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Removal of 'Art The Doorman' link as linkspam

Help me out here. Explain your rationale for removing the Art The Doorman article external link as linkspam on The Ambassador Hotel article? Thanks. 76.170.239.56 05:20, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Opinion on article up for deletion

Hey Dan,

could you please give your opinion on this article: [1] ? I think it should be a keep, but i'd like your opinion!

Regards, Joost --Jdevalk 10:49, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

what if i have a website..

hey thanks for your reply...

i have a website...will it be accepted.... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Probuzz (talk • contribs) 07:25, 7 January 2007 (UTC).

Brickell key image

Gone, thanks. NawlinWiki 01:37, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Nonviolent Communication

I noticed that you contributed to the Nonviolent Communication article at some time. A friend just recommended NVC to me because I am trying to mediate for Sri Lanka related articles. I really love it - I'm just devouring the eponymous book, but I am still very inexperienced. Moreover, applying the techniques to Wikipedia-style communication has its own challenges. Therefore, I could use some help from people who have more experience with NVC. You could help Wikipedia, Sri Lanka, the nonviolence movement and me greatly by looking at some of my edits and giving me honest feedback on User talk:SebastianHelm/NVC. — Sebastian 19:40, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Should I continue to rewrite the prose on the "employee survey" article?

Hello AbsolutDan: I'm very, very new to this, but it seems as though the original author of this article reverted all my edits back to the confusing prose, and that you restored my edits? If so, should I contiue working on the article? When I saw the confusing prose had been restored, I thought I'd just give up (unloved and unwanted, sniff, sniff, hahaha), but I'd love to continue to be helpful. Advice? Soltera 16:04, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your response and encouragement. I'll continue to work on the article. I was mainly having trouble "seeing" how to "read" the history page of articles, as well as my own watchlist. Getting the hang of it, by and by. Soltera 18:02, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Ben Richardson article

I believe Ben Richardson deserves a brief bio in Wikipedia by virtue of his membership in 'Grady' and his work with Alejandro Escovedo and in film. He was the only member of 'Grady' without a writeup. Macadavy 04:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC) Macadavy

Hi Dan: I'm responding here rather in the 'talk' for Ben Richardson as I have met your challenge by deleting his 'unworthy by reason of lack of notability' article. Thanks for teaching this newbie wikipedian a valuable lesson: never 'be bold' by correcting a factual error (Luck, TX = Luckenbach, TX) in a Wikipedia article lest this invite the unwanted attention of a changelog-trolling editor who will promptly challenge the entire original article, even if it has been beneath his notice for nearly two years - count your slapdown of a newbie a success! Macadavy 17:00, 11 January 2007 (UTC) Macadavy

Michael Donnelly AfD

Thanks for letting me know, I didn't notice the Trilogy article -- Samir धर्म 00:56, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Thefreelibrary.com article

Hello Dan,

I added a {hangon} tag and a note on the TheFreeLibrary.com talk page. Please let me know if I can be of help.

Sincerely, Steve —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Reader001 (talk • contribs) 04:11, 15 January 2007 (UTC).

Links

Hey - Sorry about the performance management link. I subsequently found 2 other lists of products that it fits on.

Timventura 21:37, 15 January 2007 (UTC)Timventura

Deletion of articles

I think you have made a mistake deleting articles like recently "pushcasting" or "hollywood-class handsets" I have prepared. Novelties of this kind can be very interesting for significant segments of your audience - in this case people of media industry. Excluding them will mean that you will have only old and obsolete things. Nevertheless, people look to your wikipedia if they are involved in current discussions and hope to find something helping to understand circumstances. Look on example of "MobiTV" in your wikipedia. This is a typical promotional article about a startup in Los Angeles in media industry. There isinformation, which can be truly understand as a crypto advertisement, despite the company is not very successful with what it promotes. On another side, there is nothing about things, which could be interesting for readers: service model, business model, intellectual property, technology. All the things, which make it different in the market place, and can be important for readers interested in things happening in media industry. Dr. Mark Skarbek —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Skarbek (talk • contribs) 18:03, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Dan, I got your message about sources on my Normandy Village Florida page.

This is all new to me. I have now LINKED the page, and CATEGORIZED the page.

I am working on reformating it to wiki standards. please give me suggestions if you can.

As for Sources.  ? The Village was built in 1957, and I have lived here since 1962. I am about the best SOURCE you could find about the history of the Village.

What do you wish me to do ?


Thanks again for your help. This has been fun I have all this knowledge on the subject, but just need to focus it for you I guess.


Starfleet7 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Starfleet7 (talk • contribs) 02:53, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Entry on Network Management page.

I added an entry for our NMS solution to a page and it was removed. It was no different then the others. Can you advise why it was removed? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by KKlapproth (talk • contribs) 14:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC).

Removal of signature

Hello there. Not that I am particularly bothered, but I was wondering why you removed my signature from the prod template of Ken Standfield? Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 12:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Leadership Development Wiki

Hi Dan,

The link to the Leadership DEvelopment Wiki is not sales of any kind. Simply information for someone interested in the topic. Thanks for your consideration...wiki.centerforleaderdevelopment.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Sincerely, Scott —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.170.199.24 (talk) 19:24, 23 January 2007 (UTC).

Party article - rainbow parties

Dear AbsolutDan, Why did you choose to revert the addition of the mention of rainbow parties in the Party article? Is there some sort of hidden moral agenda that Wikipedia forces upon its audience? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.185.215.144 (talk) 23:29, 23 January 2007 (UTC).

ILCP

Dear Dan:

I believe you deleted a stub article I am trying to create on the International League of Conservation Photographers. When a colleague went to find it today to expand on it, she couldn't find it. I had placed a {holdon} tag on it and provided an explanation.

Would you kindly restore it? The ILCP is not spam or self-promotion, it was named one of the top 10 innovations in photography in 2006 by American Photo. see http://www.popphoto.com/inamericanphotomagazine/3524/2006-innovators-conservationism.html

Thanks

Cristina Mittermeier —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cgmittermeier (talk • contribs) 01:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Dear Dan:

I believe you deleted a stub article I am trying to create on the International League of Conservation Photographers. When a colleague went to find it today to expand on it, she couldn't find it. I had placed a {holdon} tag on it and provided an explanation.

Would you kindly restore it? The ILCP is not spam or self-promotion, it was named one of the top 10 innovations in photography in 2006 by American Photo. see http://www.popphoto.com/inamericanphotomagazine/3524/2006-innovators-conservationism.html

Thanks

Cristina Mittermeier —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cgmittermeier (talk • contribs) 01:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Also, please un-redirect to Conservation International. This is a separate organization (run by my husband) and your edits will get me in legal trouble

Thanks

Cristina —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cgmittermeier (talk • contribs) 01:03, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


DEAR DAN:

YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED I AM NEW HERE. I TRULY APPRECIATE THE GUIDANCE AND PROMISE I AM TRYING TO LEARN AS FAST I CAN. I WELCOME YOUR SUGGESTIONS AND LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ON OTHER ARTICLES.

MANY THANKS

CRISTINA —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cgmittermeier (talk • contribs) 16:13, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your advise Dan. I will try to get people who are not affiliated with this organization to expand on the article.

Cristina —The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:{{{2}}}|{{{2}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{2}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{2}}}|contribs]]) 20:10, 24 January 2007 Cgmittermeier (UTC)

Howdy

Long time no see! glad to see that you are still alive! —— Eagle 101 (Need help?) 20:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC) (I noticed on an AFD).

References

Nice talking to you on Talk:Leakage. Since that article, and many others alike, lack references, I'd like to ask if it is legitimate to use dictionaries, university reference books or secondary school textbooks as references? Moreover, can we cite other published (internet or written) work of ourselves as references, if any? Please reply to my talk page. Thanks. --Deryck C. 14:30, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I hope we can work together finding references for the article ^^ --Deryck C. 07:24, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
I've added a number of website and book references onto the article. Have a look and edit if you find necessary. BTW, you said that not all contents of textbooks are factual. I agree with the statement because the vast majority of books contains personal opinions; however the factual part of those books should serve good reference. --Deryck C. 06:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your appreciation! In fact the Leakage article is quite an easy job for reference finding because there are so many definitions online. For the sorcerer lab reference, I think it's good enough a reference already since it is at any rate published material and therefore is not original research. --Deryck C. 16:37, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Nothing really "reliable", but at least the website is a proof of non-original reserach. --Deryck C. 16:45, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Mobile local search article

Hi AbsolutDan,

I added some links to this article as references - references are clearly needed - then realized after reading the guidelines that they are all commercial sites that fit the definition of spam in the sense that they sell their reports. {{Cleanup-spam}}

I am not associated with any of them, and have no interest in promoting them, but they really are the most credible sources of research and opinion. A casual reader would not consider paying the (often outrageous) prices they ask for their reports, but an industry professional would most likely already subscribe to them and see them as adding credibility to the article.

Should I cut out this section? Just remove the links?

My problem is that I do not know of any public-domain references on this subject that would be considered authoritative. There are some free online magazines, not cited, that often run articles on the subject, but they are advertiser-funded and usually extremely biased - they publish what they are paid to publish. Academia has yet to take notice of MoLo, which is sordidly commercial. The companies like Kelsey, Pierz and Whitaker, which run the big trade shows, are the clearing houses for industry information.

Help!

Aymatth2 01:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

OR policy etc. again

It appears to me that we are not referring to two different definitions of "original research"; we're just focusing on the two different aspects of the definition: you stress "reputable source"; I stress "unpublished". --Deryck C. 11:14, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

A potential blocking issue

As you may remember, there was a recent blocking incident with Qatar. This was related to the country's ISP sharing a similar IP address.

Well something similar occurs within the NHS Wide Area Network: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N3_%28NHS%29

It uses a pool of addresses as an internet gateway (194.176.105.0 - 194.176.105.255). These addresses mask internet browsing for over 1.1 Million potential staff (I think the number using desktops is probably half that).

Any blocking on IP address could cause problems..... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 194.176.105.35 (talk) 14:57, 30 January 2007 (UTC).

huh?

What are you going on about?

(194.176.105.35 13:34, 1 February 2007 (UTC))

choosing external links

Why are some external links allowed and not removed while others are removed?

On the employee surveys page, all of those links are to companies that can help a wikipedia reader with his or her surveys. All are links to promote websites.

Why do you keep removing the link I've added to the exact same type of company? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Covelli7 (talk • contribs) 21:09, 2 February 2007 (UTC).

NoobJ

This user [2] blanked your warnings to 24.118.235.138 and vandalized Gem Lake, Minnesota. I reverted both. Edward321 00:29, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

added citation you asked for

hello. i finally found the citation you asked for about the multi-generational nature of Normandy Village Florida. added it. hope i did it right. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Starfleet7 (talk • contribs) 22:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC).

Link on Los Lobos article

The Los Lobos link you removed is the link to the band's site. I don't think that is spam... Mikieminnow 23:56, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

No prob! Thanks for the quick reply!Mikieminnow 00:28, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

A very Californian RfA thanks from Luna Santin

 Thanks for your support in my not-so-recent RfA, which succeeded with a final tally of (97/4/4)! I've never been able to accept compliments gracefully, and the heavy support from this outstanding community left me at a complete loss for words -- so, a very belated thank you for all of your kind words.

I have done and will continue to do the utmost to serve the community in this new capacity, wherever it may take me, and to set an example others might wish to follow in. With a little luck and a lot of advice, this may be enough. Maybe someday the enwiki admins of the future will look back and say, "Yeah, that guy was an admin." Hopefully then they don't start talking about the explosive ArbComm case I got tied into and oh what a drama that was, but we'll see, won't we?

Surely some of you have seen me in action by now; with that in mind, I openly invite and welcome any feedback here or here -- help me become the best editor and sysop I can be.

Again, thank you. –Luna Santin

Only a little late! I'm finally getting around to finishing these, I hope. Thanks for your support, back then, and you'll be happy to know that I'm still as active as ever, on RC patrol. :) See you around the wiki. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

PROD

Heheh, encouraging! Thanks ! That's my first prod, unless I've suppressed some memory. I'll go do a few more. We sure have enough rubbish pages to practice on. Bishonen | talk 23:34, 28 April 2007 (UTC).

Electric Fantasy's Deletion

You said I could leave a message on your talk page. So why was it removed? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Doublefantasy80 (talk • contribs) 00:20, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

Interview with Jimmy Wales considered spam?

Hello,

Thank you very much for pointing my mistakes to me. In some cases I can agree they are true (though not always) but in the Jimmy Wales article I think a link to an interview with him can not be considered irrelevant. An I wrong? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by S Gladkova (talk • contribs) 10:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Removing academic links relevant to wikipedia entries

Hi. You removed actual academic links (did you visit the links) on Social Science Research Network because you thought they were spam. If you visit the links, you will see they are actual papers that have been presented at conferences and received awards for their respective subjects; I'm not out to make any money off of this nor am I doing it to increase my citations. They are, in fact, relevant to the articles involved... visit the links and read the papers before removing the links. SSRN is a community of academics that make their publications freely available for others. 68.223.56.104 18:31, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

INSTEON Page

Hi Dan,

Do you have any tips to get the tags removed from the INSTEON page? It's extremely hard to write about it in a neutral way when you firmly believe it's the best technology of its kind. Any input you have would be much appreciated.

Thank you so much,

Trevor —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.173.162.2 (talk • contribs) 17:32, 22 June 2007

Signpost updated for June 25th, 2007.

Signpost portion of this post removed --AbsolutDan (talk) 03:48, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Please help me understand why I am not allowed to add a link to CarTech's website. Other publishers listed on Wikipedia do have links to their website(s). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_publishers

Thank you.

recen changes to entry for "business Coaching

Hi Dan,

I notew the recent changes you made to the "business Coaching" entry, after I did a major update on the entry in June. in essence you threw out everything I added to the entry, and I wonder why you did so, I could go back and ammend it all back again and we could go like that forever, depending on who dies first, and that seems somewhat silly. Can we have a chat about it? I figured that my additions and entries were a significant improvement on what was there. regards roland hanekroot feel free to mail me at E-Mail address removed from post so this fellow won't get spammed --AbsolutDan (talk) 03:51, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Dear AbsolutDan, I just received a message from you about the fact that I have advertised or something else on a site? I have never been warned of this before (as I don't do it) and so I'm just curious of where you thought I did this. Thanks, Canking 04:45, 9 October 2007 (UTC)