protected? It looks like the replacement is a candidate for speedy deletion itself. -Kieran (talk) 07:00, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not convinced that it's helpful but whatever you say >.> -FASTILY (TALK) 09:45, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Your help in editing an article
Thank you for the valuable help in editing the article on Dalitstan. You not only seem to be a good editor but also a good human being. Hindustanilanguage (talk) 09:15, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing. Glad to have been able to help. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 09:45, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
CopSSh
is there a method to see the deleted page (CopSSH), just to remember what I wrote that is identical to the external web site?--Efa (talk) 23:23, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- For legal reasons, no, I cannot return the deleted text to you. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:24, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
it can be impossible to learn from own errors if the only feedback is "you make a mistake"/delete. Stundents need explanations about what and where are the errors. I want to see the error to prevent another one identical--Efa (talk) 23:28, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- well, the CopSSH author release the web pages as Creative commons. I'm recreating the Wiki page identical as before deletion. Did you delete it again?--Efa (talk) 12:58, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- I just checked the CopSSH web page. It is under the "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License". I did not notice this when I tagged for speedy deletion so I may well have messed up here. If that licence is WP compatible then I have no objection to the article being restored. If any required attribution was missing then I guess that could be added. That said, the fact that the article was pretty much taken verbatim from the product's marketing material, which is what the website is, would probably make it deletable for other reasons. Maybe speedy wasn't the right way to go on this. Anyway, I just wanted to acknowledge that I may have made a mistake and say that I wasn't deliberately trying to use speedy deletion inappropriately. --DanielRigal (talk) 19:43, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Singapore Real Estate Exchange (SRX)
Hi Fastily, thank you for reviewing our article. Kindly enlighten me on the reasons for speedy deletion.
SRX is covered in all major media in Singapore on the 9th December and every statement in our current article is backed with inline citations to public sources.
Should there be any areas that we can amend, we would be glad to make the changes. Kindly advise specifically what we can do.
Many thanks Linus — Preceding unsigned comment added by Linuslow (talk • contribs) 10:15, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Constitution Party of Indiana
I see in the past you made Wiki pages for all the state parties but when I checked many of them including Indiana's page was deleted (even after I updated the content). Why did you delete them? Now I have no idea if I need to make a new page and how to do that or edit what you deleted or what? Can you remove yourself as the admin or make me the admin. This has become very complicated now.
Audrey — Preceding unsigned comment added by CPofIndiana (talk • contribs) 15:02, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
List of Hollyoaks characters (2011)
I noticed you declined List of Hollyoaks characters (2011) for page protection because there was not enough recent activity. It has been subjected to 8 edits from the sockpuppet - SPI said they cannot offer a range block because the 86/ range is too broad. So they said the best thing to do is request PP for articles the sock visits often. I requested PP because the sock had been editing the article again. Here is the clerk's instruction - [85] - Are there any other avenues to prevent this from happening?RaintheOne BAM 15:38, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, well in that case, Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:43, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thankyou Fastily, much appreciated.RaintheOne BAM 21:44, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Futurama character
Please restore this, it is not unused. Frietjes (talk) 18:35, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) It wasn't deleted for being unused. It was deleted as a hard coded version of {{infobox character}} under WP:CSD#Templates (T3. Duplication and hardcoded instances.) and had been tagged for the required 7 days. --GraemeL (talk) 18:45, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- But it was still in use in article-space, therefore it did not satisfy T3. Have to replace it with whatever someone thinks makes it redundant before nuking it as unused duplicate. That is, deleting it made a poor reader experience whereas keeping caused had no actual harm. Trouts all around--the tagger for wrongly claiming unused and the deleter for believing it. DMacks (talk) 23:13, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- Read WP:CSD#T3 carefully - Keyword "or". -FASTILY (TALK) 23:15, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- That criterion states as its prime definition "not employed in any useful fashion"? No matter how you spin the examples it then enumerates, it's clearly more useful to have it (because it was providing the infobox in at least one article) than to delete it (and have those mainspace uses become visible redlinks instead of infoboxes). Not sure why you would choose to focus on specific wording rather than reader experience... DMacks (talk) 23:24, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- The bottom line is that my deletion was within policy. If you don't plan on admitting your mistake, please drop the stick or start a DRV/TFD discussion and let the community decide its fate. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:35, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- which is exactly why we have the holding cell at TFD. we don't delete templates before they are orphaned. I thought I asked nicely, but apparently not. this is now a non-issue since Mindmatrix was nice enough to take care of the articles. Frietjes (talk) 23:33, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- I see no mistake but the point is indeed moot so no further action is needed. DMacks (talk) 01:40, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- That criterion states as its prime definition "not employed in any useful fashion"? No matter how you spin the examples it then enumerates, it's clearly more useful to have it (because it was providing the infobox in at least one article) than to delete it (and have those mainspace uses become visible redlinks instead of infoboxes). Not sure why you would choose to focus on specific wording rather than reader experience... DMacks (talk) 23:24, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- Read WP:CSD#T3 carefully - Keyword "or". -FASTILY (TALK) 23:15, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- But it was still in use in article-space, therefore it did not satisfy T3. Have to replace it with whatever someone thinks makes it redundant before nuking it as unused duplicate. That is, deleting it made a poor reader experience whereas keeping caused had no actual harm. Trouts all around--the tagger for wrongly claiming unused and the deleter for believing it. DMacks (talk) 23:13, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Template:Edmonton neighbourhoods
Hello. I thank you for deleting the unused template redirect Template:Edmonton neighborhoods, could you do the same for Template:Edmonton neighbourhoods (old) and Template:Edmonton's neighbourhoods. Thanks, 117Avenue (talk) 03:26, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Rangeblock collateral damage?
See User talk:2.24.108.0. Could you comment there if this is the intended recipient, or collateral damage? --Jayron32 03:34, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- If I remember correctly, I blocked the range because someone was hopping around on it. As for whether this is collateral damage or not, I cannot say; the IP hasn't made any contributions shortly before being caught in the rangeblock. Tat said, perhaps the block settings could be adjusted to allow account creation? -FASTILY (TALK) 04:20, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, if you could do that, and then respond to the IP above, that'd be great. --Jayron32 04:21, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done -FASTILY (TALK) 04:24, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- Dan K. Shane. --Jayron32 04:29, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- Epic edit summary :P Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 04:58, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- Dan K. Shane. --Jayron32 04:29, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
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Could you restore this image please, the person who nominated it to be deleted stated the reason for deletion was that it was not being used; the provided reason was erroneous because it was in fact it was being used in the Wendy's article. It was most likely an mistaken nomination by the contributor, as it should never have been nominated to be deleted because it had a proper non-free logo FUR and was being properly used inline with the appropriate guidelines. If I had been aware that the file for deletion nomination had been made, I would have contested it. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 07:23, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done -FASTILY (TALK) 07:57, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
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Yomiuri Giants logo deletion?
Um, why? You didn't respond to my comment at all and there was absolutely no discussion about it, so understanding the logic behind this deletion is literally impossible. Again, how is it different from almost an identical image in the San Francisco Giants article? --TorsodogTalk 07:49, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- On Commons now. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:52, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- Gotcha. Thank you for your fast response! --TorsodogTalk 07:54, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Why remove the "Move to Commons" when a file is nominated for deletion?
Like here? There is no rule saying that a file can not be moved to Commons just because someone nominates it for deletion? --MGA73 (talk) 19:45, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Indeed, there isn't. However, please consider why removing
{{Move to Commons}}tags from files nominated at WP:FFD would be a good idea. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:13, 12 December 2011 (UTC)- Users should not trust that a MTC-template means that the file can be moved to Commons so personally I do not think it is not a problem if there is a template on some files that could/should not be moved (file will be deleted after 7 days anyway if it is unfree or useless). If it was a problem then we should not have a bot add the template in the first place. --MGA73 (talk) 15:55, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- You're both right. Technically, there is no rule that says that when a file is placed at FfD it becomes ineligible for transfer. I've seen people move files to commons do dodge "no encyclopedic value" FfDs often. At the same time though, an FfD signals a concern, and it's a good idea on Fastily's part (and/or mine, I forget who added what in the blacklist that is the forefather of the one this task uses), to make sure we're extra careful when there is a concern.
- Ultimately, however, I see this as being largely moot. If the file is judged to be good, Fbot will put the tag back on next time the tagging task is run, so there's no real loss. I say leave it alone; with 100,000+ files waiting for transfer as it is, there's no reason not to remove the tags at an FfD. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:44, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- I could also say with 100,000+ files waiting for transfer then it is not a problem if there is a few files with a Fdd ;-) If a file is likely to be unfree (and therefore not eligible for Commons) the correct thing would be to add a Puf. A Ffd is for files that someone thinks is not usable. I think it is a natural part of the Ffd-process to evaluate if the file is usable for Commons. And if the bot removes the template it may send the signal that the file is NOT usable for Commons. I do not think that a bot should make that descision - users should. I think that is a good reason not to remove the mtc-template. If we are concerned that users will move "junk" or unfree files to Commons then we should perhaps make the mtc-template more informative asking users to check source, author, permission, derivative work, FOP etc. before they move. Or we could make avariant of the template with "|ffd=yes" and a text "File has been nominated for deletion. Please help check if... etc..." --MGA73 (talk) 17:33, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
- Just FYI: Fbot Task 4 has an editable blacklist (i.e. the bot will remove
{{Copy to Commons}}from files transcluding any of the listed files). -FASTILY (TALK) 21:55, 13 December 2011 (UTC)- Thank you. I'm thinking that perhaps I should just start a massive move of files to Commons. That would also solve the problem :-) --MGA73 (talk) 16:59, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) (edit conflict) There is a rule saying that the file cannot be moved to Commons if its licensing is in question, which is often the case at FFD. IMHO it's a judgment call, which is obviously difficult to make when it's a bot. Magog the Ogre (talk) 17:01, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
- In my opinion, it is practical if the list of "move to Commons" images contains as few images not eligible for Commons as possible because it makes it faster to read that list. When looking at those images, I would prefer if I only have to make two decisions: should I mark it as "puf" (or anything else), or should I move it to Commons? If the image already is marked as something, the decision on whether it is eligible or not is already being taken care of elsewhere. If found eligible, it will just be moved to Commons at some later point anyway, so there is no big loss. --Stefan2 (talk) 01:57, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- I still think that a puf is the correct tag for files with license problems and ffd is for files that is eligible to transfer to Commons but someone just thinks they are out of scope or not usable for any other reason.
- My worry is that when a file is nominated for deletion there is only 7 days to "rescue" it from deletion so that is why I think we should have as many as possible to look at it and decide if it is usefull enough for Commons. If only 10 files were nominated for deletion each day it would be "easy" but sometimes 50, 100 or 1.000 files are nominated for deletion which makes it harder to review them all.
- If someone is not comfortable with having files with a fdd (or any other deletion tag) in the mtc-category it would be possible to have the bot change the template so the files end up in a category for "Files with a free license but where it is not sure that the file should be moved to Commons". --MGA73 (talk) 11:21, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- In my opinion, it is practical if the list of "move to Commons" images contains as few images not eligible for Commons as possible because it makes it faster to read that list. When looking at those images, I would prefer if I only have to make two decisions: should I mark it as "puf" (or anything else), or should I move it to Commons? If the image already is marked as something, the decision on whether it is eligible or not is already being taken care of elsewhere. If found eligible, it will just be moved to Commons at some later point anyway, so there is no big loss. --Stefan2 (talk) 01:57, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) (edit conflict) There is a rule saying that the file cannot be moved to Commons if its licensing is in question, which is often the case at FFD. IMHO it's a judgment call, which is obviously difficult to make when it's a bot. Magog the Ogre (talk) 17:01, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you. I'm thinking that perhaps I should just start a massive move of files to Commons. That would also solve the problem :-) --MGA73 (talk) 16:59, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
- Users should not trust that a MTC-template means that the file can be moved to Commons so personally I do not think it is not a problem if there is a template on some files that could/should not be moved (file will be deleted after 7 days anyway if it is unfree or useless). If it was a problem then we should not have a bot add the template in the first place. --MGA73 (talk) 15:55, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for the deletions. :) 217.91.113.188 (talk) 11:03, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:15, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Help
Where do I upload non-free images which would quailify under use rationale?, I used to do it at Commons but I see now that it's not longer allowed. Where to upload them? Nienk (talk) 20:17, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion review
Hi - could you have another look at File:Zoe8.jpg, which you closed as delete at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2011 November 15. The uploader is claiming that the CC-BY-SA tag on the source is genuine, as it's the film-maker's own website. See discussion at User talk:Underbelly02. Thanks. An optimist on the run! 21:27, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- I've left a comment at the user's talk page. There's no way for us to know if the user is telling the truth or not, so I've instructed them to email OTRS. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:20, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
File:Scarletoneil1643.jpg
After reduction, this comic strip was no longer legible, so I have reverted. Pepso2 (talk) 22:55, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Speed demon
Thanks for the quick redirect deletions. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 00:23, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing! Best, FASTILY (TALK) 00:56, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
You-know-who
Next time, no talk page access from the start, please.Jasper Deng (talk) 01:36, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- User(s) re-blocked with talk page editing disallowed. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:38, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
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Finney Ross
{{Help me}}
I was told if I could site references to Ross's importance to the Rodeo Cowboy Association, that a reversal of the deletion would be considered.
I noted all the references needed.
Please restore the page.
I also would like to talk to someone high up in the ranks of Wikipedia on how I have been treated on this subject. Apparently there are a few of your volunteers who get a kick out of people with a disability.
Thank you. Vintagedirtbiker (talk) 04:43, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Someone's complaining about a speedy deletion you did on a real world location.—Ryulong (竜龙) 06:54, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Got it, thanks for the note. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 06:57, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
As a side issue, could you look into Pissedoffdude (talk · contribs)? The fact that his first edit was category creation strikes me as odd.—Ryulong (竜龙) 07:12, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Hm, that is suspicious indeed. I'll keep an eye on them. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:59, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
File:Clostridium tetani bacteria.jpg
I requested assistance to determine whether this file has an okay copyright status. A bot then appeared and said the image was about to be deleted, and told me to respond on the talk page. So I did respond there. The image was then summarily deleted with no further process. According to Errant, you deleted the file. Would you please let me know how this works, so it will be less confusing in the future, and whether that particular image is in fact a lost cause. --Epipelagic (talk) 07:51, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#F4 -FASTILY (TALK) 08:59, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- So how did that happen, given that a formal request for assistance, with a relevant supporting link, and followed up with a talk page appeal, had been made? --Epipelagic (talk) 10:15, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Did you view the link above? You failed to specify a license tag for the image at upload. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:10, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- So how did that happen, given that a formal request for assistance, with a relevant supporting link, and followed up with a talk page appeal, had been made? --Epipelagic (talk) 10:15, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Chengdu uses {{Chengdu}}, which you just deleted... It's some navbox I'd edited. Alarbus (talk) 09:24, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- The template was nominated for deletion on the basis that it had been superseded by Template:Sichuan. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:58, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
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| For all your work to get the files moved to Commons I think you deserve this barnstar. If only we had a few more users like you that worked so hard on getting the job done it could work! MGA73 (talk) 11:30, 17 December 2011 (UTC) |
I have asked you a few times "Why this?" and "Why that?" but I think that I newer told you that I think that I appreciate all your afford trying to get files moved to Commons. Reading the discussion and your reply above again I thought that perhaps you got the impression that I did not like your work. Sorry if you thought that. I was just eager to get the tasks tuned up a bit. So PLEASE DO CONTINUE YOUR WORK!!! :-) --MGA73 (talk) 11:30, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Aw shucks :) I really appreciate it. Though for the record I never really felt you didn't like my work. All the same, thanks for the barnstar! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 20:59, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Help
Could you please delete this redirect? X.One SOS 11:46, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done -FASTILY (TALK) 21:01, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot. :) X.One SOS 11:13, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Your deletion of FileServe under G11 was inappropriate. FileServe is among the top online file hosting service with an alexa rank of ~140. The stub article's contents were 2 sentences: "FileServe is an online file hosting service. Fileserve, together with another file hosting service site Megaupload, have terminated their services for Hong Kong by blocking IP addresses from accessing their websites and files." Such a stub on a popular site hardly constitutes "Unambiguous advertising or promotion." Please restore the article.Smallman12q (talk) 11:55, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) The deletion seems to have been in process. The article gave no indication that the site met any of the criteria in WP:WEB. Alexa rank alone is not a sufficient claim to notability. If you want a restored version moved to your user space where you can work on it to supply sources to establish its notability, drop me a note on my talk page. --GraemeL (talk) 14:33, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- A userfied version would be fine. I'll expand with sourced content and move it back to main space. I contest the article's deletion under G11...which is explicitly for spam/advertising articles...which this article was not. Had this gone to AFD for allegedly failing WP:WEB...sources could easily be found to establish its notability. Articles covering notable subjects in a neutral way, but lacking in content, should not be deleted in this manner.(...doing so does not allow for them to be expanded.)Smallman12q (talk) 18:30, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- I don't necessarily disagree with you. Personally, I would probably have suggested that the nominator take it to prod or AFD, but on the other hand, I don't think Fastily violated any policy by deleting it. Off to do the userfy. --GraemeL (talk) 18:38, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- A userfied version would be fine. I'll expand with sourced content and move it back to main space. I contest the article's deletion under G11...which is explicitly for spam/advertising articles...which this article was not. Had this gone to AFD for allegedly failing WP:WEB...sources could easily be found to establish its notability. Articles covering notable subjects in a neutral way, but lacking in content, should not be deleted in this manner.(...doing so does not allow for them to be expanded.)Smallman12q (talk) 18:30, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
File:Craigecarchivesmoors.jpg
I commented somewhere before about reduction of this image. It is not there to depict narrative or illustrative content. Since the purpose of the image is to show an extremely close detailing of tonal effects in the digital recoloring of a vintage comic book page, it should not be reduced. Pepso2 (talk) 13:45, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- I made a reduction in an effort to retain the aspects noted above. Pepso2 (talk) 07:48, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
GASCO and Bahrain Petroleum Company
Hi, Fastily. You deleted GASCO and Bahrain Petroleum Company pages due to copyright infringement. In case of GASCO, there was a short stub which was problem-free. However, during last week, a newly created SPA added several times copyrighted information from the page you referred. Although I reverted these edits, it may be that he/she re–added this information to the version you deleted. In case of Bahrain Petroleum Company, I can't remember of any current activities. However, I would like to ask if you could restore these two pages as subpages of my user page, so I can remove copyrighted information an bring these articles in line with wiki standards. Thank you. Beagel (talk) 14:29, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:USERFY#What_cannot_be_userfied. First and foremost, I cannot userfy pages that have been deleted as copyright violations. I also had a look at the deleted page histories, and they're inconsistent with your description of what happened. GASCO and Bahrain Petroleum Company were not a stubs as you say, and the vast majority of both pages' content has not changed for months. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:08, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
The pages that have this tempate currently have five separate navigation templates that all contain the same information, duplicated between those five templates. "Many transclusions" is not a failure to meet the speedy deletion criteria, but duplication of function is such a criterion. WP:TFD says of candidates that meet the speedy deletion criteria that they should not be listed at that page. So, since it meets the speedy deletion criteria, and therefore should not be listed at WP:TFD, why are you recommending that instead?
There have been numerous discussions to reduce the number of navigational templates, with no proponents for keeping this template. These discussions have drug on for more than a year, and the template meets the speedy deletion criteria. Why drag this out even longer? --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:15, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
User:Oldus66
Thanks. I don't think that's the last we'll see of this user. That being said, I'll keep an eye out for socks. –Fredddie™ 20:55, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing. If you do happen to find any socks, just report them here. It'll probably be faster than WP:SPI :P -FASTILY (TALK) 21:17, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Discussion is different. Category:Fictional universes
The discussion is still going. [86] The fact a somewhat unrelated category existed four years ago and got deleted, has no bearing on the current debate. Dream Focus 22:40, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Restored so the debate can continue. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:41, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Lady Alexandra
THE PAGE I WAS MAKING IS NOT A HOAX AND ITS NOT BLATENT! I HAVE MET ALEXANDRA HER FATHER IS RELATED TO THE WINDSOR AND BORBON FAMILY AND OWNS LAND IN BOTH ENGLAND AND SPAIN MAKING HIM A LORD, HE HAS PUT SOME OIF HIS LAND IN ALEXANDRAS NAME SO THEREFORE SHE IS ALSO A LADY! LOOK FOR THE ADIDAS MODELLING CAMPAGIN SHE WAS IN! IT WAS IN THE SHOPS IN 2008! THERE IS NO WAY THIS IS A FAKE OR A HOAX SO PLEASE STOP DELETING IT! I WILL PROVE ITS REAL ONCE I FIND THE ARTICALS WITH HER NAME IN THEM BUT I CAN NOT FIND THEM YET!!!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by RoyalApple (talk • contribs) 23:12, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Request for Confirmation page
You may want to check this again.—cyberpower (X-Mas Chat)(Contrib.) 23:21, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Hey man, there's no need to slash out my comments... -FASTILY (TALK) 23:34, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry. I only did it because the information presented was incorrect and that removing it seemed inappropriate.—cyberpower (X-Mas Chat)(Contrib.) 23:37, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Next time, please consider placing a note below the erroneous message instead of wholesale slashing or removing comments, which is rather rude :P -FASTILY (TALK) 23:40, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Again, sorry. :(—cyberpower (X-Mas Chat)(Contrib.) 23:44, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- It's chill, no worries. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 23:45, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Again, sorry. :(—cyberpower (X-Mas Chat)(Contrib.) 23:44, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Next time, please consider placing a note below the erroneous message instead of wholesale slashing or removing comments, which is rather rude :P -FASTILY (TALK) 23:40, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry. I only did it because the information presented was incorrect and that removing it seemed inappropriate.—cyberpower (X-Mas Chat)(Contrib.) 23:37, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
File:Lstarrannie.jpg
Now illegible because of reduction. Pepso2 (talk) 01:25, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Fbot removing tags
I don't know if this is a bug or intended, but if admins delete the old revisions outside of alphabetical order, the tags aren't being removed from the ones at the end. — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 02:37, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- They are...or will be within a few hours; even though it isn't making any edits, the bot is still running. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:05, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Admin's Barnstar |
| This is for your work in WP:CSD and WP:RFPP backlogs, among other things. Your help is greatly appreciated. -- Luke (Talk) 03:53, 18 December 2011 (UTC) |
- Aw thanks :) I really appreciate it! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 04:04, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Can you restore Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mongols ? The page Wikipedia:WikiProject Mongols exists, and there was a lively discussion going on about the functionality of that WikiProject at the time it was deleted. 76.65.128.198 (talk) 06:21, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- Also, please restore the redirects to that talk page, since the page has been moved about many times in recent days, so people tracking it through various redirects will also be lost. 76.65.128.198 (talk) 06:25, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- Whoops. Restored -FASTILY (TALK) 06:41, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- Whoops.
Two reasons for contact: 1) deleted article and 2) need help to understand WP templates
1) The deleted article is "International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium". Many WP pages about "certifications" mention it. I've done as much as anyone can to research the company -- the trouble is, there aren't many pages that talk about *who* they are. The one thing I've found what seems to be a beginning, are web pages from a State of Florida website. The site is what a company uses in that state, for business filings.
The reason the article seems important, are several. In the U.S. it seems to be one credential that a candidate is sought my hiring managers, for information security. The Department of Defense and DHS departments require active military and civilian employees to have it, if they are hired for management positions in IT.
How do I go about reading the deleted content, or creating a new one?
2) I've dabbled with WP editing since 2004, using different User names. (Paranoia about how to deal with privacy and general website security). As I was about to create the article just mentioned I found it had been created, then deleted. By following links from it I determined the need to contact you and to find out what "G8" is, so I did. But I decided to ask you about templates too, when I saw you are an admin. When I read about using a template I must get caught in some sort off recursion type of loop, trying to discern *what* a template is from how to use them. (Search results don't seem perspicuous). An example, of where I've had trouble, is marking an article for deletion. If explaining the mechanics interests you, please do.
Since I don't regularly log-in, I'd appreciate being notified using WP email. Actually, I don't know if it works... Guess I'll make a note that I need to return post-haste. Kernel.package (talk) 01:29, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- I did see this note (User:Fastily/E#G11). Based on the words and grammar used it seems to be written for an author whose work was deleted. I'm guessing it could also have been written for everyone and that non-authors like me are just supposed to know what the author of the note means. But I don't -- so don't know if what I wrote wasn't clear or you've answered hastily (sorry - no pun intended). I'll do my best to follow clear direction but don't believe I should assume I "know", otherwise. Respectfully, please specify your intent. Kernel.package (talk) 05:28, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, well in that case, please feel free to recreate the article, you don't need my permission to do so. The original page was at (ISC)². International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium was a redirect to (ISC)² and was deleted as a result of the latter page's deletion. Also, if you're looking for information on templates, see Help:Template; I agree with you, it can be hard to find technical information concerning site features and processes sometimes. Hope that helps. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:06, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- I did see this note (User:Fastily/E#G11). Based on the words and grammar used it seems to be written for an author whose work was deleted. I'm guessing it could also have been written for everyone and that non-authors like me are just supposed to know what the author of the note means. But I don't -- so don't know if what I wrote wasn't clear or you've answered hastily (sorry - no pun intended). I'll do my best to follow clear direction but don't believe I should assume I "know", otherwise. Respectfully, please specify your intent. Kernel.package (talk) 05:28, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
The Blue Symphony
Hi There,
we are trying to make a Page for The Blue Symphony Art works:
here are some links about Blue Symphony Art works and world Peace Tour, and yesterday just 5 min. after making that page, page was deleted : ) without allowing us to upload links
http://gulfnews.com/arts-entertainment/2.313/spiritual-art-with-a-purpose-1.40622
http://www.fijisun.com.fj/main_page/view.asp?id=40813
http://www.youtube.com/user/THEBLUEFOUNDATION
could you pls. advise how we have to go further to build up the page?
Blue Symphony and world peace by that is now a fact, and we want to upload it according wiki Standards
Hope to hear from you soon
Best Regards,
Olga — Preceding unsigned comment added by Almamir (talk • contribs) 08:08, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
"Desert near Palm Springs"
In my poorly titled UCXRGV6DB54TF2G8JXEVEUN862122GD7MRK.jpg upload, the image came from the California State Library. When the upload was tagged, I forwarded 2 emails (to QTRS) from the State Librarian saying that the images were public domain (in that they were created before 1923). The only thing the Library wanted was a "courtesy State Library" statement as part of the image usage. Consequently, I'm at a loss on how to get the image onto the Commons with the permission that the Library supplied. (I do understand, now, how to properly title an image upload.) So I've got two questions: 1. Were the forwarded emails considered? (If not, I'll try another upload.) and 2. If they were considered, what more do I need to get the image onto the Commons? Thanks so very much. (I'll watch this page for your answer.) --S. Rich (talk) 17:33, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- Upload the files to Commons, because they're freely licensed, and send another email to our OTRS team. Be sure to have followed the instructions at WP:PERMISSION, otherwise, your email may be ignored/declined/ect. Once you've done that, let me know and I'll go personally dig for it in the system. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:10, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you! (It'll be a day or two before I get back to that particular effort, but I'll keep you informed.) --S. Rich (talk) 20:47, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Oneska
Please don't call this a "Hoax" as at the very beginning it clearly says "It's just for fun!" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darrenaw16 (talk • contribs) 20:45, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Continued deletion of Silent Life article
Hello, you deleted the article about silent film Silent Life. The notability of the article was established. May I ask you what is the next problem with it? Why you are deleting it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.98.183.2 (talk) 21:05, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- Work on it here to ensure that it meets site standards before moving it to the mainspace -FASTILY (TALK) 21:07, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
deleated image
i am in the process of creating a page for my school club. I am taking a wikipedia class at my college and the final is to create a page. while in the process of creating the page i uploaded two images i created with my friend on our computer. you deleted these images. if you can please guide me to the correct way of uploading and sourcing these images it would be great. i am trying to learn more about wikipedia and become a useful contributor. the project is due today so if you can please let me know as soon as possible it would be much appreciated. thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agreg32 (talk • contribs) 00:35, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)The images were deleted because they violated a policy of some sort or not information was given to justify copyright and licensing of the images in question. You may want to consider re-uploading them and giving as much detail as possible so as to avoid a second deletion. Here's a tip for you as a Wikipedia editor. When talking to other editors via their talk page or article discussion pages, you should always sign using ~~~~.—cyberpower (X-Mas Chat)(Contrib.) 01:47, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
MVB Records
They went and recreated it *again*... looks just like the prior versions... MikeWazowski (talk) 02:04, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Warned user. If they do it again, I'll indef them. -FASTILY (TALK) 02:09, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
Hey there Fastily, thank you for your contributions! I am a bot, alerting you that non-free files are not allowed in user or talk space. I removed some files I found on User:Fastily/TMI.
- See a log of files removed today here.
- Shut off the bot here.
- Report errors here.
- If you have any questions, place a {{helpme}} template, along with your question, beneath this message.
Thank you, -- DASHBot (talk) 05:03, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Re:Smarter moving to commons
I asked for "list of 1000 images" unfortunately there are also ogg. Is it possible to fix it during next update? Bulwersator (talk) 18:02, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not convinced that's a problem; Ogg files are just as suitable for commons as any other image. Also, because of the way I wrote the bot for this task, I'd have to rewrite most of the code, which I'm not terribly keen on doing. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:15, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
- I moved about 2.000 files in the lates few days. I work on "own work" for one user at a time and copy to User:MGA73/mtc and scan for copyvios and useless files. I agree that ogg files are suitable for Commons but they are harder to check because you can't tell just by looking at the file in a gallery if it is a copyvio (for example music) or not (spoken article or a pronounce file). But the ogg files are easy to remove from the list :-) --MGA73 (talk) 20:11, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- >.> Okay then. I'll remove them for the next run. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:13, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps it would be possible to do "a raid" on the ogg-files. I was thinking that Category:Spoken articles and {{pronunciation}} files would be a target. If they are in use they should be ok. --MGA73 (talk) 22:19, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- Let's do it. I'll also create a list of the ogg/ogv files flagged for transfer to commons; I'll get around to that in a few hours or so. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:22, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Cool :-) --MGA73 (talk) 22:31, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- The bot is running right now, it'll just be a few minutes before this turns blue, if it hasn't already: User:Fastily/COGG :D -FASTILY (TALK) 22:47, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Cool :-) --MGA73 (talk) 22:31, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Let's do it. I'll also create a list of the ogg/ogv files flagged for transfer to commons; I'll get around to that in a few hours or so. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:22, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps it would be possible to do "a raid" on the ogg-files. I was thinking that Category:Spoken articles and {{pronunciation}} files would be a target. If they are in use they should be ok. --MGA73 (talk) 22:19, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- >.> Okay then. I'll remove them for the next run. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:13, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- I moved about 2.000 files in the lates few days. I work on "own work" for one user at a time and copy to User:MGA73/mtc and scan for copyvios and useless files. I agree that ogg files are suitable for Commons but they are harder to check because you can't tell just by looking at the file in a gallery if it is a copyvio (for example music) or not (spoken article or a pronounce file). But the ogg files are easy to remove from the list :-) --MGA73 (talk) 20:11, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for generating this list! Is it possible to (in future, there are hundreds of files left) generate similar list, but only for images from category Category:Astronomy images? Bulwersator (talk) 15:42, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- I can do that, but I'll need a day or so. I'm busy in RL. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:38, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- I can wait, current list alone is enough for month or more Bulwersator (talk) 16:01, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Adele (1906)
Re your deletion of Adele (1906), I'd like to restore the redirect, as the deletion has broken the link from an AfD discussion and an entry at WP:SDYK amongst others. Would you please undelete the redirect? Mjroots (talk) 06:51, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 09:58, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Many thanks. Mjroots (talk) 14:03, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- Many thanks.
Page not moved
I nominated this article for deletion and its been 8 days since the last post. A consensus has been reached to redirect it as well. Please do the needful. Thanks. X.One SOS 11:50, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Already done Someone already did it. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:23, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Protection of Melanie Phillips
Hi Fastily. Please would you consider unlocking Melanie Phillips? Editors are already engaged in discussion of the article, both at the talkpage and at BLP/Noticeboard, there have been no breaches of WP:3RR and nobody has asked any of the editors involved in recent reversions to disengage; there was no need to as they had already done that on their own. The last few edits were not related to the contested material at all so there was no escalating situation that protection might control and anticipating problems when this long running dispute has continued quite collaboratively appears to be taking a very significant step without an obvious benefit. Exok (talk) 11:55, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fair enough, Unprotected, but if edit-warring starts up again, I'll have to reprotect. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:23, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you very much, that's brilliant. Exok (talk) 20:26, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Can you help correct my mistake?
My eyes deceived me so I thought that an IP removed the template from File:Women and children on the march Six-Day War.jpg. The IP had actually added the template initially so I removed it in undoing the edit from the IP. Is there any way to reset the date stamp? Ryan Vesey Review me! 15:58, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, there is: {{subst:orfud}}. It will automatically create an instance of, and add a timestamp to a
{{di-orphaned fair use}}. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:26, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion review for Sierra McCormick
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Sierra McCormick. 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. The-Pope (talk) 16:23, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
beep beep!
I said to someone yesterday that you edit like the RoadRunner - you need to slow down a bit. You deleted File:Mentyvamenvocal.ogg (apparently it's someone singing the national anthem of Tuva) without noticing that an IP had tagged it ffd for no apparent reason - the file already being properly tagged for moving to Commons.[87] No worries, I put it back. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 19:17, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Facepalm Well this is embarrassing... I've just moved the file to Commons. Thanks for letting me know! Best, FASTILY (TALK) 20:27, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I see you blocked GeorgianJorjadze for disruptive editing at Georgia (country). I just wanted to be sure you had noticed that this user did finally start participating at that article's talk page (see here). — Richwales (talk) 20:40, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Well, in that case, to unblock or not to unblock? -FASTILY (TALK) 20:43, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- I think I would unblock him now, but with a stern warning that he needs to continue engaging in discussion on the talk page or he'll probably have to be blocked again. Note, too, that he's already reached the 3RR limit on this particular article, so he needs to slow down and concentrate for the time being on discussing rather than editing/reverting. FWIW, I was on the verge of blocking him myself, but decided not to after seeing that he had participated on the article's talk page (you blocked him just as I was finishing my comments on his talk page). I would say his talk page participation shows a reasonable likelihood that he got the point, so a further block (especially an indefinite block) doesn't seem IMO to accomplish anything useful, and we should probably give him the benefit of the doubt for the moment. — Richwales (talk) 21:13, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fair enough, user unblocked. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:18, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- I think I would unblock him now, but with a stern warning that he needs to continue engaging in discussion on the talk page or he'll probably have to be blocked again. Note, too, that he's already reached the 3RR limit on this particular article, so he needs to slow down and concentrate for the time being on discussing rather than editing/reverting. FWIW, I was on the verge of blocking him myself, but decided not to after seeing that he had participated on the article's talk page (you blocked him just as I was finishing my comments on his talk page). I would say his talk page participation shows a reasonable likelihood that he got the point, so a further block (especially an indefinite block) doesn't seem IMO to accomplish anything useful, and we should probably give him the benefit of the doubt for the moment. — Richwales (talk) 21:13, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Protection suggested for Kim Jong-Il's titles
Hello, I noticed that due to the recent death of Kim Jong-Il, the page with his titles has started to be vandalized. If you look at the history, you can see that there have been 5 or so vandalisms in just one day. I suggest this page is protected before the amount of vandalism starts scaling up. I have never nominated a page for protection, and I read that it's better to first talk to you, if I'm correct. Cancerbero 8 (talk) 21:06, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Already protected. by Boing! said Zebedee -FASTILY (TALK) 21:20, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm trying to userfy RARE Project so the creator can take a copy - can you please give me a moment to move it without deleting it? -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 21:08, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Restored. Sorry about that. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:09, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- NP, thanks - it's deleted again now -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 21:14, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Re: GASCO and Bahrain Petroleum Company
My mistake, I just for some reasons confused GASCO and Dana Gas, and what I said applies actually to Dana Gas. As I don't have the privilege to see the history of deleted pages, it was quite natural mistake. However, do you say that both deleted articles included copyrighted material starting from the first edit? If no restorable versions exist, could you please at least copy for me infoboxes, categories, see also and external links etc sections just to save some time when I will rewrite these articles? Beagel (talk) 21:21, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure, requested text is appended below. Click here to view it. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:26, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Just wondering...
About this PUF. Since when does the nominator have to prove that a file is NOT free? Is it not the uploader that needs to prove that it IS free?
As I see it the discussion on WP:BLP is only about privacy issues and not about copyright. So as I see it we have now decided that it is ok to keep copyvios. --MGA73 (talk) 22:30, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fair enough, I've reopened the discussion. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 22:36, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you. I commented. Discussing at Commons would perhaps be a good idea. But it could take long time before someone that knows about Indian law comment. --MGA73 (talk) 22:58, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks
Thank you for dealing with so many of my speedy requests - you're username rather jumps out of my watchlist. You're doing a sterling job dealing with speedy requests. Dpmuk (talk) 22:38, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing, happy to have been able to help :) Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 22:48, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
How much is enough
I'm not objecting to your decision not to protect the Karrine Steffans article. I make it my rule to almost never question admin decisions. I put up the request after I counted a dozen cases of ISP vandalism in the last 30 days. What is the approximate threshold for "enough recent disruptive activity [by ISPs]"? It's an honest question. Cheers. -The Gnome (talk) 23:20, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- When semi-protecting articles, I personally look to see if there has been a substantial amount of disruption in the past few days, to the extent where editing the article would be difficult, or even impossible. While there has been periodic vandalism at Karrine Steffans, I do not believe that it is severe enough to warrant protection. Bear in mind that Wikipedia is something that anyone should be able to edit; constructive anonymous contributors are welcomed, while random, drive-by vandals are surgically dealt with at WP:AIV. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:43, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the response, although I still do not know when a hill becomes a mountain! ;-) About your reference to Wikipedia's openness: I know, understand and support the concept. Nonetheless, there is a difference between eponymous and anonymous: For the productive contributions of eponymous and ISP editors I have equal gratitude. But, in general, I view vandalism differently, according to which group it comes from. Vandalism from ISPs indicates something altogether qualitatively different from vandalism from eponymous editors; in the latter case, there's a higher probability that the vandalism might actually be a disagreement that has merit. -The Gnome (talk) 10:35, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Closing a PUF discussion
I must be thick, because I can't seem to find instructions on how to close a PUF discussion. I would like to close this discussion but I don't want to mess anything up. Any help you can render would be appreciated. Protonk (talk) 23:22, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Someone else helped me out, disregard this message. Well, not this message, but the above message. :) Protonk (talk) 00:14, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Please restore this as I contested its deletion. Thank you.85.211.124.97 (talk) 00:13, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
A request
Fastily, thank you for deleting my user page. I have a subpage in my user space. I request that it be deleted also. Thank you. UserVOBO (talk) 01:24, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
request
Was One Of The Boys (Katy Perry album) vandalism? The creator is contesting this... I'm not saying she isn't trolling, but could you recreate it in my userspace, I'd like to look into this one way or the other, thanks. Herostratus (talk) 06:21, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- Completely. The text of the article consisted of "ggggggggggggg" when I deleted it :P -FASTILY (TALK) 08:13, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- Ooooh, that's different. Sorry to have bothered you then. I'll speak to the creator. It is rather odd because the creator has mixed in some good-faith edits with stuff like this in the past. Maybe she was intending to write proper text in the article later, don't know. Herostratus (talk) 14:46, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Corona del Mar High School
Could you please take a look again at my protection request on Corona del Mar High School? Your response said to take the issue to AIV if it persists...but none of the edits (even those I think are blatantly POV pushing) aren't vandalism. Two users have been throwing that term around, but I've already warned one of them it's inappropriate. If I report to 3rrnb, it will end up with two or three users blocked, possibly even including myself (I think I barely crossed 3rr at one point). Since the report, the edit waring has continued, with a new IP (most likely a copy of the original IP) has joined in the fun. Qwyrxian (talk) 21:22, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Hope that helps. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:28, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi! Just a heads-up in case you are interested; recently you semi-protected Corona del Mar High School because of persistent vandalism by an IP user. He just opened a case at the NPOV noticeboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard#Corona_del_Mar_High_School_-_Controversies_section --Guy Macon (talk) 23:01, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- I"m sure you mean well but I thought you might benefit from my posting on the NPOV notice board:
- The Controversies section in this article is entirely devoted to a single, amicably settled ACLU lawsuit that was brought against the school in relation to a student production of the Broadway musical, Rent The ACLU alleged the school fostered an atmosphere of intolerance to homosexuals by first cancelling then reinstating the production, and by failing to sufficiently discipline three football players who posted an online video threatening the student lead actress. Cited newspaper sources report the diametrically opposed positions of the school and the ACLU on the merits of the case. The NYT-sourced position asserted by school was that it had in fact taken steps to foster tolerance, and had been recognized by the ADL for its efforts to that effect. NPOV requires the article to include the school's positon that it had taken steps to foster tolerance. Two other editors are willing to include this language. Persistent edit warrior Guy Macon, however, is claiming a nonexistent "consensus" to exclude such a reference to sourced material.174.254.81.53 (talk) 21:05, 19 December 2011 (UTC).
- I ask that you take this into consideration and reconsider blocking this article in this manner.174.254.81.53 (talk) 23:29, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Please leave the protection on. It solved a major disruption problem and the article is progressing nicely. Good call. --Guy Macon (talk) 20:26, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- Quite remarkable how you can misrepresent facts. In truth, you've successfully managed to keep the article in mothballs. Not good for WP to get a reputation of protecting bias.68.4.61.51 (talk) 04:10, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Please leave the protection on. It solved a major disruption problem and the article is progressing nicely. Good call. --Guy Macon (talk) 20:26, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
History merge
Hey, can you merge the histories of P-19 cells with User talk:Juitunl? Thanks! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 23:03, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- Why is the draft being developed on the user's talk page? -FASTILY (TALK) 00:36, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- They apparently copy and pasted it, instead of a move. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:42, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Uncited Material
Do you have a reference for the novel material you entered into the description of TheTopperman.jpg? Specifically, do you have a reliable source that says the mural was painted over because the school administration determined it was not consistent with "diversity"? This is a pretty explosive claim and needs to be justified. Greg Comlish (talk) 23:59, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- I simply re-arranged the information in this revision into a more readable format. That said, I cannot vouch for the authenticity of the description/copyright status/ect. A good place to challenge that would be at WP:FFD. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:46, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, it looks like some anon IP added that info last September. I will revert. Greg Comlish (talk) 19:17, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Patriotic leagues
Could you restore the article Patriotic leagues so that we can have a discussion weather this article is nessesary or not? Contrary to what you have stated the article is not aimed to dupplicate the Argentine Patriotic League but to have a common large-scope article about both the Chilean and Argentine patriotic leagues that have actually much in common. I actually contested that speedy deletion proposal on talk page of the article and was expecting some sort of discussion. Chiton magnificus (talk) 09:36, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- I nominated it because there was an individual article about the Argentine Patriotic league. I thought that instead of combining the two, an article be made about the Chilean one. Without researching, I would think that they would have different history, leaders, and notable events, among other things. Ramaksoud2000 (talk) 15:35, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of Highly accelerated stress screening
Yesterday I came across Highly accelerated stress screening; it seemed a bit fishy to me so I googled some of the text and came across a website[88] that much/all of the text was unambiguously copy/pasted from. I tagged it for speedy deletion, which I thought was the appropriate thing to do. Before it was deleted though, I looked at the history of the page and saw a diff where it seemed like an editor had replaced much/all of the content with the copied text, erasing the previous, possibly legitimate text. I should have checked the history prior to speedy tagging, my mistake. Slashme, a contributor to the article, alerted me of my mistake. Could you look at the deleted page and see if a previous revision is NOT a copy/paste of qualmark's website? Apologies, and I will be more careful with speedy tagging in the future. Thanks! —danhash (talk) 14:19, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- Well, here's what appears to be the last clean version. Does this seem right? Click here to view it -FASTILY (TALK) 20:31, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- That looks correct to me; not a copy/paste from what I can tell. —danhash (talk) 21:11, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Recreation of the Bourne Society page in User Space
You deleted my page because of copyright infringement.
I understand why this was done but since I wish to recreate the page, I was asked to contact you via the deletion log message: "If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the deleting administrator using the information provided below.". [20:23, 19 December 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Bourne Society" (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.bournesociety.org.uk/bournesoc/about-us.html)]
I have now recreated the page afresh in my user space [89] doing my utmost to avoid any copyright infringement.
I would now like to move this to article space pending your feedback on the draft - I see that the standard "Requests for Feedback" process is now inactive.
Inspeximus (talk) 17:19, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G12. The Requests for Feedback page has been merged with the help desk it seems. I suggest you ask around there too before moving the article to the mainspace. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:32, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
İstanbul Modern
Sorry, I made a mistake by requesting {{db-move}} deletion of Istanbul Modern Art Museum. Instead, I should have put that tag on the redirect page İstanbul Modern. Could you resurrect the article? The end result should be to have the article at İstanbul Modern, with redirects from:
- Istanbul Modern
{{R from title without diacritics}} - İstanbul Modern Sanat Musesi
{{R from long name}} - Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
- Istanbul Modern Art Museum
TIA. --Lambiam 20:11, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- Istanbul Modern Art Museum restored. Feel free to move it and recreate redirects when you're ready. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:34, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
ST2002 image
One more deletion request: apparently this was moved to Commons by another user:
The DR was closed and all was deleted. — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 21:48, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Page deleted. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:00, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
File:Graf Zeppelin First North American Flight 1928.jpg
The English wikipedia image File:Graf Zeppelin First North American Flight 1928.jpg was moved to Commons by File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske) on 19 December and then deleted from Wikipedia. Could you check whether any of the versions from the Original upload log is without the watermark? The one on Commons has a watermark which is not ideal, and I recall there was some watermark adding and removal activity with these types of images.
Were there any entries in the English wikipedia revision history of this file other than the upload entry? In case there were, could you copy them to the Commons file description page? I am concerned there may have been discussions concerning similar images and it would be useful to maintain a trail. -84user (talk) 23:11, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- All previous versions of the file had watermarks. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:13, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
User rights
Could you please point me to a policy page that justifies the removal of user rights from indef-blocked users absent an ANI discussion or evidence of rights misuse? I'm not sure why you seem to be removing rights from a number of users with no further explanation than the block. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:49, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) It's pretty standard practice to remove rights from indeffed users who have little hope of returning. The rights can re re-earned if it changes (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 00:51, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Okay, can't say I've seen that before...but in that case, who determines "little hope of returning"? Indefinite!=infinite, and users who are indef-blocked do return fairly frequently. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:55, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Let's say they've had a few unblock requests denied, for example ... or it's their umpteenth indef block ... again, they can be regained when the community trusts them again - after all, ANY rights are at the trust of the community. You get blocked for copyright, for example, you're not going to keep reviewer status (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 00:59, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, that last part I get, which is why I had the "evidence of rights misuse" caveat. But even if they're blocked until the heat death of the universe, why bother with rights removal? It's not as if they can really make use of them confined to their userspace, and we don't have a limited supply. There are multiple problems with the removal without clear cause approach. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:57, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- User rights are, by definition, for users. If they're not a user at the moment, they have no need of a right. We now even remove admin privileges when an admin has been inactive :-) (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:34, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)Which makes total sense because if an admin is inactive, the user will have lost experience, may have lost control of their account and gave up trying to get back in, or it may eventually get commandeered by a vandal and admin vandals are the worst.—cyberpower (X-Mas Chat)(Contrib.) 14:19, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- User rights are, by definition, for users. If they're not a user at the moment, they have no need of a right. We now even remove admin privileges when an admin has been inactive :-) (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:34, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, that last part I get, which is why I had the "evidence of rights misuse" caveat. But even if they're blocked until the heat death of the universe, why bother with rights removal? It's not as if they can really make use of them confined to their userspace, and we don't have a limited supply. There are multiple problems with the removal without clear cause approach. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:57, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Let's say they've had a few unblock requests denied, for example ... or it's their umpteenth indef block ... again, they can be regained when the community trusts them again - after all, ANY rights are at the trust of the community. You get blocked for copyright, for example, you're not going to keep reviewer status (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 00:59, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Okay, can't say I've seen that before...but in that case, who determines "little hope of returning"? Indefinite!=infinite, and users who are indef-blocked do return fairly frequently. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:55, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Ridiculously speedy speedy deletions
I came upon this a few minutes ago. I guess you could say that you're doing CSD work fastily 
, like speedy deletion should be done...
Are you even looking at what you're deleting? If this is seen as an attack, I'm sorry, but with so many pages being deleted within such a short timeframe, it's hard to believe that there's a human admin, not a regular new page patroller, overseeing the deletion. →Στc. 06:12, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Always. To dispel any theories/rumors that I am a bot (sometimes, I almost feel that I am one :P), here are the steps I take when processing CSD:
- I open all the pages I plan on deleting in browser tabs using linky.
- I individually review all the pages I just opened. If I decide to delete a page, I click the delete tab, enter the appropriate criterion into the deletion form as necessary, then move on to the next page. This step usually takes a good 15-20 minutes, sometimes longer when the backlog is big.
- I go back to the first open tab, click delete, go to the second tab (keyboard shortcut ctrl+tab), click delete, move on to the third open tab, ect.
- The rate at which I seemingly delete pages on wiki is actually the rate at which I can change tabs and click a button, which IMHO, is pretty damn fast :P -FASTILY (TALK) 09:13, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
How was my response rude and offensive? Please tell me why and if it was, sorry, it wasn't meant to be. I was just commenting on what you should be doing.
Thanks for you time.
David. S 09:14, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
What is wrong with file Jspx1.1.0.demoapp.png ?
For the second time you deleted the file Jspx1.1.0.demoapp.png. This file was created by me as a snapshot of the web application JspxDemo2 which is a bundle of the Jspx framework download package all under apache 2.0.
I will add the file one more time. Please make your self more useful and if you have any concerns on this file talk to me first before taking any action. Amr.eladawy (talk)
Partial Undelete Request: Etymotic Research
Please pull the deleted contents of Etymotic Research from the archive and put them in my sandbox, so that I have a partial article to start working on a proper article from. I asked for it to be undeleted, but this is probably a better approach. If you'd like, you can review anything I put together before I move it into the live wiki. (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:25, 21 December 2011 (UTC).
- Okay then. Click here to view it. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:15, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Patrick de Napoli deleted image
Hi, I noticed that the image File:De Napoli Aarau vs GCZ.jpg was deleted due to "no evidence of permission". However, I sent two emails to [email protected] (before the deadline) quoting the image's author giving permission to use the image. I didn't receive a reply to either email, did I send them to the wrong address or has a mistake been made? I hope you can clear this up for me as this is the first time one of my images has been deleted.
Thanks in advance, Drawley (talk) 10:45, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- I dug around in the system and found the emails, but I still cannot restore the file I'm afraid. 'Franziska' did not specify a Wikipedia compatible free license for the file to be released under (see WP:PERMISSION and WP:DCP for details). Please try to reach the copyright holder of the photo again, and have them release the file under a Wikipedia-compatiable license. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:12, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Some assistance requested
- Category:Wikipedia files with NFUR blocks but free license
- Wikipedia:Database_reports/Files_with_conflicting_categorization
- Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Photo_of_art
It would be nice to get these cleaned up ASAP. Anything you can do assist? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 14:47, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yuck, yeah, I'll see what I can do to help out. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:18, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
File you deleted 12/20/2011 named "Peter Sprague (w_twin-neck, by Michael Oletta)-6_11.jpg"
Yes, I do think you made a mistake... but perhaps the image creator's permission to post w/ CC-BY-SA 3.0 wasn't sufficiently clear (I forwarded Oletta's earlier email granting permission to <permissions-en.wikipedia.org> on 12/14/2011).
I've emailed him again a clearer, more specific request for permission, asking him to confirm that he is indeed the creator of the image (including a link to the blog post where his image appears with the caption "Photo by Michael Oletta" and a link to the Wikipedia page where the CC notice & details are spelled out. I've asked him to please reply to both me and to <permissions-en.wikipedia.org>. In the email I included the filename, to assure that when whoever reads his reply at <permissions-en.wikipedia.org> will know for which file it's giving permission.
I'm going to upload the file again under the same filename (assuming Wikipedia allows that) with the same license.
Is there anything else I need to do? As you may have guessed I'm a Wikipedia noob, trying hard to get this article on Peter Sprague finished (currently on my user page PeterSpragueDraft). Can you respond on my own Talk page talk?
Thank you. Swamissurfer (talk) 19:42, 21 December 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swamissurfer (talk • contribs) 19:37, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Nothing at the moment. Let's wait for OTRS to process the emails. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:17, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
"National Karate" page deleted
Please explain why the National Karate page was deleted and how it does not fit within the same type of allowed pages for American Taekwondo Association, Combat Hapkido, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrn0074 (talk • contribs) 19:54, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Did you even read?
Did you even read the talk page of Suffokate before deleting? :D Correct me if I am wrong, but you can't speedy delete a notable band, right? --Runkulis (talk) 20:30, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, you're right, I can't speedy a notable band. Suffokate is not a notable band so I'll delete it :D -FASTILY (TALK) 20:32, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- It is great that you are starting to read :) Do you even know the criterias for a band to be considered notable? I will tell you one: a band has to be under a notable label. Is Mediaskare_Records notable? They have an article on Wikipedia, right? So I believe they may be considered notable, right? Prove me that I am wrong and then you can delete the article. More reading and less deleting please, or you are not worth your admin status. Thanks. --Runkulis (talk) 20:55, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- I have give a 24hr rest from the project for the NPA/ultimatum above. The only sourcing appears to be a user-submitted site that can't qualify as an RS. The label doesn't even appear notable either, so thanks for the WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS argument. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 21:14, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- It is great that you are starting to read :) Do you even know the criterias for a band to be considered notable? I will tell you one: a band has to be under a notable label. Is Mediaskare_Records notable? They have an article on Wikipedia, right? So I believe they may be considered notable, right? Prove me that I am wrong and then you can delete the article. More reading and less deleting please, or you are not worth your admin status. Thanks. --Runkulis (talk) 20:55, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Photo deleted
My photo was deleted on Wikipedia informationj for - Ronald Myers
"Ron Myers playing a trumprt in a Mississippi corn field"
I put in for the wrong licensing/copyright listing.
I own the photo and want to change the licensing/copyright to "free listing"
I thought I changed it. Apparently it didn't go through.
I will try again — Preceding unsigned comment added by JuneteenthDOC (talk • contribs) 20:37, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
BT Stadium
Why did you deleate my article. Michael Numer 7 21:06, 21 December 2011 (UTC)21:06, 21 December 2011 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ninjakids2k12 (talk • contribs)
I must admit I'm curious as to why you restored this article after deletion, as you didn't specify a reason in the log. —KuyaBriBriTalk 21:12, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- I originally deleted it under G11, but I didn't feel it was a blatant advert, so I restored it. It's been listed at afd now, so feel free to voice your opinion there. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:05, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
File:Confederate Momument, Victoria, TX IMG 1006.JPG
Hi Fastily. Checking an old deletion discussion I was participating in, I'm now wondering why this image has been deleted. I had provided three references that show how the monument in question was from 1912, so PD-1923 should have applied. See e.g. that historic photograph from 1912 where the memorial already exists. De728631 (talk) 23:41, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Hm, I wonder how that happened. File Restored -FASTILY (TALK) 00:31, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Syamsir Alam
please undelete Syamsir Alam Page, he is one of the brightest talent in Indonesian Football. played for C.A Penarol U-19 in Uruguay and Next season will play for CS. Vise in Belgium 2nd tier League. i will contribute to improve the article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.136.147.130 (talk) 00:16, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- I didn't delete the most recent version of the page. You're probably looking for User:Mkativerata -FASTILY (TALK) 00:33, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Vandalism Warning?
I'm just curious as to why you gave me a vandalism warning? YouGaveMeAFright (talk) 00:24, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
USroute66 (talk · contribs). WP:DUCK. Not sure if we should give this guy a second chance or not... --Rschen7754 02:01, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- Agreed. I mean, Oldus66 "edited" in North Carolina, and the first edits from the new account are my talk page and something in North Carolina. –Fredddie™ 02:22, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- Blocked -FASTILY (TALK) 03:04, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks again! –Fredddie™ 03:13, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Relevance of TAS3
I see you deleted TAS3 page. I ask you to reconsider for the following relevance reasons:
1. TAS3 is a 14M euro research project financed by EU FP7 (do you have policy that considers EU finaced projects irrelevant?). Contract number ICT-216287. Essentially TAS3 is part of European Commission's vision for future internet. 2. TAS3 is part of a broader ecosystem of EU financed projects, including Prime, PrimeLife, and Master. The members of these other projects have need to know about TAS3 and may hit wikipedia rather than TAS3 web site. 3. TAS3 has a broad european audience. Often the audience is not technical and will revert to general information gathering mechanisms, such as wikipedia, to bring up their understanding prior to meetings where they are asked to pronounce on the matter.
TAS3 is documented in several scientific publications as referenced on
http://vds1628.sivit.org/tas3/?page_id=59
I can add these references to the article if it is ressurrected.
Cheers, --Sampo [email protected] skype chat: sampo.kellomaki
P.S. I find the Wikipedia "process" quite selfsufficient and dominated by insiders. I have never received a communication about the alteration of the status of TAS3 article. Instead, the oblique critique that causes the article to be deleted is presented in a myriad of author pages I have no knowledge about and am unlikely to encounter. Perhaps that is how Wikipedia wants to run things, but that is not likely to increase my support for Wikipedia. Quite to the contrary: I'll rather contribute to the competition (I know this statement is suicidal to ressurrection of TAS3, but I will bring my argument to the EC when I meet them (doubly suicidal argument, no doubt)).
Requesting undeletion
I'd like to request that images of coins and banknotes deleted from the article Malaysian ringgit be restored. I understand that the images were deleted because of lack of fair-use rationales. I'm willing to place rationales to those images according to the fair-use policy. Please send a reply to my talk page, thank you. — Blue。 02:43, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- Do you have a list of files you'd like to work on? -FASTILY (TALK) 03:05, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- I do. Would you like me to list them here or somewhere for your convenience? — Blue。 03:10, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- Please do. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:11, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- I do. Would you like me to list them here or somewhere for your convenience? — Blue。 03:10, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Just these, because I'm not sure about the other files.
- File:Malaysia Commemorative 50 ringgit back.jpg
- File:Malaysia Commemorative 50 ringgit front.jpg
— Blue。 03:30, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Campustours deletion
I disagree with your interpretation that this page was "substantively identical" to the page that was deleted via AfD. Comparing the two pages they seem quite different, with the new version having references that may resolve the issues that caused it to fail its first AfD. Could you take another look and see if you still think it meets G4? Prodego talk 03:11, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- Eh, I disagree with myself too now. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:27, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- Might still be no good, but it deserves another shot. Thanks for checking it out. Cheers! Prodego talk 03:31, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Could you hop onto the IRC?
I was wondering if you'd be able to create a list somewhere that took all the files files with the copy to commons template on them and ranked them by the number of times that the files were used in the article space, thus allowing people to prioritize things for the upcoming drive. Theoretically, you could just have Fbot dump the list into a page on your userspace, thus avoiding a BRFA for it. (Or would it be better if I find someone with a toolserver account? Sven Manguard Wha? 03:13, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
P.S. I'm on the IRC now, if the above statement is confusing.
- Sure, this is definitely something I can do. I'm afraid I can't get on IRC at the moment as I'm about to sign off to attend to an appointment in RL. At any rate, I'll try to have a report for you in a day or so. -FASTILY (TALK) 03:35, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
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File:A38DriverLocationSign km415.jpg
The uploader is saying the image File:A38DriverLocationSign km415.jpg had OTRS tag on it. If yes, can you give me the OTRS ticket number and I can get the license fixed. I am an OTRS member. Or else, can you respond at User_talk:Martinvl#File_copyright_problem_with_File:A38DriverLocationSign_km415.jpg ? --Sreejith K (talk) 08:18, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- The permissions provided in the email were insufficient. Mr. Ward did not specify a license for the file to be relased under. Have him specify a license and I'll restore the file. -FASTILY (TALK) 08:28, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Deleted, Why? I've made to suffer--Yswj700 (talk) 08:25, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- The documentation that I supplied two years ago were deemed sufficient then. Why then is it being rejected now? Moreover, a week ago when I saw that this image was about to be deleted, I asked for more time as I cannot contact Mr Ward at the moment. Please reinstate the image and give me two weeks to contact Mr Ward if his permission is still needed. Martinvl (talk) 12:59, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- Negative. I'll restore it when we receive a fresh set of permissions. Frankly, I'm surprised the email was even approved at the time. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:26, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- I am surprised at your approach. In most societies, if a decision has been made at one level, it must be overruled at a higher level - in other words you should ask for arbcom to make a ruling, or at the very least give me a decent interval to get things together. In real life I am currently away from home on business and dio not have a chance to sort things out until Christams at the earliest. Please do the honourable thing abnd recognise that regardless of the "legalities"; this image has been in palce for two years and to remove it giving ony a weeks notice is totally unreasonable. Martinvl (talk) 07:18, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Again, since I obviously failed to make myself clear - send or get a fresh set of permissions sent our OTRS team, in which the copyright status of the file is explicitly stated, and I'll restore the file. If that's too difficult to do, sorry, can't help. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:20, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- I am surprised at your approach. In most societies, if a decision has been made at one level, it must be overruled at a higher level - in other words you should ask for arbcom to make a ruling, or at the very least give me a decent interval to get things together. In real life I am currently away from home on business and dio not have a chance to sort things out until Christams at the earliest. Please do the honourable thing abnd recognise that regardless of the "legalities"; this image has been in palce for two years and to remove it giving ony a weeks notice is totally unreasonable. Martinvl (talk) 07:18, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- Negative. I'll restore it when we receive a fresh set of permissions. Frankly, I'm surprised the email was even approved at the time. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:26, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- The documentation that I supplied two years ago were deemed sufficient then. Why then is it being rejected now? Moreover, a week ago when I saw that this image was about to be deleted, I asked for more time as I cannot contact Mr Ward at the moment. Please reinstate the image and give me two weeks to contact Mr Ward if his permission is still needed. Martinvl (talk) 12:59, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
In order to avoid this posting being archived, I will be visiting it daily until I can contact Mr Ward and get his permission. Martinvl (talk) 17:10, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)Or you can just use
{{subst:DNAU|number}}where number represents the number of days the page should be retained on the talkpage. Simply place this right underneath the header.—cyberpower (X-Mas Chat)(Contrib.) 19:01, 21 December 2011 (UTC)- I am now half-way home and am using a French language keyboard in a hotel. I hope that Mr Ward is at ho,er this Christmas, otherwise it will be a long wait.Martinvl (talk) 07:12, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Is this revised wikipedia article about yoho better now? This is the best we have done since you gave us suggestions to improve it last time. Thanks
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==The YoHo Artist Community, Yonkers, New York== The Yoho Artist community works out of two of the former Alexander Smith Carpet Mills Historic District buildings, located at 540 and 578 Nepperhan Avenue in Yonkers, New York. This population of artists and crafters has grown to more than 60 working artists since 2005. [1] The carpet mill maintained a good reputation and solid success until the end of World War II, when, after a number of employee strikes, the city’s largest employer relocated to Greenville, Mississippi, where workers were not unionized. In the mid-1950’s the Yonkers plant shut down entirely, leaving a massive complex vacant and an estimated 5,000 workers without jobs. [3] Many of the carpet mill’s employees had put 40 or more years of their life into this company. [3] The stronghold along Nepperhan Avenue and the Saw Mill River, and within the Yonkers community, was suddenly empty. [3] Beginning of the YoHo Artist Community: In 1983, the loft buildings were listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. [4] Several years later, Yonkers and Eisenkraft began see the trend of artists moving out of Manhattan and into more affordable work space outside of the city. Therefore, some of the space on the fourth floor was dedicated to be used as artist studios in the early 1990’s, and was given the name YoHo, or “Yonkers’ SoHo.” [2] As artists sought larger spaces that they could afford, they were attracted to areas like Yonkers, which are within commuting distance to the traditional arts centers in SoHo and Chelsea, Manhattan. Some artists and crafters began sparsely occupying Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Company Mills, as well as other aging buildings in Yonkers, in the early 1990’s. [5] The community has earned recognition by New York State Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who deemed April 18, 2009 “YoHo Artist Studios Day.” [9]. The Mayor of the City of Yonkers, Phil Amicone, issued a Proclamation recognizing YoHo’s role in the growing artist community by dedicating a day to the community as well. [10] The YoHo community has expanded since the property’s most recent acquisition in 2005. In the beginning of 2011 the owners started incorporating 25 new spaces that would occupy a fourth floor wing. These new studios sought to add to the original 50+ studios that were already occupied at 540 and 578 Nepperhan Avenue – by this time known to be Southern Westchester’s largest artist community. [1] ==References==
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- Better. It could still use some work, but I can see the improvement. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:54, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Fastily, thank you for your feedback. Can you advise us what other work can be done to improve the article so we can revise appropriately? May we publish this article as it is right now and add revisions later? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HeightsRE (talk • contribs) 15:22, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- I wouldn't recommend doing that. In its current state, the article would be deleted. Please consider asking for in-depth assistance at the help desk. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:20, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Discussion page of Istanbul Modern Art Museum
Thanks for resurrecting Istanbul Modern Art Museum. Could you also do the same for its discussion page? --Lambiam 08:22, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Problem of U?
Why u don't let me create full article--Jozoisis (talk) 10:00, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- Link the article in question. It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:21, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
That redirect page has to come back (required by the Creative Commons Share-alike 3.0 license; it's a pile of pre-merge edit history. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 15:21, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Donna Hill
You deleted my submission for my Donna Hill article saying it already exists. I clicked on the link and was brought to a blank editing page. I am still searching for a Donna Hill article and am coming up empty. I cannot find it anywhere. Please assist.
Thanks TinaRichell (talk) 17:13, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion
Hello! I assume that this was accidental. That's a personal sandbox, in which my most recent test involved redirecting to a Commons image. I've restored and blanked the page (so it shouldn't appear on the list again). Sorry for neglecting to do the latter in the first place. :) —David Levy 19:20, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, thanks for letting me know; sorry for the inconvenience. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:25, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Deleted Article & I'm trying to understand why
Hi, I had submitted an article about a specialty men's company (Crazy 4 Money Clips). The reason stated that it was deleted because it had been deleted before. However, I'm not clear why it was deleted prior. I can rework the article or do more interviews with owners, etc...I'm not sure if you can still see the original article after deletion, but I was looking for a bit of guidance. Thank you for your reply.
Deslie (talk) 19:25, 22 December 2011 (UTC)D
- The page, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Crazy 4 Money Clips, was deleted as a declined WP:AFC submission. Feel free to resubmit I guess, but as far as I can tell, this article is not acceptable for Wikipedia. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:28, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Deleted Article & I'm trying to understand why Kenn Kweder
Hi, I had submitted an article on Kenn Kweder. The reason stated that it was deleted because it had promotional information and did not comply with Wiki rules on spam / promotional. I used a prior Kenn Kweder template as a starting point to write a legitimate article on this artist. The mistake I made was saving part of the prior template, which was clearly promotional in nature, before finishing all my changes. Otherwise, if I had just saved the template as a sandbox, and then changed it, it would never have been flagged. I spent about two-three hours last night researching and making changes to this article to make it as legitimate as possible in the time available - and plan on further augmenting the article. Further, no offense, but did you even look at my rebuttal to the original speedy deletion notice and/or the changes I made. Apparently not, or you would have realized that the article had been cleaned up. Please place the article back in circulation as it is a legitimate article, or point to reasons other than the original "Promotional" flag, for submitting Kenn Kweder for speedy deletion. BTW, I have been nominated for wiki reviewer in the past and do not make specious claims whatsoever, as you may judge from my wiki page. If you are worried about Kenn Kweder's notability, please note that AllMusic rated Kweder at least as notable as Bootsie Barnes and Shirley Scott - each of whom have wiki pages, Kweder would have been signed to Arista by Clive Davis and was recruited as much as other well-known "New Wave" bands such as Television - except he poured a pitcher of beer on Davis when he went to see him in concert. Kweder is an important and well known part of the late 70s, early 80s renaissance of Philadelphia area music, which culminated in the national exposure of The Hooters, and which some 30 years later should be documented (on wiki preferably) for all audiophiles and lovers of diverse music. Thank You. 10stone5 (talk) 21:20, 22 December 2011 (UTC)D — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.93.249.2 (talk)
- User:Fastily/E#G11 -FASTILY (TALK) 04:09, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- Please take a look at wiki's Deletion Review -- specifically this part, "Deletion Review may also be used if significant new information has come to light since a deletion and the information in the deleted article would be useful to write a new article". As I pointed out already, the reason this article got flagged was I made the mistake of saving a previously flagged template before making all my changes to remove the G11 citation (the blatantly promotional aspects of the article). Two to three hours of work later, the article was a reasonable start-level article with all promotional materials removed. I also cited above reasons why notability should not be a consideration for deletion. Please respond with something more than a redirect to the G11 deletion section of wiki, with a more valid reason for this deletion. Unfortunately, I searched on Deletionpedia and can not find the deleted article. So could I please request the content of the deleted page. If you wish to review a saved sandbox of the original template I used (which was heavily promotional) as a comparison to the altered product, it is available here -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mblumber/Sandbox -- Thank You. 10stone5 (talk) 09:35, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
IKB deletion proposal
− Hello Fastily; sorry for the delay, but I'm not online at the moment. The picture I uploaded originally had a copyright justification. The painting is not 'blue', but a patented colour using a unique binding method that in the flesh is utterly unlike any other blue you're likely to see. Klein himself patented this invention. This is his most famous conceptual series, and as such should be included on the page about him. Versions of this picture are in museums all over the world, and whilst many still hate these works, they are quite clearly notable. As for wether or not the image is copyrightable, I'm none too sure, but my original justification should be reinstated if it is deemed copyrightable; the work should definitely not be deleted. Anyhow, just a quick reply. Current market value is around $2.7 (http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5147475), and examples can be seen at the Tate Modern, London, Pompidou Paris and MOMA New York just for starters. (http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=80103http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=80103) best etc, Francis Elliott.Franciselliott (talk) 21:36, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- Please link the file in question? It's unclear what you're referring to. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:10, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Q LIVE ONE
Jimfbleak approved the article and found it neutral after serveral changes. So I am not sure why you deleted it for the site. Rsp tx (talk) 23:20, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Why my page get deleted? I am not advertising
Hi, Fastily,
I created page called OpenVReg, which is a open source design and pin to pin compatible Power IC design. I think this is significant progress in current IC industry, since most IC company protect each and sue others via patent law. To do so, they need to claim uniq ic design from other, which makes variety of power ICs with similar function on the market. While this OpenVReg is a pin-to-pin compatible power IC design standard, majorly driven by NVIDIA. I am one of the engineers that create this ideas. OpenVReg shares patents across companies, which is so called Open Source design. It is just lunched and have 14 major companies joined. I got some bad ass on the wikepedia saying my page about OpenVReg is advertising, which is not a truth. OpenVReg do not need ads. Companies just adopted if they want to. But I do not know to solve this issue. I want to record my work of OpenVReg on wiki. Do you know how to do to avoid my page being deleted by another hard ass again? Thanks, Tony /OpenVReg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Openvreg (talk • contribs) 02:04, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Why did you delete Renato_Laranja page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.187.97.169 (talk) 04:07, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Sinead Moynihan
Hi
You lived up to your name again :¬) So fast that I didn't manage to type my notes on the talk page before you had completed the request! I hope that me making that post hasn't messed up the move processes? Chaosdruid (talk) 04:38, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- No, it definitely hasn't. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 06:47, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Indiana University Dance Marathon
Fastily,
To preface, based on your explanation of "G12," you deleted my page correctly. That being said, I'm the owner of IUDM's website listed at http://www.ironiudman.net/newsite and would like your assistance in properly "donating" material to Wikipedia. Any chance you can help me out? I'm new to Wikipedia and would much rather learn how to make the page compliant with Wikipedia guidelines rather than see my work disappear.
Thanks!
D0t3hchacha (talk) 05:34, 23 December 2011 (UTC)D0t3hchacha
Brucejenner
user: Easternbulletrt CTJF83 07:07, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- Blocked -FASTILY (TALK) 07:09, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
comics articles
I noticed you G3d a bunch of comic articles. The same editor has created a bunch more. I proded them because I didn't think they met CSD, but you might want to nuke them, and perhaps the editor needs a more formal warning (I will do a twinkle warning as well) Gaijin42 (talk) 17:30, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- Could you specify the username of the editor in question? Thanks, FASTILY (TALK) 20:24, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- User_talk:Deshawn0908 Gaijin42 (talk) 20:56, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- Page deleted. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:18, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- User_talk:Deshawn0908 Gaijin42 (talk) 20:56, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
DIVER WITH FENZY PHOTO
All things that were requested, including the requested e-mail from the photographer to permissions. I'm new at this, what is the problem? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki4robert&me (talk • contribs) 06:16, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- When the email you claim to have sent is processed by our OTRS team, the file will be automatically restored. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:48, 23 December 2011 (UTC)u
I asked a reasonable and polite question and I get a snarky response back, no wonder people are hesitant to participate and contribute. That was uncalled for and not at all in keeping with what I understand to be the wiki civility policy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CIVIL).Wiki4robert&me (talk) 23:44, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- I don't read an ounce of snarkiness in Fastily's response - even the OTRS page gives the exact same response. If you're offended by the phrase "claim to have sent", then you've never talked to my credit card company. Once again - Fastily didn't say anything snarky at all - perhaps you should re-read and apologize for your snarkiness (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 02:26, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
Deleting of Renato Laranja
Did you even read the talk page of Renato_Laranja before deleting? The article was being worked on. What do you mean with it fails general notability? If you are not familiar with the martial arts/ grappling scene then please don't just randomly delete an article.
Here is the proof for his notability:
Even though he doesn't have his own school and is forced to give seminars in other schools for a living, he is ranked the 14th best bjj instructor in the world: http://www.ratemybjjinstructor.com/index.php?sub_menu=top_20
Here is coverage from mainstream mma sites:
http://www.cagepotato.com/video-watch-renato-laranja-make-vinny-magalhaes-very-uncomfortable/
http://www.cagepotato.com/get-ready-for-the-best-mma-themed-trailer-youll-see-all-week-starring-eddie-bravo-and-renato-laranja/
http://www.cagepotato.com/video-renato-laranja-gives-joe-rogan-an-earful-about-smoking-weed-and-badmouthing-brazil/
http://bjpenn.com/news/2011/08/01/video-renato-laranja-calls-out-chael-sonnen-2525.html http://www.grapplingweekly.com/27-x-world-bjj-champion-renato-laranja-on-being-the-best-in-the-world/ http://mmaworldnews.com/tag/renato-laranja/ http://middleeasy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5631:bj-penn-eats-lunch-with-the-one-and-only-renato-laranja&catid=34:organizations
He is known for submitting Eddie Bravo in a few second in Eddies own school. Thats one out of two losses of Eddie Bravo recorded on tape (the other coming by legendary grapple Leo Viera)
I will restore the page, if you delete it again without any reply I will take it personal. Like I said before: You probably just didn't know better then to delete a 27 time mundials champion, because you have no knowledge of the scene. Bjjmaks (talk) 14:15, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Edit: apparently I can't restore this page myself. So that's up to you now. Bjjmaks (talk) 14:19, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- Don't take it personally ... the article was about a living person, and all articles about living people must have valid reliable sources - this one did not. Of course, all articles must be about notable subjects, and seeing as there was no proper sourcing, such notability cannot be established. WP:PRODed articles are available for fixing for about week. You'd be better off creating a WP:USERSPACEDRAFT of the article, then asking someone like Fastily for advice when you think it actually meets Wikipedia's requirements - after all, articlespace is no place for something that's not ready for prime-time (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 14:32, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
I'm fine with that, thanks for replying. How can I access the old page, I don't want to start from scratch as I've did contribute to it already.
Bjjmaks (talk) 22:06, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Q LIVE ONE
Fastily, Like to know what I need to discard from my article for it to be acceptable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rsp tx (talk • contribs) 15:55, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Algerian Genocide
Hey, you have deleted this article without discussion. Tell me why? Maybe you think that you're the cleverest editor in this wiki? Or you think that you can make decisions instead of other Wikipedians. Explain me please, who gave you that right? Wertuose (talk) 17:51, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- Please recreate it for further expansion of the article. Wertuose (talk) 17:55, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G3 -FASTILY (TALK) 20:21, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- And why do you think that you can decide what is right and what is wrong, what is real and what is hoax? Maybe you have PhD degree in all sciences? If so, please place the certificates on your page, so that we can see. If you can't affirm your position by arguments then please recreate this article. Wertuose (talk) 08:29, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily was chosen to be an administrator by the community for fairness, knowledge of rules, and the ability to do at least a little bit of research. The onus is on you the content creator to follow the 5 pillars of Wikipedia. The onus is on you to properly source your articles from the start. Don't try to reverse the onus and try and have your own personal derogatory attitude towards those who protect the project - your statements above are worse that anything Fastily might have done right or wrong) because of the personal attacks and implication that they don't know how to perform their volunteer position that they are actually well-suited for (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 10:17, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
This user might or might not have an academic degree, and considers the distinction irrelevant on Wikipedia.
- And why do you think that you can decide what is right and what is wrong, what is real and what is hoax? Maybe you have PhD degree in all sciences? If so, please place the certificates on your page, so that we can see. If you can't affirm your position by arguments then please recreate this article. Wertuose (talk) 08:29, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#G3 -FASTILY (TALK) 20:21, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
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i think your mistaken
Dear Sir,
i am one of the member of my college team who created the website 'tesla.org.in' (as it is my college event's website) and i created mit college of engineering wikipedia article because it's my college's event.so obviously some part will match because i wrote it myself.
sir, your mistaken here,because i wrote what is there on the website and on the wikipedia article. i am a new to wikipedia article making but i know this that i am not wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Light001 (talk • contribs) 18:12, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Deleted page
Hi Fastily,
You recently deleted my page Gen Next.It was tagged as an "orphan page" and was "written as an advertisement". I am new to Wikipedia and am trying build my page according to your standards. I consider it a work in progress and have been trying to make appropriate changes over the past months.
Would you please consider reinstating or unlocking my page so i can continue to work from it, or at the very least send me the language so i am not starting from scratch. I'd appreciate any candid feedback you have. I have been trying to make it sound like less of an advertisement by citing specific sources from other online publications, media outlets and Wikipedia articles and removing any "puffery."
Thanks, i look forward to hearing back.
Allamricn03 (talk) 18:55, 23 December 2011 (UTC) allamricn03
Hello! Why did you delete the page directly instead of performing the requested move (and deleting it automatically in the process), a task for which the speedy deletion template included a direct link? —David Levy 21:29, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- Because that's what was requested? I don't perform the move portion of
{{db-move}}requests, instead allowing the user(s) who requested it to perform the move, because it has embroiled me in certain controversies that I am not inclined to relive. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:35, 23 December 2011 (UTC)- The template is set up specifically to request that the actual move be performed simultaneously; it includes a special link for this purpose.
- If you aren't comfortable doing that, please leave the task to someone else (instead of breaking hundreds of incoming links). —David Levy 22:01, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- I just noticed that you also deleted Tablets (which has many incoming links and obviously is an appropriate redirect to Tablet) and several redirects that simply hadn't been updated to point to Tablet (pharmacy) following the Tablet article's move to that title. —David Levy 22:19, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Festive Wishes
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| Wishing you a Merry Christmas, a fabulous Hogmanay and all the best in 2012. Edinburgh Wanderer 22:16, 21 December 2011 (UTC) |
- Thank you! The same to you :) Merry Christmas! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 21:55, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
George Ho
Merry Christmas. An apology may be necessary: You were mentioned at [90], and then, at [91], your name was included in the list of people who will check User_talk:George_Ho/Mentorship discussions and offer advice. It occurs to me that you may be unaware of this. Apologies for the way we "sneaked" you into the list (if that's what we did). If you do have time to watch that page, that would be very helpful - if not, please just say so and we'll get your name removed. Begoon talk 23:05, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- Blame Magog the Ogre. He made some armwaving suggestions as to who might advise George (who has a painfully literal way of interpreting everything, hence why he was tagging a bunch of png screenshots for speedy deletion a couple of hours ago), and included you :) Elen of the Roads (talk) 23:18, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Once again, I am the scapegoat. Magog the Ogre (talk) 23:38, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- It's a key function of society XD Elen of the Roads (talk) 00:52, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- Now now guys, remember that you can't just offer my mentoring services freely; after all, I do charge a fee :) Just kidding. I'd be glad to help mentor George, especially given that the mentoring team consists of such reputable editors as yourselves. So despite being press-gang...ahem...volunteered for this job, please do count me in! Best, FASTILY (TALK) 05:13, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- It's a key function of society XD Elen of the Roads (talk) 00:52, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Once again, I am the scapegoat.
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Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 06:01, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
Sigh, I hate to bother you with this again, but could you look at List Of Katy Perry Songs, or maybe restore it to my userspace so I could look at it? The editor makes the point that Rihanna has both Rihanna discography and List of Rihanna songs and that they don't overlap and that this is a parallel case. (I know that the editor in question has had a bit of a learning curve issue but she seems to making a good faith effort to contribute and has contributed at least one acceptable article so I want to give her as much of a chance as possible to have her contributions accepted.) Thanks, Herostratus (talk) 15:43, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- No worries, I've appended the deleted text below. Click here to view it. -FASTILY (TALK) 20:20, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- OK thanks. Herostratus (talk) 20:14, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- She's right. I'd never heard of Katy Perry (I had heard I Kissed a Girl) but she's apparently huge, with a bunch of US #1's. A list of her songs is arguably a valid article. Granted the article in question was pretty meh, but the topic is probably notable. I'm not necessarily complaining, but I'm aiming to gussy it up and eventually restore it to article space. It's here fwiw. Herostratus (talk) 04:00, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- OK thanks. Herostratus (talk) 20:14, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
The Templates with meta
It turns out all those templates with meta in them should not have been deleted. So I restored them, but hadn't gotten to removing the mistaken CSD. I'm not looking forwarding to manually doing all that again, is there an automated way to fix it?--SPhilbrick(Talk) 03:06, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, there actually is and I'm fine with doing it, but first, why do we need these templates? I poked around, looking in what links here, VP discussions, ect but I wasn't able to find anything justifying their retention. -FASTILY (TALK) 04:54, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- BrownHairedGirl says they are needed here. I haven't figured out why, but her word is good enough for me, subject to a more lengthy discussion later, if someone disagrees. I've manually restored them all, I believe. --SPhilbrick(Talk) 16:12, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- Ergh, I only asked for the discussion/policy page - you didn't have to restore everything manually! (I had a semi-automated way to do that...) Thanks for doing that though. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:14, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- BrownHairedGirl says they are needed here. I haven't figured out why, but her word is good enough for me, subject to a more lengthy discussion later, if someone disagrees. I've manually restored them all, I believe. --SPhilbrick(Talk) 16:12, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
Philadelphia Premium Outlets
You deleted my page for Philadelphia Premium Outlets after I attempted to defend and improve its existence. I understand that this is not the first deletion, but in no way am I attempting to promote it. For that matter, I see it as a major outlet centre that was taken into account as a competitor when The Shoppes at Sands in Bethlehem was planned and opened. The variety of stores at PPO affected what stores were invited to the Bethlehem centre. Even when the latter is complete, the former will have over four times as many stores. I am from the Lehigh Valley and I intend to post and edit Pennsylvania articles in an objective sense. How many viewers who know about PPO are wondering why no page exists for such a sizable retail centre meanwhile? Heff01 (talk) 16:00, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
For an example of a Pennsylvania mall page that was previously deleted but survived my recreation and the editing powers-that-be, check out the Viewmont Mall page. It is located in both Scranton and Dickson City and was Lackawanna County's first shopping mall. Heff01 (talk) 16:22, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
file deletion
Hi, You deleted "File:Rocy Vista University Logo.PNG" with an F5 rationale. However, at the time it was deleted, the file was being used at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Could you undelete the file, and I can add a fair-use rationale? --Kerowyn Leave a note 17:53, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
Tis the season...
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- Thanks guys! Merry Christmas!! :) -FASTILY (TALK) 23:40, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
Image
Hello, I do not understand your edition?? This image is a signature of the singer Madonna, like other images on the Commons. See for example Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey or Michael Jackson. Category with pictures equal to that Signatures of people by occupation. I'm sorry, but I think you made a mistake. Truu (talk) 23:20, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- It seems you are correct in this case, but bear in mind, that not all signatures are in the public domain. See copyright status of signatures -FASTILY (TALK) 23:26, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- Okay. Thanks for the info, I did not know that. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Truu (talk) 23:34, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
Article deleted??
For advertisement when there is no advertisement on it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bcarosio (talk • contribs) 02:29, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Really? It was a 100% advert about a 100% non-notable individual! (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 02:41, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. Can you tell me what should be edited so it can then be accepted? We're in the process of understanding formatting so if certain portions have to be changed we are fine with that. We have used other people's wikipedia pages as references (there's have been accepted) so please help us if possible.--Bcarosio (talk) 02:56, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Oh, I read. I looked at ref's. I would even bet that the primary author has massive conflict of interest, and it's probably even an autobiography of some sort - none of which are permitted (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 02:52, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Hi. Please see the messages on your talk page, read the reasosns and explanations there, and follow the links as you were requested, and in particular WP:BLP (BTW, if you haven't noticed, all the blue words on Wikipedia are links to other pages). Thanks & seasons greetings! Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:10, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Now the notes given to me are about it being an autobiography. I'm not the same person as the one in the article, I am only using the name to write the very article on the person. Again, what should be edited (specifically) so it can then be accepted?--Bcarosio (talk) 03:13, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
If I'm not going to be helped then thanks anyways. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bcarosio (talk • contribs) 03:43, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Kudpung and I thereupon provided advice within User talk:Bcarosio on both the username and the article content. -- Hoary (talk) 04:47, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- .... More specifically, within this version of Bcarosio's talk page. -- Hoary (talk) 06:26, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
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This page was not a hoax
The term Bullian Bug is a valid description of a programming error that seemingly corrects itself. Such deletion of the article is preventing others from learning about the phrase.
- A valid description of a programming error that was made up just this morning? Please see WP:NFT. The Mark of the Beast (talk) 07:33, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Everything has to be invented sometime, the lack of age of the term does not decrease it validity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guess What Apple (talk • contribs) 07:36, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Wikipedia only can cover things that have been covered by multiple reliable sources --Merry Christmas from Guerillero 07:39, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
How will anyone know about it if people keep deleting it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guess What Apple (talk • contribs) 07:50, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- They might hear all about it via your website. This one isn't yours (or mine). -- Hoary (talk) 08:17, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of the Quincy Riverfront page premature
I forwarded the emails of permission to the contact provided when the notice went up, but had not heard anything from them in the time given. I will re-upload it again and send the same forwarded messages back. I will not get into an upload war with the administrators. I take the deletion of the picture and lack of response as offensive given the time I do spend on Wikipedia as a loyal and accurate content provider. I had permission from Andrew, the person who took the photo in an email. (Tigerghost (talk) 08:06, 25 December 2011 (UTC))
ANI dispute
Their is something going on here. Could you please do something about that and this too. Both are because of the same reason and about the same problem.--Ankit Maity Talk • contribs 07:44, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- I just saw this. Look here also. Maybe arbitration will be the the thing to really sort this thing out. Those several users are in dispute for years now. But this cannot continue any more like this. --WhiteWriter speaks 21:43, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I'm afraid there's very little I can do here. I recommend that you forward this case to WP:DR or WP:RFAR. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:18, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Ho ho ho...
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Thanks for all the help this year. Merry Christmas and have a happy new year. --Katarighe (Talk · Contributions · E-mail) 23:57, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing! Merry Christmas to you too! :) -FASTILY (TALK) 21:41, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Merry X'mas~!
"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,
I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."
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- Thanks! Merry Christmas, God Bless. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:42, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Merry Christmas and/or Happy New Year
AlexiusHoratius 11:56, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! A very Merry Christmas to you too! -FASTILY (TALK) 21:41, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
vandalism in my talk page
Hello Fastily, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Someone with ip 82.16.67.78 had massively vandalized my talk page. Although I have reverted but can you do anything about this ip? Thank you. Joydeep (talk) 14:12, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Warned user.. If they do it again, report them to WP:AIV. Have a Merry Christmas, FASTILY (TALK) 21:43, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. Joydeep (talk) 04:58, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
File:Confederate Momument, Victoria, TX IMG 1006.JPG
Merry Christmas! And thank you for restoring that file. De728631 (talk) 16:10, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing. Merry Christmas to you too! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 21:43, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
young times wiki page
I've been trying to access the young times wiki page and cant understand why it has been deleted.
22:28, 19 December 2011 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "Young times" (G8: Redirect to a deleted or non-existent page) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.7.2.26 (talk)
- It's actually here. I deleted it as a copyright violation -FASTILY (TALK) 21:44, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Happy holidays
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Happy holidays! |
| Hello Fastily. I would to wish you Happy Holidays and a very happy and peaceful New Years from a fellow Wikipedian to another. I hope you enjoy it! -- Luke (Talk) 16:17, 25 December 2011 (UTC) |
- Thank you! A very happy holidays to you too! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 21:44, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Query
Hey Fastily, apparently when I had contested an image which apparently was taken from a website (the uploader was an admin), I told him that the image he uploaded was copied and I told him that it was a blatant violation of Wikipedia policy, but his reply was :This is standard practice and completely permissible. Now this may be quite a bit of a shock, but from the way he's commenting, is he really trying to violate the policy guidelines? Please let me know. Abhijay Talk?/Deeds 18:23, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- I take it this has been resolved? Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:46, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Derivative works
Your edits such as this are in error. When a work is a derivative, it means there are at least two authors' rights that must be respected. Fair use (or here, compliance with NFCC) for the depicted 3D work of art does not entitle you to use any photographer's image of that art. A reuser must ALSO comply with that photographer's license; failure to do so is copyright infringement. Similarly, if the derivative author does not freely license their rights, then we have TWO nonfree levels of content to worry about and so must satisfy NFCC for both the depicted work and the derivative image of it. So you need to stop removing the derivative license information in violation of the derivative author's rights. postdlf (talk) 18:23, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- I see you found it irresistible to revert those edits. I will say nothing more than that your interpretation of copyright policy is deeply flawed. I won't continue to argue because it's a silly issue and because I really do have better things to do with my time -FASTILY (TALK) 21:54, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- This issue is not as simple as you portray it Fastily. At the very least, you should have sought wider community input before acting unilaterally to mass change hundreds of images. As it stands now you have started an edit war involving hundreds of files. This is absolutely unproductive. Kaldari (talk) 23:53, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Edit war? Wow. I haven't made a single revert. Get your facts straight before you make accusations. I also find it deeply disturbing that you, a WMF employee, have such a weak understanding of copyright. Cant' believe you got hired. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:06, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- No one accused you of edit warring. There are other editors edit warring over the tags now. Your assessment of my knowledge of copyright is amusing. Kaldari (talk) 00:24, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- As is your is your general incompetence. Get off my talk page. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:26, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- No one accused you of edit warring. There are other editors edit warring over the tags now. Your assessment of my knowledge of copyright is amusing. Kaldari (talk) 00:24, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- Edit war? Wow. I haven't made a single revert. Get your facts straight before you make accusations. I also find it deeply disturbing that you, a WMF employee, have such a weak understanding of copyright. Cant' believe you got hired. -FASTILY (TALK) 00:06, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- This issue is not as simple as you portray it Fastily. At the very least, you should have sought wider community input before acting unilaterally to mass change hundreds of images. As it stands now you have started an edit war involving hundreds of files. This is absolutely unproductive. Kaldari (talk) 23:53, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily, you need to calm down. You are not getting what other editors are saying to you, and descending into sniping isn't going to help. Go away and think about it for a few hours, stop running the bot, and come back later to discuss. Elen of the Roads (talk) 00:47, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
At ANI
Your actions changing license statement are being discussed at ANI: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Mass deletion of free license tags. Dragons flight (talk) 18:44, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Merry Christmas!
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Happy new year! |
| I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year! Abhijay Talk?/Deeds 18:59, 25 December 2011 (UTC) |
- Thank you! A very Merry Christmas to you too! Best wishes, FASTILY (TALK) 21:47, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
FBot Issues
Is there a tag I can use to keep FBot from retagging files that have past versions that can't be deleted. FBot does not listen to template:bots --Merry Christmas from Guerillero 22:57, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- You sure about that? -FASTILY (TALK) 23:20, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- I was getting error messages whatever I did. Thanks --Merry Christmas from Guerillero 07:04, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Reverse copyvio.
Hello! You recently deleted Jainism in Maharashtra as a suspected copyvio, but checking the dates suggests that in fact the external site must have copied the text from here. The matter had been confused by a new user attempting a cut-and-paste move on the page, making it look like a new page. I hope I've sorted things out. Best wishes! --Deskford (talk) 23:03, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, it does clarify things. Thanks for looking into it. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 23:23, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
CSDs
Thanks for handling those CSDs so quickly - that was truly amazing speed, especially for Christmas Day! - Ahunt (talk) 23:43, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing! Merry Christmas! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 23:44, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- And Merry Christmas to you too! - Ahunt (talk) 23:47, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Not sure why you deleted my entry on Meomi? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Borshniborg (talk • contribs) 00:46, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Before shooting my mouth off further, I'd like to know if you think this photo of a statue can be considered "free content". I don't see how, as it was most certainly created after 1923. I should think it would require, at the very least, the same non-free tagging as the example photo in the ANI discussion.File:Athletes monument.jpg What say you? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:59, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- It appears that the statue was created and unveiled to the public in 1955. As for whether it's still copyrighted or not, I'd have to know if there is a stamp/engraving on the somewhere on the statue indicating copyright by the artist who created the statue. Any works published in the US prior to 1978, but after 1923 are in the public domain iff they were published without notice of copyright (i.e. the artist did not put '(c) blah blah blah' somewhere on the statue). Otherwise, the statue is still protected by copyright and the aforementioned file is a copyvio because of its licensing status. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:16, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- PS - There is also a case where the file is also in the public domain despite having been published with a copyright notice prior to 1963, but we'll worry about that if there does happen to be a copyright mark somewhere on the statue. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:16, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for your comments. I am now faced with the astonishing revelation by Elen that the reason the Wagner statue is allowed to stay is because it's on commons, and the folks who run commons don't care about freedom of panorama restrictions. Meanwhile, the athletes statue in Atlanta says "don't copy to commons"... because of alleged copyright violation. But according to what Elen said, it should only be posted on commons, and then it could stay as "free". What's up with that? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:20, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- Commons does care, but they're just very slow at handling these kinds of things, unfortunately. Commons has 11 million files and roughly 50 active users and 10 admins screening/vetting images. To put this in perspective, the colossal backlogs on Commons make Category:BLP articles lacking sources look like an anthill. I'll DR the file there and see what happens. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:26, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- I didn't necessarily say it was a good thing - but from discussion with them, Commons admins do seem to go with German copyright law a lot, which gives freedom of panorama to anything that's permanently fixed outside, and can be photographed while standing on the public highway. Elen of the Roads (talk) 01:27, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- The both of you can't both be right. I'd like to see what they say about File:Honuswagnerstatue.JPG before I go uploading my own photos of the statue. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:28, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- Actually, as it turns out, the first Freedom of Panorama law was passed in Germany (aka Panoramafreiheit) :P For your viewing pleasure - here's the US version, which doesn't allow FOP with regards to works of art displayed publicly: Commons:Commons:Freedom_of_panorama#United_States -FASTILY (TALK) 01:31, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- I would just like to hear an "official" ruling at commons, as to whether the Wagner statue photo is OK or not. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:34, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- That's why I started this -FASTILY (TALK) 01:35, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- Excellent. We'll see what happens. Thank you for your help! ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:41, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- That's why I started this -FASTILY (TALK) 01:35, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- I would just like to hear an "official" ruling at commons, as to whether the Wagner statue photo is OK or not. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:34, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- Actually, as it turns out, the first Freedom of Panorama law was passed in Germany (aka Panoramafreiheit) :P For your viewing pleasure - here's the US version, which doesn't allow FOP with regards to works of art displayed publicly: Commons:Commons:Freedom_of_panorama#United_States -FASTILY (TALK) 01:31, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- The both of you can't both be right. I'd like to see what they say about File:Honuswagnerstatue.JPG before I go uploading my own photos of the statue. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:28, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for your comments. I am now faced with the astonishing revelation by Elen that the reason the Wagner statue is allowed to stay is because it's on commons, and the folks who run commons don't care about freedom of panorama restrictions. Meanwhile, the athletes statue in Atlanta says "don't copy to commons"... because of alleged copyright violation. But according to what Elen said, it should only be posted on commons, and then it could stay as "free". What's up with that? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:20, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- PS - There is also a case where the file is also in the public domain despite having been published with a copyright notice prior to 1963, but we'll worry about that if there does happen to be a copyright mark somewhere on the statue. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:16, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Re: Goretti pic. I gave the appropriate permission, and also sent an email to the Wiki address provided. I further commented on the talk page. I am re-uploading the file, and hoping that this time (1) I make no lapses in the permission process; and (2) it's not re-deleted. This seems to me more a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. Diogenes Darwin (talk) 03:21, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of license tags
Can you please explain your mass deletion of free license tags? A work being copyrighted is not a license, so there are no "incompatible licenses" involved. Unless you have a good explanation for this, the CC and PD tags need to be restored. Kaldari (talk) 10:59, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Also, why don't you have a bot flag? If you're doing 40+ edits a minute, you should probably get one. Kaldari (talk) 11:04, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Then main reason it is important for these works to have their licensing specified is that the underlying copyrights will expire before the copyrights on the derivative work. Thus, even though the works are not currently usable under the free license, they will be at some point in the future. I don't believe there is anything legally problematic in licensing certain copyrights in a work under a free license even if other copyrights in that work are not freely licensed (although you may want to get a 2nd opinion). The reason why some copyleft licenses are incompatible with each other is because they make requirements which are mutually exclusive. That is not the case with these images, however (at least all the ones I've looked at). Kaldari (talk) 12:08, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Personally I do not like that we mix free licenses with unfree licenses. But I see your point. We could perhaps make a tweak so the template will "hide" the free license untill the copyright of the work is expired. Something like {{Photo of <statue/art/whatever>|Non-free-use-template|License for photo|expiry=2025 (or whenever the statue/art/whatever will be PD-old)}}. --MGA73 (talk) 13:21, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Then main reason it is important for these works to have their licensing specified is that the underlying copyrights will expire before the copyrights on the derivative work. Thus, even though the works are not currently usable under the free license, they will be at some point in the future. I don't believe there is anything legally problematic in licensing certain copyrights in a work under a free license even if other copyrights in that work are not freely licensed (although you may want to get a 2nd opinion). The reason why some copyleft licenses are incompatible with each other is because they make requirements which are mutually exclusive. That is not the case with these images, however (at least all the ones I've looked at). Kaldari (talk) 12:08, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- The template {{photo of art}} (to which this relates) was created in part because someone moaned when I started tagging items which had both a 'free' and 'non-free' license on them. I would suggest reading the talk page comments around this and the template concerned, I did NOT expect someone to start removing licensing tags, especially given the wording of {{photo of art}}. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 17:29, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fastily's inappropriate removal of the {{Non-free Denver Public Library image}} template from images should also be looked into. Banaticus (talk) 01:09, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Hi Fastily, 
Hope that so day somewhere on earth we shall meet in the same friendly manner in which we have interacted online for en:wp. I am very pleased with your friendly and welcoming attitude. Hindustanilanguage (talk) 10:18, 26 December 2011 (UTC).
- Thank you! Yes, I hope so too. Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 22:39, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
December 2011
Hi Fastily. Thank you for your work on patrolling new pages and tagging for speedy deletion. I'm just letting you know that I declined your deletion request for Cookie Stumbler, a page that you tagged for speedy deletion, because the criterion you used or the reason you gave does not cover this kind of page. Please take a moment to look at the suggested tasks for patrollers and review the criteria for speedy deletion. Particularly, the section covering non-criteria. Such pages are best tagged with proposed deletion, proposed deletion for biographies of living persons, or sent to the appropriate deletion discussion. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:03, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
contest deletion
i would like to contest the deletion of list of blade materials (mobile edition. that page was for mobile phones and was a solution for the unreadability of the page list of blade materials on mobile.Abc123456person (talk) 21:57, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- User:Fastily/E#A10 -FASTILY (TALK) 22:38, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
- On one hand, I think the editor has a point. I bet there are articles that are not easily viewed on a mobile device. As a project, we either need to address this, or, if there are some features of articles which cannot accommodate mobile and non-mobile devices, we should consider allowing the creation of mobile versions. However, that should be done through proper channels, specifically making a proposal and getting community consensus.
- On the other hand, that article is trash. It needs a lot of work. I've never seen a search box in an article. Is it allowed? If it is, the final section reads like a to-do list. I honestly thought I accidentally clicked into the talk page. Maybe if the article is improved, there won't be a need for a mobile version. I'd be interested to know what doesn't work on a mobile device, so we can see whether there is an inherent problem, or an easily solved problem.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 01:30, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Happy holidays
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| Best wishes for joy and happiness. Hope you have a great one! Jonayo! Selena 4 ever 00:21, 27 December 2011 (UTC) |
- Thank you! The same to you! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 07:01, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
File:Min_Ayouni.jpg
File:Min_Ayouni.jpg
You have deleted this file from Wikipedia because F7 !!
It was an album cover for an artist which i am officially working with her office
What should i do to let me add this photo or what do you need to see or what do you need to know to make sure that i have the rights to use it
Her (Myriam Fares) official office gave me the rights to use these photos anywhere !!
Please contact me if you want of let me use her photos in Wikipedia without deleting it.
[email protected] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mido Fares (talk • contribs) 02:13, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Essay
I am trying and failing at writing an essay on why we need to require our free content to be 100% free. I was wondering if you would be willing to help out at all? cheers --Guerillero | My Talk 03:05, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- Where is this essay? If I find its principles to be agreeable, I'd definitely be willing to help. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:07, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- I have some skeleton thoughts down here --Guerillero | My Talk 07:28, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
quick question re Chapman image
Hi, i'm still trying to get my head round images on WP and was wondering which aspect of policy No 1. the Chapman image doesn't seem to meet - in particular, if I make it a lower resolution or something, can it be used? File:Mark David Chapman in 1975 file photo.jpeg (F7: Violates non-free content criterion #1). Btw I've uploaded a similar one too File:Mark-David-Chapman-as-boy.jpg Thx for your time. Eversense (talk) 03:53, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- WP:NFC#UUI, number one. -FASTILY (TALK) 07:09, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for that. Is there any chance I can argue this falls into the exception listed there - since this guy's been in prison for decades and his notability is due to his younger life, "a new picture may not serve the same purpose as an image taken during their career, in which case the use would be acceptable"? Eversense (talk) 10:05, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, well, in that case, go ahead and re-upload the file then. -FASTILY (TALK) 10:51, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done with revised rationale. Thanks again. Eversense (talk) 11:50, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, well, in that case, go ahead and re-upload the file then. -FASTILY (TALK) 10:51, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for that. Is there any chance I can argue this falls into the exception listed there - since this guy's been in prison for decades and his notability is due to his younger life, "a new picture may not serve the same purpose as an image taken during their career, in which case the use would be acceptable"? Eversense (talk) 10:05, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
One of your rangeblocks...
See User talk:92.7.31.251. Please respond there, if you think it wise, maybe you can tweak the block to allow account creation, and then advise that user to create an account. Thanks for your attention. --Jayron32 05:37, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- Seems reasonable - Done -FASTILY (TALK) 07:11, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of Titanic (2012 mini-series)/Temp
Hi Fastily. I notice you speedy deleted the Titanic (2012 mini-series)/Temp article under A10. This page was created because of a copyvio at Titanic (2012 mini-series) and was the correct procedure according to the copyvio template there. Please consider restoring the page, so the creating user may develop a non-copyright infringing page. Regards Cloudz679 07:13, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- You're going to have to provide an adequate explanation as to what's going on here before I even consider restoring the page. From the top - why did you do what you did? -FASTILY (TALK) 07:19, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- This revision [92] had directly copied text so I tagged the section as copyvio and reported it on the Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2011 December 26 page. The original contributor just wants to write an article, but I explained he had to use "his own words" and recommended the temp page, as is suggested on the copyvio tag. Thanks for your help. Cloudz679 07:33, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- I see. For future reference, tag any copyright violations you find with
{{db-g12}}. A new article can be created once the old copyvio version is deleted. -FASTILY (TALK) 10:54, 27 December 2011 (UTC)- Thanks for the swift action and guidance. Cloudz679 14:42, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- I see. For future reference, tag any copyright violations you find with
- This revision [92] had directly copied text so I tagged the section as copyvio and reported it on the Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2011 December 26 page. The original contributor just wants to write an article, but I explained he had to use "his own words" and recommended the temp page, as is suggested on the copyvio tag. Thanks for your help. Cloudz679 07:33, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/Administrator instructions
I just created an administrator instructions page for Possibly unfree files. It would be appreciated if you could look, that everything is fine with it. Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talk aboutabout my edits? 08:21, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- Looks great! Thanks for doing that. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 10:55, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Page of Tony Samara
Hello,
My page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Samara was deleted and i would like to know why and would like to correct it so that the correction can be made in order for the page to go live again.
I do not know how pages get deleted from wikipedia without giving the possibility of the user to correct them prior.
I have to say that i even donated money for the wikipedia project and now my page gets deleted without any explanation about it, looks a bit like facebook.
Looking forward to your reply so i can correct the mistakes and have the page live asap.
Pedro Bestler — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pedro Bestler (talk • contribs) 09:41, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Dear Fastily,
I do not understand in what way the article is considered advertisement, can you please explain? My intention here is to comply with the regulations from Wikipedia and improve and correct the article as much as possible. I would like to do so and bring back the article, can you please help? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pedro Bestler (talk • contribs) 13:40, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Non-free images with orphaned versions more than 7 days old for renaming. As the operator of a bot which deals with this category, please keep an eye on the nomination, and if it's renamed- please make sure to update the bot accordingly. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:03, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- It shouldn't be a problem as a long as the categories of Template:Orphaned non-free revisions are adjusted accordingly should consensus result in a rename. At any rate, thanks for letting me know. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 10:57, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
related to my college article which was speedly deleted
sir i am putting back my article on MIT College of Engineering with heavy modifications but retaining the overall structure. i am sure wiki admins wont find any opportunities to use G12 tag on this new article.as its totally written by me.i also want to suggest that instead of deleting the article the writer should be contacted and given few days time to edit the article before being deleted.thank you.Light001 (talk) 11:23, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello Fastily. I've restored the pre-copyvio revision of this article. Please, check the deleted history. Thanks. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 11:48, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Merry Chirstmas Fastily!
Hello, I would just like to say Merry Christmas!
124.180.59.88 (talk) 08:32, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! A very Merry Christmas to you too! Cheers, FASTILY (TALK) 10:55, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Season Greetings!--JasonLang (talk) 15:18, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Coordtechnologies
Dear Fastily
Resently I have created A page for Coordtechnologies.But it seems you have deleted the page. Could you please give me a chance to edit the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.82.96.22 (talk) 12:07, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Re:User:Fastily/MXD
Is it possible to generate longer list? Now large part of images are ones reviewed by me but skipped (as dubious - not sure whatever it should be moved or nominated for deletion or sometimes as boring) Bulwersator (talk) 13:05, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- How much longer? 1500? 2000? -FASTILY (TALK) 22:53, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- 2000? BTW, thanks for list of astronomy images. Bulwersator (talk) 09:52, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Re:File:Ashby plot big.jpg
Why this file was deleted? "All granta Design plots are copyrighted by that company" is quite absurd Bulwersator (talk) 13:39, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fixed Thanks for letting me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:55, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Reason for creation of my Page Babar Malik
Hi Dear Fastily,
Hope you are in your good health, well i created a page Babar Malik but due to some biased people like Ehsan Sehgal it was deleted by you, Dear you are an administrator and you know better about the content of the article and references i provided on it, well Fastily Babar Malik is well known journalist and i have provided some sound sources like http://www.spourtsencounter.com/list-of-authors and http://www.sportsencounter.com/author/babar-malik where u can see the stories written by him... you can see the http://www.ifex.org/pakistan/2007/08/24/intelligence_officers_kidnap_and/ and http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C08%5C25%5Cstory_25-8-2007_pg7_25 which make him notable because these stories are about Babar Malik kidnapping by agencies.. you can also read the article http://issuu.com/thefinancialdaily/docs/thefinancialdaily-epaper-23-12-2011?mode=window&pageNumber=10 see the credit line on Sports page and also see the last para of the article where it is included that Babar Malik is well known journalist from Islamabad and working with some News Channels... Fastily did u notice on the page discussion that only the person Ehsan Sehgal was trying to make it controversial even he lives in Holland and he doesnt know about Pakistani journalist community.. did u notice that he also tried to delete some of references from Babar Malik and tried to make it controversial bcoz he knows the rules of page deletion and he add some wrong info at the time when i cant sit on net to change it... please Fastily its my heartly request to u kindly undelete my article Babar Malik, you can see his reports with news channel logos on youtube... just search Babar Malik on google and you will see alot about him while he was working on ARY News and in News One as well... you can also see his official page on facebook http://www.facebook.com/babarmaliks
i think these references are enough for someone to be a notable and these are sound proof about him. kindly return my article back
regards Decoderz — Preceding unsigned comment added by Decoderz (talk • contribs) 16:24, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Autopatrolled
Thanks Fastily for the approval :D Abhijay Talk?/Deeds 16:29, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing. Happy Editing! -FASTILY (TALK) 22:58, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Fotografía de Alex Jadad
Hola Fastily:
No entiendo por qué se ha borrado la fotografía del Dr. Alex Jadad. Ya que envió el 22/12/2011 un correo electrónico (que transcribo) a petición mía, para que dejara claro si su fotografía tenía algún tipo de derecho de autor, a lo que el respondió que estaba libre de copyrigth.
"Enviado el: jueves, 22 de diciembre de 2011 18:38 Para: Pastor Sanchez. Raimundo CC: [email protected]
Dear Pastor:
Many thanks for your note and for your effort to create an entry in Spanish for the Jadad Scale. The picture you plan to use is freely available and is not protected by copyright.
Best wishes,
Alex"
Por favor, ruego que se restituya la fotografía File:Alex_picture-1a.JPG. Un cordial saludo:--Raimundo Pastor (talk) 18:12, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Canadian Linen and Uniform
You recently deleted our new page for Canadian Linen and Uniform because you said it was too promotional. I would argue that everything included on the page was factual and can be substantiated. I would challenge you to find something in the article that could not. As it is, I think it provides a good foundation of information about what our company does and our history. There is very little product or competitive information included. The fact is, we are the largest company of our kind in Canada, and in the top 10 in North America. Please reconsider your decision to delete, or provide specific examples of what needs to be changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bsaukko (talk • contribs) 18:46, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Canadian Linen
Forgot to sign my previous post
(Bsaukko (talk) 18:53, 27 December 2011 (UTC))
Re: Fbot/Svenbot
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.
Sven Manguard Wha? 21:50, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
HMS Beagle (1909)
Hi Fastily. This isn't my page, but I'm interested in the subject, so... You speedied this as a hoax, but it's absolutely a real ship. [93] Could you restore it so that I could clean it up, as I just did for the 1889 ship of the same name? –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 22:47, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
- The text of the page before I deleted it consisted of "The ship sunk by a mine in 1916." I think you're better off starting anew imho. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:00, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
Mark Kelner Wikipedia Page
Dear whomever deleted deleted my Mark Kelner page.
While it was never my intention to create a promotional/advertising site using Wikipedia as a platform, I can understand your point of view concerning the protection of Wikipedia's rules and protocols. I believe that while the biography I created for "Mark Kelner" is important for people to know about and utilize as a reference resource, I also feel that I might have overdone it in posting too many links to articles and texts, which in hindsight, feels like a sort of a commercial. This was never my hope.
Academically speaking, I'm unsure of why the article was removed. I would like it noted that Mr. Kelner is doing good and interesting work in the field of cultural diplomacy with Russia (at the institutional level!) and his writing is both humorous and insightful about the subject. He is also an instrumental figure in the recent resurgence of post War Russian/Soviet art, not only as a dealer, but also as a researcher.
Perhaps with your guidance, my entry concerning his bio can be amended and back online, as I least feel, that his visibility on Wikipedia is well deserved and the public deserves to know about him. Would you be willing to work with me on this?
Many thanks, in advance, for your time and consideration.
Very sincerely,
68.100.90.163 (talk) 04:39, 28 December 2011 (UTC)David Lekuch ([email protected])
Non-free files in your user space
Hey there Fastily, thank you for your contributions! I am a bot, alerting you that non-free files are not allowed in user or talk space. I removed some files I found on User:Fastily/TMI.
- See a log of files removed today here.
- Shut off the bot here.
- Report errors here.
- If you have any questions, place a {{helpme}} template, along with your question, beneath this message.
Thank you, -- DASHBot (talk) 05:01, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Fastily, thanks for deleting File:Guinea.pop.pramid.2005.jpg and several of the other images uploaded by User:Shinas. I just wanted to let you know I nominated the rest of his statistics uploads for deletion, because as far as I can tell, they were all uploaded before the initial block. Best, Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 05:21, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure thing, happy to have been able to help. Thanks for going through the trouble to nominate them at FfD. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 06:11, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
== deleted? G10 ==
i was starting my page about myself. and was deleted. g 10 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jsmite (talk • contribs) 06:03, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Please use your userpage to write about yourself. -FASTILY (TALK) 06:12, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Fastily, many thanks for the rapid deletion of Orang planet. This article has been recreated a number of times. Any chance it could be salted? Seems like there is little hope this will ever be a useful article. Thanks, Sparthorse (talk) 08:52, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Done Salted for a month. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:03, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Many thanks. Unfortunately, its popped up again at ORANG PLANET... Sparthorse (talk) 09:13, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Page deleted. If they recreate the page, let me know and I just block them. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:15, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Or, perhaps not. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:17, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Indeed. Thanks again. Sparthorse (talk) 09:20, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Or, perhaps not. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:17, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Many thanks. Unfortunately, its popped up again at ORANG PLANET... Sparthorse (talk) 09:13, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
deleted jt singh
Hi you deleted the title jt singh just now, I wrote it again making sure that it doesn't promote anything, but just briefly talks about the organization. When I google it though, the link for jt singh comes up, but the page says that it is deleted, but when I search it at the wikipedia side, the new article is there?? How do I take away that deleted status??
Thanks,
Jay — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jay2050 (talk • contribs) 09:13, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- How strange. Try bypassing your cache. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:18, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
What needs to be checked before old version are deleted? Maxim(talk) 01:19, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- That we're not losing previous versions through acts of vandalism/disruption (in which case you should revert the vandalism and delete all old versions). That's about it. IMO, this is a very straightforward and mindnumbingly dull task, if you're up for it. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:22, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- A couple other minor notes:
- The bot to remove the files only runs every twelve hours, so some may be done, but still in the list. You might consider starting somewhere other than the beginning.
- I'm working on "
R""S" so you might start elsewhere. - Mindnumbing is an apt description :)--SPhilbrick(Talk) 17:25, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- A couple other minor notes:
Daragonism -- a branch of Domenicism?
I tagged [[94]] as db-hoax but someone's removed the tag. I think they may remove it again, and since you had the sense to see Domenicism for what it was, and this is obviously by the same sophomorics, I thought you might save everyone trouble by taking care of it permanently. EEng (talk) 14:31, 28 December 2011 (UTC) P.S. There's an SPI on Daragonism's creator -- I'm guessing the account that created Domenicism is probably another of his socks, but I can't see Domenicism's edit history -- maybe you can add that account to the SPI, if you agree. Or maybe the hoaxing on Daragonism is blockworthy outright. EEng (talk) 14:36, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Looks like someone already deleted it. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 20:58, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Cross post from User talk:Fbot
I've blocked the bot indefinitely until you have actually fixed its interaction with {{bots|deny= }}.
This was brought to your attention before - User talk:Fastily/Archive 5#Fbot issue, maybe minor - and you stated at the time that the bot "will now" recognize the template.
Based on this - [95][96] - it looks like the issue was not actually addressed.
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Please fix the 'bot in its entirety - that is so that none of its functions will be applied to any page where the "deny" template is present - before you unblock it.
Thanks,
- J Greb (talk) 15:30, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- A simple talk page message would have sufficed as opposed to jumping the gun and blocking my bot. This was a simple matter to fix. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:02, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Since I'm unsure as to the 'bot run times and how they intersect with you being online coupled with this being a second occurrence, my apologies for being a bit more cautious. - J Greb (talk) 21:17, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Learn to read -FASTILY (TALK) 21:22, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fastly, if you want to get snarky: 1) learn to fix things when you say you have fixed them and 2) purge all your old copies of the bot with the bug. It lessens the chance of the understandable mistake of you running a broken version. - J Greb (talk) 21:35, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- If that is your best effort to insult me, I needn't reply. Stupid is as Stupid Does. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:50, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fastly, if you want to get snarky: 1) learn to fix things when you say you have fixed them and 2) purge all your old copies of the bot with the bug. It lessens the chance of the understandable mistake of you running a broken version. - J Greb (talk) 21:35, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Learn to read -FASTILY (TALK) 21:22, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Since I'm unsure as to the 'bot run times and how they intersect with you being online coupled with this being a second occurrence, my apologies for being a bit more cautious. - J Greb (talk) 21:17, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Computing.net Deletion
What portion of the entry was in error or written like an advertisement? The site Computing.net has been around forever, referenced quite a number of times as a notable tech support venue. The style of the entry as drafted was modeled after the extant PC World Wikipedia entry (and referenced by the same in physical, international publication). Mrgreypawn (talk) 15:53, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Please delete these 4 images
Hi, I've uploaded these 4 images but their copyright is not correct so I uploaded them again with proper copyright (fair use). I don't know how to delete the previous images. Could you please delete them for me?
- File:ArtistaEli-21stCenturyGirl-AcrylicOnCanvas-2010.jpg
- File:The Magician-Artista Eli-2011.JPG
- File:The Measurements of Gaia-Artista Eli-2011.JPG
- File:Tradition Loss Fear and other Insanities-Artista Eli-2011.JPG
Thanks and sorry for the trouble, Lapsking lapsking (talk) 17:17, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. :) lapsking (talk) 23:25, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
thank you
Thank you for cleaning up after me! — Robert Greer (talk) 21:02, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- No problem. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 21:14, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Admin's Barnstar |
| Thank you Kamandag88 (talk) 01:17, 29 December 2011 (UTC) |
- Wow, thank you! I really appreciate it! Best, FASTILY (TALK) 04:41, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Deletion of "Air Cycle Corporation"
Hi Fastily--you deleted a page I created, "Air Cycle Corporation," under the G4 criterion. Previously however, after its deletion review, the page was restored to my userspace [97] for userfication, I addressed the concerns raised in the review, and it was approved for the Wikipedia mainspace [98] by editor Uzma Gamal, who said that "AfD issues no longer apply." The original deletion issue was getting rid of insignificant sources and increasing good sources, which was addressed. Would you please undelete the article? Thanks. -- Synthality (talk) 18:02, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
- Consider listing the page at WP:DRV, so that the decision of the old AfD discussion can be overturned, and so that the article is not re-deleted. -FASTILY (TALK) 21:13, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- Great, thanks very much. -- Synthality (talk) 18:02, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Broken and Shared Book Article
Hello,
I created the book's Wikipedia page a couple of weeks ago, and then noticed that it had become flagged as not meeting the legitimacy guidelines for books on here. I then DID edit the article, citing numerous book reviews and other external links to meet the requirements. I also uploaded a photo of the book cover (which I petitioned for image approval and it was granted), but I have not yet learned how to insert this file onto the page.
I did not realize that I had to delete the flagging message after I made the proper adjustments to the article. It was deleted while I was away on my Christmas vacation. I'm a college student interning for the publishing company that is marketing the book, and this article took me hours to make (I had no prior Wikipedia experience).
What do I do from here?
Amy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amyrivard08 (talk • contribs) 06:34, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
File
Hello. I had nominated this file for deletion, and I was unable to find the appropriate tag using the Twinkle CSD process. The reason I nominated it was that because a "non-free image is used only when there is no equivalent free image available" per Wikipedia:NFC#Policy_2. The author has not explained it in the description. Could you edit it and modify it appropriately? X.One SOS 09:45, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
- You're correct, there is no speedy tag for it. If you want to nominate the file for deletion under that criterion, you'll have to send the file to WP:FfD. In Twinkle, you can do this by loading file page, and then by clicking the 'xfd' tab. -FASTILY (TALK) 22:38, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
- The author has modified the summary and said "The image is not replaceable by free content; However, if this free replacement is located, this image must be deleted." Is that a valid explanation? How can free-replacement be located if the image is not replaceable by free content? X.One SOS 06:48, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- Not really, especially if the subject of the photo is still alive. If replacibility is your concern, consider sending the file to WP:FFD, or tagging the file with
{{subst:rfu}}-FASTILY (TALK) 08:26, 30 December 2011 (UTC)- Is there a template to warn the user about the
{{subst:rfu}}? X.One SOS 14:40, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- Is there a template to warn the user about the
- Not really, especially if the subject of the photo is still alive. If replacibility is your concern, consider sending the file to WP:FFD, or tagging the file with
- The author has modified the summary and said "The image is not replaceable by free content; However, if this free replacement is located, this image must be deleted." Is that a valid explanation? How can free-replacement be located if the image is not replaceable by free content? X.One SOS 06:48, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Slovak footballer Roland Szabó
Hello. Why you deleted my article football inbox Roland Szabó ? He has played fully pro league match in slovak first level - Slovak Corgoň Liga for fully-pro football club AS Trenčín.IQual, User_talk:IQual 11:29, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
My page Tony Samara
Dear Fastily,
On the 27th my page Tony Samara was deleted and without further justification, the only reason given to its deletion was "Unambiguous advertising or promotion". In order to resubmit the article again i would need to know what caused this decision as in my perspective the article was not intended to be promotional nor advertisement and it was written from a neutral point of view. If you would like to let me know what was the reason i can then improve the article and submit it to wikipedia again. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pedro Bestler (talk • contribs) 16:55, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) First, there's no such thing as "my page". Second, oh my Lord, the entire thing is one large WP:PROMO. Most of his "books" appear to be selfpublished. Ouch. WP:PUFFERY at its
finestworst (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:03, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Although i am sure you are trying to be constructive, i do not seem to get your point, honestly. If you are here to help please let me know how to improve the article. This is not the kind of talk that my donations to wikipedia are surely being used to. Please help me improve the article in order to comply with wikipedia guidelines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pedro Bestler (talk • contribs) 17:40, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
No source tagging
Your automated no source tagging has problems. You appear to be tagging any image where the "source" field is empty on the information box. However, in a number of cases source information exists elsewhere one page. For example, the image was uploaded by the apparent photographer as indicated by tags like: "I, the author of this work, hereby release...". Or in other cases, the source information is part of the description. A human being could notice such statement, but it appears that your approach is tagging everything with a blank source line. Dragons flight (talk) 01:22, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- For the record, I plan on conducting a full, thorough review of these tags over the next few days. AFAIK, >97% of these tags are appropriate. If you find any mistakes, kindly do me a favor and remove the tag. -FASTILY (TALK) 01:29, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
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Deletion of CapitaLand
Greetings! You recently deleted the above-mentioned article due to an expired prod tag. I request you to reconsider the decision given that this Singaporean company has received substantial coverage in the media and from other institutions of repute. It is also one of the biggest corporations on the island-state. The article may require some work, but it is still a notable subject for inclusion on Wikipedia. I would recommend that the user who tagged the article with a prod be encouraged to make an AfD request instead. Thank you. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 09:53, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- Permission granted I suppose, though I don't think it was really necessary in this case. At any rate, thanks for asking! Would you like to do the honors? Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 09:56, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, Fastily, for the prompt response. I have undeleted the article and left a message on Stuartyeates' talk page. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 10:50, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- Excellent, thanks for doing that. Best, FASTILY (TALK) 10:51, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, Fastily, for the prompt response. I have undeleted the article and left a message on Stuartyeates' talk page. — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 10:50, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
No source tagging
Hi! There is no need for a source when something is not eligible for copyright like this one File:ZENlogo.png. And File:Univac20040113 300px.jpg was uploaded by User:Optim and it says "Photographed by Optim". So I think it is safe to asume that "Optim" = "User:Optim". --MGA73 (talk) 13:05, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
It looks like you've also tagged the court seals for dozens of U.S. federal courts, which are (at minimum) public domain as works of the federal government. But as these consist of nothing but a circle of text surrounding the seal of the U.S. government, they often vary from one another only in the printed name of the court such that none of them would even be independently copyrightable. Lacking the url of the court's website as the source is thus a mere technicality.
Such easily fixable issues (though time-consuming), combined with the issues noted above by MGA73 where the image is not even copyrightable regardless of its source, or the source information is there but just not in the right template line (often because the image was uploaded years before that template was created and then applied by automated edit), make me think that mass bot tagging is not an appropriate way of handling this. Has there been a discussion on this, whether pro or con?
While it is true of course that all files should have source information, the problem I have is with how this is being addressed. We now have a week to fix hundreds of images lest they be deleted, a week that is further a holiday period in much of the world, and without any discrimination between those images that are completely suspect and those that are readily sourceable or just have technical issues in the template wording, many of which were uploaded many years ago. This tagging was performed with an opaque edit summary ("nsd"), and without posting a notice on any of the article talk pages that use those images or even notifying the uploader. postdlf (talk) 15:52, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that you deleted it, I am guessing due to copyvio. I this right? I recreated it because of many fake "official sites", and the stub now includes the correct one. I will expand it soon. Cheers. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:07, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Whoa! I just noticed the talk with a start date of 28 October 2007. Was Heilongjiang University a fat article deleted in err? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:09, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Okay. I now notice that you deleted because "(G8: Redirect to a deleted or non-existent page)". Where did it redirect to? Who made the redirect and when? Why does the talk have templates indicating that more than a redirect was present at the article page? These are the deep questions of life. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:30, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- I think somebody vandalized the page, redirecting the page to a non-existent page, so that it would show up in the database report. I've restored the deleted revisions. Sorry about that. -FASTILY (TALK) 19:40, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Fastily.
You seem to have deleted an image file uploaded by me (Fabrizio De André - La buona novella 1970.png) under the F5 criterion. However, the image was not "unused" since the link is still showing on the article page (La buona novella) where it was being used.
GianWiki (talk) 13:56, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- I see you have found a use for it. Regards, FASTILY (TALK) 19:41, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
"Separatist movements of India"
See that the page was cited and tagged by a page blanker. You deleted it, this surely must be a mistake. I have my self cited reliable sources some time back atleast in one section of the page. Most other content is cited too. The tagging user might need a block instead. Refer to [99]. Thanks. --lTopGunl (ping) 19:34, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- Fair enough, Restored -FASTILY (TALK) 19:43, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- The talk page needs to be restored too, it had discussions. Since you are active and aware of this, can you review the related ANI report? Thanks. --lTopGunl (ping) 19:44, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Separatist movement in India
I have put Hoax Tag on two sections of the Articles because they have no citation given and complete lie. Please restore it to previous stage. I deleted nothing out of it. Ashok4himself (talk) 19:49, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- Can only back-up what Ashok4himself is saying. JCAla (talk) 19:54, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Patriotic leagues 2
Could you restore the article Patriotic leagues so that we can have a discussion weather this article is nessesary or not? Contrary to what you have stated the article is not aimed to dupplicate the Argentine Patriotic League but to have a common large-scope article about both the Chilean and Argentine patriotic leagues that have actually much in common. I actually contested that speedy deletion proposal on talk page of the article and was expecting some sort of discussion. Chiton magnificus (talk) 09:36, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- I nominated it because there was an individual article about the Argentine Patriotic league. I thought that instead of combining the two, an article be made about the Chilean one. Without researching, I would think that they would have different history, leaders, and notable events, among other things. Ramaksoud2000 (talk) 15:35, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- Well at the end, in some years, there might be enought material to have two separate articles but for now its better to have a combined one. Can you give me back the wikiscript of what you have errased so that I can work some days on the article and launch it again. Chiton magnificus (talk) 21:11, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure. Click here to view it. -FASTILY (TALK) 05:54, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- Well at the end, in some years, there might be enought material to have two separate articles but for now its better to have a combined one. Can you give me back the wikiscript of what you have errased so that I can work some days on the article and launch it again. Chiton magnificus (talk) 21:11, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Zevia
Hi there,
The reason I tried to create the Zevia page is because this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zevia_Cola currently exists on Wikipedia which contains out-dated information about the company, products and stevia (I work for Zevia). I really do not see how the Zevia Cola page is any different than the page I created. I completey understand that this may seem like advertising, and not really pertain to an encyclopedia so shouldn't the Zevia Cola page be deleted as well. I would rather it be deleted than have false information about the company be out there. Someone else in the company already tried to edit the Zevia Cola page, but the edits were not accepted as well.
Appreciate your feedback.
Ncw14 (talk) 22:15, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
- See WP:ADS, WP:COI, WP:NPOV. If your edits are promotional in nature, they will be removed/deleted. -FASTILY (TALK) 05:57, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
3 Minutes World Silence
I didn't understand about possible advertising content of my 3 Minutes World Silence Logo.jpg
The cards and bookmarks I mention are printed and paid for by myself, distributed in letters to people I write to, and handed to local libraries, etc.. who always are pleased to have a few on their counters during December each year, in case anyone wants to take one.
My concept for a 3 Minutes World Silence stemmed from a silent peace vigil I went to in 1983. When I heard the local GPO clock strike eleven o'clock, and all the strangers there with me linked hands, I thought it would be wonderful if the whole world could share a time of togetherness and compassion for a few minutes each year.
You may see the visualisation of the above description on my woven tapestry The Eleventh Hour which I wove from 2000 to 2003. See www.worldsilence.com/tapestries
I will endeavour to remove any unnecessary wording, and to re-do it correctly. Aweaver2Mary Cassini (talk) 22:35, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Image nomination
Considering the number of images I nominate that you delete, perhaps I should just drop you a note of what I have nominated!!! I notice that you did not delete File talk:James Francis Ginty.jpeg when you deleted the image. As you see the uploader claims to be trying to get permission but that does not seem to have materialised. Cheers for a great New Year. ww2censor (talk) 00:13, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- Gone now. You are most welcome! Thank you for helping to do some of the crappiest work on the project ;) Best wishes for the new year, FASTILY (TALK) 06:00, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Page Deletion
Hello Sir/Ma'am. I made the Tactics Forever page because I work for ProjectorGames (the company that makes it). I was wondering if you could un-delete it?
Thank you for your time.
Curtis Hale - ProjectorGames Community Manager. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plumhead195 (talk • contribs) 06:56, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Problems with user 88.247.101.165 and 46.196.33.96.
Hello again, Yesterday we talked about this users and i felt that you don't believe me. The users I mentioned are the same person. One day before this user: 88.247.101.165 , and yesterday, with user 46.196.33.96. ( you warned him once!!!!!!!) Two of these users did not reply earlier times and argue with me about the same issues. They do not bring me their proof and they simply change the article, I got proof (on the talk page of Ben Gurion Airport) and they ignore them. I noticed that this 2 users edit the same things and always edit the same articles (especially Turkish airports).--Friends147 (talk) 14:53, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- Both warned again. If the disruption continues, let me know. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:25, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very very very much! --Friends147 (talk) 10:58, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Restore a talk page please
Please restore Talk:Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society. According to the log, you speedily deleted it for housekeeping, yet it has an associated article Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 17:20, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for speedy response, and a happy New Year! --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 14:11, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Copyright Images
- User talk:Mjl3111996 is uploading a massive amount of images that are copyrighted claiming they are his and will not stop putting them into articles. File:KIMQB2.png and File:Lil' Kim 2011.jpg both need deleted as they are not his. - (CK)Lakeshade - talk2me - 21:46, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- All deleted. If they continue adding the files, let me know and I'll block them. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:28, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Improper speedy deletion of Gift of the Givers
Hi Fastily,
As a card-carrying deletionist, I have no problem with speedy deletions in general for ad pages, but as I recall, Gift of the Givers was in no way an ad page! It was a page about an organisation that has been featured in BBC documentaries, newspaper articles, etc. Definitely a notable topic, and if there was a bit of fluff about the founder's motivations, that was not cause for a speedy deletion - rather a maintenance template! Can you please put the old text of the page somewhere under my user page hierarchy so that I can review and improve it?
Thanks, --Slashme (talk) 22:24, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sure. Click here to view it. -FASTILY (TALK) 23:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
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| Happy new year and we will see you contributing in 2012 of the new year. We are hoping to see and help to make Wikipedia better! Katarighe (Talk · Contributions · E-mail) 22:58, 31 December 2011 (UTC) |
- Thank you!! Happy New Years! All the best, FASTILY (TALK) 23:31, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Delete of Template:Lyon
Hi, this template was unnecessary because it already Template:Olympique Lyonnais I have a template named and think it is more a template. Do you wonder could you delete? We wish you a good year. Sincerely, good work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ozankra (talk • contribs) 01:17, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Ahmadiyya history
[100] Please be more careful and check page history. Thanks. —Dark 03:45, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Non-free files in your user space
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File
Please take a look at my post here. X.One SOS 06:55, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- Have patience, please. -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 07:01, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fastily, the photo you deleted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Whyte was authorised CC BY 3.0 by the photographer via permissions@ — please reinstate it. Robertwhyteus (talk) 08:32, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
07:12, 1 January 2012 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:LK&LKE-all-tautomers.png" (F3: Media file with improper license)
Updated-LK&LKE.png
I screwed up and did put an incorrect license info when I first uploaded the file for the creator.
I protested the proposed deletion, but either not fast enough, or my protest was not valid so the file disappeared.
Here is the corrected information for the file, but I can't get past a notice that this file has previously been deleted.
{{cc-by-sa-3.0|Kenneth Hensley, Ph.D.}}
Author: Kenneth Hensley, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Department of Neurosciences, Research Director, Department of Pathology, University of Toledo Medical Center Squeakycatta (talk) 08:35, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
When I upload, I get the following message: A file identical to this file (File:LK&LKE-all-tautomers.png) has previously been deleted. You should check that file's deletion history before proceeding to re-upload it.
When I check the file's deletion history, I get the following: Wikipedia does not have a File page with this exact title. Please do not manually create this page. If you wish to upload a file called LK&LKE-all-tautomers.png, see Wikipedia:Uploading images for instructions. If this image was recently deleted, it may still be displayed in some pages as a red link. See a list of pages that display this image.
Full circle.
I would like to do the right thing as far as Wikipedia, really. The author does not have the patience to deal with this sort of problem which is why I am attempting to get this corrected file uploaded for him.
At this point, I am at a complete loss on how to get this corrected image uploaded and any direction will be greatly appreciated.
Ed Squeakycatta (talk) 08:35, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- Try again, with the new license. When uploading, check the box for "Ignore any warnings". -FASTILY Happy 2012!! 10:06, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Renamed image thymosin beta10
This appears to have resulted in deletion of the image from its first use location on beta-thymosins page Jgedwards (talk) 10:25, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
tUnE-yArDs (what an eyesore...)
Hi Fastily,
Happy New Year! A little while ago you were very helpful in semi-protecting an article. This time around I've come to ask you for another favor, moving an article if that's okay. Musician Tune-Yards's article is styled as tUnE-yArDs (urgh...), but I can't move it myself. To get through the redtape and the waiting time at Request Moves takes a very long time, would you be so kind to enforce WP:TITLEFORMAT? I appreciate your help. Thanks. --Soetermans. T / C 13:42, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- We're not here to have articles according to stylization though... just like we never created Prince's symbol as a font :-) (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 13:47, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
- Here as in Fastily's talk page, or here as in Wikipedia? :P English isn't my mother tongue and eventhough I consider myself to be near-fluent in the language, sometimes I can't fully understand what is said (or written) - I'm afraid I don't truly get what you are trying to say, Bwilkins... Would you mind rephrasing the thing you said? :) --Soetermans. T / C 14:00, 1 January 2012 (UTC)