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[edit] Leo Wanta

Hi. I notice that our article about Leo Wanta needs fixing again, but I'm too busy to tackle it myself. You were the last registered user to edit it. Would you be able to organize a rescue effort? Thanks, CWC 00:54, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] From Fizzyskull

Hey demon, I'm new and unexperienced at this wiki editing thing (in fact, I don't even think I'm doing this right!),but I am posting this as a question. I would seriously like to know why you deleted my page on Clyde Thomas Crowder jr? I know that it seemed fairly normal, and I should have waited till I had finished the page, but I had needed more exact facts and needed to finish it completely. I was planning to add to it and edit it for the rest of the year so that maybe by the end I would have had a impressive page. I do not want to start a quarrel, and I guess you don't see it from my perspective, but I think that this man was quite impressive. I just wanted to get all the facts. It took quite a bit of digging to find these facts about him, and to get all of them, I thought would be impressive! (that's why his birthwieght was on their!). I guess I should add to it off the Wikipedia site and add it when it's better, but that's against the point. Wikipedia is supposed to be about everything and anything. Well, I will add to it and touch it up, and when it's ready, I'll post it.

P.S. Your comment for deleting Tom Crowder was because he was normal without his military qualifications. 1. Without her books, JK Rowling is a normal lady. 2. Even without his military qualifications, he is leader of Ajilon Managed Services, nominated in Getronics for an award that others wouldn't have a chance at, owned his own buisness and is constantly being awarded and told that he is a model worker, always making things better than expected! That in my opinion is not normal for a pre-poor farm boy who couldn't afford University, so joined the military.

I just deleted the expired WP:PROD. User:DOSGuy is the person who tagged it for deletion, perhaps you could ask him.

[edit] Re:Your notice

Well, it's unfortunate to see you drop some parts of your wikilife, but I applaud your wish to get back to editing. I had a similar issue a while ago, and I realized editing >> wikidrama. It makes Wikipedia fun again. :) Nishkid64 (talk) 18:36, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the support. I think it will be better this way. ^demon[omg plz] 20:07, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your CSD reason thing

Could you please restore it, or if nothing else, can I restore it to my userspace? Thanks, Kwsn (Ni!) 19:21, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Go ahead, it's still at User:^demon/csd.js. Just copy the last revision before I blanked it. I figured it was useless, given the existence of MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown. ^demon[omg plz] 20:06, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
Not useless. I like yours better than the new thing. I'd like to go on using yours, too. :) (Adding) I can copy it (at least that sounds easy), but I bet we're not the only ones. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:07, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
You're more than welcome to, just copy+paste the whole thing into your Monobook.js and you should be good to go. ^demon[omg plz] 20:09, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. It seems to be working. I like how customizable it is. :) You've made it so easy to tweak the language for unusual situations. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:23, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
I tried :-) Glad you like it. ^demon[omg plz] 20:25, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
It's much better than the built in reason too, thanks! Kwsn (Ni!) 21:59, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I much prefer your script to the new default way of doing this. It, in a word, sucks. Good idea, but the execution could be done a lot better... EVula // talk // ☯ // 22:56, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
I also like your tool better, at least until the dropdown becomes more comprehensive.--Kubigula (talk) 00:48, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
What they said... . Not only is your tool more comprehensive, but I love that it's so easy to customise. – Black Falcon (Talk) 07:05, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
I prefer your script as well, ^demon, and have copied it to a subpage in my user space (User:AuburnPilot/csd.js). Anyone who wants to keep their monobook.js less cluttered is welcome to switch User:^demon/csd.js to User:AuburnPilot/csd.js within their monobook.js and it will continue to work as it previously did. - auburnpilot talk 16:58, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Came here for the same reason as the rest - it's a very handy device, thanks for devising it in the first place and I'm glad it can still "live on". Thanks too to AuburnPilot, for keeping our monobooks uncluttered! BencherliteTalk 21:20, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Steve Pavlina

There's a DRV for Steve Pavlina, which you deleted, here. I'm not sure if you've been notified, so I thought I'd drop you a note. Cheers, Black Falcon (Talk) 07:03, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Craig Field

There was a small article on Craig Field which I had noted needed editing a few months ago . Unfortunately by the time I returned to it the article had been deleted. The log says: 02:45, 1 November 2007 ^demon (Talk | contribs) deleted "Craig Field" ‎ (completely unsourced BLP, notability outside of DUI largely unestablished)

Field was an outstanding rugby league player of the nineties who's career was effectively ended in 2001 by the use of recreational drugs. From memory, the original article focused more on the drugs than on his league talents. I can re-do the article from scratch, but it would be great to be able to reference whatever was already there. Can you access that information at all? Many thanks, ~ Florrie • talk • 10:17, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your bot

I would like to clone this bot, as it was a good bot and it that should be running, but you do not seem wanting to do that, which is okay! Please contact me via my talk page if it is a yes or no. <DREAMAFTER> <TALK> 22:29, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

It was just an AWB bot which I gave regexes too, nnothing really to clone. ^demon[omg plz] 22:37, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
Which regexes? <DREAMAFTER> <TALK> 22:59, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
I wrote each one individually each time I ran the bot. Each template I ran it on was different, so a different regular expression was written. I didn't save them though. Sorry. ^demon[omg plz] 19:09, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Ah, okay. Thanks anyway! <DREAMAFTER> <TALK> 21:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits

I notice this page was recently deleted. I spent quite some time on this page. I notice that someone else put on the actual rules (the UCP) breaching copyright. However, instead of removing the rules, the entire page was deleted. Could it please be reinstated (without the rules)? It is an article on an important set of rules that governs more than one trillion dollars of trade annually. Alan Davidson (talk) 13:01, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi again. I am writing to you because your user name appears on the page. Are you the correct person to approach in this regard? If not can you tell me who? Alan Davidson 00:52, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
Forgive me for putting this up again - but I do not have a reply. Could you tell me the answer - or perhaps tell me I am speaking to the wrong person. Alan Davidson (talk) 00:32, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I do not currently have the time to look into this. ^demon[omg plz] 02:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Speedy deletion of User:^demon/news

A tag has been placed on User:^demon/news requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Docg 17:55, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Uniform Customs and practice for Documentary Credits

I think it's good practice that admins should be available for reasonable discussion of their actions, so I was disappointed to see the lack of response from you to questions raised by Alan Davidson on your talk page (see User talk:^demon/Archive4#Uniform_Customs_and_Practice_for_Documentary_Credits_2). I understand that you have desysopped yourself, but it would have been good to suggest somewhere else for the querying editor to ask for help.

Anyway, it seems to me that the copyvio issue has easily resolved, so I have reinstated the page and all its history, and then reverted the addition of the copyvio text: see revision history. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:30, 8 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Thank you

Thank you for the Doran link on your user page. It is priceless ... and alarming. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 21:17, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem. ^demon[omg plz] 00:21, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You!

The TomStar81 Spelling Award
Be it known to all members of Wikipedia that ^demon has corrected my god-awful spelling on the page USS Illinois (BB-65), and in doing so has made an important and very significant contribution to the Wikipedia community, thereby earning this TomStar81 Spelling Award and my deepest thanks. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 03:42, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
You're very welcome, glad I could help. ^demon[omg plz] 04:50, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] rollback

This is one admin feature (now live for non-admins WP:ROLL) that should help you in your new goal of focusing on editing, so I restored it to your account. Cheers, NoSeptember 20:24, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, but please remove it again. I won't be needing it. I'm not reverting vandalism or in an edit war. Additionally, it violates my promise to never have any status on my account except for user. ^demon[omg plz] 23:13, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Done. Cheers, NoSeptember 23:19, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ACCESS (TV channel)

If i were to be able to place the appropriate copyright and fair-use image tags on the images that were deleted from the ACCESS (TV channel) article, would you be willing to undelete them? RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 05:26, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm not an administrator, can't undelete. ^demon[omg plz] 17:03, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Eep. my mistake. i assumed you were since it stated that you were the one that deleted. Sorry to bother you about this, fellow wikipedian :) RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 19:00, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
It's fine. I probably /did/ delete them at the time. I resigned my sysop bit a little over a month ago or so. ^demon[omg plz] 20:28, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

I understand. RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 22:02, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Troubles

jc37 has requested some help on a recurrent issue, and with your previous involvement with the problem, I was hoping you might help him out. If you didn't have anything to do with this, then my apologies. Octane [improve me] 21.01.08 0853 (UTC)

I'm not entirely sure what this is about. ^demon[omg plz] 17:09, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Well, my apologies then. I was thinking of who had been involved in this previously, and I recalled your username. Octane [improve me] 22.01.08 1031 (UTC)

[edit] category:critics of Islam

You may be interested in Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2008_January_27. What does CSD C1 mean? This was the edit comment when you deleted category:anti-Islam activists. Andries (talk) 17:01, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your RfA

I've added an optional question. Good luck, dihydrogen monoxide (H20) 22:21, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Garvey Tabloid stuff

Thanks, ˆdemon, for deleting the tabloid stuff from the Steve Garvey Article. I realize there are some who will disagree, but we need to take a stand sometimes. When I'm asked how I know it's tabloid stuff, my answer is: "I know it when I smell it :-).

Be healthy,

Marc Riddell

(Michael David (talk) 23:01, 15 February 2008 (UTC))

{OOps sorry. wrong talk page. too tired. cheers, Dlohcierekim Deleted? 05:11, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] You are again an administrator

I have closed your RfA as successful, as I believe that is the correct interpretation of the consensus given all relevant circumstances. I hope you will take on board the concerns raised by opposers and will factor them in when discharging your administrative duties in future. Best wishes, WjBscribe 02:28, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you Will. I will do my best not to let the community down and I have taken the comments by the opposers to heart, most certainly. ^demon[omg plz] 02:29, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations, ^demon, on the outcome of your RfA. I do kindly suggest taking things easy, though. Acalamari 03:07, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to drop a note to say that despite my comments to WJBscribe, I don't hold a grudge against you, and I'm certainly not seeking to have the decision overturned. At this point I just want some clarity from him for the future. From the tone of my earlier comments, you probably don't think too much of me right now, or even believe that I'm being sincere, and I understand that. I also want to apologize for the comment I made regarding Veropedia, as I do think that's a really valuable project that has done much to help at Wikipedia. I'm not anti-Veropedia, and I think you guys get much unfair criticism; I'm sorry to have added to that. I wish you the best of luck, and hope in time we have the chance to work together on something and bury any remnants of what probably feels like a hatchet. Sincerely, --JayHenry (talk) 03:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Wow! Congratulations, indeed, and welcome back to the mayhem that's adminship :) Good to have you back - Alison ❤ 04:53, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Congrats again, from here, and welcome back! FT2 (Talk | email) 05:27, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

  • <aol> Guy (Help!) 10:11, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Good to have you back onboard. I have no doubt that your work will be appreciated. Regards, Rudget. 13:34, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Glad to see you were successful. I look forward to working with you again. -JodyB talk 13:37, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Agreed. Good to see you back, just take it easy. dihydrogen monoxide (H20) 23:40, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
You deserve it ;) We're lucky to have your services once more. AGK (contact) 22:23, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Okay, glad to see you back to help! Will you now consider removing the image on your user page, as I personally find it unbecoming of an admin. If you don't want to, that's fine as well. Pedro :  Chat  23:24, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! Pedro :  Chat  23:27, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

While I !voted oppose, I have a great deal of respect for WJBscribe and will wish you good luck and congratulations regardless! --Kralizec! (talk) 12:36, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Non-free image work

You said. "To anyone who says this close will bring problems in the future, could you please discuss said problems with me?" I too think the issue with the close is mainly the precedent it sets for reconfirmation RfAs being different from normal RFAs, but I do have a specific question for you. Could I ask you to clarify what you meant by "If re-approved, I wish to continue my work largely where I left off, in the realm of non-free content.". To that end, you might want to read the thread at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive127#How to handle the WMF non-free image deadline and the (rather obscure) follow-up by Betacommand at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Betacommand#Random Proposal. Essentially, I am concerned about the timing of someone asking for their bit back to deal with non-free content as this deadline approaches, and I am concerned that some admins who are, shall we say, less enamoured of non-free content, might use the arrival of this deadline as a way to implement new speedy deletion criteria for images (or change existing speedy deletion criteria) without proper discussion. I have been trying for a week to start discussion on this issue, but few people seem to care. If you care, as I presume you do, I would be grateful if you could contribute to, or help start, the discussion, as well as clarifying your position on non-free content and when you would discuss and/or fix a non-free image and its rationale/source/other problem rather than deleting. Thanks. Carcharoth (talk) 11:37, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

While it is no secret that I am not a fan of non-free content (for ideological reasons, but let's not go there), I was not re-joining in order to "meet the deadline" so to speak. Yes, I am aware of the impending deadline, but I hadn't honestly thought about it in weeks. I had been following some of the threads you mention, but I will certainly look over them in more detail. There are many images who have a perfectly legitimate fair use rationale (not necessarily written, but we have a valid reason to use), and there are many more who do not. The trick is sorting through all of them. ^demon[omg plz] 13:31, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Yeah. And getting people to avoid imploding over the issues. See WP:AN/B. I still can't believe someone created a shortcut for that page. Can I also ask you, as someone who as far as I know hasn't got involved so far, and whose opinion I respect, whether this is useful discussion or an attack page? The MFD was here and I'm still in a fair amount of shock that redirection and protection was considered suitable. Oh and thanks for the reasoned reply. It is now at DRV, but I don't think many people who participated in the debate are aware of it. Is it acceptable to inform those who took part in the debate? Carcharoth (talk) 13:45, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
First and foremost, it is /always/ polite to inform xFD participants of a DRV on the same issue. Although, it always helps to get outside opinions too. And I read that page a few days ago...personally, I think it's a thinly-veiled attack on BC. While his work may not enjoy the support of the average uploader (and he gets a fair amount of flak, in addition to constructive criticism), going around and tagging things for cleanup is a necessary task. This page set out to make it look as though BC was acting in bad faith, at least from my perspective. ^demon[omg plz] 13:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Fair enough. Since you seem more responsive than some of those at the MfD, can I ask you what specific points are attacks? Following discussion with the closing admin, I am considering ressurecting the useful bits, but I can't do that if no-one wants to discuss which bits are useful and which bits are not. I archived the useful bits of here to here, and no-one seems to have objected to that. Doing the same with the main page here will be a real hassle, and I do need some outside opinion first. Would you be prepared to help point out the really bad bits that can be quietly dropped? The whole process of trying to extract the good bits from the bad is incredibly clunky. It would have been better if the whole thing had had an "archive" box slapped on it and it had been left to gather dust, but still visible. Carcharoth (talk) 14:26, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Looking at the "this page in a nutshell" portion gives two issues immediately:
  • BetaCommandBot tagging for NFCC10c is causing repeated issues in AN/ANI/other
  • The issue is with the bot and its NFC10c operation only, not policy
Just comes across as POV to me. I'm a bit busy this morning, so I don't have time to go over it in detail. I'll see if I can find any sections worth keeping and I'll post here then. Have a great day. ^demon[omg plz] 14:32, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of Al_Zimmerman

I was disappointed to see that within 48 hours of regaining your admin status, you sought to delete my article[1] on Al Zimmerman, the Florida Department of Children and Families spokesman who was recently arrested for child pornography. You wrote:

Largely unsourced BLP with questionable notability. I see referenced material, but I do not see an establishment of notability. It leaves me asking "Ok, why is he different from any other criminal?"[2]

Because you did not provide me with an opportunity to respond, I will do so here. The article was not "largely unsourced" and it possessed more than sufficient notability. I believe the reference provided was to a Fox News story (I can no longer see the article), but there are hundreds of solid news stories about Zimmerman and the many scandals he has spawned that can serve as references. A simple note on the discussion page or a tag would have been sufficient and I would have swiftly added more content and references. Zimmerman is different from other alleged criminals because he was a politically appointee in the administration of former Florida governor Jeb Bush, brother of President George W. Bush, and he was appointed on the recommendation of current Florida governor Charlie Crist. Zimmerman is notable as both a former television broadcaster as well as being the public face and spokesman for Florida's Department of Children and Families. He is the centerpiece of burgeoning scandals in the State of Florida that deal with Crist's judgement and relationship to Zimmerman[3] (Crist is frequently mentioned as a possible Vice Presidential candidate on the Republican ticket),[4] political patronage,[5][6] DCF's care of foster children in their custody (one of Zimmerman's alleged victims was in DCF's care),[7] and the lack of criminal background checks on DCF hires.[8] This is the first article that I began as a new wiki editor and your action has really soured me on wikipedia. I have just read your RFA and it is abundantly clear to me that you have not changed your conduct at all[9] or taken any of the advice of your critics.[10] Also, given the politically sensitive nature of Zimmerman's case, I sincerely hope that your deletion was not politically motivated. --MiamiManny (talk) 07:40, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

I didn't delete it. Might you check the deletion log and who deleted it? I sought a perfectly valid AfD. ^demon[omg plz] 01:51, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
The deletion log lists two admins: you and east718.[11]. It says:
16:54, 24 February 2008 ^demon (Talk | contribs) deleted "Al Zimmerman" ‎ (Oops).
16:53, 24 February 2008 East718 (Talk | contribs) deleted "Al Zimmerman" ‎ (purely negative bio, treat as a blp1e deletion)
I am relatively new to wikipedia, and so I am not sure why you wrote "Oops" or why there are two deletion records from different admins in the log. If this log indicates that you did not delete my article, then I apologize to you. This was my first article and to have a wiki admin suddenly delete it and the accompanying image without the chance to comment or remedy a perceived problem is infuriating. After I pursue the review/complaint process, I am not sure I will stick around. I would much prefer to spend my time editing rather than fighting the abuse of administrator tools. As both an editor and user of wikipedia, I believe wikipedia should err on the side of inclusion and zealous admins should put their efforts into finding ways to include content rather than seeking ways to delete it. P.S. If you can restore my article and image, without the hassle of reviewing, appealing, complaining, etc., I would appreciate it.--MiamiManny (talk) 04:25, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
The reason my name showed up in the log there was because my AFD nom conflicted with east718's deletion of the page. We ended up with a single revision with /only/ my AFD nom on it, so I removed that after I saw east718 had removed the article. ^demon[omg plz] 04:27, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

Even though it's now a moot point, I realize I was wrong for opposing your RfA and I am very happy that it passed. I wish you luck with the mop. RyanGerbil10(Kick 'em in the Dishpan!) 14:50, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your words of support. :-) ^demon[omg plz] 08:05, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Garvey again

Thought you might be interested in this. The first editor there is someone I've had run-ins with before on completely unrelated articles. POV warrior that may need some special attention. (I had tagged this article a long time ago and the next couple edits remove the nonsense). —Wknight94 (talk) 17:49, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] DC Meetup on May 17th

Your help is needed in planning Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4! Any comments or suggestions you have are greatly appreciated. The Placebo Effect (talk) 18:31, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] DC Meetup on May 17th

Your help is needed in planning Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4! Any comments or suggestions you have are greatly appreciated. The Placebo Effect (talk) 19:20, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re-review Deletion of Category:Wikipedians by fraternity and sorority and all subcats

I would like to request that you re-review the deletion of Wikipedians by fraternity and sorority in light of both Wikipedians by high school and Wikipedians by alma mater. I bring this up in light of #1 and #3 of the process of challenging deletion debates on Wikipedia:Deletion_review. Particularly, I would like to highlight the following bullets:

  • Strong Delete (Wikipedians by high school) - As those who've seen my comments in previous discussions involving these categories may remember, I oppose these alma mater categories. While college or university attended may possibly be notable (especially considering possible degrees), general education attendance doesn't seem useful to me, and seems to be more of "chat room" or even of the oft-exampled "myspace", in utility.
  • Delete all (Wikipedians by high school) - per above. Categorizing by high school attended does not help Wikipedia, unilike categorizing by college attended, which has much more potential to be collaborative.
  • Keep. (Wikipedians by alma mater) Serves an obvious collaborative purpose of connecting people who went to the same school. On top of that, there's the less legalistic and more realistic concern that people might just be interested in organizing categories like this on Wikipedia.
  • Strong Keep (Wikipedians by alma mater) Bona fide collaborative potential (as per RockMFRM and Mike Selinker) should trump WP:NOT#SOCIALNET. WP:NOT#SOCIALNET should only be invoked in the absence of any real potential for collaboration, which is obviously not the case here.
  • Keep (Wikipedians by alma mater) - many people identify more with their alma mater than with the city or state they are currently living in. Unless you propose to delete ALL "Wikipedian by X" categories, I can't see jettisoning this one.

Specifically, I would like to throw out these points about fraternities and sororities as points which were not brought up when this debate was taking place:

  • Many fraternities and sororities are deeply established and have histories nearly as long as universities.
  • Members of fraternal organizations have significantly deeper understandings of their organizations histories which are, to a lesser or greater extent, less easily accessible to people outside the organization, and organizing members within fraternal organizations for collaboration would prove significant in developing encyclopedic entries. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rasamassen (talk • contribs) 16:14, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Though social network potential does exist, but collaboration potential is greater and more necessary to form the articles of these organizations. This is because fraternities and sororities are more spatially spread out, making histories and other encyclopedic information harder to develop. This includes establishing significant events within the history of the organization as well a establishing such things as lists of significant members of the organization. This is especially true for those organizations whose histories are currently lost or fragmented because of poor organization at points during their histories (such as during the Great Depression for many United States fraternal organizations).
  • Due to the significance fraternal organizations have played in the history of the United States (for example, all but three US Presidents have been members of fraternal organizations and such random facts such as the arrows on Wrigley's gum come from Pi Beta Phi, the sorority Wrigley's wife belonged to) and the significant number of people who are members of fraternal organizations, the organizational argument becomes stronger both in the potential to organize a significant number of people and the need to organize people to develop the articles about organizes which do have significant roles in the history of the United States and possibly other countries.

Thanks for considering opening this debate back up. Rasamassen (talk) 16:11, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Just for my own clarification, are you asking it to be reopened to potentially delete? The by-High School and by-Fraternity ones were deleted, but the by-Alma-mater ones were not. Just a bit confused. ^demon[omg plz] 17:09, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I am asking to reopen the by-Fraternity ones for discussion. Rasamassen (talk) 17:37, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
You are more than welcome to list it at WP:DRV, but I'd rather not bring it up again myself. ^demon[omg plz] 12:23, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please restore image

Hello - I specifically asked for an image not to be deleted and asked once for it to be restored, but it seems someone asked you to go ahead and delete it again. Can you please restore Image:Cityrailsign.png as I had it before? JRG (talk) 23:52, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Seems like someone already restored it. ^demon[omg plz] 14:22, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Interviewed?

A 19-year-old named Chad Horohoe was interviewed for an LA Times article. [12] Now that I'm paging through deleted revisions, it seems to all click (Virginia, being 18 as of April 2007), but I'd just like confirmation anyway: are you Chad Horohoe? hbdragon88 (talk) 00:34, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Yep. Not my first WP-related interview either. See here, for some more. ^demon[omg plz] 14:21, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I'm sorry lot...

Dear Mr Calton:

I'm sorry lot, I did not know that could not do that. The only reason that I have for redirect to my user page, it is because of the accent that bears my name Díaz. Because my user page was created without the accent, according to British standards, ie, Diaz. So, I thought that it was possible to make a redirection to my user page, which it is my real name of author, and which is not a nickname or alias. Georgeos Diaz-Montexano is the same which Georgeos Díaz-Montexano. If someone had written a page in Wikipedia about myself, studies, CV, investigations and discoveries, etc., and had appointed the page with my real name, Georgeos Díaz-Montexano, then I suppose that this problem would not exist. In any case, if you believe appropriate eliminate the redirect from the page Georgeos Díaz-Montexano to my user page Georgeos Diaz-Montexano, I accept with great respect your decision. My intentions are to collaborate in harmonious manner, peacefully and without conflict of any kind. I do not want to be a nuisance to anybody. I am very grateful for your notice, and suggestions. Kind regards, --Georgeos Díaz-Montexano (talk) 03:53, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to write to me. As a general rule, we do not redirect the main namespace to the user namespace. This is done in order to prevent confusion of our end users, who might think they are reading a biography when they're in fact at a user's page. I hope you'll understand (and maybe you could ask for some help over at WP:CHU, they might be able to help you change your username to have the accent like you want :-) Have a great day. ^demon[omg plz] 14:35, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inappropriate Deletion of Wakfu

Speedy deletion of Wakfu was not appropriate under CSD G4 for the following three reasons. First, I wrote it entirely from scratch, thus it was not a copy of previously deleted material. Second, the new version addressed every single concern underlying previous deletions. Third, CSD G4 applies only to articles deleted by discussion, not to speedy deletions. Kindly restore the article at your earliest convenience. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 11:53, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Much thanks! Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 14:27, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
No problem. ^demon[omg plz] 14:29, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hi!

I don't understand why some misspelled Talk pages are valid and others are not... Regards. --Damifb (talk) 18:26, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

If I deleted any of those, I apologize. Redirects from misspellings are perfectly acceptable. ^demon[omg plz] 19:26, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
But I'm talking about redirections for talk pages, not for articles. For example, you just deleted Talk:Julio Cesar Green.

--Damifb (talk) 20:20, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Typically, the article is only redirected. Sometimes people redirect the talk pages too. Doesn't really hurt anything though. ^demon[omg plz] 14:29, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Ok Then!--Damifb (talk) 19:58, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Szabo

Please put the article back, if you want to try to build a consensus that is fine. There was a reference in the article, so don't just delete articles. Chessy999 (talk) 20:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

There was no source. There was a single external link to this, which isn't a source. ^demon[omg plz] 14:32, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Yes, it is a source did you see the name at the end the company name at the top ? Chessy999 (talk) 00:01, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Just because it's from the company doesn't make it a source. How does this page show that Szabo is notable? ^demon[omg plz] 11:00, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spill.com article

Hey there. Just saw that you deleated the Spill.com article. I just wondered why. I mean, I understand wikipedia's policy is pretty tight on websites and stuff, but I thought that it is owned by a pretty big company and it does have quite a lot of members... Also, I don't work for spill.com or anything, just if you were wondering =p Oh and also, please don't delete my account. I really do love wikipedia and will edit something if an article isn't up to date or whatever, I just thought it could be a valid article. Anyway, you're proberly right, but hey, whatever. Thanks, David Black Mesa (talk) 18:06, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

The way the article was written, there was no content and it was basically a 1 sentence ad for them. An article /might/ be worthy of inclusion, but what was there was not. ^demon[omg plz] 18:07, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dragonixta

Charlie Benton (Writer/ Author)

I think you got my page deleted, could i please have an answer?

The article that was written had almost no content. It had about 3 sentences talking about him (none of which explained why he was notable). It also mentioned contacting him and had an e-mail address, both of which are non-encyclopedic things. ^demon[omg plz] 18:09, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kicking your ass ;-)

Wikipedia:Kick the ass of anyone who renominates GNAA for deletion before 2007 is a historic policy page, that should in fact remain in the historic record. (For one, I need it to explain one particular block in my block log. Currently I noticed it was gone when I tried to link to it in a current MFD kerfluffle) . As you deleted it in 2007, strictly speaking, I have no right to kick your ass (either directly or obliquely), but would you please undelete it without that threat anyway? :-P Thanks for your time.

--Kim Bruning (talk) 19:33, 10 March 2008 (UTC) ps. no I won't take this to DRV, that page has had enough DRV scars as is. (it was part of a weird WP:POINT VFD/DRV recursion situation which several bureaucratically minded wikipedians allowed to come into existence. I ended up enforcing the policy while the page was deleted. Great fun to talk about years later :-P, not so much at the time )

Y Done ^demon[omg plz] 14:32, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you! :-) --Kim Bruning (talk) 19:42, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Aaja Nachle

Please restore the article. Why have you deleted it? The film was already released. I will clean it up. Shahid • Talk2me 18:35, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

I can restore it, but the copyvio (which is why it was deleted, not as spam. I clicked the wrong button) needs to remain out. ^demon[omg plz] 20:18, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
No problem friend. Just restore it. Thanks, Shahid • Talk2me 16:59, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Y Done ^demon[omg plz] 17:02, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Darren M Jackson

I have added web content and external references to verify notable, used reliable sources, show this fighter is pro, please reply thanks. Diamonddannyboy (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 10:26, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Meet criteria of notabilty under WP:ATHLETE. Thank you. Diamonddannyboy (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 19:19, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Wagner Logic

Why was it deleted? I had just started working on it.... It wasn't done yet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spearchuck (talk • contribs) 21:30, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

It was written like an ad for the band, and did not show how the band is notable. ^demon[omg plz] 03:51, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:PGP

Are you going to manually add the category back to the people from whom it was removed, or at least inform them that the list of users with more than a passing familiarity with PGP and GPG has been eliminated? This one is a little more relevant than most since Category:Wikipedians who use PGP is also a, perhaps more robust, version of committed identities, so in this case, I think this needs to be an exception to the no-automatic rule. -- Avi (talk) 07:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Not to mention that if you want to be consistent, you need to remove the admin cat from {{administrator}} which I personally think would be the wrong thing to do :) -- Avi (talk) 07:30, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I've dropped a slightly more detailed rationale on the template talk page, perhaps we should continue there if you still believe the auto-cat is an issue. -- Avi (talk) 07:34, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] removal of A-star trips

Hi, I was wondering why you removed A-star trips. It is a company name etc. etc., but the importance should be clear: for 8 years people have been ripped of by this scam. I would say this would qualify as significant enough.

In any case, I don't see how keeping the page would hurt wikipedia.

Sincerely,

Joost van der Mandele

Please see our guidelines for notability. ^demon[omg plz] 12:08, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:PJSta1.JPG‎ & Image:PJSta2.JPG‎

Actually, these two are in the commons. The difference between these and the version in the commons, are that the ones in the commons have lower-case letters. ----DanTD (talk) 23:12, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah, didn't think of that. They need to be tagged with the alternate name then, so they get categorized properly. I was looking at the "With same name." ^demon[omg plz] 01:30, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removing instance of image HeaderV2 04.jpg that has been speedily deleted per (CSD I4)

You did a speedy delete of this image under the guidelines that a soruces wasn't specified. However, it was specified that the image came from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration‎ Department of Communication. This is a U.S. federal property, and therefore free-domain. The link to the image as host by the federal agency: http://www.samhsa.gov/images/header2006/headerV2_04.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Amiaheroyet (talk • contribs) 19:23, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Y Done. My mistake, and I apologize. I must've not seen that URL on the page either, it's been a busy week :(. I've also tagged it with {{commons ok}}, so it can be moved there and be utilized across projects. ^demon[omg plz] 02:46, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hello!

I would like to know WHY my articles on Space Impact Kappa Base, Block Breaker: Deluxe and Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep were deleted DESPITE me rewriting all of the added Features using my own words?? Did you even bother checking the content first? Because I had one more article with the same "problem" and it obviously turned out fine once I made the change - seeing as how the user Dweller removed the copyvio-tag and left that one intact.

If there was still something wrong about the articles - then DO point out WHAT so that I can take further actions as I now try to recover them... —Preceding unsigned comment added by ConraDargo (talk • contribs) 20:40, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Copyright is more than just the exact words being used. If we just took other sources and rewrote their material in our own words, it would still be a copyright issue. You need to compose neutral and non-advertising type language that is backed up (but not merely rewritten from) reliable independent 3rd party sources. ^demon[omg plz] 02:43, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting images

You have recently deleted some photos from aircraft articles on the basis of no fair use justification. While I accept that policy demands that fair use images need a proper justification, no warning was provided on the articles talk page before they were deleted - if this was done then it may have been possible for someone to provide a proper fair use justification (or even a free license) before the image needed to be deleted. I know the image uploader normally gets notified of impending image deletion, but he or she may not be active and may not be the best person to give a proper justification or better license. Notifying the talk pages of the articles that use the images could be helpful here.Nigel Ish (talk) 09:41, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

I understand where you're coming from on that. I must admit, I do not always check behind to ensure proper notification is given (it is so often, I get lazy and forget to check sometimes). Notifying the talk pages is more likely to garner the correct response, as opposed to an editor who might've left. ^demon[omg plz] 16:26, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Of course what would really be handy would be some notification on the article's talk pages of problems with Commons Images before they just disappear. Nigel Ish (talk) 18:40, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
I wish there was greater inter-project communication so things like that wouldn't happen. But what can you do? ^demon[omg plz] 23:01, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Followup on deletion of "Object-oriented magick"

Hi, ^demon. When you deleted Object-oriented magic, you may have missed that there was a second identical article at Object-Oriented_Magick. User:IceCreamAntisocial had requested that both be considered together. Thanks! Justin Eiler (talk) 22:20, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Missed that, sorry. Done now. ^demon[omg plz] 11:50, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:Categorization progress/Part1

A tag has been placed on Template:Categorization progress/Part1 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:15, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion.

Hello Demon, I've chosen you on the list of administrator's because I liked your username best. It wasn't bubbly and bubbly is totally not my thing. Anyway, my article was deleted and I would like to to be reinstated. My article was about my website XOParrots.com The website is very popular, we have thousands of members and we are a very large organization. We have ties to most bird communities around the world, we have even rescued birds in the name of the website. We are here to teach others about parrot ownership and we help people daily.

Lexhatesyou (talk) 08:01, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Here's the link to the deleted article. Hopefully ^demon sees this shortly. Enigma message 08:36, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Nope, valid speedy deletion. ^demon[omg plz] 11:21, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Awarding Barnstar

The Barnstar of Good Humor
Aprils fools day was a blast. Loads of users lightened up to have good old fashion fun. I want to thank you for taking part in editing this page in particular and even though I may not know you, embrace the same talk pages, or even edit with you in the near future, I'd like to award you this Barnstar for making Wikipedia a fun environment in which to contribute. Until next year. :) SynergeticMaggot (talk) 14:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NP Watcher

Hi, can you check my request to use NP Watcher? It'll make my life patrolling the new-pages easier. Fattyjwoods (Push my button) 04:25, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] my computer started deleating stuff

I turned on my lap one day and it was deleating stuff really fast and one of those things was my logon page now when i try to get on my computer it just says the policy client service failed. the log on access is denied. whats going on did my computer crash I havent used a computer long enough to know much about them —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.161.66.167 (talk) 19:15, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Fox

Once again, the interests of the deletionists have prevailed over the interests of the readers. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 17:47, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted Myst-related articles

Hey there. I'm going to begin working on cleaning up all of the pages related to the Myst franchise. There are several redlinks to deleted pages in these articles, and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind retrieving the text that was in these deleted articles so that I might salvage what I can and incorporate it into the existing articles.

Pages that were deleted (that I have found so far):

If you'd like to just place the text anywhere just let me know where it is. Alternately, you can place the text on separate subpages on my Userpage:

If you cannot do this action without undeleting the page, please let me know so that we can set something up. Also, please let me know if you are unable to do this.

Thank you! -- OranL (talk) 01:04, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

No time to look into this at the moment, sorry. Try WP:AN? ^demon[omg plz] 18:12, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for this link!! I will put in a request here. I probably should have investigated a little further before just giving to you...
Thanks again! -- OranL (talk) 20:43, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion?

Should this be deleted? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_SRS/Secret_Page --What does this button do? (talk) 04:21, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Those secret pages are silly and should probably all go. Not worth the effort to do so though. ^demon[omg plz] 18:12, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion Review for Releeshahn

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Releeshahn. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. -- OranL (talk) 16:48, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion Review for Garternay

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Garternay. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. -- OranL (talk) 16:53, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hi!

I just wanted to ask if you could add "gallon man day" to the list of holidays tomorrow on the main page because it's for math class extra credit. It's also my job in math for the day.

Spockezri (talk) 20:26, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please consider joining the working group for the WMF DC Chapter

Please consider joining the working group for the WMF DC chapter. Since we have a very active and very community oriented DC/MD/VA area group of Wikipedians, it only makes sense to develop it as a chapter, especially given the recent changes to the Board of Trustees structure, giving chapters more of a vote. Hopefully we will be either the first or the second officially recognized US Chapter (WMF Pennsylvania is pending as well), and hopefully our efforts will benefit WMF Penn as well. Remember, it's a working group, and this is a wiki, so feel free to offer changes, make bold changes to the group, and discuss on the talk page! I hope to see you there, as well as Wikimeetup DC 4 if you're attending. ⇒SWATJester Son of the Defender 16:47, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:$05.JPG

The image here: [13] (Image:$05.JPG) is not on commons unless i cannot find it. Can I have the source information so that I may upload it there? DragonFire1024 (talk) 01:24, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Here it was, deleted a few months after I cleaned up our local copy. I've restored the enwiki one for you. ^demon[omg plz] 11:39, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Military Insignia images needing copyright status check

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Category:Military Insignia images needing copyright status check, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Category:Military Insignia images needing copyright status check is used solely by a template that has been deleted (CSD C3).

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Category:Military Insignia images needing copyright status check, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot (talk) 13:00, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Dont worry, the Hang on template does not work, and as I can see from the link, it didnt work in your case either. Great Buracracy your a part of here. 71.193.2.115 (talk) 11:27, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rogue Screen shot

I uploaded the Rogue Screen shot, and added copyright information. I released using the GFDL. All the images on the Rogue page, were given the same liscense, albet as flawed as it is, but you deleted only two out of three.

What Do I need to add to to liscence of these images to keep them up? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.193.2.115 (talk) 10:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC) 71.193.2.115 (talk) 11:25, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ok More of the same...

Again... Rogue (Computer game) screen shots.

Apparently, they were uploaded, with out the proper copyrights. There was a warning that appeared, so the copyrights were added in accordance with the policy, but it true bureaucratic fasion, the whole automated process deleted the images WITHOUT CHECKING IF THE COPYRIGHTS were in place, if they were proper or were in place. ( Funny how I just basically copied the form of them off the image at the top of the currents page )

Also funny, how after two weeks, the ability to upload to wikicommons still has not been granted...

Then after the images were deleted, the links were deleted. Good job. Look for some credit in the re-uloaded images...::))

I hope the next seagull was eating mullberries... 71.193.2.115 (talk) 11:25, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject

Hi, I suppose you get alot of questions about projects, but I was wondering, what about a welcome project? A project that welcomes new users to Wikipedia and gets them started, I thought it might be a good idea. RedXII (talk) 13:34, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dubious image deletion

Why was this image deleted when it was simply a crop of this image which is public domain? I'm pretty sure I wrote that on the description page, but if not, can it be restored? Asdfasdf1231234 (talk) 20:51, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Excuse me, but are you ever going to reply to this? Asdfasdf1231234 (talk) 17:09, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Restored it awhile ago. Sorry. ^demon[omg plz] 17:11, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Oh, sorry. I just assumed because you didn't reply and it didn't reappear on the article page it hadnt been. Thanks, Asdfasdf1231234 (talk) 17:14, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion review for Image:The Simpsons Opening Credits Circus Couch Gag.ogg

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Image:The Simpsons Opening Credits Circus Couch Gag.ogg. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Adammw (talk) 13:04, 18 May 2008 (UTC)